Still, it almost costs next to nothing to start an online side hustle.
An online side hustle is still an exciting and the easiest way to make an extra income.
It almost costs next to nothing to start an online side hustle.
Well, it’ll cost you a smartphone, easy access to internet and a lot of spare time and patience.
Yet still, an online side hustle can be more than just about paying the bills and putting food on the table.
It’s a great place to you develop your entrepreneurial skills.
Skills that you’ll need later on to build the small business that’ll help you live the life you want.
21 Online side hustling ideas
Now, doing an online side hustle doesn’t mean you’ll have to always work on the computer.
Many online side hustles also involve making tangible products and the using the internet as a place to:
- promote
- get leads and customers
- and sell them your wares.
1. Sell stock photos online – Maybe photography is your thing. Photo sites like iStock Photo are always looking for contributors who want to get paid taking and selling great photos on their sites.
You can take pictures of almost anything and make money whenever your work is purchased or featured in blogs, videos, commercials, etc.
2. Teach DIYs – If you know how to carry out a specific task like cooking, knitting, gardening, carpentry or any other form of craft; you can earn money teaching other people online on how to do those tasks themselves in very simple steps and tricks.
3. Blogging – It is still a great side hustle today and you can earn some decent cash blogging.
It’s not a quick and easy way to make money though; you’ll need time to build up an audience.
But once you have a big audience; then the sky is the limit. You can sell advertising, make and sell your own products and even affiliate for other people’s products.
4. Online travel consultant – Turn your love for travelling, adventure, or the outdoors into an exciting side hustle by organizing weekend holiday trips to popular destinations in the country.
5. Freelance designer – What can you design?
With the right designing skills, you can offer your services online to lots of businesses.
You can create and sell your designs online to small fashion brands or to small hotels as an interior designer.
You can also design products and packages if you have the right creativity and engineering skills to startups, small furniture or décor makers, etc. as a side hustle.
6. Freelance writer – You can also freelance your writing skills as a side hustle. You can do it as a ghostwriter or write blogs articles for businesses of all sizes.
7. Create and sell an online course – Do you have something you can teach?
You’d be surprised on what topics out there that people want to learn about.
You can create and teach online courses at sites like Udemy. There are courses online for about anything, and you can get paid teaching others what you know.
8. Become an online coach or consultant – Maybe you have mad skills in interior design or you’re a tech expert or any skills that people are looking for. You can become a coach for others as a side hustle using tools like Skype or Zoom.
You can also get paid by the minute for consulting calls if you’re able to establish yourself as thought leader in your field.
9. Go into dropshipping – You can side hustle by selling other people’s items online.
You don’t need to store the inventory yourself in dropshipping -which is great.
All you need is an online store and your ability to market the items of your suppliers for a commission on sales.
10. Start a podcast – How passionate are you about your lifestyle? Do you like to talk about issues or happenings in your community or interests?
You can make money selling audio of your podcast on online music stores like Spotify; and still make money with the video version of your podcast on YouTube and Instagram as an influencer.
11. Start an online store on Shopify – You can side hustle on Shopify by selling your own products or through dropshipping.
You can retail anything from fashion to furniture, arts to books, toys to events tickets and much more.
And it’s easy for new and inexperienced e-commerce entrepreneurs.
What even more exciting about Shopify is that you can also offer services through your store.
You can rent out stuff, do quotes and estimates for special projects, make appointments and even offer consultations.
12. Become a virtual assistant – How good are you with social media or online stuff?
Do you enjoy writing and blogging, but don’t want to start your own blog?
You can side hustle as a virtual assistant where you help other people run their sites and social media accounts.
You can make great money helping them with tasks that ensure their blogs and social media are updated according to schedule – all from the comfort of wherever you are.
13. Buy and sell domains – You can also flip domains as a side hustle. It is one of those side hustles that take time before you start making cash out of it – you got have patience.
But you can make some really good money if you get a big or perfect buyer for one of your domains.
14. Write CVs – Is your work all about hiring people or you work in HR? Or do you see a lot of resumes in your work? Perhaps you can help others with their CVs and cover letters for fee on your free time.
15. Sell crafts on Etsy – Are you creative? Maybe selling your own creative products might be the best route for you.
With your own shop on Etsy, you can sell your crafts to people who are looking for unique products.
You can sell any crafts products from paper goods like cards and invitations to children’s toys to lingerie to craft supplies to artworks – and, you can also:
- Sell pottery wares– It can be fun ceramic bowls or plates, or coffee cups; or animal table lamps or vases for home décor. You can turn your home pottery skills into a profitable side hustle on Etsy.
- Sell artisanal soaps – Do have the skills for making handmade soaps? You can side hustle making better and unique artisanal soaps on your free time; and then sell them on your online shop on Etsy.
- Sell handcrafted furniture or décor – If you can carve all kinds of wooden toys or artistic objects for interior decorations; or kitchen wares or jewelry boxes, etc.; then a store on Etsy might be a solid side hustle for you.
- Sell handmade jewelry – A perfect side hustle if you have the crafting skills to make creative and beautiful jewelries at home or with metal craftsmen.
- Sell custom-made footwear – With an eye for fashion, a home shoe making kit and some crafting skills; you can have a unique side hustle making and selling one-of-a-kind footwear.
- Sell handmade scented candles – Are you into candle making? Well, you can have your own online shop selling handmade scented candles as your side hustle.
- Sell tailor-made fashion and accessories – What kind of clothes or styles can you make? Is it street wear or children’s sleepwear? Maybe you can make uniquely styled bags and purses? Whichever fashion style or skills you have, you can side hustle with your own shop on Etsy.
16. Publish and sell an e-book – Do you love to write stories or have you any stories you want to tell?
You could side hustle writing novels or anything you want; put it together as an eBook and publish it on online book stores like Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
Besides, it is a great way to sell your content online, if you don’t want to spend your time running a blog.
17. Online Fitness trainer – Are you a fitness trainer with a lot of time on your hands? You can side hustle online by organizing and offering live workouts classes from the comfort of wherever you are and whenever you can through your own website or social media.
18. Do gigs on Fiverr – Fiverr is a micro-selling site where you can do all kinds of random gigs, from running errands, design work, teaching your local language to even being the “go-to” guy for specific things in your location.
19. Become an influencer – Do you have something that you’re passionate about? A hobby or skill that you want to share with other hobbyists and enthusiasts?
Well, you can become an influencer and earn some serious cash by offering your influencer status to businesses that want to reach and engage with their target audience through you.
Now, a social media influencer is just one of the many forms of influencers out there.
There is also food, travel, business, finance, music, science, fitness, tech, fashion, art and many more influencers.
Ultimately, you can start your influencer journey by becoming a:
- Youtuber – Earn an extra income as a youtuber. Sign up for a free YouTube channel and create videos on a specific topic that you’re passionate about.
- Instagrammer – Sign up for a free Instagram account and post useful and interesting videos, pictures and stories about any topic or hobby that you’re passionate about.
- TikToker – Make funny and creative videos about any topic you want with a free TikTok account; grow your audience steadily and make some decent cash selling your status to businesses.
- LinkedIn – Professionals also need to be informed and inspired too. You can also become an influencer in your field of expertise on LinkedIn and make decent money recommending all sort of stuff like software and management tools to your audience – and even selling your own.
20. Do online freelancing – Sites like Upwork offers a lot of freelance work online.
You can sign up and get paid doing all kinds of freelance gigs; from designing logos to fashion, dropshipping to consulting, manage project to being a virtual assistant and many more.
21. Design and build apps – With the right coding skills and creativity, you can develop apps as a side business. From game apps, books, scheduling and any app that you want.
Wrapping it Up
Starting a side hustle that helps make ends meet is one thing.
But the real payoff comes when you’re able to turn that side hustle into a full-time business – and almost all the opportunities in the list has that potential.
But everything starts with you taking an action.
Over to you.
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