15 Side Hustle Ideas for 2024 💸 businesses my friends & I have tried and made it work

in the past four years I've tried nine different kinds of businesses and like side gigs side hustles and two of these side hustles actually brought me to quit my job in 2019 so I've been doing my own thing full time for about three and a half years now if you're thinking of starting a business this year then keep watching because I'm gonna share the nine things I've tried in the past four years and six other business ideas that my friends are doing and they are making money with it the hustles that I share in this video are going to be a combination of passive income streams and also non-passive income streams so we'll start off with the ones that I've tried first so the first one I tried was making a physical product and selling it so the first thing I ever did was when I started my calligraphy business I sold greeting cards I do have another more in-depth video about how I did that so if you're interested in selling greeting cards you can watch that one but at the beginning when I was thinking about starting a side business selling greeting cards was actually the idea that seemed like the easiest thing for me to start because I just kind of wanted to do something so I started off with greeting cards I have some other friends who are selling other kinds of physical products so some examples are bubble tea holders crochet products beauty products clothing and for those ones it's a little bit more difficult to start because you actually have to find Like A supplier or like a manufacturer for those things for me when I started selling green cards I literally went to a print shop and just like printed greeting cards so it really depends like the the kind of physical product you want to sell if it's like a handmade thing obviously it's easier to just start because you just do it in your own house but if your passion isn't something else and you need to look for a supplier or a manufacturer then it is a little bit more difficult to start but but you can totally still do it in the future I do think I want to sell some kind of like a journal so I'll probably have to find like a manufacturer to make the journals or something like that the next thing I tried when I was still working in my nine to five job was teaching calligraphy workshops so if you have a skill and other people are interested in learning it you can totally host your own workshops I do have a video about hosting in-person workshops this one specifically for calligraphy workshops but I do think it'll be helpful if you want to host some kind of creative Workshop maybe a photography Workshop or a how to plant things Workshop to start off you can rent a room or just find a cafe that's willing to host you and you don't really need to find like a very formal place to teach you can basically find your own place the next side hustle idea is freelancing a skill you know so that could be photography video editing writing articles for me I did on-site calligraphy and I also offer wedding calligraphy services and this is a great way to start a business if you already have a skill that you know and you don't have to go out and learn something oh yeah another thing is like teaching languages that's another thing so the next one I tried was actually last year and I only did this for a month but I tried delivering food with ubereats and oh my God it it was such an experience it was really cool to try it out but I honestly don't like it because I don't like driving and I suck at parking but there are so many of these gig economy kind of side hustles that you can try like food delivery taxi services grocery delivery and taskrabbit after I quit my job in 2019 I really wanted to take my calligraphy business from a in-person kind of business to a more online business and that's when I started business coaching so I was specifically helping calligraphers with starting a business so if you've already done something that you know how to do you can coach other people you can teach other people how to do the same thing if you're not really sure if you want to do this or how you can do this you can start by offering like a couple of people free beta coaching packages so I did this at the beginning when I was I had like low self-confidence I didn't know if I could coach people I didn't know if my advice would be helpful so I found three people who wanted to start a calligraphy or an art business and I coached them for free for like a month or two you and then like they actually got results and then I started offering like pay packages from there you can do one-on-one coaching you can do group coaching and then the other thing that a lot of coaches like to do or a lot of people who teach things is once you build an audience you can package your knowledge into a course so that's also what I did and I have a course called the calligraphy instructor Academy which is a course about how to host a calligraphy Workshop it's like very very Niche if you can get a system running or if you have like a big enough audience you could just like make passive income from selling the course for me my calligraphy instructor Academy course it's super super Niche and I don't really sell it passively I wish it's sold by itself I think it's good that I tried I know how to create a course and I think maybe in the future I'll make another kind of course that isn't super duper Niche two years ago I started a YouTube channel and honestly it has been taking so long to get it off the ground like I was I made so many videos and it wasn't until last month that one of my videos like got bigger um the whole time I was doing YouTube I feel like I was just shrugging trudging Trucking along and the growth has been like really slow and steady so I would say if you want to make money YouTube is not the fastest way but I think if you have that passion to like share things with people and you're willing to put in a lot of time and a lot of energy and I'm not saying it's going to take you to like two years it took me like two years to get to a point where I'm like happy but you just don't know how long it's going to take you to get monetized and to build an audience and of course you can do you know don't have to be monetized to make money off YouTube you can have a YouTube channel and sell your course or sell your other services your coaching Consulting but it's really like a labor of love I think you really need to want to do YouTube in order to be consistent and like sustain this because it is a lot of energy the next business I started was an Etsy shop and this I have actually been super duper happy about it's about two and a half months in and I'm making like consistent sales check out these videos if you want to learn more about my Etsy shop but Etsy shops are a great way especially if you sell digital downloads it's more of like a passive income stream you can definitely start like an Etsy shop and sell physical products but starting an Etsy store is really great because everything's kind of in one system like the payment systems and everything and if you have really good SEO then you might not even need to do social media promotion like people can just find your product through the Etsy search the other thing I have is a Blog and it's on my denacolligraphy.com website and that blog is actually not monetized but you can definitely monetize a Blog there are so many people making a full-time income from blogging and there are several ways like you could do Affiliates you can do ads you can use the blog to promote like a product or service that you offer like there's so many ways to monetize a Blog so those are all the things that I have tried myself and I'll give you some other ideas and these are business ideas that my friends or people I know have actually done and they're successful doing them so the first one is social media marketing actually a lot of friends who do like freelance social media management like they help companies or brands or just like other business owners manage their social media like the social media calendar writing captions or like making posts and also doing like strategy work another one is selling books on Amazon so self-publishing books I don't know a lot about it but I think it can be very lucrative if you know what you're doing and if you find a really really good Niche for Amazon self-publishing so the next one is Consulting and I have a couple of friends who are Consulting on the thing that they used to do when they were in a job so I do know somebody who was working in non like the non-profit sector and then um she quit her job and then now she's doing like non-profit Consulting because she already has that experience and now she's just she's doing her own thing but in the same field the next thing is offering the service you learned in your formal education so I have one friend who went to school for um like it was like a counseling program or a therapy program and then I have other friends who are accountants and they worked at accounting firms or they worked in like corporate accounting and they are now taking on their own clients on the side so like helping people do their taxes or bookkeeping and stuff like that next one is flipping things things that you really really like or you have a lot of knowledge about so I have friends who do this in like the fashion worlds and then also friends who are doing it in like the sports cards world I've never done it myself but I I've heard that you can make a lot of money I don't know the next thing which is something I want to do in the future and hopefully this year that's one of my goals for this year is to buy an investment property and like rent it out just like on a monthly basis or do Airbnb so I have friends who are doing this and honestly like I just love the whole Airbnb idea I really want to like design a place and like I love meeting people as well and like helping Travelers so I think that would be really really fun and so honestly like I okay I just gave you like a lot of different ideas and there's definitely so many more ways that you can make money so many different ways so many like basically anything that you're interested in there is a way to make money there are so many things you could do but when you when you actually are trying to start up the thing it actually takes a lot of energy and so much work just to do one thing so if you are thinking about starting something I would say especially if it's like the first business you're starting start with what is the easiest but then also like you should probably have an interest in it like don't do it just for the money or because like you're gonna be doing it for a long time or at least one or two years and if you're not interested then you might just like at the end not want to do it anymore and pivot that's kind of what happened with me um like I I love calligraphy but I knew it wasn't like the full-time thing that I wanted to do this is actually the full-time thing that I want to do is like content creation and like sharing my journey and and like the YouTube and making passive income so the Etsy is really great but the calligraphy that I was doing and also the business coaching I just knew that it was gonna be a stepping stone to where I really want to be and I wouldn't have been able to start my YouTube If I didn't start my calligraphy side business because with YouTube like I just I just never thought I would be a YouTuber because I didn't have the confidence to be on video and I didn't really like how I looked but when I started the calligraphy business I had to do a lot of I did like a lot of Instagram stories with my face in it so I guess I got a lot of practice and because I did that so much and then also when I started the coaching business I I like put myself out there so much and and like all of that helped me build up the confidence to do YouTube so I personally think you should go after your passions but I do understand that some of you might need like Quick Cash um and that's maybe why you want to start a side hustle so if it's for quick cash I would say gig economy or offering a service that you already know like video editing or photography or like teaching something maybe tutoring so those are the easiest ways if you need cash immediately when you start any business yes the business strategy and picking the right business to start is really important but it's also super important to have a entrepreneurial mindset I do have a video about my mindset shifts that I made going from employee to entrepreneurs so check that out if you want to start a business and be in the right mindset [Music]

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Length: 12min 2sec (722 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 27 2023