20 Easy Side Hustles

Everyone can use a little extra money these days, and a side hustle can easily turn into a full-time gig if you work right at networking. Below is a list of 20 easy side gigs that you can do from home.

1. Dog walking: If you like animals, this is the perfect extra gig to do. You can easily walk more than one dog at a time, and during the summertime will be the best time to try and get new customers. While taking them on walks, take them to a local dog park, where you can network and possibly make new customers. 

2. Dog sitting: If you love animals, than here you go. Plenty of people go out of town all the time, and have to leave there little fluffster behind. Pet sitting is a great way to make extra cash, while simply spoiling a few cute critters. Make sure you have time to spend with them, as pets should never be alone in a new home for too long of a time. 

3. Babysitting: Maybe animals aren't your thing, but babies are truly your weakness. If you take some time to truly make a fun spot that is safe for children, you will have a great business in the making. Make sure not to watch more children than you can handle, and always have an extra touch like fun activities or crafts for them to do.

4. Drive: If you can't get enough of cruising around town, then Lyft or Uber are perfect for you. Sign up takes just a few minutes, and you usually get approved in just a few days. From personal experience, i found it quicker and better to drive with Lyft when i did, but everyone has their own preference. 

5. Waitr: Delivering food is a lot easier than delivering people around town, and now thanks to waitr it is possible. Simply make food deliveries for extra cash, which is great for those who don't necessarily want people around, but love to drive.

6. Surverys: People love the idea of taking surveys, and believe it or not it is possible! Simply click here to find a great list of survey sites to sign up for to make some extra cash today.

7. Gigs: There are tons of sights to do gigs on, including mystery shops and other small online tasks. Click here for a great list of gig sites to start earning today!

8.Mystery Shopping: This is a fun way to make some extra cash. Not only do you get paid for whatever you have to buy, but you make a few bucks for helping them out. Although it is hard to find real mystery shops, once you do you will see why its worth the research.

9. Test Websites: There are so many people who need website testing, it is ridiculous. Go to Userfeel.com, or other websites and you will quickly learn about the money in testing websites. Simply play around on them, and give your honest input.

10. Reselling: If you are great at snatching deals, it is a good hustle to buy great things on craigslist, or other sites that do reselling items, and then fix it up yourself. A little elbow grease, and you can quickly flip your money if you know what you are doing.

11. Make Something: If you have a talent, use it. Not everyone is able to make, or do, what you do. Make something you love, whether it is art, pictures, or music. Somewhere online, is a platform to start selling what you have to offer.

12. Investing: Investing is always a good way to make money, even if some sites take longer than others to see a return. However, there are tons of apps and websites that help you invest in stocks, or other businesses, for a higher return rate than a savings account would.

13. Promoting: If social networking is naturally your thing, than this is an easy side hustle for you. Take some time to build up a big enough following, and you can get paid in more than one way. You can do shout outs for small businesses, as well as work with larger companies to promote their products.

14. Freelance: There are a million freelance websites, although I personally stick to Upwork to find most of my work. With any site, just make sure that the payment is verified before you start a job, or else you might do a lot of work for nothing.

15. Virtual Assistant: This is a great job because everyone needs some extra help, and it can make you a lot of extra cash easily. Although it can take some time to find a legit position, and please beware of scams (if it sounds funny, it most likely is).

16. Teach Someone: Either join a tutoring website, like the ones that help kids learn English online. Or, make your own course on Udemy and watch the money roll in daily from your course. Either way, someone out there will pay you for what you can teach them.

17. Entertain: Entertainers will never go out of fashion. Whether it is a music artist, comedian, or even magician, if you like to entertain, someone will pay you to do this as well. It may take a few months of passing out flyers, but it is definitely one of the more fun side hustles.

18. Design: These days, everyone and their mom needs help designing something on the computer. Whether its a logo, website, social profile, or more, people are willing to pay some big bucks in order to take the hassle of designing off their bak.

19. Blog: Ok, Ok, let me not brag on my skills. However, with some work and a little involved in marketing, a blog can make money in a variety of ways. Whether its from ads, or selling products on your blog, blogging can bring in some real change, if it is on a good topic.

20. Ebooks: People still love to read, although more people are liking the idea of a book online better than on a shelf taking up room. There are a large variety of ebooks that can make you money, but that is another list all together.

Passive Income

It seems that everyone has a "get rich now" scheme up their sleeves these days. Although they all sound nice, and some fake very lavish lives on social media just to get attention, most of them are still sitting in a small living room trying to make a few bucks. However, it does make you think. Is there a way to make money, without actually working so hard? I mean, since when did living turn into simply working?

If this is something you have thought about in the past, you are not alone. However, even those who live more than they work, have to put in a ton of work at first. What people do not want to tell you, is that what they are living off of is passive income.

Now, marketing online is a new thing. Obviously, there is a lot of money in online marketing. However, one must always be aware of what they are getting themselves into. When it comes to MLMs, this is where you get yourself into trouble. These are companies that sign you up, having you think that you will make a ton of sales and sign up tons of people under you, and eventually you will have a network of people actually working under you and making you money, without you actually having to do anything.

But, what if you weren't trying to work for another company.  Not everyone is a salesperson, and some people are not a fan of working for another large company or new trend. So what do you do?

Is there a way to earn passive income on your own?

The answer is yes, although finding the perfect passive income is sometimes difficult. However, if you have a passion or skill you want to use as a means to support yourself, than you are already on the first step to starting your own passive income. Passive income is basically when you earn money off of something with little or no effort. Although it takes work to make whatever you plan on selling, usually once it is made you simply make money off getting people to buy it. This is easily done through online marketing, because so many people shop online these days.

If you think you can simply quit your job and sign up for a passive income, well you are sorely mistaken. At first, it takes hard work. Setting up your product, building a website or means to sell it, and obviously marketing it enough to the point that it starts to market itself. If you are willing to put in some hard work at first, over time your passive income will start to roll in. Although this is not the only way to earn a passive income, you can also start a passive income by investing your money in the right ways. That way, all you have to do is watch your money multiply over time. Where does one go, to invest in such a lovely concept? One thing to  remember is, these also take time, and you will have to wait to receive this passive income.

So, were should you start? Well, below are a list of some passive income ideas that you can use to get you started. Simply take one of these ideas, or use them to build your own idea up for your own unique passive income. The biggest step to starting a passive income, is understanding the concept and retraining how your brain thinks it has to work to make money.

Lending Club

When you think of a savings account, most people think of what little you actually earn in interest over time. Although lending club has a little more risk, the income it brings in is a lot more than just a simple savings. At the Lending club, people are looking for investments to get started in various business adventures. When you invest in their ideas, you get your money back, plus interest. The risk of course comes if their idea fails, but if you took a small amount of money ($20) and invested it into, say 5 or 6 ideas, you would have more of a chance when it comes to making money, opposed to losing it.

E*Trade

E*trade is a great place to look into index funds. Basically, it is like investing in the stock market, without having to worry about when to pull your money out, trade, sell, etc.

Gigs

Making money for things you already do, is always a quick and easy way to earn some passive income. They have programs such as shopkick and ebates, which allow you to make money back on purchases as you shop. Or, checkout lyft as a great extra income if you are always on the go! If you are busy doing certain things, there is a way to make a little passive income while you do it.

Photos

Photos are a great way to make passive income, especially if you are out and about taking photos often. They have stock photography websites now, such as shutterstock and istockphoto, where you simply upload photos of anything you can think of, and then wait until people start buying your photos! Although this is one that can take some time, it is not hard to snap a few photos as you go throughout your day.

Books

e-books are a new trend that will only get more and more popular over the years. If you have an author in you waiting to get out, now is the time to do just that. You can now self publish your own e-books, and the more your market them, the more popular they will get over time. Before you know it, you will have people interested and buying your book daily.

Real Estate

Although this is a larger investment, and you do have to understand what is going on in the market, it is not a difficult investment to make. Over the past few years, house flipping has become a huge trend. Although, that is not the only way to make money off of your real estates. A lot of people buy real estate and then rent it out monthly for a steady passive income.

Set up a website to sell a product

This is one that takes a little extra time and effort, but considering how huge the web is getting these days, it is definitely something to consider. Setting up a website with a product that sells itself, so that no marketing or product touching actually has to be done, is by far one of the biggest dream passive incomes there is. And, they are realistic, although most people don't understand exactly how much work has to go into it.

Make an online course or new app

The world is now virtual, which means that new passive incomes are all around us. One of the biggest ways to make it rich is simple, creating an app that catches the attentions of everyone, or making an online course that teaches something everyone wants to learn. Both are simple, and even those who do not know about coding can easily learn how to make an app.

These are just a few ideas on how to make a passive income, although like stated above the possibilities are endless.