- And so I checked it out
and doing this side hustle myself, I made over $38,000.
Hey, everyone, and welcome back.
So today I was inspired to make this video
because I checked the news
and I saw that inflation has continued
to spiral out of control globally.
I mean, just take a look at average gas prices in the USA.
Compared to the same time last year,
the prices aren't even close.
And this wouldn't be so bad maybe
if jobs and salaries were keeping up
with the skyrocketing prices.
The problem is, for most people, they're not.
And so I think that now more of than ever,
it is crucial that people not just rely on a job for money,
but that they have their own source of income
in the form of a side hustle,
especially a side hustle with a great earning potential
so that one day you can quit your job
and say goodbye to your boss forever.
But of course, here's the thing.
If you don't have enough money
just to pay for basic groceries,
then there's no way
that you're gonna be able to invest any money
into starting up a business or a side hustle,
which is why I was inspired to create this curated list
of the current best side hustles
that have high earning potential
that also cost no money to start.
Yes, no money required.
You don't need a hundred dollars.
You don't need $50.
You don't even need $10.
These are 100% free.
And as this is a list of the current best side hustles,
I'm gonna be talking about some
that I have never talked about before on this channel.
So then let's get started with the first one.
One: publish image-based books.
Did you know that it is completely free
to list an ebook that you create on Amazon's KDP
and earn money from it?
Well, not only is it free,
it's also a really passive way to earn money as well
because once you put it up on Amazon's KDP, that's it.
Amazon takes care of the rest for you.
You just collect your paycheck.
Now, for those of you watching that are great writers,
that's awesome.
You can go out there, you can write your ebook,
and you can sell it.
But let's be honest, for most of us watching,
we can't write a novel.
And so if that is you, don't worry
because you can create image-based books.
To get started,
just come to the beginner-friendly graphic app, Canva,
and register for a free account.
The free account comes
with a bunch of pictures, shapes, and text
that are already installed in it
that you can just drag and drop onto an ebook-sized page
to create your own image-based book,
such as a workbook or a journal
or even a children's book,
by using the incredible art
already installed in this free app.
In this really awesome video here
shares how she went from $0
to making over 400 pounds in a single week
selling her own image-based books on Kindle as a beginner.
So if you're interested in starting this side hustle,
I highly recommend checking out this video.
Two: create and sell digital downloads.
So this is another side hustle that you can do
to take advantage of that free graphics app, Canva.
To get started,
just come over to this huge online marketplace, Etsy.
Every year, customers are buying billions of dollars
worth of products on here
and one type of product that customers love
is printable crafts.
For example, take printable posters,
which are super popular.
So here's the thing.
When a customer comes and buys this printable poster,
they don't actually get a copy of a physical poster.
Instead, they get an automatic email,
which contains a link to a digital download
that has the image file for the poster
so that they can print it out
and create their own DIY poster.
And yes, these sell great.
Just take that Etsy digital download store.
It sells multiple digital downloads, not just that poster.
Well, using the Etsy research app Alura,
it estimates that that store has made over one million RM,
which is over 200,000 US dollars, whoa.
Three: create and sell boutique custom digital products.
So here's a way to take their slide hustle
and put your own twist on it
so that you can supercharge your profits.
Now, admittedly, this hustle is less passive
than the other one.
However, it has two big pros.
Pro number one, it allows you to stand out more.
And pro number two, it lets you charge much higher prices
so that you can make a lot more money per sale.
So here's the thing,
instead of creating a one-off digital product
that everybody downloads the same copy of,
you instead create a customizable one like this poster here.
And as you can see, because it's customizable,
they have been able to charge double the price
of their other poster
because customers can customize it
with their names and their wedding date.
Well, customizing a digital product for a customer
is really easy.
You just quickly pop into Canva
and open up your product template
and just switch out the text that the customer gave you.
You then just email the customer
their own custom digital product
and the whole process takes like five minutes.
And as I said,
if you're willing to put in that time of five minutes,
your store can make big profits.
I mean, just take this store as an example.
It has a range of customizable digital products,
not just that one,
and the Alura app estimates
that it's made over 600,000 pounds, wow.
Four: start a merch line.
So up until now, we've been talking about side hustles
that are making people hundreds of thousands of dollars.
So let's ramp things up a bit
and talk about a side hustle
that can make millions of dollars.
So here's the thing, right?
Digital products aren't just popular on Etsy.
Nope, classic merch items
like mugs and stickers and T-shirts
are super popular with Etsy customers.
And just how popular, you ask?
Well, let's go ahead
and take a look at this example Etsy store here
which specializes in baby merch, like baby T-shirts.
Well, according to Alura, it's made over $7 million.
Wow.
And the really cool thing
is that, as I show in this YouTube tutorial video here,
that you can create, with the help of a credit card,
your very own free Etsy merch store.
First up, register
for a free print-on-demand app like Printify.
Printify lets you make merch on demand for customers
as they order it
and they have a huge range
of blank merch items you can sell.
Just pick one and upload either a picture or slogan onto it.
Printify will store a copy of it in their database.
Then set up a free Etsy store
and add your items you made within Printify into it.
And now you can sell your merch
for a marked up price on Etsy.
And then each time somebody buys, say, a T-shirt,
Printify's app will immediately see the order
and charge your credit card on file
the base cost of that T-shirt.
Their print shop will then automatically print the picture
onto the T-shirt, package it up,
and ship it out to the customer
and you get to keep the difference as profit.
I absolutely love this side hustle,
not only because it can earn so much money,
but because the money it earns is very passive.
And if you'd like to find out how I and others do this
to earn passive income every day,
you should be sure to download my free ebook,
which I'll have a link to in the video description.
Five: Facebook Marketplace dropshipping.
If you don't know what dropshipping is,
it's a form of arbitrage.
You sell an item for a high price
and then when the customer buys it,
you purchase it from another store
that's selling it for a lower price,
and you keep the difference as profit.
Now, there is a free way to dropship,
which I will show you how to do shortly,
but first I'm gonna show you the traditional way
that most people choose to dropship,
which, as you will see, is not free.
So here's what most people do.
First, they come to AliExpress.
On AliExpress, manufacturers of cool viral products
sell them one by one directly to the public.
This means that you can get items super cheap,
pretty much at their base cost,
because you don't have any wholesaler marking up the price.
Next, they create a Shopify store
and list that item for sale for a higher price
and they pay for ads to advertise it on, say, TikTok.
And then when someone buys it,
they buy it from the cheap AliExpress store
and have it shipped to their customer's house
while they keep the difference as profit.
But course, this traditional way, it's not free.
You gotta pay for a Shopify store.
You gotta pay for ads.
So here's the way to do it 100% for free.
First, you also find a cool cheap item on AliExpress,
but then you do something else.
You filter the results to see USA-based manufacturers.
Pick one that ships the item fast with USPS.
Next, come to Facebook's Marketplace,
which is free to list items for sale,
then create a new listing for it and price it for a markup
and make sure to select a random USA city to list it in.
And now you can sit back and relax
and wait for people to purchase the item.
And when they do, you can get the customers
to send you the money through PayPal.
So this is the free way that beginners are getting started.
And of course, you can always take your profits
and then reinvest them into opening up your own online store
so that you can earn even more money.
Six: create viral quiz videos.
So about a year or so ago,
YouTube released their own mobile video app, YouTube Shorts,
as a competitor to TikTok
and, well, to entice users
to post their videos to YouTube Shorts
and not just TikTok,
YouTube created the YouTube Shorts fund,
which pays creators up to $10,000 for posting viral videos.
And how it works is pretty simple.
Creators upload videos that they create to YouTube Shorts,
and if they go viral and get a bunch of views,
YouTube pays out cash payments as a reward.
Now, of course a bunch of people are gonna go,
"Well, gee, isn't it hard for my video to go viral
if I don't have a million subscribers like you, Sarah?"
And the answer is that it's actually never been easier
to go viral than it is now
because you think about it,
if you're watching a standard YouTube video
like this one here,
they're usually about 10 minutes long, right?
And so that means, then, that to entertain you for one hour,
YouTube needs to find just six videos.
However, YouTube shorts are that, they are short.
They're on average about 30 seconds long,
which means then that for YouTube
to entertain you for one hour
using their YouTube Shorts app,
they need to find 120 videos.
That's a lot of videos that YouTube needs to find, right?
And so they will test pretty much all videos
that are uploaded to YouTube Shorts
to see if they can go viral,
not just videos from established creators.
And in my opinion, one of the easiest ways
to go viral right now
is to create quiz videos
such as personality quizzes or choose your own gift quizzes.
Like, you take this YouTube Shorts here.
It was uploaded about a week ago
and in just one week, it got over 230,000 views.
That's a lot.
And something else that's really cool
is that you can create your own quiz videos for free
by utilizing the graphic app, Canva,
that I've been talking about in this video,
and I show how to do it in this tutorial video.
And the really cool thing is that you can scale your profits
by uploading your videos to multiple mobile video apps.
You can upload your video to TikTok
and then earn money
from the TikTok creator cash payout program
and then you can upload your video to Instagram Reels
and earn money from their creator cash payout program too.
Seven: create mobile tutorial videos.
So I have a hustle where I'll create video tutorials
for apps like Canva and Shopify on this channel,
and in the video description of them,
I will place my affiliate link for them.
If somebody clicks on it
and then purchases a paid version of the app,
I get an affiliate commission.
And so while I was making this video,
I wondered, how much money did I make last month
in affiliate commissions?
And so I checked it out
and doing this side hustle myself, I made over $38,000.
But of course, a lot of people see this
and they go, "Sarah, that's not fair.
You have a ton of subscribers.
I have no subscribers.
If I tried do this, I would make no money."
And to those people, I say,
"Did you know that this is how I made
my first $10,000 on YouTube?"
Yep, back before I had a million subscribers,
I was creating tutorial videos for apps like this one here
which showed how to set up a store with Shopify.
Well, despite the fact
that I made that video over five years ago
when I had very few subscribers,
within months of posting that video,
I was earning thousands of dollars a month
in affiliate commissions.
Now, I'll admit that creating a big tutorial video like that
is a lot of work,
but luckily, thanks to mobile videos,
it's so much easier to get started with this side hustle.
Like, take this TikTok video here.
As you can see, they just use their phone
to film a quick short little tutorial
showcasing a Shopify hack.
Eight: start a boutique drop service agency.
Drop servicing is a great side hustle
to get into for two reasons.
The first reason is, as I will show you,
this can be a recession-proof hustle.
And the second reason
is because if you have access to a credit card,
you can do this 100% for free.
So here's the thing,
if you head on over to Fiverr
where it's free to list a service as a gig for sale,
you will see that there are lots of agencies
that are crushing it doing this.
For example, take this gig here,
which sells YouTube thumbnails.
Well, as the description states,
this is not a single graphic designer.
This is a team of freelancers in the form of an agency.
So the way that these agencies work
is honestly really basic.
First, they come to Fiverr
and they create a free gig listing
for a service like YouTube thumbnail design
and then when they get a sale,
they'll head on over to Upwork
where they will hire a graphic designer
specializing in, say, YouTube thumbnail designs
for a fraction of the price.
They'll then hire them
to make a thumbnail for their customer,
and if they have a credit card,
they'll use that to pay the freelancer.
The agency owner will then come back to Fiverr
and take that thumbnail
and send it off to the customer
and complete the Fiverr gig
and get the money that the customer paid.
They'll then use that money
to pay off their credit card well before it's due
and then they'll keep the rest as profit.
And I say that drop servicing
can be a recession-proof business model
because even though there is a current economic downturn,
a very important customer
of drop servicing agencies is thriving, content creators.
Take TikTok, for example.
Despite the economic downturn,
TikTok continues to grow and grow and get bigger and bigger.
And so you think about it, right?
TikTok content creators, they need lots of services.
They need video editing, captions, account management,
and all of these services that they need,
they can be drop serviced.
And so targeting content creators
on apps like TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram
is a great way to take advantage of the current boom.
Yay.
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