Who wouldn’t want that extra buck? If you are a teenager, need money to save and extra for dating. An early starter in your job, you would need a down payment for your new property. Middle age with kids, you would need it for kid’s graduation and close to retirement, you would need for safe old age. Everyone needs that extra, challenge is how you make that extra and grow it. To make a real side hustle to make money.

We all plan for financial freedom, very few achieve it. 40 years we work for someone. We like it or not, we just get ready every day to work. Reason? We never want to rock a boat. Life comes with immense responsibilities. Even if you are married or single, the responsibilities will never finish and your full-time job will end with your retirement. Why wait to have a side hustle? 

Is a side hustle worth it of your time?

Before I give you side hustle ideas or side hustle jobs, let’s be serious. A side hustle is not an opportunist. Many people feel making money as a side hustle is grabbing and walking away. Rather, be serious about the side hustle, so much so that you talk to your pals, explaining how to make your side hustle your main hustle. And when you talk, the main hustle started as a side hustle, you won it. 

We spend 9 to 12 hours in our full-time job. The good part of a pandemic is we work from home and relatively save at least 2 hours by not traveling office den. It is time to be inside the hustle. People succeeded in their side hustle to make it the main hustle during this WFH time. We have time to work on a side hustle.

So hustler, take a note and start your business. Partner with family and friends. Make the best plan and be clear. You will do side hustles for money.

Here we go with some best ideas for side hustle:

1. Start Dropshipping

I am sure you heard about it. Many might have said they tried it and couldn’t yield anything. But let me tell you the benefits of it. Let’s say someone tells you they will handle merchandising, will churn your rack, handle payment gateway hassles, and even do shipping of goods point to point. Now, think, you work your life at a full-time job, and if you have a business idea like what I just said, then why you shouldn’t do it? All you need is hustle more, collaborate, do digital marketing, and sell. 

Be the best-ever concessionaire on the dropshipping platform. Host of the website that allows you to be part of it like a concessionaire. Make your e-commerce site or just be part of a larger e-com and build your side hustle work wonder. 

Steps:

• Pick a right dropshipping site
• Choose Shopify or BigCommerce e-come site builder
• Select the product type 
• Sell on social media and while you work. Traffic to your site is key.

The key is in what kind of vertical you choose. Fashion seller or hardware tool seller, whatever you pick, make sure you are an expert and have a network for yourself. 

A best-fit side hustles to make money for mobility-based work. Work for side hustle while you work for a full-time job. 

2. Never burn the bridges

Okay! This is not the exact side hustle idea. But then part of your nature in case you looking to start a money-making side hustle. I will tell you how. We work hard and learn new skills. In our journey as an employee, we change from firm to firm. Sometimes we change for good since we learned new skills and move into an improved firm. In this journey of quitting a new job, we build bridges. How? Here I have an idea. Not everyone will find an immediate replacement for you. Speak to your would-be ex-employer if you can still help. What you are doing full-timer can be done like a side hustler’s job. 

Steps –

• Master your skills and guarantee your employer that you can still do the same as a part-timer
• Adjust your time, start early, or work late, meet the checklist, and get things done
• Never miss the deadline

Best fit for-

• Bookkeeping accountant
• Software developer and tester
• Designer and creative specialist

Done well, I am sure you will make wonder building a bridge for a lifetime and have a side hustle to make money. 

Master your skills and be pro. 

3. Freelancer

We all know about this. Some do and most just think of it whole life without doing it. Probably after reading this, you might pick up and start thinking about freelancing as a side hustle to make money. We can do freelancing for anything you can think of. From professional service to hard skilled jobs and even software jobs. Anything you can think of. What is essential is to find time for freelancing. Look, anyone can give you a side hustle idea, but then what I am giving you is how to do it. 

Steps: 

• Find the best site to get a freelancing job, e.g. freelancer.com, Upwork, Flexjob, PeoplePerHour, Fiverr, etc.
• Start small, earn great feedback
• Bid for the job and commit to it 

Best fit for:

• Software developer, web designer, analytics specialist, and software tester
• Writer and proofreaders
• Virtual assistant
• Social media champions …..

Get on to your act and find the best job on the sites. Work with your best skills and build your side hustle like a pro. Or be a side hustle pro. 

4. Blogger

If you search on the web about side hustle ideas, you will get tons of searches and 90% of them would have a blogger as an idea. Blogging is easy yet super tough. Anyone can write, but the trick here is to write and create meaningful content. Content which gets ranking to feature top 10 of Google search time and every time. Blogging is not just about writing; it is about the bot team which will support it to feature on top of the list. Blogging works smoothly. It is a hobby, yet it is side hustle work. 

Steps:

• Find your topic and domain you will write 
• Get our website
• Be SEO champ

Side hustle you can do from home or office, while you travel or while you site see. Grow your blog site and make it big. There are some influencers backed by blogging making 500k per year. 

I am sure that is excellent motivation to think about side hustle that makes money. 

5. Be an online tutor or coach

Passive income is a way of life. We all read about how passive income is so easy to make if you put your resource right into use. Side hustle with progressive passive income with very little effort to grow income. Passive income is a direct money-making side hustle. Being a tutor or coach online can be a great side hustle idea. 

Say you are good at cooking, baking cake, cross fits, photography, python, Tableau, Salesforce, gardening, playing violin, guitar, playing a board game, or even champ in PUBG. You can build your content and put it on online stores like Udemy, Skillshare, Udacity, Datacamp, etc.

Steps:

• Check what you are good at
• Create content — video, audio, visuals, course content, and evaluation method
• Put it for minimal price and sell on learning sites

This side hustle can be a great passive income in case your content is clicked well with users. Make this side hustle your main hustle as you build more and more learning content. 

So that’s it, I have clubbed multiple side hustles ideas to macro. Like you can make course content of anything you are good at. Freelance what you specialize in, work like a part-timer or start your e-commerce site. 

Wish you all well in your side hustle.