Guest Post By Stevie Nicks

The rise of the side hustle has seen many creatives emboldened to monetise their passions, skills and hobbies at a rate never before seen.

It’s not all craft stores and private tutoring sessions though. Monetising your most deeply
held passions has been deemed achievable by the advent of the internet, allowing people to experiment with becoming affiliates of major eCommerce brands or world-famous YouTube stars.

Okay, maybe that’s not a realistic aim for everyone with a specialist skill, but the market is at a place where you can dream big. If you’re struggling for ways to turn your passion into cold hard cash (and help inspire others along the way), here are four monetisation methods to try.

Produce online learning material

High-quality educational material is highly sought after, with everyone from students to small business owners eager to find insight that gives them a competitive edge.
The world of online learning has grown...

In this blog post, I am going to show you an overview of creating your own brand, and creating your own information-based business. The goal here is to take you through a journey, and help you set up and start your own brand, share whatever message you want to share, and to impact people in a positive way and help people building a business about you around the world. 

One thing Kev does is online arbitrage, but he has also been creating this business called LifeSuccessEngineer, where Kev is able to help people around the world with their online arbitrage businesses, create products and services that make a difference. And whatever particular niche, brand or anything that you want to share with the world, you can do this too. There may be a selection of those of you who are reading this who want to do this on the side, like a side-hustle, or a side-project, while you are building your main business.

If this sounds like you, you are in the right place, because I am going to work...

The page stumbled across shares Amazon’s Leadership Principles. The page is all about Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, giving 14 leadership principles, which Kev states, “In my opinion, it reveals Amazon’s secret to success.”

The 14 leadership principles may just be the key to success.

While you are reading through the 14 leadership principles, you should think about how it applies to your business. Think about how you could take these principles, from Jeff, the richest man in the world, and arguably the man who has built the most successful company in history and implement them in your business 

14 leadership principles

Deliver Results

14 – “Leaders focus on the key inputs for their business and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, they rise to the occasion and never settle.”

Delivering results is the name of the game.

In your business, if you have a goal or mission, a big part as the...

In this blog post, I am going to be talking about being a leader in your business and how to exactly do it. I am going to be talking about the key things to think about when it comes to leading your business.

See a Vision

The first thing, In Kev's opinion, one of the key things about leadership is having a vision. When you talk about a vision, an ultimate vision for you, it isn't all about changing the entire planet or changing humanity, sometimes it is just about changing your own life, and your own family's life. 

So, if you are going into the unknown, and if you for example are a business owner, or an entrepreneur, and you want to take massive action and make it happen, then you may be coming from a family who has never done anything like this before. You may be going into the unknown, where you have no idea what exactly you are doing, but that is okay, because you are being a leader in your business, and you are being a leader of your life and your family's life. 

For...

You know that the key to long term sustainability in online arbitrage, is finding profitable products every single day. Finding profitable products which work for your business every day is the key to your operations. Whatever your criteria is, whatever you ultimately decide is a winning product, or a losing product, the key is finding profitable products for your operations. 

In this blog post, I am going to share with you private, personal and smart sourcing lists. This is going to be a deep dive tutorial of how this works, and how it can work for your business. 

At the end of this blog post, I am going to give you an actual opportunity to experience this.  Let's first talk about sourcing lists and how this fits into the bigger picture.

The Master Sourcing Strategies. 

The bigger picture is something which Kev has always called the Master Sourcing Strategies. Kev has got some really good videos and tutorials on his YouTube channel about all the different ways...

Kev recently got a great question on his YouTube video, which i am going to be answering for you in this blog post. This great question was from AG Carbs asking this, "Hi Kev, from an Amazon FBA perspective is there any need for a seller to develop their own new systems, when there are already so many successful sellers out there and the systems already set out by them can be followed?"

What Systems Are Already Out There?

Right now, if you are only just starting your Amazon FBA business, or you are looking at taking your business to the next level, one thing which AG Carbs quite rightly said is, we are living in a fantastic time right now, where there are many YouTube videos, which are sharing so many tips, strategies, insights, vlogs, over-the-shoulders, templates and so much more; there is a wealth of resources on YouTube. This is also an amazing amount of Facebook groups and communities which you can learn from, where people are sharing what they are doing, what they are...

In this blog post, you are going to learn how to train your virtual assistants. This is going to be an ultimate step by step demo/guide, where I am going to share with you every step of the way, whether that is recruiting virtual assistants, hiring virtual assistants, then the best practises, in planning your training, in terms of what tools to use, where to train them, how to train them and I am going to leave no stone unturned. 

If you are currently looking for virtual assistants in your business, then you have come to the right place. Kev has had virtual assistants from the Philippines, India, Serbia, and a great team from around the world and at multiple continents. And throughout the last 6 or so years, Kev has learnt a lot when it comes to recruiting, training and systemising the business which he has. 

This is the time for you to utilise virtual assistants. If you don't know what a virtual assistant is, this is an assistant for you, who could be based anywhere...

In this blog post, I am going to share with you a checklist for exclusive brand deals. And the goal behind this blog post, is to help you, if you are interested in getting exclusive brand deals, and some of the things Kev has personally been thinking about, as we move into the future of Amazon. 

What Are Business Models?

There are a number of different business models, which you can take action on in building your eCommerce business, your Amazon FBA business, and these business models span from retail arbitrage (going into stalls and scanning items), online arbitrage (Going online on different sites, and comparing the products that you can store at discount or clearance, on offer onto the Amazon marketplace, to see if you can flip those products and sell them for a profit), then there is also wholesale (Where you can go to a trade show, or you can open different wholesale accounts, general wholesalers, whether that is a toy wholesaler, a grocery wholesaler, or a general...

In this blog post, I am going to share with you Kev's honest thoughts on Amazon FBA in 2021. This will be applicable to you, if you are in phase 1 of your journey, where you are just getting started, or you have only just got started, and you are looking at really taking this opportunity and taking your life and business to the next level, where you are able to quit your job. Or, you are in phase 2 of your journey, which means that you are more of a seasoned seller - you have maybe been selling for many months, or even years at this point, and you have got team members, or you are looking at adding team members - you are looking at structuring your business systemising your business, putting management processes in place - this blog post will just share with you Kev's general thoughts.

Expect the Unexpected 

Kev has experienced quite a lot over the past few years, since 2015, every year there has been many changes, there has been many different policies, there has been a lot of...

The goal of this blog post is to help you outsource your online arbitrage purchasing. We are going to go through the 3 phases on how to do this confidently, to do this safety, and to give you the certainty and clarity that you are going to be protected, and that your business will be able to scale to the next level. 

I'm not just going to share with you the nuts and bolts, the strategies on how to do this, or the step by step on how to do this, but I am also going to go underneath the surface, too - I am going to share with you, some of the personal challenges Kev had, from a phycology point of view, what prevented Kev from outsourcing purchasing for eight months back in 2016, when Kev was doing for the very first time and Kev was doing everything himself with his team and experienced all of this.

So, this blog post is going to be fantastic for you if you are interested in outsourcing purchasing.

Major Systems In Online Arbitrage

In your online arbitrage business, you need need...