Here Are 11 Big (And Small) Projects You Can Take On In 2024 To Bring In Big Money

Brian Hood (0:03)

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Hello and welcome to the 6 Figure Creative Podcast. I am your host, Brian Hood. If this is your first time listening to the show, first of all, welcome. Hi, hey, I'm doing the weird two-handed wave thing. This podcast is for you if you are a freelancer, you offer creative services, and you want to make more money from your creative skills without selling your soul. If that sounds like you, you're in the right spot. This episode, it's the first of the new year for me. It's January 2nd right now, but second of the new year for you, because obviously this is coming out the second week of January. And January, for many people, is the slow season for many freelancers. Not all niches, some niches, I'm sure it's the high season in January, but a lot of niches fall into that famine period if you're in a feast-famine cycle. And so January tends to be a slower or slowish season for many of you. So this episode, I wanted to make something fun. It's been a while since I've done just a fun episode. I've done so many series, and I'm so serious all the time. And I guess this episode's gonna be serious, but it's fun to me, because I like listicle episodes. So we're gonna do 11 big projects you can take on that can generate big money for 2024 I'm dubbing this episode, Big Projects, Big Money. I don't know if I'm gonna title it that way, but I like that title. I got 11 of these. Maybe they'll be more or less, depending on my time situation. But I think the mistake a lot of freelancers make when it comes to this, this season of life, at least, in January, we hit the ground running, we got tons of energy, tons of motivation, and then it's solo season for us. And so what can happen is you end up squandering this, either sense of motivation that you get in January, this burst of the new year, everything's possible, all that past crap's behind us, and we end up just playing video games because we don't have clients coming in the door, or we tink around with little, tiny, not big needle movers in our business because Brian said to work on your business, and so you go and work on your business, but it's crap that doesn't matter. They're not big needle moving projects.

So you squander this kind of season of life, and I don't want that for any of us because if you miss out on these big projects, then you miss out on the big money. Big projects, big money.

And if it's not big money, it's at least big progress in your life or your business or whatever you're trying to do a big project around.

And it makes sense. If you look back at some of your biggest jumps in income or your best years or best months, they're usually following some sort of big project or big initiative you took on, something where you put a lot of energy into something. And maybe if you can't think back to something like this, then it's at least the case for me.

So I want to share from my experience some of the kind of big projects I took on throughout my career, and then kind of the results of that. So way back January 2010, my second year as a freelancer, I moved into my first commercial studio space because I outgrew my parents' basement. That's where I started my studio.

And it was a big project. I had to like source the location. I had to negotiate the lease. I had to renovate the space. It was a very big project, but it ended up being my best year ever to that point. And I just happened to take that on in January 2010, which was funny. Fast forward, January 15 I'm skipping a bunch of stuff, but I'm just gonna give you just the first things that came to my mind when it came to like big projects, big money in my life. January 15, I created my first course.

So up to this point for the five years since 2010 to 2015, I had just been hustling, grinding, doing my thing as a freelancer. I grew my studio to 6 figures in 2014 In 2014, I start having this idea. Everyone's doing courses. What course could I do? By the way, I'm not saying to do a course. I'm just giving you my experience. This is 2015