These 7 Side Hustles That Can Replace Your Salary Faster Than You Think
Real ways to earn extra income — no fluff, no gatekeeping.
Our parents and grandparents were employed during a time when opportunities were plentiful.
A nice life and a pension upon retirement were virtually guaranteed in this prior generation if you attended school and found employment.
“Back in my day, you worked a job or Side Hustles, got paid a nickel, and you could afford to buy a house”.
Sorry to say it, but that era is dead. If you are a millennial, or a Generation Z-er, or whatever’s after Generation Z.
You will have to work more and longer than the previous generation to live a less opulent life if you adhere to the usual system of attending school, finding employment, financing a large home, saving a small amount in your 401(k), and attempting to pay off your student loans.
I bought some avocado toast because I couldn’t afford a house and only got paid a nickel.
I currently owe eight thousand dollars on my credit card. However, this does not imply that there is no more hope.
It means that you have to find a new opportunity in our new era.
What’s Reality: So, for 90% of employees, one stream of income will not be enough anymore. This is what school is too scared to tell you.
However, because of the internet, it is now easier than ever to start earning extra money on the side without starting your own business, this way you can earn that extra cash, take care of your family, and continue to live your life.
Here are the 7 top side hustles for those of you who are ready to cheat on your main job.
SIDE HUSTLE 1: Freelancing
How do I make money if it’s free?
There’s nothing free about freelancing, especially for the people who will be paying you for your time.
With freelancing, now, instead of starting your own online business, you are servicing other online businesses, and these businesses will pay you for your time.
I have hired freelance writers, designers, web developers, marketers, and even voice-over artists, and these are people whom I have never met before, and I have no control over their schedule, but I pay good money for their services.
As entrepreneurship is becoming more and more popular, the demand for freelancers is going through the roof, because hiring a freelancer is so much easier than hiring an employee.
Freelancing is something that doesn’t take a lot of money to start.
You can do this from home, you can set your own schedule, and you can set your own prices, and there are a ton of websites that can help you start.
And, because you’re on contract, you can charge a lot more per hour than if you were an employee.
SIDE HUSTLE 2: Social Media Marketing
Even though Adityanetwork is entirely focused on the internet, thousands of company owners still believe that a post is something you should tether your horse to.
These days, every single business needs to have an online presence.
Therefore, if you know how to perform social media marketing, you can charge companies thousands of dollars a month to manage their online presence.
If you don’t know how to do it, there are plenty of people offering social media marketing classes.
SIDE HUSTL 3: Blogging & Vlogging.
I have been blogging for 2 years now, and I recently took a new step in my journey by registering a new domain called thetriounit.com.
On this website, I regularly publish finance-related articles, covering topics that help readers make smarter money decisions and better understand the world of personal finance.
So, the word ‘blog’ is short for ‘web log,’ and the word ‘vlog’ is short for a ‘video web log,’ and ‘clogging’ is my new favorite dance.
Vlogging is when you make videos for YouTube, Facebook, or really anywhere on the Internet, so you can build an audience.
When you build this audience, you can get paid through advertising, kind of like how you see commercials on TV. On YouTube, you’ll see advertisements before you watch your videos, and you can get paid through affiliate marketing, which is when you promote somebody else’s products to your audience, and you get paid a percentage of revenue for every sale that you bring.
And, if you have your own products or services, well, now you just 10x’d your revenue.
Think of it this way: let’s say you have 10,000 people who watch your videos, and out of these 10,000 people, just 100 of them buy a 10 dollar product.
That is 1,000 dollars worth of revenue from just one video to an audience of 10,000 people.
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And you can start blogging, not vlogging. Here, you can write articles and publish them. Once your articles rank on Google and Bing, people will read them, and you can earn money through them. Start today.
SIDE HUSTLE 4: E-commerce
One of the main disadvantages of starting your own retail business is that you have to hire a large number of people to run your store and sell your goods, as well as purchase a large amount of inventory and store it in your garage, which is extremely costly.
Since I made this sock and ran a sock company, e-commerce is essentially how I got started in the online business world.
However, there is now an even simpler way to sell online through e-commerce, thanks to a service called “drop shipping.”
where you sell T-shirts, Hoodies, Home decor items, kitchen instruments, Gadgets, etc.
When you come into our store and make a purchase, that purchase will automatically go to our manufacturer, and then they will create the product and ship it out to you.
If you pay $25 for a shirt, well, that money that the manufacturer needs, they will automatically take it from their $25, and whatever is left over is our profit.
Tons of e-commerce stores now follow this drop shipping model.
For example, if you visit an online store that sells Hello Kitty sweatshirts for $40, the store owner is likely purchasing the item from China for $8.00.
When you buy it for $40, the order is sent to the Chinese manufacturer, who will take $8 and give the remaining $32 to the store owner.
After that, the Chinese manufacturer will ship the item to you, the customer.
The key here, the real secret sauce to drop shipping, is how you can get targeted visitors onto your website, because that’s what’s gonna drive your sales.
SIDE HUSTLE5: Be a Virtual Assistant.
Have you ever seen those really shady posters on the side of the road saying, “Work from home, call this number”, and then there’s a random phone number that’s scribbled on it with a marker? Yeah, well, this isn’t that kind of work from home.
There is a sizable market for virtual assistants, where you may spend 1 to 8 hours a day for a professional or another company, handling their emails, answering their messages, taking phone calls, or simply helping them organise their lives.
I am aware of this because I have a virtual assistant who works for me seven days a week.
He is someone I have never met before, and his job is to check my emails and make my life simpler because I receive a ton of emails every day.
He gets paid even if there isn’t much work.
You don’t need a lot of skills, and my virtual helper, whom I’ve never met, chooses his own hours.
SIDE HUSTLE 6: Take Advantage of Online Education.
When I was just starting to understand how business worked on the internet with my sock business, I got scammed by a fake marketing company.
I went out, and I created a course on how to launch a business without getting screwed over, because I don’t want to see other entrepreneurs get screwed over the same way I was.
I posted my class on a platform called Udemy, and before I took the class down, a few hundred people signed up, and that’s when I realized: “Wow, people really want to learn things online from people that are actually doing something”.
You have kids from around the world who want to learn how to speak English, you have kids in high school who need help with math, and you have adults who want to learn how to use Excel on their computer, and these are all things that you can teach online.
If you don’t want to start your own online tutoring company, you can go to one of these other online tutoring companies and become a tutor there, and teach other people the skills that you know.
SIDE HUSTLE 7: Wholesale Real Estate
This one is not a side hustle that you do on the Internet, but it is one of my favorite side hustles, and it can easily become a full-time hustle if you want it to.
So, I got into real estate through the investing side after my sophomore year in college.
And then, during my junior year in college, I went out and I got my real estate salesperson license, and I worked for a brokerage called Keller Williams.
Well, the boss in my brokerage was actually a teacher of wholesale real estate, and she invited me to one of these real estate seminars where she taught real estate wholesaling.
I had no idea what wholesaling real estate was, and she was like, “Because you work for my office, Aditya, I’ll give you a free ticket, which is normally valued at $350.”
I didn’t have anything to lose, I was getting a free $350 ticket, and I got to learn something about real estate, so I went, and that’s when I learned about this thing called wholesaling real estate.
So, in a very, very general sense, wholesaling real estate is when you find a seller who is struggling to sell their home, so this might be a seller who’s selling the property for sale by owner, and you go to the seller and say: “Hi, I want to buy your property”. And you enter into a contract to buy the property for, let’s say, ten thousand dollars below market value.
You have no intention to buy the property, you’re just entering the contract to buy their property, and then once you have this contract, you are gonna market the same property for sale at a higher price, and then you’re going to sell this new buyer your contract to buy it for the higher price.
At the end of the seminar, they pitched a course on how to do this whole wholesaling real estate thing, and it was a few thousand dollars, which was a huge investment for me back then.
I made the purchase not really knowing what to expect, and that’s when I learned that there are a lot of ways to do this wholesaling real estate.
I did something called rent-to-own, where, before somebody actually bought the property, they lived in the property as a tenant for 12 to 18 months, paying rent to the owner, and then at the end of this lease term, they bought the property.
I know it sounds a little confusing, because it’s a little bit complex, but it’s a great way to start your side hustle.
To put it in context, after I paid a few thousand dollars to understand how wholesaling real estate worked, I didn’t get a sale for the next four months. So, I made no money for just around four months.
And then that fifth month, that was the first month that I closed a sale, and I think I closed two of them, and I made a total of seventeen thousand five hundred dollars in profit after my two deals.
That’s when I knew I was on to something with this whole wholesaling real estate thing, so I jumped in with both feet.
What are some other side hustles that people can do either on the internet or off? Let me know what you think.
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