Nowadays, the post-80s, 90s and even post-00s generations have become the main force in social construction and consumption. Various consumer expenditures such as mortgages, car loans, education expenditures, and travel expenditures fill our lives every day. In life, the fixed income from one's own job obviously cannot meet the living needs of young people. Open source monetization after work is particularly important.
As an individual, there are three main ways to monetize open source, namely, monetizing skills, monetizing interests, and monetizing connections.
1. Realization of skills
The skills here can be outstanding skills at work, or other amateur skills you possess, such as dance, musical instruments, calligraphy, sports, etc. Skill monetization is divided into three levels: selling skills once per unit time, selling skills multiple times per unit time, and buying other people's skills, buying low and selling high. For example, M has been dancing since elementary school. She went to a dance institution to teach children how to dance for 150 yuan per hour, which was selling her skills once per unit time. After understanding the business model of the dance institution, she opened a dance training class of her own. , each child pays 100 yuan per class, and she recruits 5 children. Her income per unit time is 500 yuan. This is selling skills multiple times per unit time; as the dance class business gets better and better, she Three class teachers were recruited, and each teacher was paid 120 yuan per hour. However, the three classes were conducted at the same time. Each class was calculated based on the class fee of 100 yuan for each of 5 children. After deducting the teacher's remuneration, M's hourly income was still 1,500. -360=1140 yuan. This model of buying other people’s skills at a low price and selling them at a high price is undoubtedly the highest level way to realize the realization of skills.
2. Monetizing interests
Everyone has different interests. Some people like to eat delicious food, some people like to watch Korean dramas, and some people like to travel. So can the interests of eating, drinking and having fun be monetized? The answer is, of course. But the key to realizing interest is not the number of types of hobbies, but mainly the level of interest.
Interest can also be divided into three levels: sensory interest, conscious interest, and potential interest (ambition).
Sensory interest is the simplest and most direct level, generated through intuitive sensory stimulation. For example, if you pass by Haidilao today and smell the strong smell of hot pot, you will particularly want to eat hot pot. You may pass by Chao Chao tomorrow. Chicken shop, I changed my taste and wanted to eat fried chicken. This is unstable external control of interest.
The conscious interest has risen to a higher level, and thinking has been added to the interest. Let’s take the hobby of eating hot pot as an example. While eating hot pot, analyze the formula of the hot pot base and collect several Comprehensive analysis of the hot pot base ingredients of different hot pot restaurants and research into new hot pot ingredients with better taste. Only by finding the differences with others can you realize your interest; or explore different hot pot restaurants regularly every week and evaluate them with pictures and texts. Post it on websites such as Dianping and become a food review expert, or research the history, regional distribution and preferences of hot pot, publish your own experience and become a food researcher. Over time, some food stores may come to you and pay. Inviting you to promote it also realizes the realization of interest.
The third level, which is also the highest level of potential interest, is difficult for most people to achieve. The Japanese god of sushi, Ono Jiro, said that in a person's life, it can become a sensory interest. There are too many of them, and many of them can become conscious interests, but the one that can really make us stick to it for a lifetime and never get tired of it must be the one that is most closely integrated with our values. As a three-star Michelin chef, Ono Jiro entered the industry at the age of nine and has been deeply involved in the sushi making industry for 75 years. He has pursued the goal of cooking delicious sushi throughout his life. This is not only a hobby, but also a full realization of his own value.
Sensory interest is an intuitive and changeable interest. Only with serious thinking, that is, interest at the level of conscious interest and potential interest can be a choice for realization.
3. Realization of personal connections
People are social animals, and everyone is in various circles. Therefore, maintaining good personal connections is extremely important.
Network is called "connection" in English, which means connection, relationship, contact. Good network is called "well-connection", so network means more connections and better network, which can influence your current situation. A network with complementary and helpful knowledge is a valuable network.
Relationships between people are divided into strong ties and weak ties. As the name suggests, strong ties refer to family members, work colleagues and close friends who are close to you. Everyone in this circle is familiar with each other. Resources** * Sharing, which also means that there is rarely money-making information that no one knows about in this circle; and weak ties refer to the connections established with people who we know or are not even friends with, such as people who have met each other. , people who were once close but rarely contacted now, or strangers who met by chance, etc. We can strengthen the establishment of our own weak connections, purposefully join various circles, get to know people from all walks of life, collect useful information from these people, explore opportunities from them, and serve as middlemen to connect resource providers and demanders. , in exchange for monetizing connections.
Network monetization is divided into direct contact mode and resource matching mode. In direct contact mode, you communicate with the other party face to face. You must respect the other party and be honest with each other. If you remember the other party’s likes and habits, If you know it clearly, then the other party will definitely have a better impression of you, and the possibility of realizing your connections will increase.
The key to the resource matching model is to have a large enough network of contacts, master enough information, first find the needs, then explore the resources, and act as a middleman through resource integration to achieve network transformation, which requires us to actively Acquire and expand your network of contacts.
So, what do we need to do?
You can start by digging out the people around you, and record your friends’ names, occupations, industries, regions, influence, and relationship intimacy in your address book and WeChat for easy search when needed.
In addition, if you can’t find the person you need in your existing circle of friends, you should take the initiative to establish new connections. You can introduce them through friends or use online tools to find them, such as through private messages on WeChat. Use methods such as Boda V, Zhihu celebrities, Douyin celebrities, etc. to build new connections. Of course, you should think about your wording, introduce yourself, show your admiration and the value you can bring to him, in order to attract to the target person's attention.
In normal times, you can also consciously join some communities, privately add core people you want to make friends with in the community, and get closer to each other by sharing the same experiences and insights in the community. distance and expand your network of contacts.
Of course, the network itself is an exchange of value. When you are strong enough, according to the logic of the law of attraction, the valuable and excellent network resources around you will gradually come closer to you. Therefore, keep investing in yourself and letting yourself become more powerful. Become a combination of high-quality and value, the one that shines among the crowd, you will have more high-quality connections around you, and there will be more and more ways to monetize.
Open source monetization is not achieved overnight. Any effort requires a long-lasting goal, coupled with the correct method, and more importantly, the ability to do it and perseverance. I believe that everyone Ordinary people can realize personal open source monetization, have diversified income as soon as possible, and become a multi-slash youth.