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'Have a side hustle' self-employment expert tells South West entrepreneurs

Iain Scott plans to bring his roadshow to South West in 2022 with tips on how people can start their own businesses and make them a success

Iain Scott has worked with the Scottish Government and Glasgow University and is advising start-up businesses

A leading specialist in self-employment is advising budding entrepreneurs to start their enterprise with a side hustle while already in paid employment.

Iain Scott, a Glasgow-based writer and business expert, said a side hustle, a means of making cash alongside main employment, is the perfect way to test out a new business venture until it is strong enough to sustain full-time involvement.

He has been helping entrepreneurs start their own ventures since 1995 and is planning to bring his popular roadshow to Plymouth and the South West in 2022, having lived in Cornwall before relocating back over Hadrian’s Wall in 2010.

And the author ofis encouraging entrepreneurial individuals to start thinking now about launching their own ventures.

It comes as figures show the Covid lockdown era was fertile ground for new business ventures with 1,500 start-ups created in Plymouth between June 2020 and June 2021, including 634 new businesses registered with Companies House in just the first half of this year.

Mr Scott started his own food business as a side hustle while working as a teacher in the 1980s and after winning awards and “tangling with venture capitalists” ended up working with Glasgow University on start-ups and ups and high growth startups .

He now helms the podcast The Enterprise Iain Show and has travelled the º£½ÇÊÓÆµ with Enterprise Island Challenge “helping people who dreamed of starting a business and never did anything about it make it happen”.

He has also worked with the Scottish Government on a project called CanDoPlaces, with looks to start entrepreneurial activities in disused buildings.