5 Side Hustles That Can Make You Money on the Side

Are you looking for more income in the bank and to live a better life? You need to try hustling each day. Successful and wealthy people are always finding new ways to monetize their strengths, working hard, stay consistent and refrain from distractions like social media browsing or watching videos. Each hour you fail to improve your life is an hour wasted.

“But how can I hustle?” You might ask.

In the post below, you’ll find 5 cool side hustle ideas that you can dive into today. No doubt you’ll find the one way you want to hustle and stick to it.

Blogging

Millions of Indian writers make a full-time income with blogging. Thanks to Google’s search metrics and SERP rankings, the need for keyword loaded content is always high in ensuring the right traffic to websites. It’s easy to blog and anyone can begin. This helps you tons with passive income.

This means once you’ve built your blog that can earn you money, your additional work becomes less and less.

Blogging is excellent as a side-hustle as you are only required to work 1-2 hours a day on your blog. Your personal branding also grows with every published post meaning you gain more online authority.

The satisfaction you get from creating your own online space and getting an audience is great. It is rewarding to have your creative inputs recognized by your readers.

*Freelancing*

This is also known as the gig economy. It unlocks everyone’s true earning potential. Anyone can make more money offering a skill or service they specialize in. The gig economy basically means contract-based or short-term jobs that are usually decided between two people.

You can join multiple freelancing sites and work as a content writer at a beginner level and then slowly work your way up to higher expertise and better-paying projects. Many writers make good money from it helping them cover their expenses. Your writing could eventually move to blogging as something more liberating. You can offer services like coding, tutoring, writing, virtual assistance, accounting, and even digital marketing.

*Becoming a YouTuber*

YouTube is a fast-growing trend for online money-making. You can begin by creating your own YouTube channel and monetizing it. You get rewarded as per the number of views your content gets. Upload quality videos, become a YouTube partner and soon you could be making money online over YouTube.

Your views would depend on the quality and type of content being created. These could include kitchen recipes, how-to-do videos, prank videos or even travel tips – basically think of any content that others may find useful.

Once the views start pouring in, you can apply to be a YouTube partner. Once you are in the program people will begin seeing ads along with your videos. You make money for each view your video gets. Try shooting these videos on your smartphone or your DSLR.

Here’s a guide on making money on YouTube.

*Be a Domain Trader*

People pay a lot of money for websites with established and regular traffic on them. Domain trading is this high profit side hustle you can do online. Investment in the domain would be required. Purchasing a domain for less than $10 and selling them in the future to the needy person for hundreds of dollars is possible. Your skill lies in identifying great domains that are not yet in existence and companies in the future choosing to try and purchase the domain.

Every time a company does not find the domain they want, they contact the domain owner for the price. If you’re the owner you can control and fix the price.

You are even able to directly auction your website in order for people to buy directly at your listed price.

SEO/Digital Marketer

Another very popular class of freelancing gigs are SEO services and digital marketing. You can offer tons in this area: setting up backlinks for clients, giving them guest posts, creating PBN links, fixing on-page SEO for client websites, and helping clients get higher SERP and more traffic.

So what are you waiting for? Kickstart your finances today and become a more productive and valuable person!

Samiksha Jaiswal

Samiksha Jaiswal