I want to share a quick story with you…
One day while enjoying a walk with his dog through the countryside, a man came across a large pond where a fisherman was sat watching over 20 fishing rods.
“Wow,” he said. “You really must love fishing.”
“No,” replied the fisherman. “I hate fishing,”
“Why do you have so many rods then?” Asked the man confused.
“I love to eat and I love to spend more of my own time doing the things I really enjoy,” replied the fisherman.
Understanding what the fisherman was saying, the man smiled, nodded his head and continued on his walk.
I’m more than certain that you got the point of that story.
As a regular reader of my emails, I know that you are not daft in any shape of form… but just in case you did miss the point, let me explain.
The fisherman hates fishing but, like all of us, he has to eat and he also would rather spend his time doing more of the things he actually enjoys.
So by using 20 fishing rods instead of one, he has greatly increased his chances of catching more fish and catching it faster.
Instead of going home with a fish or two then having to return the following day to do it all again, he now has 20 chances of catching fish instead of just the one.
He could spend a couple of hours fishing and go home with a bag full of fish and not need to go fishing again for a few days or he could spend the whole day fishing, catch a stack of fish and not have to go back for a week.
He was a smart fisherman.
Okay, so why am I telling you this…
As you know, I write a daily email and have written a lot of decent content – if I do say myself – over the years.
I have been toying with the idea of turning my emails into videos and podcasts so that they can be shared on YouTube and Anchor.fm.
Anchor.fm is a podcast platform which not only hosts your podcasts, it distributes them for you to other platforms such as Google Podcast, iTunes, and Spotify (who now own Anchor.fm).
The reason for this is to repurpose the content I create and place it across the web like little ‘fishing hooks’ waiting to catch people who frequent those platforms.
These ‘fishing hooks’ can be left on these platforms for years and help to send people to my website where they can either buy my products or join my email list.
Basically I am smart fishing.
I want to place more hooks out across the web, and what better way to do it than re-using content which has already been created.
I don’t have the time or the inclination to sit and read my articles into a microphone so I decided to take a look over at Fiverr.com for ‘voice over’ artists.
I found a couple of native British speakers whose starting prices were below £10. I decided to check them out and found that the basic price shown was for 50 words.
You’ve seen the length of most of my emails… 50 words they are not.
I went to the last email I wrote and did a word count. It was a few words shy of 2,000.
I popped 2,000 into the relevant box to see what price I would be shown.
One price was for £153.92… which I suppose is not a bad price for what is involved, but far too much for me.
The other price was for £457.92… there is no way I’m paying that to have someone read out my emails and turn them into a simple audio file.
If push comes to shove, I could do it myself within 15 – 20 minutes.
Editing them may be an issue, but that’s what we have Andi for, he knows what to do so I could quite easily hand that over to him… to be honest, I may ask him to read them out for me.
With there being five emails each week, I thought about having them all read out into one podcast at the end of the week.
If all five emails were around 2,000 words each I could be paying out a small fortune for that.
I may not want to pay that much personally, but some people will. I’m sure there are lot more people who will pay a lesser amount too.
So as always, this had me thinking… if you have a good clear voice and can read without it sounding like an autistic android, you could set yourself up as a voice over artist and advertise your services on websites like Fiverr.
All you need is a decent microphone, a recording and editing software like Audacity -which is free to download – and a quiet room which doesn’t echo.
You could undercut quite a few people and still make a decent amount of money.
Ideally you want to find clients who will give you regular repeat work such as converting website articles and emails into audio.
I think that this could be a perfect business for anyone who has a great voice and loves to read. It really is a simple business.
So could this be the ideal way for you to make extra money?
Kind Regards
John Harrison
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