- And so I checked it out and doing this side hustle
myself, I made over $38,000. Hey, everyone, and welcome back. So today I was inspired to make this video because I checked the news and I saw that inflation has continued to spiral out of control globally. I mean, just take a look at
average gas prices in the USA. Compared to the same time last year, the prices aren't even close. And this wouldn't be so bad maybe if jobs and salaries were keeping up with the skyrocketing prices. The problem is, for most
people, they're not. And so I think that now more of than ever, it is crucial that people not
just rely on a job for money, but that they have their
own source of income in the form of a side hustle, especially a side hustle with
a great earning potential so that one day you can quit your job and say goodbye to your boss forever. But of course, here's the thing. If you don't have enough money just to pay for basic groceries, then there's no way that you're gonna be
able to invest any money into starting up a
business or a side hustle, which is why I was inspired
to create this curated list of the current best side hustles that have high earning potential that also cost no money to start. Yes, no money required. You don't need a hundred dollars. You don't need $50. You don't even need $10. These are 100% free. And as this is a list of the
current best side hustles, I'm gonna be talking about some that I have never talked
about before on this channel. So then let's get started
with the first one. One: publish image-based books. Did you know that it is completely free to list an ebook that you
create on Amazon's KDP and earn money from it? Well, not only is it free, it's also a really passive
way to earn money as well because once you put it up
on Amazon's KDP, that's it. Amazon takes care of the rest for you. You just collect your paycheck. Now, for those of you watching
that are great writers, that's awesome. You can go out there,
you can write your ebook, and you can sell it. But let's be honest,
for most of us watching, we can't write a novel. And so if that is you, don't worry because you can create image-based books. To get started, just come to the beginner-friendly
graphic app, Canva, and register for a free account. The free account comes with a bunch of pictures, shapes, and text that are already installed in it that you can just drag and
drop onto an ebook-sized page to create your own image-based book, such as a workbook or a journal or even a children's book, by using the incredible art already installed in this free app. In this really awesome video here shares how she went from $0 to making over 400 pounds in a single week selling her own image-based
books on Kindle as a beginner. So if you're interested in
starting this side hustle, I highly recommend
checking out this video. Two: create and sell digital downloads. So this is another side
hustle that you can do to take advantage of that
free graphics app, Canva. To get started, just come over to this huge
online marketplace, Etsy. Every year, customers are
buying billions of dollars worth of products on here and one type of product
that customers love is printable crafts. For example, take printable posters, which are super popular. So here's the thing. When a customer comes and
buys this printable poster, they don't actually get a
copy of a physical poster. Instead, they get an automatic email, which contains a link
to a digital download that has the image file for the poster so that they can print it out and create their own DIY poster. And yes, these sell great. Just take that Etsy
digital download store. It sells multiple digital
downloads, not just that poster. Well, using the Etsy research app Alura, it estimates that that store
has made over one million RM, which is over 200,000 US dollars, whoa. Three: create and sell boutique
custom digital products. So here's a way to take their slide hustle and put your own twist on it so that you can supercharge your profits. Now, admittedly, this
hustle is less passive than the other one. However, it has two big pros. Pro number one, it allows
you to stand out more. And pro number two, it lets
you charge much higher prices so that you can make a
lot more money per sale. So here's the thing, instead of creating a
one-off digital product that everybody downloads the same copy of, you instead create a customizable
one like this poster here. And as you can see,
because it's customizable, they have been able to
charge double the price of their other poster because customers can customize it with their names and their wedding date. Well, customizing a digital
product for a customer is really easy. You just quickly pop into Canva and open up your product template and just switch out the text
that the customer gave you. You then just email the customer their own custom digital product and the whole process
takes like five minutes. And as I said, if you're willing to put in
that time of five minutes, your store can make big profits. I mean, just take this
store as an example. It has a range of
customizable digital products, not just that one, and the Alura app estimates that it's made over 600,000 pounds, wow. Four: start a merch line. So up until now, we've been
talking about side hustles that are making people hundreds
of thousands of dollars. So let's ramp things up a bit and talk about a side hustle that can make millions of dollars. So here's the thing, right? Digital products aren't
just popular on Etsy. Nope, classic merch items like mugs and stickers and T-shirts are super popular with Etsy customers. And just how popular, you ask? Well, let's go ahead and take a look at this
example Etsy store here which specializes in baby
merch, like baby T-shirts. Well, according to Alura,
it's made over $7 million. Wow. And the really cool thing is that, as I show in this
YouTube tutorial video here, that you can create, with
the help of a credit card, your very own free Etsy merch store. First up, register for a free print-on-demand
app like Printify. Printify lets you make merch
on demand for customers as they order it and they have a huge range of blank merch items you can sell. Just pick one and upload either
a picture or slogan onto it. Printify will store a copy
of it in their database. Then set up a free Etsy store and add your items you made
within Printify into it. And now you can sell your merch for a marked up price on Etsy. And then each time somebody
buys, say, a T-shirt, Printify's app will
immediately see the order and charge your credit card on file the base cost of that T-shirt. Their print shop will then
automatically print the picture onto the T-shirt, package it up, and ship it out to the customer and you get to keep the
difference as profit. I absolutely love this side hustle, not only because it
can earn so much money, but because the money it
earns is very passive. And if you'd like to find
out how I and others do this to earn passive income every day, you should be sure to
download my free ebook, which I'll have a link to
in the video description. Five: Facebook Marketplace dropshipping. If you don't know what dropshipping is, it's a form of arbitrage. You sell an item for a high price and then when the customer buys it, you purchase it from another store that's selling it for a lower price, and you keep the difference as profit. Now, there is a free way to dropship, which I will show you how to do shortly, but first I'm gonna show
you the traditional way that most people choose to dropship, which, as you will see, is not free. So here's what most people do. First, they come to AliExpress. On AliExpress, manufacturers
of cool viral products sell them one by one
directly to the public. This means that you can
get items super cheap, pretty much at their base cost, because you don't have any
wholesaler marking up the price. Next, they create a Shopify store and list that item for
sale for a higher price and they pay for ads to
advertise it on, say, TikTok. And then when someone buys it, they buy it from the
cheap AliExpress store and have it shipped to
their customer's house while they keep the difference as profit. But course, this traditional
way, it's not free. You gotta pay for a Shopify store. You gotta pay for ads. So here's the way to do it 100% for free. First, you also find a cool
cheap item on AliExpress, but then you do something else. You filter the results to
see USA-based manufacturers. Pick one that ships the
item fast with USPS. Next, come to Facebook's Marketplace, which is free to list items for sale, then create a new listing for
it and price it for a markup and make sure to select a
random USA city to list it in. And now you can sit back and relax and wait for people to purchase the item. And when they do, you
can get the customers to send you the money through PayPal. So this is the free way that
beginners are getting started. And of course, you can
always take your profits and then reinvest them into
opening up your own online store so that you can earn even more money. Six: create viral quiz videos. So about a year or so ago, YouTube released their own
mobile video app, YouTube Shorts, as a competitor to TikTok and, well, to entice users to post their videos to YouTube Shorts and not just TikTok, YouTube created the YouTube Shorts fund, which pays creators up to
$10,000 for posting viral videos. And how it works is pretty simple. Creators upload videos that
they create to YouTube Shorts, and if they go viral and
get a bunch of views, YouTube pays out cash
payments as a reward. Now, of course a bunch
of people are gonna go, "Well, gee, isn't it hard
for my video to go viral if I don't have a million
subscribers like you, Sarah?" And the answer is that it's
actually never been easier to go viral than it is now because you think about it, if you're watching a
standard YouTube video like this one here, they're usually about
10 minutes long, right? And so that means, then, that
to entertain you for one hour, YouTube needs to find just six videos. However, YouTube shorts
are that, they are short. They're on average about 30 seconds long, which means then that for YouTube to entertain you for one hour using their YouTube Shorts app, they need to find 120 videos. That's a lot of videos that
YouTube needs to find, right? And so they will test
pretty much all videos that are uploaded to YouTube Shorts to see if they can go viral, not just videos from established creators. And in my opinion, one of the easiest ways to go viral right now is to create quiz videos such as personality quizzes or
choose your own gift quizzes. Like, you take this YouTube Shorts here. It was uploaded about a week ago and in just one week, it
got over 230,000 views. That's a lot. And something else that's really cool is that you can create your
own quiz videos for free by utilizing the graphic app, Canva, that I've been talking
about in this video, and I show how to do it
in this tutorial video. And the really cool thing is
that you can scale your profits by uploading your videos to
multiple mobile video apps. You can upload your video to TikTok and then earn money from the TikTok creator
cash payout program and then you can upload your
video to Instagram Reels and earn money from their
creator cash payout program too. Seven: create mobile tutorial videos. So I have a hustle where
I'll create video tutorials for apps like Canva and
Shopify on this channel, and in the video description of them, I will place my affiliate link for them. If somebody clicks on it and then purchases a
paid version of the app, I get an affiliate commission. And so while I was making this video, I wondered, how much money
did I make last month in affiliate commissions? And so I checked it out and doing this side hustle
myself, I made over $38,000. But of course, a lot of people see this and they go, "Sarah, that's not fair. You have a ton of subscribers. I have no subscribers. If I tried do this, I
would make no money." And to those people, I say, "Did you know that this is how I made my first $10,000 on YouTube?" Yep, back before I had
a million subscribers, I was creating tutorial videos
for apps like this one here which showed how to set
up a store with Shopify. Well, despite the fact that I made that video over five years ago when I had very few subscribers, within months of posting that video, I was earning thousands of dollars a month in affiliate commissions. Now, I'll admit that creating
a big tutorial video like that is a lot of work, but luckily, thanks to mobile videos, it's so much easier to get
started with this side hustle. Like, take this TikTok video here. As you can see, they just use their phone to film a quick short little tutorial showcasing a Shopify hack. Eight: start a boutique
drop service agency. Drop servicing is a great side hustle to get into for two reasons. The first reason is, as I will show you, this can be a recession-proof hustle. And the second reason is because if you have
access to a credit card, you can do this 100% for free. So here's the thing, if you head on over to Fiverr where it's free to list a
service as a gig for sale, you will see that there
are lots of agencies that are crushing it doing this. For example, take this gig here, which sells YouTube thumbnails. Well, as the description states, this is not a single graphic designer. This is a team of freelancers
in the form of an agency. So the way that these agencies work is honestly really basic. First, they come to Fiverr and they create a free gig listing for a service like
YouTube thumbnail design and then when they get a sale, they'll head on over to Upwork where they will hire a graphic designer specializing in, say,
YouTube thumbnail designs for a fraction of the price. They'll then hire them to make a thumbnail for their customer, and if they have a credit card, they'll use that to pay the freelancer. The agency owner will
then come back to Fiverr and take that thumbnail and send it off to the customer and complete the Fiverr gig and get the money that the customer paid. They'll then use that money to pay off their credit
card well before it's due and then they'll keep the rest as profit. And I say that drop servicing can be a recession-proof business model because even though there is
a current economic downturn, a very important customer of drop servicing agencies is
thriving, content creators. Take TikTok, for example. Despite the economic downturn, TikTok continues to grow and
grow and get bigger and bigger. And so you think about it, right? TikTok content creators,
they need lots of services. They need video editing,
captions, account management, and all of these services that they need, they can be drop serviced. And so targeting content creators on apps like TikTok,
YouTube, and Instagram is a great way to take
advantage of the current boom. Yay. So then, did my video inspire you? If it did, please subscribe and click that little notification bell so that you don't miss
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