If you’re a beginning freelancer, you can focus on your transferable skills and “social proof,” like reviews from previous bosses.
If you’re planning on using your resume to showcase your strengths to get high-paying side hustles, it has to capture your achievements. If you’d like to take a look at a profile that a client of ours used to make $323,000/year, you can grab it by submitting your information below:
1. Online Tutoring
- Traditional subjects like math or science
- Playing musical instruments
- Religious education
- Foreign languages to English-speaking students and English to ESL students
2. Personal Training
3. Managing Social Media and Digital Operations for SMEs
4. Freelance Graphic Designing
5. Party Planning
6. Driving for Uber
- First, get familiar with the Uber app and understand how to operate it well.
- Second, have a positive attitude. Greet your riders with a smile. If the rider seems friendly, talk to them about their day. But if the rider doesn’t show interest in speaking with you, it’s better to stay quiet.
- Third, accessorize your Uber with an aux cord, a charging cable, and any other accessory that can make the ride comfortable and enjoyable for the rider.
7. Freelancing on Upwork
8. Photography
9. Walking Dogs
- Get a front-clip harness or leash. It will pull the dog from the front and the dog won’t fight against it.
- Make sure that you clean up after your pet. For this purpose, always bring a poop bag along.
- Bring a water bottle so that your dog doesn’t feel dehydrated. You can also bring a toy for your dog that you can throw for them so they can run around for a bit.
10. Car Washing and Auto Detailing
- The barrier to entry to auto detailing is lower than other side projects. This means you can start earning profits pretty quickly.
- It is easy to retain clients if they like your work. You can quickly build a loyal customer base that can grow due to positive word-of-mouth.
- Purchase some basic equipment.
- Educate yourself on standard car detailing techniques.
- Build your skills by washing, polishing, and detailing your own car.
- Advertise to your friends and family to start building a customer case.
11. Baking
- Create a business plan: Outline what you’re going to offer, at what price, how much it’s going to cost you, and how you’re going to sell your products.
- Figure out your recipes and costs: Keep things simple to start with. Pick a product you know you can make well and will sell well.
- Finalize your recipes: Test your products until you’re happy with customer feedback. Having a winning product makes achieving success easy.
- Take great shots of the baked goods: If you’re not confident of your photography abilities, ask your friends for help.
- Advertise online: Setting up a Facebook page or Twitter page is one of the easiest ways to create an online presence.
12. Blogging
- Blog content monetization: Affiliate marketing, Google AdSense, or sell sponsored blog posts.
- Paid membership website: Limit valuable information for members only.
- Paid webinars and online courses: Make money while teaching something you’re passionate and knowledgeable about.
- E-Commerce business via WooCommerce: Add a plugin to your WordPress and set up a new store in minutes. The sky’s the limit in terms of what you can sell.
13. Selling Products on E-Commerce Websites
- wedding cards
- hand-dyed yarn
- stickers and enamel pins
- charms and even clothing
14. Renting Out Your Spare Room on Airbnb
- Zero dollars spent on marketing because Airbnb will add your location to its home page itself whenever someone searches for a place near your area.
- You don’t have to sell anything.
15. Creating Content on YouTube
- Do you love doing makeup and creating looks? Then you can review products and share makeup tutorials.
- Do you like fitness exercises? Then you can make content on fitness exercises and show your passion for physical fitness.
- Do you love cars? Then you can share maintenance tips.
- Do you love unboxing? Then you can make videos where you are unboxing mystery boxes.
- Do you enjoy celebrity gossip? Then you can talk about celebrities and share updates from their lives.
16. Selling Your Art Online
17. Flipping Cars
As long as the car is priced lower than the market rate and you can fix it up quickly, it should make a good flip.
18. Renting Out Your Spare Storage
Average earning: $300 – $600 per month.
Another great way to make some extra bucks is by renting unused space in your home, property, or garage as storage or parking space.
With Neighbor, you can generate a passive income by just storing your neighbor’s stuff. Also known as the “AirBnB of storage”, Neighbor allows anyone with extra storage space to list the availability of their garages, basements, closets, and spare rooms. They also provide protection against damage or threat to your property.
The Value a Side Hustle Adds to Your Resume
There are are many other reasons you may want to take up a side hustle:
- It gets you extra income to reduce your financial stress.
- It allows you to pursue a passion or skill that you wouldn’t otherwise explore in your main job.
- It provides an opportunity for you to explore a different field.
- It polishes your skills, especially if you have a creative outlet.
- It pumps value into your resume, especially if you have an employment or skill gap.
How You Can Start a Side Hustle Today.
If you’d like to start a high-paying side hustle today, our favorite freelancer platforms, ranked, are as follows in terms of earning potential, ease of use, and fee structure:
- LinkedIn’s Profinder tool
- Upwork
- Fiverr
After creating a profile, you can begin sending pitches to clients. Make sure to “echo” the language they are using in their gig listing to show them that you understand their needs and can help them.
And the first few lines of your pitch are all someone sees in the beginning on all of these platforms unless they click to read your entire proposal. Therefore, it is critical that your first sentence is hyper-customized to the gig listing!
If this is something you need help with, you should take a look at our 10-minute video on submitting high-dollar-value proposals on Upwork, cold email, and LinkedIn Profinder.
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