Thought I would start a page on side hustles as it is something I practice and urge anyone who wants some extra cash to do so! The main thing you want to focus on is what you are good at/ your talent.
I would avoid side hustle apps to make money and online surveys, you can’t trust them and so why would you want to risk giving them your bank details? stay safe!
Side hustles at home, they’re all at home, here’s my list that I find actually work, bearing in mind that a lot of things like most things in life take time to build up.
- Sell Art on Ebay (if you can paint.) or sell something else you can create. People want things for cheap on ebay so you won’t make a fortune per painting, its quantity you’re going for and dont stress if they dont sell straight away, you’ll normally make your sales in the payday week.
My trick is minimal number of photos, just one showing the painting (oil on paper, no frame) or acrylic/ watercolour if that’s your thing but don’t use too much paint, that way you will be making money.
I then list them for double the price I want for them; my magic number seems to be £14 + delivery (the cheaper the delivery/ smaller the parcel the more likely you are to sell.)
I’ll list each painting for £14 and then when someone clicks ‘watch item’ I’ll send them an offer of £7, it sells and then I have basically made £10. I sell around 4 a month so that’s roughly £30 a month. If I was to, and am thinking about it, paint every day after work I could make much more but there are other things to do in life..
1 hour a painting, 4 hours a night, 4 paintings a night 20 paintings a week (weekends off), 80 paintings a month and if you had the drying space and they all sold each month I’d have my own little Andy Warhol esq factory and make £560 a month minus ebay promotion fees depending on how much I set it at (just go with the recommended, they take it off the postage too..)
If I lost my job, it would be my full-time job at £7 an hour. But I’d be better off getting an actual job at minimum wage. Which tells me moonlighting is the better option.
2. Moonlighting – doesn’t need much explanation, just apply for a job in a bar or restaurant and work hard.
3. The Transporter – sign up to Uber, deliver for Amazon. With a flick of a wrist and punch into Google you should be able to sign up to this easy.
4. Art Deco Clocks and Rock Climbing Shoes – In 2019 I really needed money so began buying cheap items on eBay to then sell back on eBay. Its simple, buy a product you think you can sell for double on auction then list it for four times what you paid for it on ‘buy it now’ at that price then when you get a watcher, offer them half the amount and they just seem to click buy.
5. Music – musician?or can just play an instrument? sign up to a music distribution label like Distrokid. Ill say this now, you wont make a lot of money, Spotify, YouTube etc pay small amounts like 0.002 cents per play but if you could create a hit you’d be quids in.
I would then recommend sharing your music, mainly YouTube as everyone can access that. Each share should get you around five plays and if you really were that keen on those 0.002 cents a play you could just keep doing this until you made $1 and so on.
6. Blog – what I’m attempting now, write blogs, articles, share, promote, make money on ads. I recommend Blogger.com as it easily links up Adsense for you and is free.
7. Be a tutor of your hobby – You’re the master of your hobby right? buy a camera and tripod and film your mits creating something, talking the viewer through it. It may work, then obviously, share, promote, make money.
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