Hobbies Are Dead in 2023 🤭

Discover how side hustles destroyed hobbies. Plus get the top tool this week for productivity.

August 04, 2023

What’s up side hustlers, Jamasen here, CEO of LoopGenius and author of Beyond9to5. Today’s newsletter is short, sweet and packed with tips & tools to grow your side business.

In today’s edition:

  • ☝️ Featured Tool: Learn how to save time with this crazy powerful tool.

  • 🤖 Tools: Discover more tools to get creative, cut down on time and manage your side business.

  • 🗞️ News: Get the latest news, including why hobbies are supposedly dead.

Save 9 hours/week with IFTTT 🤓

Managing a side hustle with a full-time job isn’t easy. Sometimes it feels like there’s not enough hours in the day.

If you’re looking to cut down on time, try using If This Then That (IFTTT). This is an automation tool for 800+ popular apps!

You can do things like:

  • Take pictures of receipts and compile them into weekly emails for expense reporting

  • Send yourself a text message whenever a new Calendly event is scheduled

  • Automatically collect and summarize over 30 news sites

  • Every time you start a new stream on Twitch, post a message to Discord

  • When a new client responds to a survey on SurveyMonkey, send a Slack message

…and so much more!

Businesses report saving 9 hours/week on average using IFTTT. Try it out for yourself 👏 

🔥 More Tools for Side Hustlers 🛠️ 
🔍️ What we found for you this week 🔍️ 

  • Keyword.io - Free keyword research to see what people are searching

  • Things - Personal task manager to help you plan your day

  • Marvelous - Create and monetize courses, communities and programs

  • Depop - Sell your clothes on this digital marketplace

  • LoopGenius - Grow your personal brand, side hustle or business with AI marketing tactics

What’s News

🗞️How to create a strong personal brand by leveraging the power of PR and social media: The article explains the importance of a personal brand when growing a business. Learn marketing strategies for promoting yourself and your services to build an audience.

🤷‍♀️ Why you should care: Personal branding is key for turning a side hustle into a successful business. You can start using social media now to grow an audience early, which will make it easier to launch your business and gain traction. Read More

🗞️ 1 in 4 young adult Americans want to turn their side hustle into a career: Gen Z is twice as likely to have a side hustle as baby boomers. Many Gen Zers dream of being self-employed and turning their side hustle into a full-time business. This article discusses tips for intentionally crafting a side hustle that’s meant to be a successful business.

🤷‍♀️ Why you should care: If you’ve been thinking of turning your side hustle into a career, now is the time to do it. This could be your chance to turn your passion into your job. Read More

🗞️ The death of hobbies: This article discusses how side hustles have killed hobbies. Rather than do activities for fun or leisure, most people under age 35 do them to make extra money outside of their full-time job. Plus with solopreneurship becoming more popular, people would rather spend their time working on their side businesses than doing leisurely activities. Is this necessarily a bad thing? Not exactly. Monetizing your skills allows you to pursue a career you’re passionate about, especially if you turn that side hustle into a business. But it does make you wonder if hobbies are gone for good. And if so, is that sustainable?

🤷‍♀️ Why you should care: While working towards your career and financial goals is important, it’s also good to have balance. Do you have to spend hours reading or knitting for fun? No. But take time each day to do something for you. Read More

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That's it for this week's edition of Beyond9to5. Stay tuned for more tips, news, and spotlights in our next issue. Until then, keep hustling!

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