Side Hustles for everyone in 2024!

all right so if i was to start a side hustle in 2024 let's say you know it's almost april you're three months into the year and you're thinking oh man you know what i've kind of missed the side hustle train the last three years obviously since covered uh impacted the world and everyone got into the side hustle buzz but you know i'm in a place now where i want to start a side hustle or i want to do something extra and

do something with my hobby my passion and make a little bit more money more income you might be in that place now you might be in that space where you're like man i need to i need to do something with my life jesus um so yeah look if i was in your shoes i started my side hustle journey uh in 2020 and if i was to start fresh start fresh right now um and choose a side hustle in 2024 uh whether it's you know three side hustles one you should always start with one

developer and then you can move on to the next one don't start too many like i did in the very beginning you just burn out and then you're just playing a mad juggling act and you're just trying to keep them all surviving while you're actually putting more money and time into them than what you're getting out of them so you reduce it to a number you can manage

you get really good at them and then you start to expand from there but anyway i'm max i love side hustles i love making money i love the idea of financial freedom i love the idea of passive income i love the idea of you know, being wealthy, being rich, and I guess at some stage, not having to worry about money, whether I'm still working.

uh full time or in a career in a place where i'm happy i have fulfillment i'm not in the nine to five grind i'm doing something that brings me happiness and fulfillment so my little intro back to the side hustle journey so if i was to start fresh in 2024 there's a few things to think about it's a different time now it's not 2020 anymore so gone are the days of doing everything online because

i think that ship has sailed a little bit in the sense that like it's happened and it just keeps developing and changing so much over time that for you it might not make sense you know what i mean like

I guess what I'm trying to say is making money online doesn't work for everyone, and it doesn't make sense for everyone, and it might not be for you. And that's something that you need to grasp the reality of very quickly. For example, if you're not... tech savvy if you're not computer savvy if you're not internet savvy if you're not creative then the online realm is probably not for you you you know like there's such there's such massive innovative tech

in the e-commerce world now that you really do have to have knowledge and capability in that space like you have to have a creative bug or at least understand how to use creativity to your advantage, how to outsource when you need to, how to make designs, how to build websites, how to... Do social media SEO keywords long tail short tail how to?

you know do ebooks how to rinse and repeat these processes how to build courses how to sell courses what websites to use what's free what's not free like all this is it's quite complex and it takes a long time to learn so you know i want to keep these side hustle ideas for 2024 really realistic and pragmatic for people so it's not just another stupid

episode video podcast about people saying how much money they make in e-commerce or drop shipping or online print and demand all that crap like i'm making this realistic so if it was me in 2024 and i didn't i didn't go on my journey for the last three years this is what i would do this is what i would look into first right i'll think of things that maybe takes up more of my time but it kind of you're building something you're particularly building something more and something more um

personalized and maybe something more like local to you it's it's you know it's about developing relationships networking anyway we'll get into it but here's the things i would do or look at if i was going to start a side hustle in 2024

The first one is tutoring. I know, right? Tutoring consulting. whatever whichever one works for you it doesn't like depending on your age and your experience but you know there's online tutoring so if you do want to go the the online realm then you can do online tutoring so you know you might and you can use youtube for this as well which is the beauty of

but YouTube is free to make videos. So you could make a YouTube channel on a particular subject or skill and make videos about it, whether it's Excel, it could be... i know microsoft word powerpoint presentations it could be a skill set maybe you're a builder and you you're gonna teach people how to do diy like tutoring online teaching online coaching or even in-person tutoring or coaching consulting is a big one and you know i'm in my later stages of my career where

consulting is at the front of mind where you know i've got experience i've got a skill set i've developed over the last 12 to 15 years and i'm thinking you know companies pay for that now they pay for consultants to come in do projects for three six twelve months

get paid uh if load and they're out of there and if you're doing online tutoring around the world you know global reach you can use platforms you you know we've got teams these days we've got zoom we've got skype we've got all these tutoring websites and platforms and portals you can use

technique with people but 100 tutoring coaching teaching whatever that may be that's just it's a skill set that you if you have it fantastic and if you're passionate and have enough experience or subject matter expertise in something

then make the most of it. Make money out of it, yeah? And YouTube, like I said, or Instagram, Facebook, all these platforms, social media platforms, you get so much... channel traffic so much organic traffic that you're going to get customers regardless right you're going to get customers organically as long as you build it right so that's the first one i'm saying get into tutoring coaching whatever that looks like for you

The second one, although it's kind of related to the first one, and I know I said I wouldn't touch on the e-commerce stuff too much, but hear me out. Social media. Now, these days, with the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, uh you know tiktok but depending what happens with that in the u.s i think it's just federal government organizations but anyway

it's the easiest platforms to monetize if you do it right if you have a niche and a sub niche you know something that you're passionate about a topic or an expertise and it's not overly saturated and you can make it unique to you you know you can add your own creative elements know use the blue ocean method and really stand out then this is a fantastic place to start a little like online business it's and it's just you it's your it's your account so

you know you call yourself an influencer call it yourself whatever you want but you've got the elements of affiliate marketing they can pump these revenue streams into your channel initially and then once you get a certain amount of subscribers or followers um that includes youtube then you'll get monetized and then people will start paying you for sponsorships and advertisements and things like that but you know it's why people are doing it because it's so easy to do you can do it at home

time of the day and you're getting subscribers you're getting people viewing your content overnight while you sleep it's all make money where you sleep opportunity you just have to get past the social media presence um negatives or negative connotations that come with it um don't worry about

uh abuse or negativity because it's going to happen at social media if you can get past all of that then it's super simple and it's a really easy journey to start today literally like like right now we all have social media we all have access to phones um

The next one is, you know, I like this one and I was inspired by a young man. uh recently and he his side hustles are doing things in his spare time in the diy realm so whether it's you know um cleaning whether it's renting out cleaning equipment or clean renting out rental equipment rental rental machines

um landscaping and he had a nine to five so he was just doing this all in his own time and he was just hustling yes it was using all his own time but there were side hustles and he was good at it he was good with his hands and he saw the vision the vision was he didn't want to be working 905 his whole life so he wanted to start building these little businesses while he could building them to a point where he could have enough clientele and then hire staff rinse and repeat

and then they just run themselves, right? And that's fantastic. And that's why I think that's a very realistic one for 2024. And it's like, you know... you might work monday to friday but in the weekends you don't really do much with your time so why don't you go do something right like why don't you go do half a day somewhere and

earn some extra money whether it's a part-time job or maybe it's a side hustle like mowing lawns and landscaping and i don't know maybe you're a handyman and you do that stuff in the weekends you've built up and to be fair people do this you know people do people do this already this isn't i'm not a thought leader this isn't

you but this is just like a good side hustle to start if you haven't thought about it you can even go sell like crafts at a local market all you need to do is like pay for a stand um that's there every week and then you can just sell whatever you make whether it's food whether it's crafts whether it's whatever it is right using because i mean how do you think markets are built they're built from people that use it as a side hustle or it's like a business on the side so

food for thought i think that's like a really really good one and really really practical so it's people don't have to be um scared or nervous or i guess um intimidated by the online realm of dropshipping and trying to learn all these like platforms and building up and setting up websites and connections integrations and all that jazz where people just want to keep it simple it's a side hustle

There it is. But you should have a side hustle. That's part of this episode is putting emphasis on that. Like you should have a side hustle in your life because life's expensive now. We're no longer 20, 30 years ago. you know like life's getting more expensive we're not earning that much more money so sad hustles are super important especially if we want to enjoy the little things that we used to enjoy quite easily 15 years ago i remember i remember in like 2013 i was earning

less than half of my salary like less than half of my salary so crazy crazy less and i could still afford in the same year to go overseas twice and one of them would be like a european oa trip i can't even afford that now and i'm earning way more money

do you mean yes people buy homes they have mortgages but even then you have other expenses everyone has expenses in their life whether they're flat they've got groceries insurances just so that's why side hustles are more important than ever now so

The other one is kind of related to the one I just talked about, but it's like a bit more niche related, and that is pet sitting, house sitting, dog walking. I... love this service because i use this service and i need this service it's a must like if i can find someone who will sit my pets like look after my pets my dog my two cats and look after my house while i go overseas with my family

and i don't have to worry about putting them in the cattery or doggery which is like a more expensive and also they don't look after my house so my house is safe that is a fantastic side hustle if i was a teenager or in my early 20s I would have offered to do this. I never did this. I never did this when I was growing up. And I don't know why. Maybe it's. I don't know. Maybe I just wasn't interested in time. I was too busy drinking. And doing other stuff. But.

that is a fantastic side hustle for teenagers young adults in university house it house as much as you can you get to have a house all to yourself you get paid for it you get to walk a cute dog or look after a cute cat and most of the time you can you can set it up with the people that you're house sitting.

you know little things contractually being like okay you have to like provide food for the week you know give me like some money or you know like stock up the fridge in the pantry or you can be like oh you have to leave me a car that i can use you know i mean like you can throw all these extra things into it um to make it

work for you as well so that it's not out of your way so that you can still get to university or to your job and it's not especially if it's like far away let's say it's like 20 minutes out of the city you're just like oh man like that's so out of the way it's not even worth that three or five hundred bucks for that week or maybe it is still but you

You get what I'm saying. Make it worthwhile for you. Because I think it's epic. I love house sitters and I get them often. Especially if they're okay with pets. Because that's like a win-win for me. I don't have to do a cattery. I don't have to do a doggery. And someone looks after my house. And I know it's safe and secure. So. that's a good one i like that one yeah emphasis on that one i think another one is

uh it is in our online space but i guess it's because we're so connected to our laptops and our mobile phones so i have to talk about it and then there's like the virtual assistant um like freelancing space um so you know if you've got any creativity or if you know how to do things or even if you just want to be a virtual assistant for a business after hours or just part-time or just super super super casually you can set that up online on many many many platforms there's like

businesses platforms online that do it um fiverr and upwork are fantastic of getting gigs online and some of them are stupid easy like some of them someone will pay you five bucks just to say their name in a video for like 10 seconds you know like it's it's trivial but it's all cash um and some are a bit more technical and a lot more skilled like for example people want like designs made they want like

print boards done they want um things that they can use for business templates cvs did whatever it may be maybe they want a book written fiverr and artwork are fantastic platforms for that so Yeah, I am going back to the online realm, but it's because I'm using online realms where it's kind of like easy for everyone to get started on. You don't have to learn for weeks or years on how to get good at.

making designs or like automating designs for print on demand or getting really good at etsy with products and learning all the integrations and the drop shipping business models and all that personally for me drop shipping i think is like the last thing i would ever start because it requires startup money regardless of who you talk to um they might say oh no you don't well you have to pay for shopify that's your first startup fund even if you get a free month right

You have to connect it through Oberlo, which is an integration via AliExpress, where all the products are coming from. And yes, the customers pay first, and then things are shipped to them, but...

How do customers find your website? Exactly exactly unless you're really really good at social media, which in the beginning no one is in that sense you have to market it all yourself somehow through facebook twitter otherwise you have to pay for ads you have to advertise the shiz out of your website because no one knows your website exists and you have to do that through google or through facebook and it all costs money

I was listening to a thing the other day and this lady was like, oh, with dropshipping, you know, I wouldn't even start, bother starting a dropshipping store without $2,000 ad, like startup funds.

to start like advertising in the first week two thousand dollars who has two thousand dollars to sit around here alone gamble on some e-commerce business that you're starting these are experienced dropshippers these are people that have rinsed been doing it for like years and rinse and repeating the same model

because it works for them. I wouldn't recommend that to a beginner. Definitely not, yeah? So, and you could argue with me. I'd happy to have the conversation. I've done dropshipping. I understand. The pros, the cons, the challenges, I think it's something that I would do if I was just kind of mucking around and had like a free half a day or free weekend. I'll just build a website, connect it up and throw 500 bucks average revenue down and just see how it goes for a few days.

Um, but yeah, like I said, for a beginner, for an easy side hustle in 2024, it was not my first choice and probably not even my 10th. All right. So what else can you do? apart from the ones i talked about maybe some of them you're like yeah thought about it max yeah thought about that one yep don't know how to start that one yeah or maybe you're like oh man like four four out of five of those epic or three out of four of those epic i don't know i think i've done four

So let's end it on five at five is the one that we can finish on. All right. Writing. Everyone can write. You can write a book. I can write a book. Fiction on fiction.

really simple as well you can either write it on microsoft word or you can write in google docs now i like google docs because google docs is really user friendly in regards to downloading a pdf or a word doc file whichever format you need then you go to a little website called drive to digital and if you did want to get into the print on demand but publishing realm you can publish anything you write short stories long stories full novels non-fiction fiction

whatever it may be, and sell your e-books online through Draft2Digital. Now, I've put a link with Draft2Digital in the description of this podcast. now why draft to digital i read it over kdp well not only does it already publish to kdp and integrate with kdp but it also publishes to like 30 other publishing platforms you've got kobo you've got apple you've got google you've got

All the other ones around the world and Draft2Digital does it all for you without you having to do anything. You don't have to go on 30 websites. You just have to go to one publishing house and that is Draft2Digital. It is free to start. You just write. It doesn't matter how bad it is.

The thing is, most of your e-books that will sell will be sold on these massive online library platforms that only read your book. They don't care about the cover art. They don't care about the... description they just read it and go and it's something for someone who's on a bus on a train or working or at night and they just flip

through if they like the genre if they like the description whatever you've done then they'll read it and that's money in your bank every time someone reads it every someone someone pitches it in the library domain but writing

Now, you can go old school and go writing and apply for a publishing house. Now, it's a bit more of a complex process. You'll need ISBNs and then you obviously need to reach out to publishing houses, but most of the time they will say no. they will say no no i am the first one to say never ever ever give up and never ever ever

like fall for rejection that is just a failure and a failure is a lesson the lesson is a something that you learn you improve you get better each time and you try again but i'm just saying draft a digital publishes your stuff on day one you don't have to worry about being rejected and waiting and trying again and waiting and trying

again just because maybe you want to be with a huge publisher like bird or penguin or whichever one it is that does all the massive books and then you'll be super famous in a week with your books and bookstores but you can actually get that

done through draft2digital as well you can actually make physical books they'll end up in those stores somewhere or another around the world can you imagine that's pretty exciting right now i talk about publishing because publishing has a very close part to my soul i love writing

And I do it now. And I sell books. And these are books that I've written. Just my own imagination. Just things that I think about. Themes, novels. I love the horror thriller space. And that's where I kind of keep my writing interests. And so far it's been fantastic. And I write. I write articles about my experience and I really enjoy it. I really enjoy writing it. Like this, it's an outlet, but it lasts.

you know it's an outlet through different ways you know different ways to express myself through you know non-fiction and fictional writing and i'm making scenarios and just creativity and just i'm putting out all on a page rather it just stays forever in my brain and never sees the light day so i do like publishing i think it is fairly user friendly once you just do a bit of research but let's start by i'll add the link below and see how you go you can go check it out

If it's not for you, it's not for you. But think about the other four. Those are the five I would start. Now, I'm going to give you a bonus one. And once again, e-commerce. Once again, the online realm. But... I love YouTube. YouTube is for me. I was never a YouTuber when I was young. I became a YouTuber in the last three years and I never, never thought in my life I'd say this, but I am now a professional YouTuber. I get paid by YouTube to make content. I monetize on three channels.

And I can do it again because I understand how to do it. Now... why i say youtube because everyone has a phone everyone has a laptop most people do but you don't even need a laptop you just need a phone our phones are so good these days with cameras that can film in 4g and sorry 4k and that is epic quality and you can just post these things whether they're shorts or widescreen full form content full form videos long form videos

youtube is epic now you're not going to get monetized from day one but you can start filming from day one and you can start uploading on day one now mr beast will tell you this i don't have to tell you this but he'll tell you this he's like your videos will be trash from day one and they'll be trash

from day 100 but you need to start and you need to start filming now because you're already behind so if youtube is for you you don't have to show your face but you can start filming once again i talked about it earlier a niche or a sub niche or something that's not on youtube and you think it will be popular because it's not on youtube and you like it you think it's a good hobby or a good

i guess topic to get into then you need to start today youtube is free i love it it's my bonus one for 2024 youtube is not saturated it's only going to get bigger out of all the social media platforms it's the best one if you want to watch tutorials you want to learn new skills

it's epic it's really interactive and it's only getting better it's only evolving whether the other while the other ones are kind of i don't know they've lost the intrigue for me like facebook's just full of trash now if you're on reels instagram reels and facebook reels most of the time it's just bullcrap it's just people making stupid memes and gif videos anyway entertaining but is it making you money is it making you a better person is it teaching you something new food for thought so in 2024

Those are some of the side hustles I would look at if I was starting fresh. If I was starting from day one. I wish I started YouTube 10 years ago, but I didn't. You know, a pet sitting, house sitting, dog walking one. I wish I did that when I was younger. You know, when I wanted to make extra money, but I didn't.

You know, the virtual assistant, the freelancing thing, wish I started that years ago, but I didn't. But you can start it today, whether you're 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, it doesn't matter. Food for thought.

Side hustle can be anything. You can go make crafts at the market. You can go on Facebook Marketplace and slang. Anything you want. I mean, Facebook Marketplace might be an honorable mention, actually, now that I think about it. Everyone has Facebook. Everyone sells stuff on Marketplace. Yes, it can be annoying and tedious at times, but... it's so easy to sell things and it doesn't cost anything to list it doesn't cost anything what you can do is you can go and pick up

things for free yeah there's you can type in free pick up all the free things on facebook marketplace you see value in if you have some decent storage in your garage then you go slang that off for five bucks ten bucks fifteen bucks there you've made profit food for thought that's actually another one

mention facebook marketplace social media is not all bad yeah facebook's not all bad so marketplace definitely has a place in this world and on this list now i think i'll put it as an honorable mention number six anyway i'm max i hope this inspires you if this resonates with you maybe none of it's not new but it's just me talking me reflecting my perspective and my way to vent to the world about my journey i love side hustles

I focus on print on demand, publishing, YouTube, and what else? Ah, investing as well. But investing is a whole nother topic. um you know obviously you know whether it's you you know day trading swing trading just buying stocks holding cryptocurrency do all that jazz but i've done that for a while and that's more that's more long long long term longevity i'm talking about the here and the now the short to medium term what can you start where you can see results

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