How to Create a Profitable Side Business (and Keep Your Day Job)

Many people want to spread their entrepreneurial wings, but they also don’t want to give up the stability of working for someone else. The startup life seems exciting, but it comes with loads of risk and financial volatility.

No matter if you love your day job because the work is meaningful, you get a steady paycheck, have great coworkers, or are accomplishing a cherished corporate mission, it’s possible to also create a profitable business on the side.

In my interview with Patrick McGinnis we talk about why you don’t have to choose between your current career and becoming an entrepreneur. He wrote the international bestseller The 10% Entrepreneur: Live Your Startup Dream Without Quitting Your Day Job.

We discuss the upside to having both the stability of a traditional career and an entrepreneurial venture. For many people, including me, this combination is a smart way to diversify income, expand experiences, broaden your network, and stay excited about work.

Patrick and I have a great conversation about:

• The romance versus the reality of becoming an entrepreneur 
• How to get the benefits of entrepreneurship with none of the pitfalls 
• Why becoming a 10% entrepreneur often enhances performance at your day job 
• Whether you should discuss a side business with employers or coworkers 
• The best types of business ventures and projects to choose for your talent, experiences, and lifestyle 
• How to find enough time to create a profitable side business 
• When bringing in partners and outsourcing to freelancers makes sense

Entrepreneurship takes you to unexpected places … Building new things, meeting new people, and surprising yourself never gets old, so embrace the change to do something out of the ordinary. - Patrick McGinnis

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