If you’re looking to make an extra $1,000 each month without quitting your day job, you are essentially spoilt for choice, with scores of legit opportunities to choose from, based on your skills, interests, and goals.
Side hustles are all the rage in these inflationary times, with millions of hardworking individuals trying their hands at everything from freelance consulting to pet sitting to earn an extra buck. However, it's not always easy to find and select the right gigs and opportunities.
In this article, we lay out 75 such lucrative opportunities, outlining how they work and how much you can earn.
How to Make an Extra $1000 a Month in 75 Different Ways
1. Take Online Surveys
Market research companies are constantly looking for new participants to give their opinions on various products, services, ideas, and concepts. There are plenty of services that can help you get started with this, the most popular ones being SurveyJunkie, SwagBucks, and KashKick.
Average Earnings? Not a lot! You can make about $1 to $3 per survey at the most, and this is if you stay in certain tier-1 countries such as the US, UK, Canada, and Australia. These services also offer Amazon, iTunes, and Google Play gift cards instead of cash payouts for certain types of offers.
In order to make an extra $1,000 each month, you’ll have to take up 300 to 400 surveys, which is clearly not feasible. However, there are different surveys aimed at professionals such as doctors, engineers, developers, etc, which can pay as much as $150 each, meaning you have to take 6-7 of these each month to make $1000.
2. Test Websites & Apps
With this money-making opportunity you get paid to provide feedback on the usability, functionality, and overall experience of different websites and apps. UserTesting, TestingTime, and Respondent are a few of the many platforms that offer such work, often based on certain qualifications and demographics, among other things.
Average Earnings: Reviewers stand to earn as much as $10 for a review that takes 20 to 25 minutes. There are plenty of people who claim to make as much as $300 per week, but this takes a lot of effort, and may not be feasible for those who have a day job.
3. Participate in Crowdsourcing
Businesses that require a large group of people to do certain tasks advertise on platforms such as Clickworker and Amazon Mechanical Turk, where users can pick and choose the tasks they want to complete, submit proof of completion, and get paid right away.
Currently, crowdsourced workers are in high demand for training AI models of various startups, where manual inputs from users are required.
Average Earnings: How much you make from this depends largely on the complexity of the task, but most users make between $6 to $12 an hour on average. So, in order to make $1,000 a month, you’ll have to dedicate at least 20 to 40 hours per week.
4. Transcription Writing
Despite the monumental advancements in automated transcription technologies, there are certain clients and use cases that still demand a human transcriptionist.
This mainly involves listening to conversations of different kinds, including depositions and arbitrations, and then transcribing them as accurately as possible. Rev, Scribie, and Daily Transcription are a few popular platforms in this space that you can seek steady work from.
Average Earnings: Pay from transcribing audio ranges between $4 to $6 an hour, depending on how quickly you can knock things out while ensuring accuracy and deliverables that are free from errors. As a result, it would take about 40 to 60 hours a week to hit the $1,000 per month mark.
5. Affiliate Marketing
Something that’s been around for decades, affiliate marketing refers to promoting products and services owned by others, in return for a commission based on the sales and conversions generated.
If you have a blog, a YouTube channel, or a sizable following on any social media platform, this is a great way to monetize your content. There shouldn’t be any issues with finding products and services to promote, and marketplaces such as Clickbank, JVZoo, and ShareaSale are great places to start.
Did you know Whop offers plenty of communities across various niches for you to promote across platforms and earn recurring revenue?
Average Earnings: There is absolutely no limit to how much you can earn from affiliate marketing. It starts at $0, and we know many super affiliates who gross $100,000s each month.
6. Read & Review Books
If you’re a bookworm, and spend hours each week devouring different titles, there is a way to get paid for your time, knowledge, and skills in this area.
Sites such as Kirkus Reviews, Reedsy, and OnlineBookClub will not only provide you with a free copy of the book in question but will pay you for a comprehensive review.
Average Earnings: Once again, it isn’t a lot, but serious readers and reviewers can make $150 to $200 each month, doing something they love. If you want to make this a full-time job and earn in excess of $1,000 per month, you’ll have to be willing to dedicate 20 to 30 hours a week.
7. Write Book Summaries
Another opportunity for avid readers, which involves reading, understanding, and crafting thorough summaries of different fiction and nonfiction books.
There are plenty of platforms that offer this service, and actively hire writers to craft summaries for them, the most popular ones include Instaread, getAbstract, and Blinkist.
Average Earnings: You stand to make at least $100 to $150 per summary which would be about 1,500 to 2,000 words in length, but this is of course very time-consuming, as it involves reading the books thoroughly and crafting a structured summary after.
To earn $1,000 or more each month, you’ll have to read and craft summaries on at least 10 different books.
8. Publish a Book
Turn your knowledge, skills, and years of experience into a book that people within your niche or industry would gladly pay for.
With the rise of self-publishing, there are few barriers to entry in this medium, pretty much anyone can write and publish their work on leading online platforms within days. There is no shortage of platforms to host, market, and publish your book, and beyond the leaders such as Amazon, AbeBooks, and Barnes & Noble, you can also market your book on your own blog and store.
You can in fact list and sell your books on Whop, which is quietly emerging as one of the leading platforms for digital publishing and sales. It’s not hard to see why, considering the platform’s low fees of just 3%, as opposed to 30% to 65% across sites such as Amazon.
Average Earnings: With book publishing, your earnings will start from $0, but there is no upper limit. There are many who make a good living from their books alone, making $1,000s in passive income each month.
9. Virtual Bookkeeping
Bookkeeping essentially involves recording the financial transactions of an organization and categorizing them accurately on a daily basis. This task is now increasingly outsourced and done remotely by freelancers located across the globe.
While this does involve a learning curve, it is fairly easy to get a hang of, and there are plenty of online courses and certifications to help you get started. Finding gigs isn’t that hard either, with platforms such as Remote.co, Flexjobs, Fiverr, and Upwork teeming with opportunities.
Average Earnings: You can start off with as little as $8 an hour, but this can easily reach as high as $80 an hour as you get more experienced.
10. Matched Betting
You wouldn’t expect to see gambling as one of the suggested ways of earning an extra income, but matched betting doesn’t necessarily involve gambling. It basically has to do with taking advantage of differing odds between bookmakers to ensure you win irrespective of the outcome.
It can be a great side hustle when done right, but consider joining a dedicated matched betting community to better understand the ropes. A few popular ones include Learn Matched Betting, Matched Betting Empire, and Kruseys Tips & Matched Betting, among others.
Average Earnings: If you can work at this consistently, and don’t do anything to goof up, you can earn as much as $300 to $400 per month, with limited capital outlay, and without taking any major risk.
For those who truly put in the work and maximize the potential, matched betting can yield an income in excess of $1,000 per month.
11. Selling Online Courses
Consider monetizing your skills and expertise by creating and launching online courses across a wide range of topics and niches.
Platforms such as Udemy, Skillshare, and Whop are perfect options for not just hosting and delivering your content, but also getting access to a ready audience with their massive marketplaces that are already teeming with buyers.
Average Earnings: Here again, there is no limit to how much you can make, with top sellers on Udemy grossing nearly $2.8 million a year, and sellers on Whop having grossed nearly $500 million just three years since its launch.
It is worth noting that platforms like Udemy take as much as 75% off the top from each course you sell, whereas with Whop you only part with a 3% commission on each direct sale.
12. Freelance Local Labor
Whether it is to help with packing and moving or assembling new furniture, you will find that there are plenty of people in your local area who require your assistance. In addition to helping out, this is a great way to earn some extra cash.
TaskRabbit and Thumbtack are two great platforms for finding such gigs, but sites such as Craigslist and Facebook work just as well, provided you know where to look.
Average Earnings: While earnings depend to a great extent on where you stay, hourly wages in such gigs can easily reach as high as $60 to $120. Some hardworking individuals make as much as $6,000 to $9,000 per month, just from TaskRabbit.
13. Help Out With Yard Care
People always need help with their yard work, whether it is mowing, cleaning, weeding, fertilizing, or more. GreenPal is essential ‘an Uber for yardwork’ that helps owners connect with service providers.
It might take you a couple of hours to get a hang of things, but this kind of work doesn’t always involve a steep learning curve, and pretty much anyone can get started.
Average Earnings: On average GreenPal pays $35 to $40 an hour, but there are service providers on the platform who claim to hit an annual run rate of over $100,000.
14. Voice Audiobooks
Audiobooks are all the rage on platforms such as Audible, Apple Books, and BBC Sound among others. Those who narrate these audiobooks can make a pretty penny, either on a per-finished-hour basis, or royalties and commissions.
Average Earnings: While this place is getting crowded off-late, it is still very much possible to earn a good income from this medium, ranging from just about $100 to $1,000s across 13 different platforms that offer this service.
15. Attend Focus Groups
Focus groups aren’t all that different from surveys, but unlike them, they require physical presence to better understand people’s reactions to different products, services, and concepts.
A great way to find focus groups to apply to is by simply searching “focus groups near me” or “taste tests near me”. You can also find opportunities on Craigslist and certain Facebook Groups.
Average Earnings: While not a consistent source of income, you can make as much as $100 to $150 per hour if you find the right survey. There are, however, some individual hustlers who make over $2,000 each month just by attending focus groups.
16. Online Coaching
Sell your skills, knowledge, and expertise on a more personal level by offering personal, one-on-one online coaching in return for a hefty fee.
You do require a strong personal brand, or be an authority within your respective field for people to be willing to pay for your coaching.
Once you have this, there are plenty of platforms that can help you launch a coaching program. Whop, in fact, has pretty much everything you need, from native in-platform video calls to private community spaces, forums, and direct messaging functionality.
Average Earnings: Truly successful online coaches make $100s of thousands of dollars each year, charging $80 to $200 per hour of their time. The figure starts to go up once you make a name for yourself and have a steady stream of potential clients.
17. Tutoring
Whether online or offline, tutoring is a great way to add value to your community, all the while earning a sizable additional income.
If you excel in a particular subject, a middle schooler or high schooler can truly benefit from your guidance and mentoring. You can either advertise within your local community, on social media, or use platforms such as Tutor.com, Wyzant, and Chegg.
Whop offers a powerful platform for tutoring, with all essential features such as video calls, chat, file applications for downloadable resources, and more.
Average Earnings: Tutors on these platforms earn about $35 an hour, with some top earners grossing over $1,500 each month, working largely part-time.
18. Walk Dogs
If you love dogs and going on long walks, why not earn some money out of it? Most owners struggle to keep up with their dog’s walking schedules, so finding walkers to do it for them is often a preferred choice for many.
Many services match dog walkers with owners, Wags is a popular one, alongside Rover, followed by Facebook and Craigslist for plenty of local offers.
Average Earnings: Most beginners on these platforms earn about $28 an hour, but those living in certain ‘Hot Zones’ can earn as much as $1,000 per week or more.
19. Become A Micro-Influencer
Becoming a large, global influencer with millions of followers is a tall order, often requiring years of effort, and taking on an already crowded marketplace.
However, you don’t require a massive following to earn money as an influencer. Small accounts, with under 25,000 followers get a lot of commercial interest just as well, mainly because they are seen as having more authentic relationships with their followers.
Average Earnings: If you can build the right kind of relationships with audiences and brands, you can easily earn $1,000 to $3,000 a month via this method. Brands strive hard to find small influencers to partner with, so this certainly is, and will likely continue to be a lucrative side hustle for years to come.
20. Join The Amazon Influencer Program
Amazon’s new influencer program is making quite the splash among hustlers, with some claiming that it’s the easiest money they’ve made in a while. It essentially involves uploading a product review video, and if your video helps result in a sale, you get paid a commission.
You don’t have to be a big influencer to get accepted into the program, just show that you are a serious contender with a professional Instagram or YouTube account, and it should do the trick.
Average Earnings: Commissions range from 2% to 4% depending on the product, which isn’t great. However, given that you have an endless variety of products to promote, the volumes should make up for it.
21. Growth Operating
This is a relatively new hustle that has been gaining steam in recent months. Growth operating essentially involves partnering with influencers and content creators, and building products, services, or offers for them, to offer to their audiences, with you the creator taking a share of the proceeds.
It’s a win-win proposition. Influencers have the audience, but may not have the time nor the know-how to build products, and you don’t have to spend months building an audience on various social media platforms from scratch.
Before you set out to get in touch with influencers, consider joining some communities dedicated to growth operators, such as the Mania Handling Network or Clark Collaborative on Whop.
Average Earnings: Its tough to put a number on this side hustle, since you start off with absolutely nothing, and can work your way up to $100s of thousands of dollars with the right planning and execution.
22. Rent Out Unused Space
A great, yet often overlooked method of earning some extra cash is by renting out some unused space in your house to store cars, furniture, and other belongings of people in return for a fee.
There are services such as Neighbor.com and Clutter that allow you to list your space and earn a fee each time someone decides to rent.
Average Earnings: It's hard to say just how much you stand to make with this. If you have a massive yard-sized space to let out, you can make a sizable sum, even $1,000 to $2,000 per month in the right location, but a lot lower for smaller spaces.
23. Rent Out Your Belongings
If you own gadgets and equipment like cameras, power tools, and musical instruments that you don’t always require, consider renting them out to those who do, often for a neat sum.
Fat Llama, ShareGrid, and Yoodlize are a few of the many new platforms that power such transactions seamlessly, often for a small transaction fee.
Average Earnings: How much you make depends entirely on what you rent out, and how much demand there is for your possessions, but a few $100s each month, with no more than a few hours of effort is certainly worth it.
24. Rent Out That Spare Bedroom
Have a spare bedroom that is currently unutilized? Consider renting it out on popular platforms such as Airbnb, VRBO, or Flipkey.
These are short-term rentals, so you’ll keep getting new guests every few days, who you will have to host in your house, but the rents are significantly higher than a permanent roommate.
Average Earnings: Here again, how much you stand to make depends entirely on the type of property you are letting out, its location, and most importantly, how good of a host you are. If you deliver quality experiences, over time you can increase your rents.
25. Brainstorm Names & Brands
It takes a lot of effort to come up with catchy and brandable names for startups and new products, which is why some decide to crowdsource this task to 100s of individuals online on platforms like Atom (formerly SquadHelp) and Namestation.
Average Earnings: You can earn money with this by participating in naming contests and submitting the winning name against 100s of other applicants. The winning submission stands to earn $100 to $300, which can go higher in special situations.
26. Become a Notary Public
Becoming a notary public is a great way to earn some extra cash on the side. As a notary public, you are essentially a state-appointed individual who acts as an independent witness during the signing of documents.
It is, in fact, possible to work as a remote notary and earn money from the comfort of your home, using platforms such as Notarize, NotaryLive, and NotaryCam, among others.
Average Earnings: You can earn as much as $30 to $200 per hour as a notary, depending on your experience, and the complexity of each case. This can easily be a full-time job, earning well ahead of $1,000 a month.
27. Loan Signing Agent
There are plenty of jobs you can do as a notary, all as a freelancer, and all perfectly doable as a side hustle alongside your day job.
One increasingly lucrative option is acting as a loan signing agent, where you’ll be guiding borrowers through the entire process, and ensuring all of their documents are intact, before notarizing them.
Consider signing up for this Loan Signing Agent Course on Whop to get a deeper understanding of this business.
Average Earnings: Here you can earn as much as $75 to $200 per engagement, so about five such engagements per month should make for an extra $1,000.
28. Become a Field Inspector
As a field inspector, you are essentially the eyes of property owners, banks, and insurance companies. You will be hired to verify the condition of a property, evaluate certain damages, or assess it for a mortgage loan application, among other things.
This is increasingly becoming a specialized job, with most positions requiring full-time professionals and availability, but there are still opportunities for independent practitioners looking to pursue this as a side hustle.
Average Earnings: You can earn as much as $40 to $65 an hour, going all the way up to $150 an hour for more specialized tasks.
29. Work as a Permit Runner
Help individuals and businesses acquire permits, and use your knowledge of government rules and procedures to make this easy for them.
This might involve a slight learning curve, but most guidelines are available online, and you should get the hang of most things within a few short days.
Average Earnings: This again depends on the time and complexity of the task, but on an average permit runners make $175 to $250 per task, so 5 to 8 such engagements per month should make for a sizable income.
30. Become a Marriage Officiant
Anyone can get ordained online and start officiating marriages. In fact, in six states, you can start working as an officiant without actually being ordained.
While you can always conduct the weddings of friends and family, this can also be a great side hustle, where you get hired to perform other people's ceremonies.
Average Earnings: You can make anywhere between $150 to $700 per wedding, but finding gigs isn’t always that simple, and requires a bit of effort in terms of networking and marketing.
31. Become an Airbnb Experience Host
In addition to renting out your house or spare bedroom to tourists, Airbnb allows you to offer local experiences, such as guided tours, workshops, classes, and more.
So, if you’re based out of New York, you can offer an authentic ‘NYC Street Food Tour’ making the most of your knowledge regarding the city and its famed street food, or a graffiti workshop, for which NYC is renowned the world over.
Average Earnings: How much you make with this depends entirely on how popular your experience is, alongside the location you are based out of. There are, however, plenty of people who make a sizable sum with Airbnb Experiences, well above $1,000 a month.
32. Become a Mystery Shopper
Companies will pay you to visit stores, restaurants, and other retail establishments undercover to evaluate the overall customer experience, which they then use to improve their services and offerings for real customers.
If you love shopping, eating out, and visiting new places, while getting paid for it, there are few better side hustles. Services such as Market Force and Best Mark are perfect for those looking to get started with this.
Average Earnings: Your earnings with this can range from between $50 to $100 per assignment, and it might be hard to hit $1,000 a month with this, but just getting paid to eat free food and shop is certainly worth it.
33. Dropshipping
Dropshipping essentially involves selling products on online marketplaces and ecommerce sites, without actually holding or handling any inventory yourself. Once someone places an order, a third-party supplier ships the product directly to the customer.
There are plenty of dropshipping courses and communities that can help you get started with this business. Suits Commerce and The Yard on Whop are two great communities to get the guidance you need.
Average Earnings: There is no limit to how much you can earn with this. Some leading drop-shippers earn six and even seven-figure incomes, without maintaining any inventory of their own or handling the shipping and delivery aspects of ecommerce.
34. Retail Arbitrage
Arbitrage essentially refers to buying low in a particular market, and selling for a higher price at another for quick profits.
In the case of retail arbitrage, you are essentially finding products that can be purchased cheaply, either online, or offline, before listing them for sale at a higher price on any of the leading marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, Etsy, etc.
Average Earnings: Here again, there are no limits to how much you can make, but you will be faced with high competition, resulting in lower margins for most products in the long run.
35. Flip High Demand Products
Similar to retail arbitrage, but here you are working with high-demand products such as concert tickets, limited edition sneakers, and collectibles, among other things.
There are plenty of communities where such opportunities are regularly shared, such as GFNF, SwipeSignals, and The Profit Lounge, all for a small monthly fee that can be covered with just one profitable trade in most cases.
Average Earnings: This entirely depends on the products you resell, the methods you use, and the amount of time you invest. It’s not unheard of for resellers to gross $100,000 or more per year, so this can be more than just a side hustle when done right.
36. Pricing Glitches
Pricing glitches occur when sellers on ecommerce sites price their products at a significantly lower price than what they intended. If you’ve ever stumbled upon a listing on Amazon or eBay that seemed too good to be true, it was probably a pricing glitch.
Such glitches are a great way to make money if you can find them, make the purchase, and resell at a higher price within the limited window of opportunity that exists.
There are quite a few communities, tools, and courses pertaining to making money with pricing glitches. Bandar’s Bounties and Strike Access are among the most reputed, which should help you get started with this hustle.
Average Earnings: With a systematic approach, you can make $1,000s each month using this method, but there are risks involved, and you require a small upfront investment to get started.
37. Rent Out Your Car
Consider renting out your car when not in use for a few extra bucks each month. Platforms such as Turo allow for quick, seamless, and lucrative peer-to-peer car-sharing, without any major barriers to entry.
Of course, you may not feel like doing this with a brand-new premium or luxury car, but if it is an old, used vehicle that you’re not particularly fond of, this can be a great way to monetize some of its idle time, or at least pay for its upkeep.
Average Earnings: According to Turo, on an average owners make about $630 per month with their cars using the platform, but it can scale a lot higher depending on where you’re located, alongside the make and model of your car.
38. Childcare & Babysitting
The original source of income for most teenagers is still one of the most lucrative side hustles for adults, with many people getting paid top dollar to take care of kids when their parents are away.
Childcare is often the last thing that most parents would skimp on, so you stand to make a great deal if you prove yourself as being responsible and trustworthy. There are plenty of apps that match parents with local caregivers, Care.com and UrbanSitter are the most popular options.
Average Earnings: Caregivers average around $21 an hour, or about $300 per week on platforms such as Care.com, but this figure can go a lot higher with experience and certain specialized skills and certifications.
39. Senior Caregiving
With a greying population the world over, there is a growing need for companions and caregivers for seniors. Being one of the wealthiest generations in history, these jobs often pay quite well, and have little barriers to entry.
Of course, many such positions are reserved for qualified, full-time professionals, but there are a few gigs, such as those that involve mere companionship that almost anyone can take up.
Average Earnings: Depending on the nature and requirements of each gig, the pay ranges from between $35 to $70 an hour.
40. Help People Move
If you have a truck and a strong back, consider helping people pack and move things for a very lucrative hourly wage.
Peer-to-peer platforms such as Dolly’s and GoShare make it easy for pretty much anyone to get started in this business, and start monetizing their time and trucks almost immediately.
Average Earnings: This gig pays surprisingly well, with most people averaging around $60 per hour, and you can get a consistent workload if you live in a city or town with at least 100,000 people.
41. Deliver Food / Packages / Groceries
Delivery of food, packages, groceries, and more form the crux of the burgeoning gig economy, with millions of individuals taking part in this hustle.
If you have a car or a bike, all you have to do in most cases is just download an app such as Grubhub, Doordash, Instacart, or Uber Eats, and you can get started making deliveries and earning money pretty much right away.
Average Earnings: You stand to earn anywhere between $10 to $25 an hour, so it will require at least 40 hours to reach the $1,000 mark, but its rather flat learning curve and the ease of getting started still make them a great option.
42. Deliver Alcohol / Cannabis
If you’re willing to kick things up a notch, consider working in cannabis and alcohol delivery for a significantly higher hourly wage.
This, of course, comes with extensive background checks and certain risks as opposed to other deliveries, so there is a tradeoff. Platforms such as Eaze and Saucey are great places to get started, but it takes a while to get approved and start receiving orders.
Average Earnings: You can earn $20 to $35 an hour, depending on where and the time of day you operate.
43. Freelance Writing
Are you a good writer? There are plenty of opportunities for freelance writers across a wide variety of topics, niches, and formats, with many paying top dollar for the right kind of talent, knowledge, and creativity.
There are plenty of platforms to try your luck as a wordsmith, with the most popular ones being UpWork, Fiverr, and Contently.
Average Earnings: Your earnings depend on your skills and experience and can range from between $0.02 per word to as much as $1 per word in certain high-value niches such as healthcare and finance.
44. Editing & Proofreading
If you’re a good writer, the same skills should be transferable towards editing and proofreading, ensuring factual and grammatical accuracy, alongside compliance with certain other client-side requirements.
You should be able to land editing and proofreading gigs on the same platforms such as Fiverr, Upwork, and Contently. There are fewer opportunities here as opposed to writing work, but the hourly wage tends to be higher.
Average Earnings: Earnings as a proofreader or editor range from between $20 to $40 an hour, again depending on the nature and complexity of the content.
45. Sell Home Cooked Food
Even with tens of thousands of restaurants and a dozen different delivery apps to bring them right to your doorstep, the simplicity and elegance of home-cooked meals still reign supreme.
If you’re a good cook, why not make some money with it by simply selling extra portions of the food you make for yourself on sites such as CastIron, Yummist, and Facebook Marketplace?
Average Earnings: You may not earn a lot by just sharing small quantities of your meals, but if you take this up as a serious side hustle, with a consistent menu, quality, packaging, and delivery times, you can easily make a few thousand dollars each month. You could even start selling meal plans online on the side.
46. Sell at Your Local Farmer’s Market
If you know a particular recipe for a type of jam, baked good, or condiment, consider setting up a shop at your local farmer’s market to sell them.
At most such markets, the booth or stall fee is very minimal, less than $150 to $200 per month even for the most high-traffic regions. Once you make a name for yourself, this can turn into a great business.
Average Earnings: It all depends on your product, its quality, and how much people like it. If you manage to hit the mark, this can be way more than a side hustle, and turn into a full-time business.
47. Sports Betting
We’re no fans of gambling as a side hustle in and itself, but the entire sports betting industry offers certain opportunities, often with very attractive risk/reward ratios that make them worthy of taking a bet.
There’s no such thing as a sure shot when it comes to gambling, but this also holds true for most other businesses. However, if you had an 80% probability of winning a 3 to 1 bet, wouldn’t it make sense to take that bet?
A string of sports betting tipsters, communities, Discord and Telegram Groups offer just that, an undeniable edge for average bettors to start winning consistently. A few reliable names in this space include KingCapSports, Official Picks, and Goat Sport Bets.
Average Earnings: It all comes down to how consistently you can win, and how much you risk. Of course, this is not like the other options on this list, since you can actually end up losing money with it. However, if you manage to hit your stride, you can rake in sizable sums month after month via sports betting.
48. Sell Sports Picks
Now we go to the other end of this business, which is selling sports picks and recommendations to novice bettors yourself.
If you’re a sports fan with a deep understanding of a particular game, you might have this ability to intuitively predict certain outcomes of each game. While you may not be successful each time, just a reasonably high success rate, should make it feasible for you to start selling your picks to others.
You can set up shop on Whop, a platform that is filled with sports picks services. If you can maintain a high hit rate, your reputation will start to grow, along with reviews on the platform, eventually leading to 100s of paying subscribers.
Average Earnings: This can be a very profitable side hustle, and even transform into a life-changing main source of income if done right. It’s hard to put an exact figure or an average for this, but sellers on Whop earn anywhere from $2000 to $250,000 per month.
49. Get Paid to Play Games
You’ve certainly come across ads promising money for playing games that often seem too good to be true. While that certainly is the case for most such offers, there are a handful of games that truly offer opportunities for gamers to earn nice a buck for all the time they spend playing.
Axie Infinity was one such game that was all the rage a couple of years ago. It essentially involves players raising digital pets known as Axie’s, which can then be collected or sold as non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
The game became so popular that players were using cheap labor in countries such as the Philippines and Venezuela to raise their digital pets. There are several other games with similar concepts, such as Decentraland and Silks, among others.
Average Earnings: While it depends to a great extent on your skill and the amount of time you spend, there are plenty of people who’ve made $1,600 to $2,800 each month just by playing video games.
50. Freelance Consulting
If you possess deep knowledge and expertise within your particular field, there are likely plenty of individuals and corporations that are willing to pay to pick your brain.
There are plenty of marketplaces that match vetted experts with companies that want to engage them, but getting onto these platforms isn’t that easy, and comes with extensive testing and background verification.
A few popular platforms include GLG, Tegus, and AlphaSight, but there are dozens of such platforms, and as an expert, you can very well list your services on all of them. You can also create your own whop and sell consulting services from it, with the ability to host video calls, chat with clients, and send files.
Average Earnings: Depending on the level of experience you possess, and your field or industry, your average earnings can range from $150 to $300 per hour.
51. Start a Newsletter
Another great way to make money from your knowledge, skills and experience, provided you are also a good writer. It is now very simple to setup a newsletter, with multiple platforms catering to the same.
This includes the popular platform Substack, but you don’t always have a ready audience to work with, and will have to spend time and effort on marketing your newsletter.
Average Earnings: You earn money from sponsorships, affiliate links, as well as member subscriptions, and while it takes a while to build a robust readership and paying subscribers, this can be a very lucrative source of income in the long run.
52. Conduct Webinars
Webinars are a great way to teach, sell, engage, and entertain, and they’ve become increasingly popular ever since the pandemic.
Hosting webinars and getting a sizable number of attendees opens up a number of avenues for monetization. This includes paid subscriptions, sponsorships, affiliate sales, product sales, and plenty more.
There is no shortage of platforms to host, deliver, and market your webinars. Whop is, of course, perfect for all of this, but apart from Whop, there is Zoom, Google Meet, and the age old GoToWebinar.
Average Earnings: It all comes down to how many attendees you manage to get, and how well you monetize your audience and convert them into paying customers.
53. YouTube Channels
This is all the rage off-late, with plenty of successful channel owners making more than many leading media companies and A-list celebrities.
While YouTube offers a massive global audience, it also comes with steep competition, and it now takes a great deal of effort to stand out from the crowd and get noticed, especially as a new YouTuber.
Consider taking up some courses and joining some relevant communities to better understand the workings of the platform. A few reputed options include YouTube Portal and the Omari Academy.
Average Earnings: Once you build a sizable channel on YouTube, you earn not just from its in-house advertising revenues, but also from direct sponsorships of your own, alongside product and affiliate sales, and more, resulting in a truly limitless source of revenue.
54. Launch a Podcast
Although kind of similar to launching a YouTube Channel, podcasts can be distributed far and wide across a number of different platforms such as Spotify, PodBean, SoundCloud, and more.
You can launch your podcast on pretty much any topic under the sun, but here again, you’re up against over 6 million podcasts across the globe, so its going to be hard to gain traction, unless you already have an audience elsewhere.
Average Earnings: The earnings potential is pretty similar to that of YouTube, plenty of monetization options, ranging from paid subscriptions and advertising, to selling your own products and services.
55. YouTube Channel Manager
With YouTube Channels becoming mainstream media businesses with millions of subscribers and $100s of thousands in revenue, there is a growing need for professionals who understand the platform and can support the operations of a channel.
A YouTube Channel Manager is essentially involved in managing the uploading and broadcast schedule of individual or multiple channels. They’re also involved in engaging with the community, responding to comments, and more.
Average Earnings: This can easily be a full-time job, with seasoned professionals earning as much as $3,000 to $5,000 a month. As a side-hustle, however, you can expect to make between $20 to $40 an hour.
56. Social Media Manager
If you spend a great deal of time online, on social media platforms, and have a good knack for interacting with people, and building relationships on said platforms, there are plenty of businesses out there who will gladly pay for your skills in this space.
As a social media manager, you will be in charge of managing the social media presence of a business, brand, or an individual. You will be crafting posts, engaging with followers, and actively working to grow their online presence, in return for a fee.
Average Earnings: You can sell these services on sites such as Fiverr, SEOClerk, and UpWork, and earn $10 to $50 an hour. Or, you can create your own whop, showcase your services within it, meet clients through the video app and have Whop handle your payment processing.
57. Paid Communities
If you’re an expert in your particular field, or have a sizable audience either on your YouTube Channel, social media accounts, blog, or newsletter, consider monetization via paid communities.
A community is a more intimate environment where you can discuss and engage with your audiences on specific topics and niches. Community members themselves can discuss, ask questions, and help each other out, making it a very valuable resource.
Setting up and managing a community is fairly simple and straightforward using Whop, with plenty of powerful features, and a marketplace to drive targeted buyer traffic.
Several YouTuber’s have built profitable communities on platforms like Whop, including The Traveling Trader, eCom Mafia, and Gorrila Labs.
Average Earnings: You can charge a monthly subscription fee for access to your community, while also selling ads, and affiliate products to monetize.
58. Sell Crafts & Artwork
Not everyone has artistic skill, but those of you who do can earn reasonably well by selling your works on dedicated sites such as Etsy, Amazon Handmade, and IndieMade.
During times of mass-produced everything, handmade is getting increasingly valuable, with people willing to pay a premium for works of art that are authentic and one-of-a-kind. From paintings and glass art, to handmade bracelets and brooches, everything has a market online.
Consider joining some Etsy communities for better guidance on the workings and nuances of the platform. Etsy Empire is one such community to get started with.
Average Earnings: Top sellers on Etsy earn millions of dollars each year, all from handmade arts, crafts, and accessories. Even new sellers can make a sizable sum, provided they list quality products.
59. Sell Printables & Digital Artwork
While paintings, crafts and other artwork sell well, they are often no match for the digital artwork and printables landscape.
If you’re a designer with sharp skills in Illustrator, Procreate or Corel Draw, you can upload your designs on sites such as Society6 and earn commissions each time your art is printed on products sold on the platform.
Printables can also be sold on Etsy, mostly comprising planning templates, seasonal journals, and other digital products.
Average Earnings: Designers do earn a sizable sum on Society6 and Etsy, but the beauty of this business is that you’re not restricted to any one platform, but can easily upload the same designs across RedBubble, Zazzle, and Merch by Amazon, among others. Don't forget that you can also sell digital artwork and downloads on Whop!
60. Create Templates & Design Assets
Seasoned designers can generate robust passive income by creating and uploading their designs as templates on sites such as Creative Market, ShutterStock, and even Canva.
This includes logo templates, presentations, illustrations, branding kits, and a host of other categories of designs, which will be purchased and used by other designers for their own products and services.
Average Earnings: Despite adding enormous value to the design community, the returns from this endeavor aren’t that great. However, designers with a few popular options online can rake in more than $1,000 a month in passive income.
61. Become a Freelance Designer
One of the most popular side-hustles for designers is freelancing in their free time by working on a wide range of design projects.
There are plenty of platforms to work with and market your services. This includes Dribbble, Behance, Fiverr, Upwork, and a lot more. Kaleigh Moore is a freelance writer who advertises her services on Whop.
Average Earnings: This niche is fiercely competitive, but quality designers are still a rare breed who command high hourly pay, reaching as high as $150.
62. Participate In Design Contests
As opposed to directly hiring designers for jobs, there are platforms that hold contests, allowing designers to submit their works, with either the best one or the top 3 receiving a sizable prize amount that can be in the 100s or even $1,000s.
Sites such as 99Designs, DesignContest, and DesignCrowd allow clients to hold contests for logos, website designs, flyers, labels, and more. Designers submit their work, which is then ranked by the clients.
Average Earnings: Designers stand to earn between $200 to $1,200 for each contest they win, and top performers have been known to make over $10,000 per month just by participating in contests.
63. Solve Complex & Interesting Problems
If you love flexing those mind muscles, consider solving interesting problems on sites such as MindSumo, where companies crowdsource some of their most vexing issues for inputs from a wide range of smart individuals across the globe.
Challenges can include everything from ‘Finding Viable Alternatives To Palm Oil’ to ‘Propose New Hybrid Weed Control Technologies.’ The best ideas or submissions receive handsome rewards.
Average Earnings: The rewards range from $600 to $1,600 for winning submissions, and you are likely up against 50 to 60 other contestants for each problem. That being said, there are likely only a handful of truly serious contenders, so if you’re willing to put in the effort, this can be a good source of income.
64. Come Up With Scientific Solutions
You can take your skills as a problem solver a notch higher by solving more complex and scientific problems requiring more comprehensive submissions.
This involves sites such as Wazoku Crowd, OpenIDEO, and Ideanote, which are aimed at more serious practitioners.
Average Earnings: The rewards here are significantly higher, ranging from between $5,000 to $60,000, and the competition is rather thin, with just about 10 to 20 submissions per challenge.
65. Solve Difficult Math Problems
If you are good at math, platforms such as PhotoMath can help you earn good money, while putting your skills to the test.
You are essentially helping others with their math homework, or difficult-to-solve problems, often involving high-school or college-level questions.
Average Earnings: Consistent performers on the app are known to make as much as $300 per week by answering questions and solving problems.
66. Start a Mastermind Group
A mastermind group essentially involves bringing together like-minded individuals, with common goals and a certain skill set for the purpose of learning from each other, networking, and pooling resources in pursuit of the said goal.
Unlike regular communities, mastermind groups tend to be more selective in who they accept, with most members already being adept at certain skills, resulting in a thriving and well-functioning community.
A few great examples of mastermind groups include Ryan Beats Vegas, Market Mastermind, and DTK Dreamers. All of these communities are hosted on Whop, which offers pretty much everything you need to get your community up and running.
Average Earnings: Community owners can earn from monthly subscriptions, alongside advertising, affiliate fees, access to webinars, workshops, and more.
67. Freelance Coding Gigs
From simple web development projects and mobile applications to complex AI coding gigs, there are plenty of opportunities for new and experienced developers looking for lucrative side hustles.
Once again, platforms such as Fiverr and Upwork are your go-to options, alongside TopTal and TopCoder for more high-end, high-paying gigs. These sites don’t just allow you to earn an additional income, but can help build your skills and spruce up your CV in the process.
Average Earnings: Skilled developers stand to earn anywhere from $40 to $180 an hour, depending on the nature and complexity of the gig.
68. Monetize Open-Source Projects
If you’re passionate about open-source projects and actively contribute to them, consider monetizing your skills and knowledge pertaining to the same by consulting on and providing support to various development projects using said open-source tools.
For instance, if you’ve been active in the TensorFlow community, there are plenty of opportunities for consultants who can offer valuable advice to startups and enterprises that currently use the library for their projects.
Average Earnings: It depends on the projects you work on and your skills and experience with them, but $30 to $60 an hour should form the average range. A couple of hours a week should easily net you more than $1,000 in a month.
69. Software Testing
For those of you with experience in quality assurance and test automation side of software development, consider working for sites such as uTest and Testlio to make the most of your time and skills.
They each have a set criteria and don’t accept just about anyone, but once you’re in, you have a steady flow of gigs to keep you occupied during your downtime.
Average Earnings: The hourly pay for a tester on uTest is $38, and can go up to $50. So, this can very well lead to a sizable income with just a couple of hours each week.
70. Write Technical Documents
For experienced coders who are also good writers, there are plenty of opportunities to earn extra income by crafting technical documents. This includes software requirements specifications, user manuals, tutorials, and more.
You can find such opportunities on sites like Upwork and Freelancer.com, but in addition to this, you can also sell this as a gig on Fiverr or Whop.
Average Earnings: You can earn between $50 to $500 for a gig like this, depending on the size, nature, complexity, and time required for crafting these documents.
71. Bug Bounties
From private companies to the US government, everyone is investing in bug bounties to help identify flaws in their IT systems. Depending on just how good your skills are, you can identify such flaws and vulnerabilities, report it to the concerned parties, and earn a good reward for your efforts.
This is referred to as bug bounties, and there are many companies that offer such programs, along with their rewards.
Average Earnings: Bug bounties often range from $50 to $3,000, depending on the severity of the flaw that you’ve managed to uncover.
72. Build SAAS Applications
Have an idea for an app that stands to add value to individuals and companies? Consider using your development skills to make it a reality.
Building an app is an incredibly popular side hustle for most developers and one that can easily become a source of life-changing income if your application takes off.
As far as side hustles go, there are few better options than this, considering the level of control you have here, along with the scalability. That being said, however, this is not unlike starting a business, so in addition to building an SAAS app, you’ll also have to work on its marketing, maintenance, and more.
There is a learning curve here because it involves more than just your coding skills. You also need to be able to launch, market, and retain users. Fortunately, there are plenty of courses, guides, and communities to help with this.
SAAS University and SAAS Mastermind are two great places to get your start in this business, with resources, guides, and a community to help you out.
Average Earnings: You start at zero, and like any other business it all depends on how useful and popular your application is. There is no upper limit to how much you can make, and there are more than a few stories of million-dollar SAAS applications that began as side hustles.
73. Sell Apps, Plugins & Extensions
If you find a fully-fledged SAAS application to be too complicated or time-consuming to build, consider using your coding skills to build smaller applications, often based on, or adding to the utility of other larger products.
This includes things such as WordPress plugins, third-party apps for Whop, or other popular platforms, or extensions for Google Chrome, among other things.
Not only are these relatively easier to build, they’re also easier to market since you can piggyback on the authority of the platforms that you are targeting.
Average Earnings: Here again, there is no saying how much or how little you can make, it all comes down to how popular and useful your app is.
74. Solve Data Science Challenges
Now for the data scientists. If you have a way with data and are skilled at unlocking insights from large swathes of often unorganized and unstructured data, consider solving challenges and assignments for sizable rewards.
Platforms like Kaggle are perfect to get started, with millions in prize money, plenty of competitions and datasets to choose from, and interesting challenges such as predicting survival on the Titanic, or predicting home values using Zillow’s datasets, among several others.
Average Earnings: This is a fairly competitive space, but there are plenty of opportunities and millions of dollars in prize money, so if you’re fairly competent in this field, you should be able to make $1,000 or more each month.
75. Predict the Stock Market
As you grow as a data scientist, it is time to put your skills to the ultimate test, using large amounts of data to predict the stock market.
Numerai is a one-of-a-kind crowdsourced hedge fund that provides you with high-quality data used by professional hedge funds to work with. You generate insights using this data to trade global equity markets and get rewarded with cryptocurrency issued by the fund if your signals manage to turn a profit.
Average Earnings: So far Numerai has paid out $33 million to data scientists located all across the globe, and continues to pay out increasingly lucrative amounts each month.
What are the Best Ways to Make an Extra $1,000 Each Month?
We’ve covered a great many opportunities in this list, but if you’re looking for the best of the best, the right answer would be anything that involves the creation of digital products.
Considering their low initial investment, non-existent overheads, and plenty of avenues for hosting and marketing, they’re almost a no-brainer in this regard.
Whether it is an ebook, a coaching program, courses, communities, mastermind groups, or any of the dozen other digital products we’ve mentioned on this list, you can quickly scale to $1,000 a month or more, often with minimal effort.
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- A Chat app to communicate with any user within your community
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- Use the Courses app to build and sell online courses
- Add the Files app to sell templates, software, ebooks, and more
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