Are you dabbling in one or two or maybe even three different side hustles, and you wanna figure out which way to go to really grow your income and simplify your life so you can homeschool and make good money in a flexible way that feels like a blessing and not a curse. Well, in today's episode that we're calling three homeschool Mom side Hustle Ideas. That's what we're gonna talk about. We're going to discuss three of the top business models and opportunities that you have to put serious cash in your pocket without a lot of stress and without a lot of headaches and lean, mean, moneymaking ideas that we have utilized and that we are helping other people utilize that are high profit and low stress. Let's get started.

A fast growing number of parents are starting their homeschooling journey while others have been homeschooling for years. All of these parents are asking one big question, how can I afford to homeschool? We are here to answer that important question once and for all. Hi, I'm Crystal Obby. And I'm Anthony Obby. We've been homeschooling our five kids for 13 years and we funded it. Through our online consulting business that we've been running for over 17 years now, we're combining Crystal's financial coaching expertise with my digital marketing background where I help entrepreneurs launch and sell online. We're here to help fellow homeschooling parents self-fund their homeschool journey and create lifestyle businesses. For financial freedom without a nine to five job, are you ready to start living life on your own terms and make your homeschooling experience a lot more fun? Well then sit back, crank up the volume, and enjoy this episode of Homeschool Money.

Welcome to the show, crystal Obie here, Anthony Obie. Here in this episode of Homeschool Money, we're gonna talk about some very relevant ways that we and other real homeschool parents, moms and dads, are making money. In this episode in particular, we're gonna talk about how you can start monetizing your homeschool experience. Now the reason why this conversation is so important to every homeschooling parent across the country is because homeschooling families, we feel like sacrifice a lot to take the education of their children. In homeschooling parents are usually very intentional parents. Who take their roles as homeschool parents? Seriously. We personally feel like parenting our children well and homeschooling them is a calling from God. Many parents don't know how to take their skills and gifts that they use every single day while homeschooling to create an income in the marketplace. And so that's why we want to talk about this topic because we want to. Help you with that mind mindset shift, and we want to encourage you to see the opportunities that could be lying in your own backyard and easy for you to implement with just a little bit of encouragement. Yeah, the big thing that we always see is that there's two things that hold people back. One is their confidence in homeschooling their kids. So whenever they find out about the opportunity to homeschool, they don't know if they can do it. So they spend a lot of time and a lot of energy. Trying to figure out if they're qualified to even be able to be their child's, you know, educator. And so we always end up having to work with people like that. But then also the homeschool money conversation is after they've realized that they, yes, they can be the educator. They wanna know how they can afford to pay for it, and then they're not confident in how to do that. And. What we've seen is that whenever they understand that their, in, that their experience as a homeschool parent can actually transfer over and they can actually get that dual credit just like we get for college and high school. They can get dual credit for homeschooling and doing a business. And so some of the skills that you use as a homeschooling parent. They can help you start, launch and grow a successful business or like laying right there at your feet. Yeah, you're right. So it's like crystal the, the same skills that you're utilizing to think through and plan and execute on homeschooling your children. Well, those are the same skills. That it takes to start a good, a solid business for yourself? Yeah. So like the first skill is research. Like you research to come up with a business idea. And we know in homeschooling you have to research all the homeschool options and then choose the one, the one that will fit. And so when people come to us and talk about how am I gonna make an income, what business should I choose, we go through the same type of process you would go through and picking out a curriculum, you know, for your child. Yeah. The, the first step to building your business. Is researching researching product sourcing the right product, sourcing the the right vendors for every step of the lifecycle. Of your business. And so you, you're right that, that, that that skill of research for homeschool is the same skill that you'll, the same muscle that you're gonna exercise in order to plan and re research all of the steps in the process of executing on your business. Yeah. And the next skill is. Planning for business success. I mean, there's so many different things you need to plan when you're gonna operate a business. You're gonna plan, you know, the, of, of course the financials. You know, you're gonna plan, you know, the schedules, you're gonna plan the team, you're gonna plan just all the, you know, the promotions and marketing. I mean, just, there's so much planning that goes into being. A successful business. And of course when you're homeschooling, you plan the school year like each year one at a time. But you also plan from like birth all the way through college. That's right. I mean, we are doing some serious forecasting. We're at, when you have a baby, you're sitting here like. You know, what, what, what program are we gonna do for, you know, their young years, their middle years, their upper years, and how is this gonna play out into their, the marketplace? We are the, like, having those conversations all the time. Yeah. I, I know that you know, you and I have been having those conversations and I'm sure some other homeschooling parents. Have been having those conversations that long. It's probably not probably not all. But we're certainly long-term thinkers and so before we even had our kids, we knew and made that decision. You know, you knew that you wanted to homeschool since, you know, you read that that pa that that story, that article. In a magazine, Tom Magazine in high school. Yeah. Right. And so whenever we first met you, you already knew you wanted to homeschool. Yeah. So we were planning before we had kids. To homeschool, and then we have the kids, we're planning their education based on where we want them to be able to end up for the outcomes at 18 years old. Mm-hmm. And so homeschooling just requires a lot of planning and that is always a great skill to have whenever you're running a business. That's right. And so the next skill is the ability to be able to start even when you don't feel ready. I mean, just classic entrepreneurship. I mean, you have to start teaching with what you have and pull in new resources on a continual basis. I mean, what homeschool family actually feels a hundred percent ready, because as soon as you think you're ready, there's new curriculums, there's new programs. There's just so many different variables. Variables that change in life to where you have to continually. Just keep going. 'cause the school year is gonna keep going. You know, the kids are getting older. You, you don't get five years to plan. That's right. The kids are getting older by the day and you need to go ahead and make a decision. And so you're constantly having to just keep going, start and just find the strength that you have to be able to do what you need to do. That's right. We can't be paralyzed by paralysis analysis. Exactly. You know, at, at some point. And that's hard, especially for perfectionist, right. To, to stop, you know creating idealistic, you know castles in the sky. And, and, and actually just get in the game and, and get, get your hands dirty. That's what happens with so many entrepreneurs. That's right. I mean, they wanna get in business, but you know, they just gotta pull the trigger. Exactly. And, and learn, you know, while you're on the job. Right. E exactly. And so. If you have actually stepped out and started homeschooling, then you have obviously some sort of ideal in your, in your mind of like how you want your children to grow up, how you want parents, how you, you know, what you want to be as a parent and how you want to shape your children's childhood and their worldview and, you know, all of those types of things. And so you have this picture of what you want for them. As they grow. And you know, that's but you realize that it's not perfect. You know, you're not a perfect parent. Your children aren't perfect. Homeschooling schedules and days are not perfect. Our business mentor always said and taught success is messy. Mm-hmm. And so, so is homeschooling, so is parenting. And guess what? So is business. And so if you're able to jump in there and homeschool. Guess what? You can do the same thing in business. Jump out there, be willing to make your plan, your perfect plan on paper, but then get off the fence, jump in the game and get going, and you can figure out everything. That's right. Everything is figureoutable, right? That's right. That's right.

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The next thing is pivoting. I mean, how many entrepreneurs haven't heard that word? You know, I mean, you need to give, you know, sear that in your brain, you know? That's right. Everyone has bought curriculum as a homeschool parent. And or signed up for classes that didn't work out or, you know, just didn't meet the expectations. Not that that necessarily, that they were not good, but just maybe life changed or situations changed or just the curriculum didn't end up being what you expected. And so you have to just reevaluate and change course while still staying on track with the educational goals. So you have to like, get rid of the curriculum, find a new curriculum, and then implement it so that your kids stay on track. I mean, you know, I'm telling you, if you are not an entrepreneur to entrepreneur, when you start homeschooling, it will turn you into one. That's right. 'cause of all these skills, I mean, you see how they're just stacking up? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Oh yeah. Absolutely. To be a homeschooling. Parent that, that for a lot of people, I feel like that are coming into homeschooling now, it's, it's a pivot situation. It is, yeah. They maybe planned on, you know, this school system or whatever, private schooling or public schooling or whatever but then pull their kids out because of this or that. Now, of course, we, you know, planned it from from the beginning, many, many years ago. But now you have all these different factors and everything, the reasons that, that bring about the reasons why people want to opt for homeschooling instead of continuing on. With public schooling. And so for many parents today, that is a, a classic pivot. Yeah. And expand with their careers as well. Yeah. Because with people like us who plan for it, you know. A lot of the parents coming in, now they're having to pivot their careers or having to, you know, that's right. It's not just, you know, a good thing to do. It's, it's the only way That's right. To even be able to homeschool so well, and that's what homeschool money is here for. Exactly. That's exactly why we our, that's exactly why we're, we created this show. Exactly. That's to help everyone think through that transition. Of going possibly from a, a two income household to possibly a one income household because you are choosing to homeschool. And so that doesn't have to remain the case with homeschool money. We are here to help you pivot, right? Mm-hmm. And, and not eliminate your income and, and have that lifelong sacrifice. But instead to pivot your skills into a new. Venture that could likely be more profitable and less stressful and more flexible so you can homeschool and make money. That's what homeschool money's all about. Yeah, I love that because the next skill is evaluating ROI. So we know ROI is return on investment. Mm-hmm. And one of people's best return on investments is listening to this show because we're the only place where people are having this conversation directly. And so there are a ton, a ton of options. You know, for homeschooling. So you have to be good at investing wisely. Mm-hmm. And so whenever, there's a lot of different classes you can take and you know, just places that you can go and things that you can do. You're constantly making decisions on what to spend my time on, what to spend my money on. And of course you're doing that all the time in business. So yet another skill right there. That's right. And what's our next skill, crystal? So the next skill is basically like a compilation of just character traits that are really great for entrepreneurs and homeschooling families. And so that's focus, discipline, consistency, all those kinds of things, right? You know, all these just character traits that in order to be a great intentional homeschool family that is running well, it's the same skills that's gonna make you a good, successful business owner. And so staying focused. Being disciplined, being consistent with your, what you need to do. You know, homeschooling is a lifestyle, so there's never a day that is wasted. There's never a day that's wasted in your business. And so the more great systems, processes, and resources you implement, the more capacity you have for learning. I mean, we see it all the time. The more organized we are, the more we can do in a day, the more resources we get that are very helpful. The more we're able to handle and just the more organized we are, the better we're able to handle things that change. So like if there's some unexpected event or something, if we're all organized and everybody's running, you know, in a good, we're all in sync. Things work out better for us and we can do a lot more. Especially having five kids, we have to have things in order. It can't be chaotic otherwise, you just can't get the basics done. And in a business, the more organized you are, the more business you can handle. That's right. Oh, so the process of homeschooling will make you a better business person. That's right. That's right. And, you know we, we just talked about it like, you know, we knew that we wanted to homeschool from day one when we met in college and had that conversation about how many kids we wanted and we were just dreaming and, you know, just, just talking and whatever about our futures and what we wanted, didn't even know we were gonna be married. And you said that you wanted to homeschool and you wanted five kids, and Oh wow. I want five kids. And, and you know, that whole conversation, we've talked about that in earlier episodes. We knew over 23 years ago, long before we even had children, that homeschooling was gonna be an important role in our lives as parents because of the way that we wanted to. Raise our children. We knew that it would be a lot of work sacrifice and that we would be counter-cultural in some ways, but we built our lives so that we could live in that integrated way. We've been working from home and making money remotely since 2006, long before it became a lot more popular. After COVID-19 happened. So we've been business owners and self-employed since 2003, all knowing that one day we were gonna have our kids and that we wanted to be able to be with them, that we wanted to be home together so that we can both be there as parents so that they can have both of us there. Not just crystal you as the mom, but also me as their dad so that I can play an important role in their lives and be present. In the home with the kids. And so I've spent the last 17 years as a digital marketing consultant, copywriter and growth marketer to hundreds of small businesses around the country and the world. And that's one of the main ways we've been able to make money and still. Be able to afford to homeschool and afford that homeschooling lifestyle is, is that work that we've been doing, and in this work we directly help startups and small small to mid-sized businesses increase their leads, increase their sales, and build scalable, you know, powerful sales systems and demand generating campaigns that bring in sales and profits. That work is what gives us so much insight into what's working. And what doesn't work. And so the moneymaking opportunities that we wanna discuss today are real. So we're gonna talk about real business opportunities that work for homeschooling moms. And so moms are always wanting to know exactly where to spend their time, which business to start, which one actually lets them be at home, lets them be able to use their gifts and talents. And there's lots of different opportunities. And like you were saying, you know, we were. Whenever we were younger, we needed to figure out how can we not only be self-employed, but how can we be at home that's not just working from home like we talked about, but at home, but at home, from home and at home. Different, two different things. Yeah, that's right. And so that's one thing I love about having just so much experience in this industry. Is as we've seen everything grow and we've just seen, you know, all the different things that look like opportunities but may not be opportunities. And so that's why I like being able to help people cut through the clutter. And so the first opportunity is the teaching economy. And this is your specialty. You know, we specialize in helping a lot of information marketers, people who publish, people who write, coach speak, things like that. Just sharing their knowledge as experts in the written word or the spoken word, or just some kind of. Information marketing. That's right. And so that has been an industry that we've specialized in since day one.

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That's right. You know, a lot of, you know, maybe coaches or whatever. Some, some coaches these days are like digital marketing agencies. Will they just have experience helping other folks or helping entrepreneurs who are trying to sell or launch a digital course. But we were doing this stuff way back when people were still. Shipping CDs and DVDs, you know what I mean? Like we've been doing this stuff a long time. Yeah. And I actually have a certification in doing copywriting and launches and that type of thing, and building sales funnels. For information marketing businesses, knowledge experts, people selling courses, people selling. Back then they were home study courses. Now everything is just like a digital course. And so we selling masterminds and selling group coaching programs, individual coaching programs and events and all of those types of information products. And so yeah, that's definitely an expertise and that. Who knew, like back when we were working with companies doing that, dating back to 2007, who knew that that particular industry would become what it has become today to where. There are so many people and it's like one of the top business, one of the top industries or whatever on online today is information and e-learning. Yeah. It's the e-learning industry. So basically if you have any type of expertise yeah. You can package that expertise and share it with people and get paid to do it. It's just, just as simple as that. Yeah. And so. A lot of people were lit. It was such an obscure industry back in the day. But it, it is just amazing that now that's become such a popular thing and just didn't know that it was gonna be like that. But that's the thing, you know, being a, a learner, you know, I've always loved to learn. Mm-hmm. And so whenever I was presented with the idea of learning, you know, through cassette tapes, through, you know, then DVDs and CDs, and then online. It made sense to me that you can continue learning. Mm-hmm. But I remember getting pushback from people back then and them saying, can you really learn through this internet? You know? Yeah. Well, it can, you learn watching a documentary on television. Yeah. I mean, you're always learning. And so now. It being an industry of e-learning, it just had to, people just had to wait for, you know, more opportunities to see it work. But you're always learning. Yeah. And so I think learners out there are some of the best people poised to be in the teaching economy because if you learn, then you can easily see how other people can learn from you. And you probably just need the confidence. Yeah. Because like we know there's like 52 different ways. That you can package your expertise. Right? Whereas many people, like we just mentioned, you know, like the teaching economy and you could do a course, but there's, there's the tutoring, there's curriculum creation, the online courses you know, like you said, masterminds. There's different ways. That a teacher, a person who has expertise, can share their information, their knowledge, their ex, their experience with another person in charge for that. And it's just making sure that people understand that will also keep people grounded. Because I know we've always had that, well, we don't wanna be a guru, you know, type of thing. Right. But we see it as we want to just help people by sharing what we know. Yeah. And when you do it like that, it's not about, you know. Just selling on the internet or something. It's about an opportunity to share. Kind of like how when we published our first book, it wasn't about publishing. It was about how can we help more of our friends? Yeah. Yeah. And and I and I, and I said earlier that it's like crazy that it's become such a, like the A number one. Fastest growing industry is e-learning, but it's not confusing why that is, it is because the world has changed so much with the rise of the internet. It has changed the outlook of people's careers who graduated from traditional colleges. Without jobs, with things shifting, and now in the age of ai, entire industries are, are shutting down and, and entire fields are, are shutting down and shifting really fast underneath the feet of people coming into the economy. And so traditional educational institutions have not been able at all. To begin to keep up with the, the fast shifts in this economy, and that is exactly why we were learning from home study courses dating back to 2003 or four. Yeah, the only way to get the knowledge on how to operate on the internet was through masterminds, home study courses. Direct coaching that there was no system for it. Right. You know, and so now people have that opportunity, but it's always, it's been there. Yeah. You know, there's always been like apprenticeships, you know? Yeah. And so that, that, that is the reason why e-learning is growing so fast, just because there are more and more young people. Who are becoming adults and pouring into this economy. And it is, things are moving so fast that they are not prepared for what they're coming into in this economy that we live in. I 'cause things are shifting so fast and so the only way that people can learn is to learn it from people who are doing it real time. It takes. A lot in order and a lot of time in order to get a new program new information pushed through traditional education channels it can take years. And by that time it's completely irre irrelevant, and it arrives to students in those traditional education settings dead on arrival. Right? And so. When there are new things happening in the economy, now you can jump on YouTube or you can start a podcast and you can write a book and you can create a digital course today that's relevant to people who have the need. Of your solution today instead of of of those people just going through trying to go through traditional educational systems with a four year degree or something like that, to learn things that are gonna be outdated by the time they graduate. And so that creates your opportunity, the fast shift in this economy that is continuing to take place. It is your opportunity to take advantage and join the e-Learning revolution and become a teacher, become a coach, become a guide, and you don't have to have it all figured out. We've always heard one leader say, you just need to be one step ahead of the people that you are trying to lead in order to do a great job as a leader, and in order to be able to galvanize an audience. And students around your offer, and I think that homeschool families are already a step ahead of other people because if they've become. A homeschool family, they know that you can learn in an unconventional way and they understand the rapid nature of online learning. Right. Because they're already doing that and taking advantage of that for their kids. That's right. So let's go on to opportunity number two, Chris. That's the service economy. And so we have a lot of clients that are in this, and that will include people like virtual assistants, bookkeeping, social media for small businesses. I mean, anybody that can offer a service to someone can be in business today. Yeah. All you have to do is find somebody with a need and say, I'll help. Well, that's what we found out back in 2007. Exactly. And we've been doing it ever since, and we're still doing it today. You can make a six figure income working at home, working remotely, working anywhere you want to and own your time and own your schedule. If you learn a skill and are able to offer that expertise and that assistance remotely, and that's what we like to recommend to people. If you, if you're wanting to make income like immediately, you wanna start with a service. Mm-hmm. That's right. The service is gonna get you as if, as fast as you can come up with. Your offer and just identify a potential client. You can be in business today. That's right. You don't have to create anything. You don't have to know a ton of people. You just have to find one person that needs help and charge 'em and then find another person. That's right. And, and it's so, it's so much easier and I mean, it's pretty amazing to make. Income selling a digi selling a course or something like that, that's, we've sold courses and that's one of the, be, that's probably the, the best way to make an income, selling a course, selling a book, selling things like that, information products, because it's so profitable if you own it. Like if you own it, like if we've self-published our own books, and so we own the books that we've published. And so those book e each book sale was, you know, profitable relative to what a person who goes through traditional publishing channel would make per copy of, of their book sold. And, but, but the thing is, is that you, whenever to, in order to sell a course. You have to either have an audience that you've already been nurturing and already who is warm and sort of hot, ready for your digital chorus launch offer. And if you don't have that and it, it can take some time to build that, it can take months to maybe a year to build that. So if you've started a YouTube channel or TikTok, or a podcast or you've been growing a social media presence and gaining some influence and gaining some followership. That is all good. And if your audience is really engaged, then it could be a prime time for you to launch a course of some sort and and quickly sell. However, if you don't have any of that stuff built up yet and you decide, Hey, I want to get going in homeschooling. Or Hey, I'm tired of sacrificing so much and I want to start creating some income, doing something and making some money while still homeschooling. Your best bet is going to be to start with number two and, oh, let me step back real quick. All of this information that we're talking about here is taken from step four of our five step system in the homeschool. Money makeover program. So we have five steps in that system. This is all taken straight from step four, where we talk about the top five moneymaking opportunities for homeschooling moms, dads homeschooling parents. Okay, so but again, back to the conversation. So se service. To start a service that you can offer done for you is always going to sell easier. Than than the teaching. Than do it yourself. Yeah, do it yourself. Yeah. DIY especially like if you're like trying to work with entrepreneurs or something like that, we've always worked with entrepreneurs. They want things done for them, especially small business owners with, with small teams. They may not have a person. Usually I come in a situations where they don't have a person on the team with my expertise. It's them driving the business and every. Everybody else on their team, you know, is doing whatever they're doing, maybe helping fulfill the services that they offer. And then, you know, they, they're gonna have their assistant, their executive assistant, that type of person. And they may have somebody like a social media person, but they don't have somebody who can come in. And have a high level, you know, understanding of marketing in a cohesive way that can help put together things that they may understand in fragmented bits. So I can put together your, your podcasting with your SEO content plan and you know, social, social media with your email marketing and. Put all those things together into a very streamlined program and organize all of your different offers into a streamlined. Value ladder. And so that's my expertise. That's what I've been doing for years. And so offering a done for you is always going to sell easier and in a quicker way you can more quickly and easily go to market. With a done for you service that you're doing for people rather than DIY do trying to sell a course, whereas DIY they, them doing it themselves through your course or something like that. So if you're just getting going, just know that if you want to, if you have skills to be a virtual assistant or just taking some training or certification to be a virtual assistant or you wanna be a content writer, like what I do, a copywriter or something like that. A social media manager, bookkeeper, or different. Whatever your skillset is doing it for people, you can pretty much. Pretty easily get booked up with that if with, with a little focused effort.

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Yeah. That though, we were having a conversation one time and we were talking about, we had just had, I don't know, one of our kids and I was like, you know, I have a lot of books here about how to declutter, how to organize, how to clean and all that. And I was like, I'm not reading any of 'em right now. We just need to hire, you know this service. That's right. Yeah. Right. And I was like, okay. I am so thankful. When there's three people come and in two hours clean this entire, it's like six hours worth of manpower. That's right. And it, it is better than what I can do. Yeah. And I, I took a nap, you know? That's right. I like go do stuff. I'm like, I'm gonna use this time. That's right. And so sometimes, you know, I love reading and learning and growing and all that kind of stuff, but I realized that whenever I'm trying to learn something and implement it myself, that's one thing and that's a service. I wanna buy that book, buy that course. But I, when I'm in another moment where I just need it done for me, same thing that happened with laundry too. I was like, oh my goodness. Well, laundry looks better. It's folded better. Everything's better, smells better, smells better. I'm like, you know, I don't even need to be here. That's right. That's right. And so doing it for somebody and just taking that weight off Yeah. That you're, if you get into a room with people with. Of some kind. You can just get booked up. That's right. Just find where you wanna play in the economy. That's right. So yeah. So the next the number three. Yeah. Next opportunity is the product economy, and that would include physical products or digital products. And so some people like to sell. You know, digital planners downloads, you know, printables, all that kind of stuff. And a lot of homeschool families will just get to where they're sharing things that they've created for their own family. So once you get in here for a few years, you start creating systems that you can help other families with. And so we also have people that are like micro school owners and things, so they're creating co-ops, they're creating schools, they're creating, you know, just tutoring and, you know, opportunities like that. And so. The same thing can cross over into the product economy. You may not be creating a service or you may not be teaching, but you may just have a product that can be downloaded and so as a product or in a, you know, like a, a learning box that you can sell as a e-commerce product, you know, there's people that do that. So there's a lot of different ways you can take it, but it's basically you wanna find out which category you want to be in. Do you want to teach it? Do you want to be the service or do you wanna package it? In a leverageable way in a product, you know? Yeah. And those are like the three, like top ways that people are making money. Yeah. And so now with products as, as we know, you're talking about like e-commerce and that type of thing e-commerce or whether you're trying to get your products sold into in a big box retailer store. You know they are cash hungry endeavors. Mm-hmm. Right. Yeah. That's why if you do an offline product, like one that's gonna be shipped, you're gonna have to have that financial investment that's gonna take more research. Investment, just a lot more investment. That's right. You have to consider cost of goods. You have to consider shipping costs. And you're gonna be pressed up against prices that you can charge out in the marketplace for your, for your product, and particularly if you get into more competitive niches. Mm-hmm. And so when you talk about products of the three. Products are probably the riskiest just because of the, the, the margins, the the, for one, the upfront capital that you are going to have to invest to get your product going. And even if you find, you know, a white label company that can, you know get your product to you in small quantities. Well, if you're getting small quantities on whatever product you're trying to sell, oftentimes you're gonna be paying more per unit in that situation. Yes. See, your margins are gonna be way tighter. That's right. That's right. And then you're, you're, you're still trying to, you're gonna have to go and sell that product and Yeah, there's Amazon there. Yeah, there's Facebook marketplace there. But you have to consider the competition and what price and what price per unit. Your competition is selling at, and you have to factor, like I said, shipping, warehousing costs and packaging costs and other costs that go into product sales that make it rather challenging. And sometimes those challenges don't, don't readily like to show their faces on the, on the front end. They you sometimes will see those on the back. You, you all the time. All the time. In every situation. You'll see them on the back end, but they sometimes don't like to show themselves. On the front end. Yeah. I, I think for sure if you're gonna get into the product economy, you wanna try to, as much as possible, keep it when it's just digital. That's right. It especially being a home. 'cause you already have enough to think about. Mm-hmm. You know, if you're, you know, not homeschooling, you got time, you don't have anything else going on, that's one thing. But we're talking to homeschool families. Yeah. You may not wanna make that. The thing that you focus on unless you count the cost. Mm-hmm. And so, I mean, we've been in all of these different areas and they all have their benefits and opportunities. I mean, opportunities arise in lots of different ways. Ways think about products is that products sell. You don't really have to have like a big name brand yourself. It's not personality driven. And that's what we loved about it, but we've experienced the upside of that, being able to sell pretty easily. Products. But then we've also experienced the, the tough spots. In in, yeah. Like for an example, squeeze by margins. Yeah. Well, like whenever we were selling a product and it was coming from overseas, and then remember that time at the, the airport got shut down mm-hmm. In the country. Yeah. And it was like, well, your products are gonna, you're getting sales, but your products are gonna be shipping now. In nine weeks in the airport. Oh, nine weeks. Nine weeks. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. No. So you know, that's what I'm saying. We have a lot of experience in these different things, but lots of opportunities and that's why it's important for everybody to. Evaluate their opportunity, evaluate what they're willing to, to focus on what they're willing to do, and then, you know, take it one step at a time. There, there's, there the, the opportunities actually stack on top of each other and opportunities change with something that could be an opportunity right now for the next five years could change. And that's why you have to use these business skills of like pivoting and constantly. You know, planning and just being vigilant about, you know, staying focused on the goal, which is the ultimate focus is being at home with your child, being able to be as low stress as possible so that you can be a positive, happy parent while they're getting this great education and you're enjoying a wonderful life. So, all these things, you know, being an entrepreneur, there are all these things that come with the territory in one way or the other, whether you're homeschooling or not, and it can all lead to. A successful homeschool experience. That's right. That's right. And so we hope that that was insightful and encouraging to you. We hope that you are inspired to pursue the business idea that has been in the back of your head that you've been thinking about at night or throughout the day. And we just wanna encourage you that yes, you can do it. And even if it's product sales or, or teaching economy, whether it's in the product economy, the teaching economy, or the service economy, you can do it. You have to use the, the skills that you've been using in homeschooling here as you plan in your business, as you research vendors, and research all the things that you need to research and plan it and get going and execute on it. All of those skills in homeschooling are here for you to use to build your business. Yeah, and I'm so excited because in some coming episodes we're gonna have stories from some of our clients sharing how they're doing it, and then we just have other examples of. People who are just so we can go deep into all these different areas and just some more of the stories that we've had because there's just so many ways and I'm so excited for the parents. And so I just want you guys to remember that your homeschooling journey isn't just about educating your kids, it's also creating your business expertise. And we're here for you on this show. Hope that you enjoyed this show. See you in the next episode.

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