6 Best Side Hustles To Make Money Instead of Gig Work

If you're not making money on the side, you need to start making it now. Look, inflation is rising, prices of stuff are going through the roof and the future doesn't look very promising. That's why in today's video, I'm going to share with you six side hustles, six digital side hustles, at least that you can start making money on right away without spending a single dime. Yeah, that's right. I'm going to show you six different methods for you to start earning, let's say 1000, 2000, 3000, $5000 every single month without investing in anything. And you can start making money right away. So if you never want to worry about money again, watch through this whole video and let's dive in. So method number six, we're going to count backwards is copywriting. I don't know how to spell that. Copywriting with R or W. Drop in the comments. What's the right way to spell it? But you know, think about this. What's the first thing you learned how to do at school? Was it public speaking? Was it organization? Was it how to code and develop? No, it was writing. It was one of the first things you learned in school. You learned your ABCs. And so why don't we put that to good use and you can start getting paid to copyright. Great thing about copywriting is it's a high income skill. There are copywriters out there taking a healthy six figure income from home by copywriting. And I believe strongly in this cause I pay these guys, I pay copywriters. And so if you're someone who learns how to do this and you become good at it, shoot me a message. Hey Dylan, I'm good at copywriting. I saw your video. Number six method of a digital side hustle was copywriting. And let's see what we can do together. Send me a sample. But really before we talk too much about what copywriting is, because when someone told me there do copy as literally the acronym people say I write copy, I was so confused. I was couldn't understand like what does that mean? Like what do you mean you do copy? But copywriting is one of the most critical elements of all forms of marketing and advertising is the process of basically writing persuasive and promotional language inside writing. So some examples of this would be like we call a sales page in marketing. It's basically a landing page. It could be a website, it could be emails. But what you're doing is you're taking someone from when they first see the page, right? An eyeball, let's say some eyeballs and a somewhat happy person. And you're taking them through the process of understanding what the company does and at the end of the day making a purchasing decision. And that's what copywriting does, is you understand what the person's needs are and you help provide them answer the needs of the way and have them buy. It's a really, really high end skill that if you can go out there, you can actually charge clients thousands of dollars every single month for this service. Or you could go out and get hired by a company full time to work for a good income. Now here's the thing about copywriting is you don't have to make it a full time thing. You don't have to do this day in and day out in order to just make a little bit of money, let's say 2 to 5k per month. All you have to do is simply learn how to write copy and you can learn this on YouTube and you can become what's called a freelance copywriter. And so what you do is you can go out and you can actually help businesses acquire more customers and make more sales with the words you're saying. What is a new customer worth to a company? Sometimes they're worth a plastic surgeon. One new customer can be worth tens of thousands of dollars. And chiropractors, doctors, dentists, same thing. And so if you're able to drive even one or two new customers a month, they're going to pay you a lot of money. And so that's the first method we're talking about today, which is copywriting. All right, now that takes us to the fifth method we're going to talk about today, which is freelancers. You can see I actually made the note right here. So freelancers number five is freelancing. So yeah, copywriting, you can be a copywriting freelancer. But freelancing is its own way for you to make a really good amount of money as a side hustle, all digitally. And it's become a massive part of not only the American workforce, but but the global workforce. In fact, in 2020 there was a study that said there was 59 million Americans that freelance that year alone. And yeah, that was the year of COVID but that's 36% of the country that has been doing some kind of freelancing. And the number of freelancers is continuously growing. And in 2028 it's estimated to reach over 90.1 million people. That's a massive amount of the US workforce. Now the average rate of freelancers in the US they make anywhere from $28 per hour all the way up. Now, obviously that's the average, so there's many making less as many making more. But if you could be making $28 an hour from home as a side hustle in your spare time, would that be worth it? Look, these facts alone are expected to get more people across the globe leaving their office in search of remote work. And no matter if you're someone who can do web development, graphic design, you're a writer, an artist, your skill set, something you're good at, can be a job that people around the world, companies around the country and the world are looking for. And businesses need what you have, no matter what it is. Again, if you are good at picking up the phone and ordering a pizza, you have a skill set that people could use. You know, there's just chat, support roles, and there's. If you're an artist, you can actually use your art for people looking for it. And so take your skill set, identify what you can do, what you can offer. Web development is an option as well. Heck, you can go learn that in a course on Google. They have Google courses. You can learn how to do these things for free and start doing them right away. And so here's three platforms. Once you identify your skill, right? So what are you actually providing? That's the first step. Then you can take your skill and you can take it to a platform and advertise it. There's three, three main ones. Upwork, I'm not going to write them all. Fiverr and freelance. Freelancer.com and so you can list your skill set on the platforms and you can make an average of $28 per hour doing these things. All right, with that said, let's talk. Talk about number four here. And number four, let's use this color is YouTube. So what is YouTube? Well, there's people out there making literally millions of dollars just from YouTube channels. And you don't have to make crazy content like Mr. Beast. You don't have to stand in front of an airplane and give away millions of dollars. There's ways for you to do it as a side hustle with YouTube. And so there's two ways I kind of look at YouTube. There's the passion. If you guys have a notepad or your phone around, I would definitely encourage you to take notes. But you're gonna do a passion channel or you can do a topic channel. And so you can start a channel about something you're passionate about. And if you don't like being in front of the camera. You don't even have to show your face. There's ways for you to actually start faceless channels. You can do that with whiteboard videos where people do the video. You can hire someone else to do the videos. It's a really simple process. Keep in mind, YouTube isn't like, hey, let me start making money this month, this week, whatever. It's a long term process. But if you want to make money over a long period of time, YouTube can be a side hustle. So yeah, that's your first option. You can do a passion, let's say you're passionate about soccer or, you know, some sport. You can make a channel just talking about that or a topic. And so a topic would be you can actually take something like credit cards. Let's say you have some knowledge about credit cards and you want to make a little bit of note about it or content about it. And so you can actually make content like, hey, here's the best five video or best five credit cards to apply for. You won't be able to read that, but that's okay. That's my notes, not yours. But that's what you can do is you can make a channel about stuff you're passionate about or a topic that, that you can research and make money from. And here's the ways you can monetize it. Okay, I'm going to give you guys a couple methods real quick. So if it's a passion project, well, you can in the future sell things like courses you can make money from ad revenue, sell your own merch. There's a million ways to monetize. But with this being, you know, your passive income stream that you're making and building over time, not only will you make money short term, but you also have the ability to make money long term. All right, now let's go to number three and method number three. Here again, we're counting down. Don't get scared when I say this. It's a five letter word that scares many people called sales. Let me ask you, are you a people person? Like when you go out, are you someone that people look at and they say, hey, you know, you'd be great at sales, or you're great at talking, or you love being around people. If so, sales as a side hustle might be right for you. In today's day and age, you can become a virtual salesperson for companies all over the world and work on commission. And what's amazing is these companies actually send you leads send you deals, they will actually book your calendar. You give them a link with times that you're available and they'll put interested people on your calendar for you. And all you have to do is pick up the phone, educate them about a product, and you can get paid big money to the tune of 80k all the way to $250,000 per year. Doing this as a side hustle and eventually, you know, if it's good money, you like to do it, it's something you could grow to doing full time, but you don't necessarily have to jump into it full time straight out of the gate. And so when I say that they will literally book interested people on your calendar. I misspelled calendar. That's only one L there. But when I say this, the question is, Dylan, how do you know this? Well, I do this. I have sales reps in my companies and we do just this. We book interested people on their calendar and they get on the call, educate them about the product we sell and if they make a deal, they get a cut of it. And so, you know, commission varies. It can be for higher end products, it could be, you know, as little as 3% or in some cases the companies pay, you know, 10, 20, 30% commission. So if you sell $100,000 deal, you know, you can see the math on that. You can start making good money real quick. And all you have to do is partner up with someone who is already doing this and you just sit there, wait for meetings to come to you and close deals. Now obviously it sounds a little bit too good to be true and the reality is like, hey, there is a learning curve to this. You have to understand the product, the company, what they're selling. But this is a great way for you to actually develop a really good side hustle digitally from home. Alright, with that said, I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is I've got two more side hustle opportunities for you. Just wait till you see. Number one is my absolute favorite. The bad news is, is I already shot this segment but my audio didn't record, so I'm shooting it again. The board has been cleaned and we're gonna just dive into it. So number two, the second best method is coaching. Now before you come and yell at me and say, dylan, I don't have any skill set to coach, I want you to understand that the coaching industry is worth over $15 billion right now and is growing every single year. Now anybody can be a coach. The important thing here is that everybody needs knowledge. The thing is, when you're coaching, coaches are helping other people become better with the knowledge they know. Even waking up early and waking up on time, being good with your schedule. These are skill sets that can be taught or having a better breathing, like learning breath work. There are people out there that are willing to pay hundreds of dollars a month or you know, one time for a course or a program that helps them better themselves. And you don't have to be a certified life coach or have a degree in this knowledge. If you are good at something and have knowledge to share, then you can help other people. And if you can get them from point A to point B, you can pay for this. And so identify the skill that you can offer to a target market. Let's say you love yoga and you've been doing it for a long time now. Awesome. Even if you're not the best, you're probably ahead of most people. One of the things that stops a lot of people from actually going out there and doing coaching and consulting is they have this almost like imposter syndrome. They don't believe that they're good enough or don't have the knowledge to share. But if you've been doing something or have some skillset, you can help people better their life by sharing it. And there's a lot of different ways you can monetize it. You can create a course, right? You can sell one on one coaching. Not a huge fan of that. But you can talk about it in other videos and you can do group coaching as well. Or you could do a mastermind. You could offer an in person mastermind where people actually come out and, and they learn from you in person. And so that's coaching. Now there's a lot of people out there. There's gurus, Lamborghini gurus I like to call them, who teach on stuff that they don't know. As long as you're not sitting here promising that you're a massive expert or like you made billions of dollars, whatever it is, you don't have to worry about it. Like if you're just saying, hey, I'm a regular person, I'm coming at it and I'm showing you how to build this. I'm a little further ahead than you. I might not be perfect. You're in a good spot. The thing is where people go wrong is when they try to pretend they're 10 steps ahead of where they actually are. Same thing as me, same thing on the things I teach on. Which takes us to number one. My favorite method for you to make a side hustle income and monetize off it is number one, an agency. So what is an agency? Well, whether you want to build a business like I've been able to, that's doing millions of dollars a year or just make a little cash on the side, agency can be the business model for you. You can start with literally $0 and scale it to you're making whatever you want. To make hundreds of thousand dollars a month is very realistic. If you follow steps, put time in over a period of time, great thing is just starting out, you can go find one client and you can be making a few hundred bucks a month on one client. You don't even have to do the knowledge, know how to do the fulfillment. All an agency is is you finding someone who has a need and then you're finding, you're finding someone who needs that to like this and you're bridging the gap and getting paid for it. And for me, I have business owners that need clients and I have clients out there that want what the business provides. And so when I take the customer connecting with the business owner and I get paid for being in the middle, as simple as it is, that's what an agency does. And everyone's always going to need more clients, always going to need more money. And so why not pick the best opportunity ever where you can make money time and time again. And all you have to do is find someone who can offer a service. Maybe you could offer it web design, graphic design. You can use canva for graphic design to make logos. Nowadays it's simple to do. You can do social media management, post content. There's business owners out there who don't know how to use social media platforms, but they know they have to. And so why don't you come in as a solution that shows them what they know they got to do but they can't do. And if you're thinking, hey Dylan, starting an agency, how's that free? Isn't there cost in the software, the recruiting, all that stuff? Yeah, there's going to be things that come up over time, but you can get started with $0. You just start by delivering services to clients and hire someone to fulfill those services. And you don't have to spend time on acquiring these new customers because there's dozens of ways to do it, which you can learn by the way in my free ebook below, linked in the description to my free ebook. So that's it for today's video. If you guys enjoyed this right we talked about six methods here. Number six again, was copywriting. You can be a copywriting pro. And number five, we talked about freelancing, getting paid to be a freelancer for chicken scratch writing here. We did talk about starting a channel on YouTube, making money that way. Three was the scary sales of selling online. Number two was coaching. And number one, running an agency. If you guys like this video, go ahead and hit the subscribe button. 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