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Thanks to the internet, there are so many different ways to make money online at the comfort of your home without leaving your kids or your aged parents or your special need loved ones.
Most of these job opportunities, you can work at anytime of the day around your 9-5 schedule or your side hustle or small business without a college degree.
You can earn extra income through these side hustles while going to school or working weird hour job or simply being there with your kids when they are at home.
Let’s dive right in.
1) Create printable or art work to sell on Etsy. There are simple designs like habit trackers, invoice memos, weekly planner, wedding invitations, resume templates. You can load your first 40 Etsy listings for free and then after that it’s 20 cents per listing.
2) Create your design: on Tshirts, coffee mugs, wall arts to sell on Teespring, Redbubble, etc. There are other platforms like Printful that let you upload the designs and you choose a place to fulfill the order
3)Freelancing to sell your services and skills. There are thousands of gigs and services on Fiverr, Upwork to explore. People are looking for services like doing a voice over, typing captions, editing thumbnails, design book covers, writing a book, etc.
4) Write a book to sell on Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publisher) for free. Think of what you know how to do best and see if there is a demand for it. For example, you can teach people how to blog, how to make money online, become a notary, become a better you. You can teach people how to become a better writer, how to manage time, etc.
5) Take photo and sell it on Istock.
6) YouTube: you can do simple videos or slideshows with music background for relaxing music channels. You need 100 subscribers and 4000 hours of watch time per year in order to earn money from ads.
7) Affliated Marketing: You do not need a website for this. You can create a complete free guide on how to and share it on Quora or Pinterest or facebook. If you have a website already, it’s a easier to build trust and share your thoughts and affliated links on it.
8) Create courses on Udemy, Skillshare, Thinkific to share your skills and knowledge. You can open a free account and Thinkific allows you to test out the water with 2-3 courses with unlimited students. Do you want to teach people how to grow on Instagram, how to create rich pins on Pinterest or how to design printable, how to make money from home, etc. The possibilities are endless.
The next four side hustles may need that you have stuffs or car or space to rent or sell.
9) Sell used stuffs on Ebay, Craiglist, OfferUp, Poshmark, etc
10) Rent out a car when you’re not using it on Turo, GetAround
11) Rent out a spare room, garage space or a parking spot on Neighbor.com, SpotHero, Craiglist, Hotpad.
13) Drive for Uber, Lift, Postmates, etc.
No skills required except speaking or reading English:
14) Teach/tutor English on websites like VIPkids
15) testing out websites or video games and giving feedback
16) start a podcast
17) Become a virtual assistant or social media manager: responding to emails, posting on social media
18) Transcribing from video to text
No experience required for these side hustles below:
19) House sitting or pet sitting/walking via Rover.
21) Become a secret shopper
22) Do shopping for Instacart:
Some skill is needed but easily learned
23) Become a social media manager 😊
24) Apply for a voice-over side hustles through Fiverr or Upwork
25) Write articles or ebooks for HireWriters, Fiverr, Upwork, Iwriter.
The next few side hustles need a little money to start but have no income limit
26) Start a blog: This side hustle may seem daunting at first but it’s quite rewarding and long term benefits. Blogging has make millionaire and billionaires like real estate except it’s digital world.
For $50-$100 to start for 3 years of writing good blog posts, you have a chance to share your ideas, skills and knowledge with the world and open doors for more.
27) flipping websites like Flippa.com. Just like real estate, this side hustle is about buying or creating websites and then flipping them for profit.
28) Become a Notary Public or a Loan Signing Agent. Notary Public Services help prevent fraud in important documents like loan documents for home purchase, refinance, Heloc or court documents. You can verify that people have signed these documents via webcam. So that you can work remotely.
29) Swing trading stocks, crypto or REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust): buy low and sell high through different trading platforms like Webull, Robinhood, M1 finance, TD AmeriTrade, Ally, etc
30) Invest into peer to peer lending platforms like LendingClub, LendingTree, Prosper, Peerform, etc.
There are many side hustle but the main thing is to try to match these up with your natural skills and talents and to earn your way toward financial freedom. It all starts with taking action on your goals and plan.