How to Make Money Going Green & Staying Lean

There is much public interest in losing weight and and in going green. Opportunities to make money by teaching classes and marketing resources and products that promote a healthy green lifestyle are plentiful. While the financial compensations are modest, helping others make lifestyle changes can significantly improve their quality of life. Adopting a green and healthy lifestyle may enable you to live on a reduced budget as you help others stay lean and change their lifestyles.

Instructions

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  Study the link between over-consumption and weight problems. This will motivate you to pursue lean and green living, and it will enable you to understand and to explain to others how green living (which leads to less consumption) promotes a healthy weight.

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  Find tools (products, books and websites) that excite your passion and motivate you to live lean and green. These are the resources and commodities you yourself use, and about which you can speak with confidence and authority should you choose to market them to others.

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  Network with others in your community who have turned a healthy and green lifestyle into a livelihood. Such people often sell environmentally friendly cleaning and personal products or vitamins. This group of people may include personal trainers, yoga teachers and alternative healers.

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  Find your niche in the local alternative health economy. As you identify the products or services that you want to offer, don't neglect to consider online options such as a subscription blog or a product website.

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  Go into an educational or training program that will lend credibility to the products or services that you plan to market to others. For instance, if you want to market a diet plan, take a community education class in healthy cooking or nutrition. If you want to sell green gardening products, take a gardening class.

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  Raise community awareness. Obese people spend an average of $1,429 more for health care each year than others, according to a 2009 study done by the CDC and RTI International (a nonprofit research group).

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  Tell people about your business plan. Friends and relatives will support you and spread the word about your new venture.

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  Market your products or services. It may be helpful to become trained in the soft-sell marketing approach.