Category: Blog

  • How to use side hustles to change your life

    How to use side hustles to change your life

    Side hustles can change your life. Just ask Kevin Ha. Last year, the income from Ha’s side hustles hit a point where the 33-year-old was able to quit his day job. Nine tips.

  • Best sites to sell a cell phone

    Best sites to sell a cell phone

    The best sites to sell a cell phone will either buy your phone outright or help you sell it directly to another consumer.

  • High pay for expertise

    High pay for expertise

    Several online consulting firms provide matchmaking services to connect seasoned pros with someone willing to pay for expertise.

  • Clinical trials: Highly-paid but risky

    Clinical trials: Highly-paid but risky

    A highly-paid but potentially risky way to make money is to volunteer for clinical trials. In many cases, you can earn thousands in a few days.

  • Pay for opinions

    Pay for opinions

    You’ve heard the expression “a penny for your thoughts”? Dozens of companies would like you to take the expression literally. They’ll pay for opinions. Some will pay considerably more than a penny too.

  • Make money with art and crafts

    Make money with art and crafts

    If you have an artistic side and the tools to create anything from paintings to rocking horses, you may be able to make money with art and crafts.

  • 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.

  • Remote jobs for the Coronavirus era

    Remote jobs for the Coronavirus era

    If you don’t want your finances to expire while you sit out the pandemic, you’ll need an alternative. Consider remote jobs for the Coronavirus era

  • Never retire: Working past retirement age

    Never retire: Working past retirement age

    Karen Winters and Rex Shields are part of a trend. They’re seniors working long past traditional retirement age, full or part-time. Millions like them are aided by gig platforms offering money-making options

  • Today’s best driving jobs are in delivery

    Today’s best driving jobs are in delivery

    Uber and Lyft used to be the undisputed leaders in providing jobs for independent contractors who wanted to drive for a living.  The global pandemic changed that.

  • 12 best tutoring platforms

    12 best tutoring platforms

    Children all over the country are struggling with distance learning necessitated by the Coronavirus epidemic. That spells opportunity for those with teaching and tutoring skills.

  • Demand for child care is likely to soar

    Demand for child care is likely to soar

    School closures are likely to create opportunities for people with the patience and skills to provide child care services, either by launching a home-based day care center, camp or simply sitting.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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