Category: Blog

  • Teaching platform for imaginative souls

    Teaching platform for imaginative souls

    Instead of teaching a formal curriculum designed to make kids proficient enough to pass tests, Outschool is all about experimentation and engagement. 

  • 12 ways to rent your possessions

    12 ways to rent your possessions

    With unemployment in the stratosphere, it may be comforting to know that you can make money without a job. There are 12 ways to rent your stuff. Some of them are highly lucrative. 

  • Rotten side hustles and better alternatives

    Rotten side hustles and better alternatives

    They try to seduce you with promises that you can make big money having fun in your spare time. But, in reality, dozens of online platforms that promise fun and easy opportunities are sucky side hustles.

  • Seasonal jobs: Poor pay in great locations

    Seasonal jobs: Poor pay in great locations

    If your career is still on a pandemic-induced hold, you might want to check out seasonal jobs. These positions are notoriously poorly paid, but are located in scenic camps and resorts. Call it your “gap” summer.

  • Side hustles for wedding season

    Side hustles for wedding season

    As vaccination rates rise, long-delayed weddings are getting scheduled. That opens up a wealth of side hustles for wedding season.

  • Starting a personal shopper business

    Starting a personal shopper business

    Unlike Instacart, which get shoppers to work for them, Dumpling helps you start your own personal shopper business. It simply provides billing, marketing and support

  • How to build your own website

    How to build your own website

    In the Covid age, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a writer or a realtor, you need a website to avoid becoming invisible. Here’s how to build one in an hour. Cost: $12 a month.

  • Is publishing a book a good side hustle?

    Is publishing a book a good side hustle?

    At a time when cheap self-publishing options have turned book publishing into a burgeoning cottage industry, authors have mixed opinions about whether publishing is a good side hustle.

  • The good, bad and ugly of mystery shopping

    The good, bad and ugly of mystery shopping

    Is mystery shopping the perfect way to earn a free lunch or dinner? Or is it an exploitative industry that demands a lot of time for practically no pay? SideHusl editors decided to find out.

  • Your daytimer is deductible and other year-end tax tips

    Your daytimer is deductible and other year-end tax tips

    Self-employment gives you a litany of tax breaks that aren’t available to employees. But many require that you take action before year-end if you want to claim them on 2019 returns.

  • Side hustles for happier holidays

    Side hustles for happier holidays

    Holiday displays now go up in late summer — before most families have fully digested their back-to-school shopping. But seasonal hiring starts early too. That gives you plenty of time to earn the $1,000 the average family spends on the holidays, before the holiday bills mount.

  • Side hustles to pay off holiday debt

    Side hustles to pay off holiday debt

    Looking for a few good side hustles to pay off holiday debt? If you’re like most Americans, that’s no easy task. The average person ran up $1,325 in debt this holiday season

  • 5 reasons to side hustle

    5 reasons to side hustle

    Side hustles are flexible, part-time jobs that a lot of people engage in outside of their normal working hours for five good reasons. Here are the reasons and how a side hustle can help.

  • Earn good money and get fit

    Earn good money and get fit

    Being a referee or sports official is the perfect side gig. You earn great money — usually $40 to $100 per game — and get fit at the same time. Demand is good year-round.

  • Side hustle to pad your resume

    Side hustle to pad your resume

    Recruiters say side hustles show imagination, initiative, commercial savvy, customer service and other desirable skills in job applicants

  • How to use your car to make money

    How to use your car to make money

    You can use your car to make money without having to drive a single extra mile if you’re willing to emblazon it with ads, rent to tourists or photographers.

  • Top-rated side hustles, from A-to-Z

    Top-rated side hustles, from A-to-Z

    SideHusl.com’s editors wanted to see if we could find top-rated side hustles for every letter of the alphabet. We failed. But we did find 24 of 26.

  • Side hustle to seven figures: 7 steps to success

    Shaan Patel took his side hustle to seven figures in less than a decade. His tips on choosing and pursuing a side gig may help take your side hustle to seven figures too.

  • Top-rated side hustles, from M-to-Z

    Top-rated side hustles, from M-to-Z

    Our editors went searching for top-rated side hustles representing every letter of the alphabet, and found two-dozen great options

  • Freelancer training programs for better work

    Freelancer training programs for better work

    If you’re a freelancer who is not getting enough — or the right kind — of work, you might want to consider enrolling in one or several freelancer training programs.

  • How to negotiate the new freelance law

    How to negotiate the new freelance law

    A new freelance law that goes into effect in California this week could impact workers everywhere. And though there’s a lot of fear, most will be able to navigate the law to their advantage

  • Earn more than $30 per hour with moving jobs

    Earn more than $30 per hour with moving jobs

    If you’ve got a truck and some muscle, now is the time to look into moving as a side hustle. Moving is a lucrative side hustle. Most movers earn more than $30 per hour

  • New-collar work: high-pay, no degree required

    New-collar work: high-pay, no degree required

    New-collar work that promises high pay without a degree — is exploding, providing new opportunity for high school graduates and adults looking for new careers.

  • Use a side hustle to become a millionaire

    Use a side hustle to become a millionaire

    Almost half of millennials have a side hustle — and many say they’re doing it to add to savings. That sets them up to become young millionaires.

  • How to find part-time professional work

    How to find part-time professional work

    Being a professional used to be an all-or-nothing proposition. Work full-time and make lots of money or…well, don’t. That’s changed dramatically. Here’s how to find part-time professional work.

  • Work-from-home options soaring

    Work-from-home options soaring

    The number of companies allowing remote work is soaring in the United States. That gives more people the option of working from home. Here’s how.

  • Holiday side hustles

    Holiday side hustles

    This coming month of chaotic shopping, seasonal decorating and holiday parties gives entrepreneurs ample opportunity to make a bundle with holiday side hustles.

  • Flipping a $50 chair into a $100,000 business

    Flipping a $50 chair into a $100,000 business

    Three months after finding a discarded chair that they managed to sell for $50, Melissa and Rob Stephenson turned that modest profit into $100,000 of merchandise. Here’s how.

  • Better jobs for Uber and Lyft drivers

    Better jobs for Uber and Lyft drivers

    Ride sharing giants Uber and Lyft are trolling for new drivers. But a careful read of their pitches to prospective drivers signal dismal earnings. Here’s why and how you can do better.

  • Don’t-miss deductions for freelancers

    Don’t-miss deductions for freelancers

    Freelancers have more tax deductions than ever, thanks to the new tax law, but there is nothing simple about claiming everything you’re due.