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369+ Ideas to earn extra money on the side
Increase your salary
- Negotiate a pay rise
- Seek an internal promotion
- Ask for overtime work
- Earn additional bonuses
- Working during holidays and weekends
- Backfill someone in the same organization
- Find a dream job elsewhere
- Transitioning back to work after break
- Negotiate your regular bill payments
- Reduce your expenses
Freelancing
- Administration services
- Cooling and heating systems cleaner
- Animal care and services
- Animal grooming
- Animal masseuse
- Animal photography
- Animal trainer
- Animations creator
- Answer questions
- Antenna services
- Antique refurbishment
- Appliance repairs
- Aquarium cleaning
- Babysitter
- Bag making
- Bartending or Waiting Tables
- Beautician / home beauty / make-up
- Become a micro worker
- Bicycle delivery
- Bicycle repairs
- Birth doula
- Birthday party planner
- Boat cleaning
- Book reviewer
- Bookkeeper
- Bridal consultancy services
- Broker
- Business plan writer
- Busker
- Call center agent / representative
- Canteen operator
- Car flipper (buy and sell)
- Car log-book service and mechanic
- Car washing and detailing
- Career advisor / coach
- Caregiving
- Carpenter services
- Carpet and upholstery cleaner
- Cash back for shopping
- Caterer / meal deliverer
- Chat agents
- Chef
- Child entertainer
- Childproofing
- Child reading scorers
- Children’s photographer
- Cleaning services for homes and businesses
- Coach – business or personal
- Commission-only sales
- Comper
- Computer cleaner
- Computer trouble-shooter
- Consultant for businesses
- Content marketer
- Counseling – college / university
- Courier / delivery service
- Court researchers
- Customer service
- Data analysis
- Data entry
- Database administrator
- Dating Consultant
- Debt collector
- Deck maintenance service
- Delivery person
- Dessert making
- Dietician
- Digital forensic service
- Digital media conversion
- Disc jockey
- Dog walker
- Domain names flipper (buy and sell)
- Dressmaker (alterations, sewing and tailoring)
- Driver for Uber, Lyft
- Driving instructor
- Drone operator
- Electronic repairs
- Engraving service
- Event planner or coordinator
- Exercise instructor, personal fitness trainer
- Face painter
- Fashion / image consultant
- Field agent
- Finder – Antique and rare items
- Florist
- Forex trader
- Funeral coordinator
- Furniture maker, restorer and repairer
- Gardening services
- Gifts consultant
- Graffiti cleaner
- Graphic designer / desktop publisher
- Green consultant
- Greeting card writer
- Grocery shopper
- Gutter cleaner
- Hairstylist
- Handyman
- Help a person with disabilities
- Help others start websites
- Help people stay on their meds
- Home appraisal
- Home day-care provider
- Home health aide
- Housesitter
- Human Billboard
- Indoor plant care service
- Information security consultant
- Insurance agent
- Interior decorator and designs
- Internet / online researcher
- Internet marketing consultant
- Interpreter or translator
- Ironing and laundry services
- Jingles creator
- Junk removals
- Law / legal practitioner
- Leaflet distributing
- LED light bulb replacement service
- Lifeguard
- Living Statue
- Market researcher
- Marketing and promotion consultant
- Marriage coaching/ counseling
- Massage therapist
- Matchmaking service
- Meal planner
- Medical biller
- Migration advisory and services
- Mobile / vehicle advertiser
- Mobile foot massage
- Mobile oil change
- Mobile party entertainer
- Modelling
- Moderate forums
- Mortgage broking service
- Movers
- Mow lawns, rake leaves or shovel snow
- Musician
- Nail studio
- Newspaper and magazine delivery
- Notary public
- Nutritionist
- Occupational therapist
- Packing / unpacking service
- Painter
- Personal organizer / housekeeper
- Pet models and actors
- Pet party planner
- Pet photography
- Pet shows and competitions
- Pet sitter
- Pet taxi driver / transporter
- Phone case business
- Photographer
- Picture framing
- Pop-up restaurant or cafe
- Pose for art classes
- Pregnancy fitness instructor
- Pregnancy photographer
- Product demonstrator (supermarkets)
- Productivity coach
- Project manager
- Property maintenance
- Property sourcing for investors
- Public speaking
- Receptionists
- Referee
- Remote / virtual worker
- Remote technical support
- Resume writer
- Search engine optimization consultant
- Search the web and get paid
- Secret / mystery shopper
- Senior citizen assistance / senior companion
- Shoemaker
- Shoe repair
- Social media expert / jockey
- Software engineer
- Sports coach
- Spy at the mall
- Stress management service
- Styling and staging houses
- Swimming pool maintenance
- Tablet/ smartphone repair service
- Take your sports sponsorship to the next level
- Tattooing service
- Tax preparer
- Theatre checkers
- Toner cartridge refill service
- Tour guide
- Transporter – School, aged care, appointments
- Travel consultant
- Tree pruner, cutter, removals
- T-Shirt designer
- T-Shirt printing
- Upholstery repairs
- Video producer
- Virtual assistant
- Voice-over actor
- Website design
- Website development
- Website maintenance
- Websites flipper (buy and sell)
- Window cleaner
- Window/mural painting/sign writing
- Yoga / meditation instructor
- YouTube star
Sell things
- Baking at home
- Collect bottles and cans for deposit
- Connect buyers with suppliers
- Espresso or coffee cart
- Help job-seekers find better jobs
- Herb farming
- Licensed product distributor
- Make and sell custom-made furniture
- Make and sell food
- Make and sell toys
- Sell your art
- Sell your beer
- Sell your CDs, DVDs, games
- Sell your eggs and chickens
- Sell your gold and silver
- Sell your hair
- Sell your handmade craft, jewelry, soap, etc
- Sell your music
- Sell your old electronics
- Sell paper mache
- Sell your photos
- Sell animal clothing and accessories
- Sell art
- Sell balloons
- Sell bottled water and food
- Sell clothing
- Sell coffee and tea
- Sell shoes
- Sell designer linen, towels, and shower curtains
- Sell educational products
- Sell games
- Sell gardening supplies and tools
- Sell handmade chocolates
- Sell hand bands, hair bands and ribbons
- Sell hats
- Sell kitchen utensils
- Sell mugs
- Sell personalized gifts
- Sell pet travel accessories and toys
- Sell phone and tablet cases
- Sell puzzles
- Sell quilts
- Sell ready-made craft kits
- Sell T-shirts
- Sell tote bags
- Sell woodwork
- Skin care products business
Sharing economy
- Bed and breakfast
- Rent out your spare room, unit, or house
- Rent out your house for a movie shoot
- Rent out your car
- Rent out your truck or trailer
- Rent out your car park
- Rent out your parking space for events
- Rent out your garden for functions
- Rent out your shed for storage
- Rent your bike, snow sports, or any other gear
- Rent your clothing
- Rent out your music instruments and studio
- Rent out land for caravan, camping space
- Rent out your office space
- Rent out yourself as a friend
- Rent out your creative dummy cake
Teach others
- Art teacher
- Cooking training
- Computer training and lessons
- Craft teacher
- Dance instructor
- Kidpreneur teacher
- Language tutor
- Music teacher
- Teach DIYs
- Teach online courses
- Textbooks seller
- Tutoring (off-line and on-line)
- Small business trainer
- University notes seller
Tell your opinion
- Accommodation and area reviewer
- Focus groups and market research
- Food reviewer
- Mobile apps review
- Review and recommend things
- Search engine evaluation
- Software reviewer
- Songs reviewer
- Surveys (online)
- Website reviewer
Write
- Copywriter
- eBook writer and publisher
- Editor
- Grant writer
- Listing writer
- Press release writer
- Proofreader
- Scrapbook maker
- Slideshow / presentation maker
- Slogan writer
- Speechwriter
- Stories seller
- Transcriptionist
Bricks and mortar
- Coin laundry, or laundromat
- Café
- Pop up shop
- Vending machine operator
Online business
- Affiliate marketing
- Application developer
- Application tester
- Become a WordPress designer or developer
- Blog publishing / writer
- Build a Chrome (or web browser) extension
- Build custom software
- Create a directory website
- Create a paid membership website
- Earn royalties from creative assets
- Game shop
- Gaming
- Internet and social media marketing
- Marketing and selling games
- Mobile application development
- Monetize your website
- Monetizing a gaming blog
- Network marketing
- Patent, trademark and copyright services
- Playing games
- Produce unique gaming tutorials
- Review and recommending games
- Sell digital products you’ve made (or acquired)
- Sell physical products online
- Sell services online
- Testing games
Investing
- Earn interest on your savings
- Investing in real estate properties
- Buy and hold property strategy
- Negatively geared property strategy
- Positively geared property strategy
- Cash flow positive property strategy
- Buy property to renovate property strategy
- Partnerships and syndications property strategy
- Property subdivision and development property strategy
- Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Investing in paper assets
- Investing and owning shares in a company
- Investing in mutual or managed funds
- Investing in bonds
- Investing in currencies
- Investing in options
- Peer-to-peer money lending
- Investing in commodities
- Investing in precious metals
- Investing in commodity futures
- Investing in commodity-related shares