Are you looking to earn some side money, but you’re not sure how?
Well, that’s where I come in!
I’ve been hunting down legitimate ways to earn side money for years and sharing these tips with family and friends.
Sometimes the side hustles I talk about require some start-up money, such as selling on Amazon FBA, but I’ve rounded up ten side hustles you can start this weekend with no money.
Design Custom Products With No Upfront Costs
You can download Gimp for free and start designing shirts and more this weekend. I use this, but I want to upgrade to a more professional version. If you have something like Photoshop, well you could make much faster and cooler graphics. But alas, GIMP is free.
- Sun Frog Shirts
- Tee Spring
- CafePress
- Zazzle
- Merch By Amazon (They have a waiting list due to overwhelming responses, it took me three months to get in, but worth it since they advertise for you!)
Start Pinning Affiliate Pins On Pinterest
Last year Pinterest started allowing people to add affiliate links to their pins again. That means you can make money without a blog by pinning affiliate links on Pinterest.
Not sure how to do this? Check out this post on How To Make Money On Pinterest With Affiliate Links.
- Canva.com to make your images, it’s free, but they do have a paid version.
Related: How To Start A Blog And Make Money From Home, The Complete Tutorial
Become A Pinterest Virtual Assistant
One online side hustle that is growing by leaps and bounds is a Pinterest Virtual Assistant (VA) to bloggers.
Pinterest has become a huge traffic source for many bloggers. As their business grows, so do their tasks and their need for someone to manage them.
If you are familiar with Pinterest, then Canva.com is a great place to make Pinterest Pins for bloggers.
And there are several Facebook groups out there where you can pick up tips and even find VA work:
Keep in mind that Virtual Assistants are not just for Pinterest. To learn more, check out this post about How To Become A Virtual Assistant by Amy Lynn Andrews.
There are formal VA (Virtual Assitant) programs out there if you are not familiar with Pinterest:
Design Easy Logos And Sell Them
If you are artistic, then think about using a design program, like Gimp, Photoshop, or also Adobe Illustrator and offer to design simple logos.
I know many bloggers who have utilized the services below for a simple logo design for their blog. Create a few examples to showcase and let the clients come to you.
- Fiverr
- Creative Market
- Design Cuts
Write and Publish Your First E-book For Free
If you’re good at writing and telling stories or you are knowledgeable in a specific area, then you should think about publishing an e-book.
I’ve seen some how-to guides about year-round gardening online that were less than 60 pages but sell all year continuously. Talk about passive income 🙂
- CreateSpace (owned by Amazon but you can list your book on other sites too!)
- Kindle Direct Publishing by Amazon (will only be sold on Amazon)
Start A Drop Shipping Business
Try to open an online store. However, you won’t stock or own any inventory. Create a Shopify store and combine it with something like Oberlro. When your store sells a product listed, you will then purchase the item from a third party and ship it directly to the customer.
Check out The Ultimate Guide to Dropshipping.
- Shopify (Two weeks FREE Trial)
- Oberlo (Free until you start getting a large number of customers, then you will need to upgrade to a paid plan)
Get Paid To Take Surveys
These are by far some of the easiest side-hustles to start, along with 13 Easy Ways To Make Money With Your Smartphone.
Rent Things Out
Don’t forget about things you already have lying around the house or your garage that you can rent out to make money. Heck, you can even rent out a room or even the house.
I know someone that rents out their driveway for parking when there is an event going on near their house. But you could rent out something simple like a tool.
- Craigslist
- Loanable
- Peer Renters
- Zilok
- Air BnB room/house
Here is a great post that will give you some ideas on what to rent: 13 Surprising Things You Can Rent For Cash.
Flip Your Items
Every year I do a round-up of stuff during spring cleaning and list stuff online for extra cash. Heck, we bought new furniture recently, and I sold our old stuff on Facebook local in less than 24 hrs- my husband was impressed.
- Bonanza
- eBay
- Amazon
- Facebook Marketplace- Local
Here is a complete guide to flipping you can check to help you get started.
So now that you have some knowledge get out there and make some money.
If you can think of other NO-cost ways to make money, then give me a shout-out in the comments.
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Thank you for this post, I really appreciate your experience and suggestions, I look forward to where this takes me. I know your blog is gonna be great.
Thank you so much for your comment and encouragement. I wish you all the best on your endeavors.
Trusting someone with your project is like taking a big leap of faith and I am happy that I did it with PinPinterest as in the last few months; I have seen a good number of followers turning up on my page. Earlier, I’ve tried several ‘market famous’ tools like Tailwind and BoardBooster, but was disappointed by each one of them. PinPinterest is different… The best thing that I like about PinPinterest is that it has this amazing algorithm that is so intelligent that it picks out the right kind of images which are relevant to my website i.e., http://TravelMagma.com and pins it into my account automatically.
It has got speed control settings too & I am able to control the speed with which I want it to run. Interestingly enough, it runs on cloud so I didn’t have to download it on my PC even… and the best part is the accessibility and the flexibility of opening this on my cellphone which is like the real time feed… 🙂
Thanks for the info Masterix Simon.