When a chronic back injury sidelines an Australian IT professional, he pulls out his saxophone and establishes three new sources of income.
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In July, twenty fifteen Matthew Harding it forty something husband self confessed, embarrassing, dad too teenage daughters. I t professional and musician from Melbourne. Australia hurt his back there,
a twenty sixteen. He did it again, but this time went down for the count. Spinning
a large proportion of the first half of twenty sixteen lying on the floor being unable to move and wondering how long his sickly payments would last Matthew had plenty of time.
To consider his family's financial future and it felt discomforting the discomfort he felt was
caused not only by his lower back injury but
so by the realisation that is, payments would likely run out before he fully improved Matthew, Adele
an online world of sight us think for several years. But aside from learning opportunities, you didn't have a lot to show for it
September twenty sixteen he had managed to regain some former verticality and return to work part time, but
realisation that he was rely on his full time job and I t in the financial sector
produced, really continue to hunt him. So in October, Matthew may
conscious decision to up the Annie. He does
he would go out of his way to investigate, learn and take action with his whole site or something
then, in early January Matthew, discovered side a school now averted
try to invent a forward facing time machine so that he could get him
episode of the pot cast a day early and even
lead in Australia across the international dateline. This idea, still,
we have to be challenging so Matthew took the next logical step and he picked up his saxophone
Matthew has been playing the sacks in bands across Melbourne for more than thirty years and when he heard episode twenty
free of cider school, where guitarist put up in
craigslist and began teaching guitar. He had an idea, nobbing
but a play the guitar himself. Now he decided that the next best thing was to offer saxophone lessons to students and the local area more than two and a half decades ago, he
done this at university, but not since then
in an episode of the package, the Qatar teacher who has featured ended
making a much higher wage than all the other guitar teachers in the area, because he put a
expand on his offering in that
He built his lessons as the most awesome guitar lessons in the universe and there
more to it, but that was the headline in so Matthew
I should make my sex my lessons, fine
for some unknown reason most sacks lessons- are tedious and boring. Students learn scales,
songs from boring, music books, more scales, little black circles,
horizontal lines on sheet music and then, when the damage that they get to practice more scales, so Matthew put
his offer of helping students play whatever kind of music they wanted to play any style.
With any volume up to and including eleven as
playing by ear and improvising. He makes him back
tracks on his Ipad, using garage band and with a common
in a word of mouth plus, the local suburbs, music teachers online Directory Matthew soon had it
first student, his second, his third and his forth.
Ranging an age from nine to fifty nine began to come out of the woodwork or perhaps the wood winds. Since he began,
This has grown to a nice little side. Hustle of about five hundred dollars a month so far, but Matthew didn't stop there
you notice that, while the musical needs of a nine year old, who is
replied an instrument before differ from a fifty nine year old, who play
music back in high school,
still certain similarities as a result. Matthews
going planning and foaming an online course, a beginner saxophone lessons with the same
this on fine as one on one lessons
two more psychosocial episode has further inspired Matthew and by the way he wrote that part not me,
episode a hundred seventy five, the one where a lawyer uploads is music to stock music sites. Matthew, remember that,
before he heard his back the first time he had done a similar thing. The angle
pain over eighteen months. It made him forget that he'd upload some songs,
composed unrecorded just like a lawyer
episode,
Now that he remembered he log back into his account for the first time in eighteen months was pleased to discover.
You been earning a consistent twenty dollars to fifty dollars a month over that time period.
Doing anything at all, for it naturally
in the coming months. He plans to compose record and upload a few more, but wait, there's more continuing
sacks upon theme, Matthew, then recalled cited
school episode, seventy three, which was about print undermanned, tee shirts, so at zero cost other than a bit of time. Matthew.
About putting a few saxophone theme: T shirt designs on the online crowd source, t shirt platform T spring a guy
To his surprise, a few sales were made pretty easily. This led to the past,
have a domain name, saxophone, tee shirts, dot com for twelve dollars and a simple website
that cost six dollars a month. Matthew was also discussed
this print. Undermanned t shirt concept is largely a numbers game.
The more designs he has, the better. The chances of making assail he's also apply to
March by Amazon to get another foot in a t, shirt door and a link up teaspoon
my Amazon. All these resources on the show page,
None of these three saxophone site ourselves have resulted in massive passive megabucks, at least not yet. However, they ve
Matthews eyes to the possibilities of what's hottest Lincoln, due from both
monetary and enjoyment perspective. He says our
lie by when a saxophone is involved. All I have to say
congratulations and I can't wait.
Directly. Another script
well as mentioned. I love the creative submission process, probably about
Eighty percent of what I just told you came straight from Matthew and this
me. As I said at the top of the show, we are looking for.
We're stories would love to people
more people on the show
for that is social school dotcom. Slash about you scroll to the bottom and
submit aside also story aside for
a creative submission process not destroy also really illustrates the side US process in general. It's all about creative experimentation levies.
Able to make five hundred dollars a month with the lessons he's thinking about me
Of course, these experimenting with a t, shirt designs.
And maybe one of these things will take off more than the other, and so every time you choose to focus on it once
great things about having a site I saw you can kind of
you're telling the waters and trial of different things without taking much risk
you're doing that to have your experimenting, but there's a few things: you're thinking about and working towards, or at least one,
today, not including links to all those different things I mentioned, are etc.
Costco dot. Dotcom slash to ten. As always,
Inspiration is good, but inspiration combined with action is so much better. If you have a comment-
question for the show
if you want to write your own scrapped, like Matthew,
a call on a hustle hotline for four nine hustle or record a quick little voice net with your phone and email to pack.
Etc. So sport dot, I'm Christine
you are a rockstar and I hope to see you tomorrow.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-06.