With the current job or career you are into right now

Which side hustle or digital skills would you love to venture into or learn to earn more profit online

In today's digital world

Opportunities abounds

As new inventions, discoveries are created everyday

The needs and desires of people also shift

Our mind is focused on the next big thing

I wanted to badly quit my offline business

It drains me and slowly I was becoming a nagger(someone who nags)

I was a phone repairer

One of the issue I had was not knowing how to bill customers

Most times I won't want to go gaga on customers, but would end up in debt after completing the work

Soon customers were taking advantage of that

They know I easily consent to their price

Been an introvert I don't like arguing with people

I always accept every work customers bring just because I needed money to survive

Some would even bring phone that has been dead for decade or the ones they bought from aboki (no testing)

My own na make I sha do phone, I didn't mind

It was really time consuming, some phones would not respond to treatment

I would switch to next one

At a point I wanted to be like dangote

So I went further to learn shoe making

Imagine combining phone/laptop repair + shoe maker

A day came when I had phone and laptop to fix

Then a guy saw a pam on my leg

"Where did you get this pam"

He asked

I made it myself..... I answered

He then ask if I can help him create same type

Why not I replied, gave him price

Immediately he made transfer to my account

At night I would be battling with phones and laptop

Searching for solutions to some stubborn phone problems

Downloading flash files for Android phones
(that was when flashing of android phones was rampant)

Checking for diagrams and panel, ic solutions

On the other hand am also cutting the materials for the pam

Shebi na me won make money now

I was no longer enjoying the work

I knew I needed to find a side hustle

One I would do at the comfort of my home

Most especially that I would derive joy from and give me peace of mind

A write once said

If you love what you do, you would find happiness and of you find happiness, you would be successful

Most people today don't really enjoy the job they do, but they are still only in it because of the money they are been paid

Like someone always ask a question

If today you win 100million, would you still continue that job you are into

If the first thing you would do is to quit your job or switch career after winning such amount of money

Then you know you are not in the right job or career

Most people today are only enduring their job hoping things would be better just like me

I started going online in search of side hustle that can boost my income

I was consuming different materials

I soon found digital marketing

I put my head into it, read books on it like I was going to write jamb

Bought online courses to sharpen myself and build my skills

I was implementing as I was also learning

My love for it became increasing, and I was losing interest in my phone repair business

I started to select work

I only accepted bigger works(phones I know I would see higher profit

I began billing customers more

I had learn a few things online

After I had learn few things online, I just learnt how to run facebook advert

So I went straight to facebook to promote a product I knew nothing about

And I didn't even know how facebook advert works then

I paid for the Ad

Set up everything

Facebook approved the ad

I became a monitoring Spirit

Checking my phone every minute to see if someone had made purchase

3 days later

I got a notification

"Your ad is completed"

No sales, only views, just a few persons even clicked to the external link

Chai

Money wasted

But those were part of the experience that pushed me to want to learn more to get great result

Failure is not the opposite of success

It a part of success

For you to succeed in anything, you first have to fail

Which means failure is the road map to success, embrace it

Most importantly always learn from your failure

Now I wanted result

I set to work

Since I was used to working at night(not the kind of work you think o😁)

I could watch YouTube videos, search google read all through the night

I was used to that already

So I started consuming materials, learning about Facebook Ad, how to persuade people with words

Influence people and win their heart with words

How to close sales

Most importantly how to sell online

I started creating product(digital product)ebooks,videos

I went back to facebook

This time around I understand how their advertising works better

I know the campaign objective am to select

I setup everything

My Ad was approved

The next morning

Boom

I started getting email notification

"you just made a sale"

And people coming to my Dm

Asking for my account details or making to know more about what am selling

Don't settle for mediocrity

For you to become relevant and valuable

You need to acquire a digital skill

With it you can start a side hustle and earn passive income

And start attracting quality people

Now you can answer my question

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