Hands down, freelancing is the one of the fastest ways to begin making extra money on the side.
You don’t need to build a website, create a product, or even come up with some killer business idea. All you need is to dig into your inventory of current skills, and find ONE client you can solve a problem for.
What kind of problems could you solve? In the archives here, you’ll find people freelancing their skills in:
For more, here are some of the most in-demand freelance skills.
No, it’s not as sexy as “passive income,” but it’s not as speculative either. You can start getting paid right away, and if your goal is to replace your day job income, there’s probably no faster way.
I compiled a binge-worthy selection of freelancing and service business podcast episodes from The Side Hustle Show into this playlist. I think you’ll like it!
Dive into the archives here to figure out what you can sell as a freelancer and how to get it done.
Do you have an overwhelming number of photos scattered across your phone or even tucked away in dusty albums in the attic?
Would you hire someone to organize it for you?
I never imagined photo organizing as a side hustle could pay $85/hr per project, nor did I anticipate its high demand.
But Cheryl DiFrank from mymemoryfile.com says she’s building a six-figure business in the process.
What freelance skills are most in-demand right now?
Freelancing is one of the fastest side hustle ideas to start, and one of the fastest growing employment segments in the US.
But if you don’t have any immediately freelance-able skills, it can be frustrating to know where to begin. The good news is you have the ability to learn new skills!
And you’re going to learn a new skill, it might as well be something that pays well, right?
Is there gold in your backyard?
Or, more accurately … dog poop?
Erica Krupin found $1000 a week in hers, with a side hustle that can easily be replicated in your local area.
It’s not every day you spot one of your podcast guests’ yard signs while driving, but that’s exactly what happened to me.
As we cruised the neighborhood, a bright pink “Kroopin’s Poopin Scoopin” sign caught my eye.
We first heard from this guest in 2020.
She was earning around a thousand bucks a week from her part-time pooper scooper/pet waste removal business.
And since then, it has grown to serve almost 200 weekly residential customers at an average ticket price of $99/month.
In this ‘Where Are They Now?’ episode, I have once again Erica Krupin from Kroopin’s Poopin Scoopin to talk about what this former side hustle looks like at scale.
A service business is one of the fastest side hustles to get off the ground, and you can scale it by hiring other people to deliver the work.
But is there an advantage to staying as a solo operator?
To find out, it’s time for another Side Hustle Showdown. This time looking at: freelancing vs building an agency.
“I had a lot of drive underneath me, I hated my job so much,” Abbey Ashley from TheVirtualSavvy.com told me.
If you’re looking to make extra money, there’s no doubt that starting a service business is one of the fastest ways to do that, with almost no barrier to entry and minimal startup costs. In fact, it was a service business, a house painting business, that was one of my first entrepreneurial adventures.
I’m one of those tech guys who loves his toys. My wife realizes this, so for one of my previous birthdays she bought me a drone.
A few weeks later a realtor in the family asked me to take aerial photos of a property they had for sale. And they were going to pay me.
Make money flying a toy?
I was in!
“It’s the best-kept secret in the real estate industry,” Mark said, talking about working as a loan signing agent.
You can make $100 for an hour working as a loan signing agent. With the only real requirements being you know what you’re doing, and you have a notary license.
When you hear “college admissions essay consultant,” you might imagine some dull, overly formal academic type.
But Carter Osborne from carterosbornetutoring.com took a pretty unconventional path to dominating this niche business.
When he started providing tutoring services on the side, he was just a “broke, desperate graduate student” in need of some extra money.
Carter actually had no formal business training. His background was in political science and public administration—so not exactly the traditional entrepreneurial breeding grounds.
Not exactly the traditional path for an entrepreneur, right?
And yet, the untraditional route Carter took allowed him to build a unique $100k consulting business, with almost all the revenue coming in just half the year.
While Carter’s career path didn’t seem logical as a tutor, he was about to discover an untapped market niche that was waiting to be explored.
Considering a side hustle as an Instacart shopper?
With Instacart, you can make money shopping for — and delivering — other people’s groceries.
If you have a car and extra time during the week, why not put both to work? That’s the pitch, anyway.
Let’s take a closer look at how their grocery shopping program works, and how much money you can expect to make. (With insights from a side hustling Instacart Shopper earning $480 a week!)
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