Join the millions who are starting side-gig businesses, and taking back their financial futures! Do-it-yourselfers and solopreneurs are everywhere, launching eBay stores, artisanal eats, e-books, life coaching services, apps, tutoring businesses - you name it - on top of their regular jobs. They're adding to their incomes, building safety nets, learning new skills, and finding a sense of fulfillment they never dreamed possible. Get in on the action, this book both documents the exploding side-gig phenomenon and supplies how-to information for creating a lucrative venture of your own, including: --Tips for figuring out the ideal side-gig; -- Ideas for keeping start-up costs low; --Advice on juggling a fledgling enterprise and a full-time job; -- Strategies for finding your "tribe" and building a social network; --Branding and marketing basics that bring results; --When and what to offer for free. Recounts story after story of people who are liberating themselves from financial strain. The author's own entrepreneurial journey, triggered by the job anxieties of a turbulent profession and income demands of a new baby. Her self-created series of financial planners, along with extra freelance work, supplied the additional revenue stream she needed.