there has never been a better time to make some extra income on the side and
so in this video we're gonna talk about twelve different side hustles that you
can do that actually will generate a decent amount of income for you and as
we're going through these I will have links to every single one down below and
additional information that I'm talking about will all be down in the
description down below so check that out if you need any more details and so with
that out of the way let's get started
all right first on the list is Uber or Lyft whatever you prefer and so I'm sure
you've probably ridden with one of them but you can drive for them and I'm sure
you know this you might have even thought about it but it's actually
pretty decent and flexible side hustle that you can take advantage of and
actually earn a decent amount of money as well
Uber and Lyft both have different earnings kind of figures that they
advertise and I've seen anything from twenty to thirty five dollars an hour
every town is going to be different so it's it's just a hard one to know
exactly what you're gonna get until you kind of start diving in a little bit but
driving for each one of these companies offers a lot of flexibility and kind of
just gives you some control over your own schedule and when you want to work
but I do know that both Lyft and Uber are really trying to recruit drivers at
the time of this recording so it's definitely an option to consider if
you're looking for a good flexible way to make some extra cash all right next
on the list is this one's kind of interesting so I stumbled across this
probably six or nine months ago but basically this guy I think his name is
Brian he kind of built his own business where he was going around to different
local businesses and cleaning picking up the trash on their parking lots and he
kind of developed a system where he's doing this and making over-or into the
six figures picking up trash off of parking lots and anyway and he created
like ebook basically where he shows exactly how to do this and you know I
more or less telling you exactly what you need to do in order to get gigs like
this and build a business like this and personally I just get excited when I see
people like this entrepreneurial spirit coming out and this guy taking there's a
little thing of walking around parking lots picking up trash and turn it into
not only a full-time income but a really nice full-time income and so for this
one if you like being outside you like walking a lot you know it's something
definitely consider alright next on the list is Airbnb and just like the first
one uber you probably have heard of this you might
have already used Airbnb you might use it all the time but you can actually
earn some really good money just by renting out your house or by renting out
even a room in your house and I've even heard about students renting out their
dorm rooms so depending what city you live in and how well-traveled it is you
could even consider that we have friends in town actually who every time they
travel and go out of town they rent their house out in many cases they
actually earn money while they're traveling because they're getting paid
more from renting out their house and they're actually spending to stay
other places so and one of the big concerns that a lot of people have and
it's just something I've thought about a lot is you know what happens if
something comes in just destroys my house and so Airbnb has this
million-dollar host guarantee where they will just take care of anything that
happens you know things are covered up to a million dollars which is really
great they also have the insurance thing taking care of this host protection
insurance and the other part of this that I like a lot that makes me feel a
whole lot better versus just renting it out to somebody on Craigslist is it
Airbnb you can see and you can choose who's going to rent out your place and
so you know you can see what kind of reviews they have and if you don't want
to run to somebody you don't need to so that kind of flexibility just eliminates
a lot of the kind of concern and risk so if you're traveling if you are you know
going on vacation this is definitely something to consider because you could
easily make a few hundred if not a couple thousand dollars depending how
long you're going all right next up is Amazon Flex and what this is is
basically you deliver boxes for Amazon so UPS isn't cutting it and you know the
Amazon is just obviously everywhere and they are just delivering stuff like
crazy especially with Prime Now and so they have this program called Amazon Flex
where you can get paid to deliver boxes for Amazon and apparently you can
make 18 to 25 dollars an hour which is really cool and it's also a very
flexible one where like I say or you can be your own boss set your own schedule
and just kind of control when you're going to do this and on top of that it's
like I don't know if it gets much easier than driving over an address with GPS
drop on a package off on the doorstep and the walking away and to be able to
potentially make $25 an hour doing that that is pretty cool all right next
on the list is an app called User Testing and it's an app website and we
actually did a separate review about it so I'll have that linked up down in the
description as well as above and basically what this is is you are
testing websites and getting paid to do it and so there are a lot of companies
who might have built a website and they want to see how users respond to it if
the website is communicating what they want to be communicated and so they hire
testers to come on the website and to give feedback you know so does this
landing page make sense do you know where to click to get to the store or
the checkout button and they'll ask you questions like this and you just answer
questions using a headset microphone and your job is just to answer questions
that they ask you about this specific website so it's really pretty simple not
much to it you get paid $10 a test and they estimate that most tests take about
20 minutes and so you're looking at around $30 an hour now the only downside
about this one is that I don't know how scalable it is in that I don't know that
you could turn this into a full time job I don't know if there's enough tests
available you know so you might be limited on what's available to you but
either way it's a pretty simple way to make some extra cash
all right next on the list is selling used books and I actually have this
video here which I will link to above as well where we go in a little bit more
detail about this but basically one thing I've done is go into Goodwill and
find used books and then I used an app to kind of scan that book to see what I
could sell it for online and oftentimes you can go to Goodwill and buy a book
for 25 cents that you might be able to sell for five or ten dollars online and
so obviously if you can repeat that a few times you can actually make some
decent money and so if you don't mind shopping through Goodwill kind of
looking for things like that which I actually enjoy I think it's really fun
this is something that you could do and earn some decent cash obviously have a
hundred percent control over when you do this and yeah a pretty good option to consider
alright next on a list is a company called LiveOps in what they do
is a higher call center agents and their virtual call center agents so you can
work from home so as long as your house is quiet or you have a quiet room in
your house where you can kind of answer these calls you're good to go and this
one also offers a good amount of flex ability in terms of setting your own
schedule the earnings on this one might be lower than a few of the other ones
we've explored on this list so far but obviously being able to work from home
and being able to set your own hours is a pretty desirable thing all right next
up is starting an eBay business and that might sound more intimidating than it
actually is and I wrote this article here which I will have linked up up
above and on the description below that you can check out but basically I did an
experiment where I wanted to see if I could start an eBay business and I went
out and bought basically some guitar necks from a wholesaler at a wholesale
price and then I resold them on eBay and I measured out my profit to kind of see
how much I get earned and to see if this was something I could scale up and all
those results are in this blog post here and I also did an interview with another
friend of mine in another video which I'll link to up above as well where he
paid off $80,000 of debt just using eBay and working a few hours on each Saturday
and so in that video he talks about his strategy of how he used eBay to do this
in which it's just really simple and so if you haven't sold anything in eBay
definitely check it out like we've we have a lot of videos about it and we
have a really simple kind of step-by-step how-to and just by doing
that selling one thing you can kind of get your feet wet to see if there's
something you would consider doing but it's it's a whole lot less intimidating
than it seems and I'll have that video linked up in
the description as well if you want to check that out and if you know and
honestly like just starting or with the stuff around your house there's a great
way to just start earning some extra cash and then if you enjoyed that then
you can decide to turn it into a business if that's something that you want to do
all right next up is a website called Upwork and this is one
where I actually go to hire a whole bunch of people and basically it's a
community of freelancers who do just about everything so as you can see on
this list here there are all kinds of different freelancers who work from this
website and so basically as a freelancer you can go here and put out a profile
and say that say that you do creative writing or maybe you do presentations
for people or logo design or maybe you do web research or maybe you're a
virtual assistant or you know any of these things and you just go
put your profile out there say that you do this at your own price whatever you want
to get paid and then people like me will come out here and we'll be searching for
something and we will hire things and I honestly most of my hires go through
this site and I know a lot of other people who hire almost exclusively from
this website like when you're looking for a freelancer so if you have some
sort of skill I mean really this is just a drop in the bucket of what they have
but if you have some sort of skill that you could freelance with this is
definitely something to consider because you have a lot of control you
know so you can you have control obviously what jobs you take but also
what your pay is so if you only want to work for X amount or over you know you
can set that you know and obviously no one's going to hire you if you know if
they if they want to pay less than that so and I've actually had a few friends
who've started here and you know just kind of got their feet wet as they were
trying to work out of you know working for another company to kind of become a
full-time freelancer and it's just a great way to start getting some business
and just kind of getting your feet wet with the whole freelance thing and in
the similar vein something else you could do is if you have some sort of
skill that you can teach other people you go to a website like this like TakeLessons
here where basically you can come on here as a teacher and you can
teach about whatever the thing is that you're really knowledgeable about so
these are just a handful of things but we'll click over here to view all
lessons just so you can see everything that's available but there's all kinds
of like academic tutoring any kind of computer skills if you're really good at
like whatever CAD software or maybe it's Microsoft Office like you can teach
people about that obviously like any kind of language or like instrument and
something that's really cool that I didn't even know they did until I
started looking at this you can do like you could teach guitar lessons virtually
so this doesn't even need to be local so you can do this virtually therefore you
can reach a much wider audience than maybe just the whatever the 15 miles
around your house that you might normally be teaching guitar lessons so
it's a great way to take your skill and turn it into some extra cash so if you
have something like that do you love to I don't know just share with people and
actually get paid to teach like this is something to consider all right next up
is Real Estate Investing and this is not like obviously a very quick turn this
into cash type of thing but my friend Brandon Turner over at BiggerPockets we
actually did an interview together and this blog post here just kind of goes
into some of these basics of how to get started as a beginner and if you're
considering doing this definitely check out this interview because Brandon is
one of these smartest guys in the industry he works for probably the
biggest real estate website real estate education website online right now
called Bigger Pockets and he's written a few books and just super super
knowledgeable and he's done all this stuff himself he started just you know
picking up one rental property and then just continuing to add more and more now
he's got a huge portfolio and it's just making a really nice income from all
these real estate holdings that he has so if you are thinking about getting
into real estate investing definitely check this out to get a little more
detail before you move forward and last on the list is a website called Turo and
I really love this one cuz basically imagine it like this it's like Airbnb
but for your car and so essentially what it is, is it's people renting out their
cars to other people wanting or needing a car so instead of having to go to
Enterprise or Hertz to rent a car you can rent from individuals and you can
rent for a fraction of the price and a lot of times it's a whole lot easier and
more convenient yeah and so I've used this as a renter a lot I haven't rented
out my car yet but I've rented a lot from it and it's just brilliant so one
of the things I love obviously is that it's considerably cheaper than renting
from the big car companies but on top of that like certain airports you might
need to take a couple trams or a bus to get over to the car rental area because
the airport's so big and you know and sometimes that takes you a half an hour
to get over there and stand in line and get your car and whatever else and many
times one of rents from Turo the person renting the car will actually come right
up to the baggage claim area and I can just walk right out with my bags and hop
in my car and so it saves me a ton of time as well now obviously in this video
we're talking about being a renter and making money from this and they just
have a little thing here we can just kind of see how much you can earn and so
and the value of a car is a big kind of component of how much you will get paid
so lower end cars like you can rent out a car that might be fifteen years old I
think I've actually rented one that was probably fifteen years old
so people will still rent it because it's gonna be cheaper to rent but even
if you do have a newer a nice car it's something to consider as well because it
will get paid considerably more and so you can just use this little chart to
kind of get a ballpark and it's gonna depend just like Airbnb on your city
and how much the demand there is but and as you would expect they have insurance
to kind of cover any accidents that might happen and being on the
renting side of things it seems like a very streamlined and pretty easy process
and as a renter you have control so anyway if you have a car and you're
interested in making some cash from it definitely consider Turo as well
all right so those are the 12 things I hope you enjoyed it hope you found some
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