SIDE HUSTLE MASTER LIST
In response to my last thread (twitter.com/robotdefi/status/1582493219908034561?s=46) a few people wanted me to share my side hustle ideas.
Buckle up, these are REAL ideas I know work (not that BS theory stuff telling you to repost YouTube vids).
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Quick note thoā¦so many people donāt believe they are creative. I think creativity lives in all of us. We all have the power to come up with big, profitable ideas. You just have to cultivate that.
Ok, hereās a list of million-dollar ideas.
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#1 Print On Demand t-shirts:
There are many companies like Printful, Viralstyles, Gooten and Printify that will let you upload your designs onto a tshirt template.
Then you just promote your t-shirts and sell them. The POD company handles printing and shipping.
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But donāt you have to be a designer?
No. You ever bought or seen t-shirts with just words in them?
If youāre clever or witty or controversial you can just sell shirts with words on them.
Find an awesome font (pay for it if you need to) and put your thoughts onto tees.
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The key here is to not be generic. Find a niche. A niche within a niche.
For example, crypto shirts might work, but narrowing to a specific chain or protocol would do even better.
Why?
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Its in our DNA, humans naturally feel drawn to community. We need to be a part of something.
We feel a sense of kinship with others in similar situations as us. Thatās why studies have revealed humans will show favoritism to strangers from the same town.
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And thatās also why youāll see tshirt ads on Facebook not just for engineers (niche) but engineers from North Carolina (niche within a niche).
Also geographical niches allow you to run Geo-targeted ads.
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You can sell these shirts on your own website, or on the POD platform (sometimes), or on Amazon Merch.
Political shirts perform well on Amazon FYI.
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You can create your designs on software like Canva if you arenāt a designer.
Or, if you can afford it, you can hire a designer on Fiverr.
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Youāre not limited to t-shirts either.
You can make jewelry, bags, hats, shoes, leggingsā¦once I even designed a pillow.
At the height of the pandemic there was NO TOILET PAPER in California so I created a mythical toilet paper unicorn design for a throw pillow.
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#2 Amazon associate
Amazonās associates is their affiliate program. You get 4 to 8% of any purchase on the Amazon website as long as the buyer visited the site through your affiliate link.
To get involved you just need a website. But this can be a linktree or blogspot.
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If you buy a bunch of stuff from Amazon, just make videos of you showing off your āhaulā and post them to Tiktok and Instagram with affiliate links in your bio.
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If you donāt, then just search for deals on Amazon (like I share in this tweet: twitter.com/robotdefi/status/1580048212781461504) then share the deals you found on Reels and Tiktok.
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I personally know a handful of shopping influencers who make a killing just sharing coupons and deals online.
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My personal genius idea for this:
If youāre like me and you listen to TONS of audio books, sign up as an affiliate, then do 3min summaries of books on Tiktok and promote Audible subscriptions.
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Audible subs pay decent and you could also show people how to use features like speed up sound to āreadā faster.
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#3 Flip free Craigslist stuff
Did you know Craigslist has a āfreeā section under the āfor saleā tab?
Itās full of couches and desks and tables and all manner of things people are trying to get rid of, if only someone would just come pick it up.
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Well, you could easily go pick it up (if you have a vehicle that permits this), clean the item up, and then sell it on Facebook marketplace.
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#4 Product videos
Mobile apps are getting pretty advanced nowadays and theyāre making activities that previously took a LOT of skill much easier.
Apps like Inshot or Lumafusion (for example) let a total amateur edit a pro looking video.
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Get your hands on an app, learn how to become a ninja at making decent vids on your phone, then put up a Fiverr gig to make e-commerce product videos.
Get them to send you the product and then make stop-motion or demo videos for them.
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You could easily charge $50 for a video that only took an hour to make.
Ecom people are ALWAYS looking for affordable vids to use in their ads.
Win-win.
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#5 Contactless menus
In a post-Covid world many businesses are looking to expand contactless options. One popular implementation is contactless menus. MANY restaurants still donāt have them, but wouldnāt mind having them.
So hereās what you doā¦
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First, you want to add value, so donāt just offer contactless menus, but the ability for contactless ordering too.
For this you have a couple optionsā¦
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You could build out a Messenger chatbot flow that gives people the opportunity to peruse the menu and order through the bot (this is labor intensive and you will have to teach yourself how to build chatbots)
Or
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You can use a codeless app creator platform (such as Appy Pie but there are many). Most have a restaurant menu order template.
Then just go to local restaurants (or cold call) and pitch a branded contactless menu order system that will capture customer contact info.
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Charge a setup fee as well as monthly maintenance and boom. You could make thousands off one restaurant.
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#6 Biz ad support
So many businesses donāt have a clue how to do anything online.
You could easily do simple things like āget a business on Googleā just by setting up their Google My Business account.
Or install their Facebook and Google pixels on their website.
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All that stuff is super simple to figure out so even if you donāt know how to do it you could look it up and learn quickly.
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#7 Courses
Iām not talking about creating some massive multi thousand dollar course on how to trade options.
Noā¦but if you know how to do anything SUPER WELL you can record lessons on how to do it and put them up on Udemy and Skillshare.
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These smaller platforms typically only have courses ranging from $10 to $80. But they get TONS of traffic.
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#8 Resell books
Books are different from other products in that they retain value so long as all the pages are intact.
I know several people who make a killing reselling used books on Amazon and eBay.
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You simply look for cheap book opportunities. Thrift stores, clearance sales, even discounts online.
Then post them at a markup on Amazon and eBay. Textbooks especially do VERY well.
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#9 Calendars
I have a colleague that makes an absolute fortune selling calendars. He sells nude calendars but they do really well.
The secret was he took SO MANY PHOTOS that he got like 10 years worth of shots. So one photo shoot provided 10 yrs of calendars.
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This one is a little tougher because you have to come up with the designs and find a printer. But itās worth it.
Think about it.
EVERYBODY has a calendar.
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Many things went digital over physical and have decimated those markets. But for some reason calendars wasnāt one of them.
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#10 Templates and presets
Photoshop presets are a huge business on Etsy.
I know someone who tried hard to make a business out of empty journals but struggled. Then she switched to selling journal templates for entrepreneurs who want to sell on Kindle and is crushing it.
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This requires you to have done the work to create the presets or the design for the template. But if you have you can sell digital planners, tshirt templates, excel budget templates, and more.
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Ok ten is all I got in me today.
If you found these helpful or they got your creativity working SHARE THIS THREAD.
Go to the first tweet and QUOTE TWEET IT and share which idea interested you the most.
Cheers mfkers
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