In a PIX11 morning‑news interview, Ash Exantus of BankMobile outlines seven actionable side‑hustle strategies for earning extra cash. He starts with selling items you already own or picking up free curb‑alert items and reselling them on platforms like Craigslist. He then recommends monetizing personal skills—voice‑overs, drawing, video editing, personalized phone greetings—through freelance marketplaces such as Elance, Fiverr, and Craigslist. Exantus suggests creating online courses and selling them on Skillshare, Udemy, or Teachable. He introduces the Field Agent app, which pays users to complete errands and photo‑tasks for clients. He highlights babysitting/childcare, especially for parents needing evening care. Finally, he explains how individuals with any level of social‑media presence can act as brand ambassadors, getting paid by companies (including BankMobile) to promote products. Throughout, he provides concrete platform names, explains the basic mechanics, and emphasizes the low‑barrier, flexible nature of each option.
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Time now is 6:56, and okay, could you use some extra cash? Uh, yeah, I could, you could, all of us could, right? Well, maybe the answer is getting your side hustle on. We have Ash Exantus from BankMobile joining us with some ideas on how to make a little extra cash on the side. What's going on, man?
Pretty good, pretty good. It's the art of the side hustle.
All right, all right, so you're breaking it down for us. You say selling is a good place to start.
Oh, absolutely. When you think about the, the stuff that we have in our house where we might have bought on impulse that are good, but we want to that we're not doing anything with, we can sell those. We can sell our services. When you think about places like Elance, Craigslist, Fiverr.com, where you can sell, if you have a good voice, if you have a voiceover, or if you are good in drawing, you can sell those services.
Okay, sell your voice. Okay, how about selling freebies? What's that about?
I think that's something that people don't realize. If you go to Craigslist now, there's a lot of curb alerts or free items that people are just giving away that are in great shape. So you can actually make a side hustle by picking those things up, making sure you dust them off and sell them back on Craigslist.
That's brilliant. You take free stuff, you sell it, and then you make money.
Absolutely.
I hadn't thought of that one before. Okay, now you say here, this says sell yourself. Now hold up, Matt, hold up. Sell yourself? What are you talking about?
No, no, not in that way. You know, again, if you have skills that people are looking for, you're able to sell those skills and be able to make a profit from those skills.
Okay, you say teach online, so where do you even go to teach online?
Oh man, that's a lucrative business. When you think about sites like Skillshare, Udemy, teachable.com, they allow you to record videos and sell, you know, your expertise. And there are a lot of, you know, some top experts that make a lot of money doing that.
You just mentioned 3 sites I'd never heard of before, but I think people will be looking into. Skillshare, Udemy, and teachable.com. Check them out. All right, what's a field agent?
So, a field agent is actually an app where you can actually, if you download the app, you can actually get paid to run errands for clients. So, there's things like taking photos, there's things about, you know, going to a shop and talk about your experience. There's so many different things that you can do, and it's pretty good money just to run errands for clients.
Okay, watching children, babysitting.
Oh, that is huge, right? Because when you think about, you know, babysitting during the day, but what about those parents that want to go out who have busy schedules? And, you know, I know my wife My wife and I would love to pay for a service where we can go out and make sure we have reliable childcare at night. It gets tough.
Absolutely. Going out, it gets very tough. I'll just tell you that. All right, and then being a brand ambassador.
Yeah, a brand ambassador. If you have whether a small social media presence or a large one, there are brands out there that will actually pay you for your influence. Even BankMobile, our company, we pay people to spread the word about our app. So it's definitely something that you could take advantage of. Just use your influence to spread the word and companies will pay you.
Be Kim Kardashian to make money on social media.
Absolutely not. Absolutely not.
Ash Exantus, you're really informing us here from BankMobile. Thanks so much for all of the tips. And by the way, we're going to have more of his suggestions on our PIX11 app on the morning news tab. A lot of apps, a lot of names we mentioned, they'll all be online.
