Category: Blog

  • Side hustles for 20- and 30-year-olds

    Side hustles for 20- and 30-year-olds

    Debt, inflation and career goals fuel side hustles for 20-and-30-year olds, who look for flexible, fun gigs that can generate good income while fueling entrepreneurial interests.

  • Painless college debt repayment plan

    Painless college debt repayment plan

    Need a relatively painless college debt repayment plan? Here’s our guide. It just takes strategy, discipline and a side hustle.

  • 7 creative side hustles

    7 creative side hustles

    Here are 10 creative side hustles that allow you to profit with acting, art, music, photography, design and writing.

  • Earn holiday money before the holidays

    Earn holiday money before the holidays

    If you want to participate in holiday festivities — gifts, parties, travel — without new debt, now is the time to start earning holiday money.

  • 5 Tips to survive self-employment

    5 Tips to survive self-employment

    Striking out on your own? If this is your first experiment with working for yourself, you may need a few tips to survive self-employment.

  • Young adults hustling to get ahead

    Young adults hustling to get ahead

    Zillennials are hard-working, thrifty individuals who are hustling to get ahead by juggling school and multiple gig jobs. Here are the most popular and best gig jobs.

  • Extra income for cooks and influencers

    Extra income for cooks and influencers

    DishDivvy enlists cooks to sell meals and now also pays them — and clients — for referrals.

  • How to make money as a movie extra

    How to make money as a movie extra

    You can make money as a movie extra. All you need is free time and the ability to follow directions.

  • Learn tech, earn plenty

    Learn tech, earn plenty

    You can earn great money, if you have tech skills. And, if you don’t have the skills today, you can learn tech and earn plenty in 6 months.

  • How to land your dream job

    How to land your dream job

    Whether you’re new to the workforce or you are suddenly rethinking the way you want to work, now is a good time to consider how to land your dream job.

  • Teach English. No credentials required

    Teach English. No credentials required

    At many sites, all you need to get a tutoring job is to be a native English speaker. But pay gets better for people who want to teach English if you have credentials.

  • Freedom playbook: How to live your dream life

    Freedom playbook: How to live your dream life

    Michael and Melissa Harlow created a freedom playbook that you can follow to define and live your dream life.

  • Fast typist? Try transcription

    Fast typist? Try transcription

    If you’re a fast typist looking for a side hustle, you may want to try transcription, a work-at-home job that pays up to $25 an hour.

  • 7 side hustles anyone can do

    7 side hustles anyone can do

    If you have a smart phone and transportation to get to and from work, there are plenty of side hustles anyone can do.

  • Time-saving tool for sellers

    Time-saving tool for sellers

    List Perfectly, a time-saving tool for sellers, allows you to simultaneously list items for sale on up to 12 sales sites at a time.

  • Side hustles for the strong and fit

    Side hustles for the strong and fit

    Got muscles? Some of the best-paying spring and summer side hustles are for the strong and fit.

  • Make money with photography

    Make money with photography

    Do you love to take photos with a digital camera or smartphone? You may be able to make money with photography.

  • $5 platform delivers six-figure incomes

    $5 platform delivers six-figure incomes

    Fiverr, which once urged freelancers to work for $5, has become a platform where freelancers can earn six-figure incomes on their own terms.

  • Rent your house to tourists

    Rent your house to tourists

    If you want to rent your house to tourists, you’ve probably already heard of Airbnb. However, other sites would also like to help you. 

  • Want to earn a fast buck? Babysit.

    Want to earn a fast buck? Babysit.

    Looking to earn a fast buck? Consider babysitting. An increasing number of companies are reopening offices and asking employees to show up in person, leaving parents scrambling for daycare.

  • 10 ways to build multiple income streams

    10 ways to build multiple income streams

    The pandemic made us realize that even steady work can evaporate. If you don’t want to risk losing everything to a job loss, you might want to build multiple income streams.

  • Seasonal travel jobs, work with benefits

    Seasonal travel jobs, work with benefits

    Did the last year has left you yearning to travel, but too budget constrained to take a vacation? There may be a good alternative: Seasonal travel jobs.

  • Side hustles for college students

    Side hustles for college students

    Side hustles for college students deliver spending money while still offering the flexibility that a full class schedule requires.

  • Housesitting: Job or vacation?

    Housesitting: Job or vacation?

    Don’t have the budget to take the trips you yearn for? Consider housesitting, where you trade watering and pet sitting for free accommodations.

  • Side hustles for artists, cooks, gardeners and writers

    Side hustles for artists, cooks, gardeners and writers

    They’re not the highest-earning jobs, but side hustles for artists, cooks, gardeners and writers feed passions and pad your pocketbook.

  • Side hustles to save your retirement

    Side hustles to save your retirement

    Retired unexpectedly? Side hustles may help to save your retirement.

  • 4 great tax breaks for side hustlers

    4 great tax breaks for side hustlers

    Having a side hustle gives you tax breaks not available to employees, including these 5 great tax breaks for side hustlers that can save thousands

  • Health-related side hustles

    Health-related side hustles

    The pandemic wreaked havoc on the medical field but has also fueled health-related side hustles in nursing, therapy and caregiving.

  • Writer? Where to post a portfolio to land jobs

    Writer? Where to post a portfolio to land jobs

    Writers are in demand, but how do you get the plum positions? One smart strategy is to post a portfolio online to highlight your skills and specialties. Here’s how.

  • Share your skills and profit from a distance

    Share your skills and profit from a distance

    If the latest Covid numbers have you reluctant to go out — even to work — here are remote jobs that can help you cash in while you keep your distance.