261+ Ideas to sell your services

If you are serious about making money on the side, use existing online marketplaces listed below and immediately offer your services to the world in addition to job-sites and bulletin boards.

• 99designs – An online graphic design marketplace that includes logo design, web design and other design contests that connects talented freelance designers with creative people, entrepreneurs, and businesses.
• Amazon Mechanical Turk – A marketplace that gives businesses access to a diverse, on-demand, scalable workforce. It gives you a selection of thousands of tasks to complete whenever it’s convenient.
• Angle – A marketplace for startup jobs.
• Behance – An online platform to showcase and discover creative work.
• CloudPeeps – Platforms that connect trusted freelancers and professional service providers with top clients.
• Contently – A network of 100,000+ freelancers that do great content marketing.
• Coroflot – A website that helps designers do great things.
• Craigslist (various) – A classified advertisement website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, items wanted, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums.
• Crowdsource – A website that provides people with on-demand access to a skilled and scalable workforce.
• Envato Studio – A website that is geared toward designers, developers, photographers, illustrators, and producers.
• Fiverr – Get paid $5 (or more) for your creative gigs in graphics and design, digital marketing, writing and translation, video and animation, music and audio, programming and technology, advertising, business, and fun and lifestyle.
• Flexjobs – A platform that advertises telecommuting jobs, part-time freelance jobs and contract work that fit your lifestyle.
• Freelancer – A website with thousands of jobs from web design, mobile app development, and product manufacturing, to graphic design and data entry.
• Gigbucks offers a free and easy to use platform for freelancers and talented people from all walks of life to offer their services priced from $5 to $50 per gig.
• Guru – A place for employers and freelancers to connect, collaborate, and get work done.
• LinkedIn – The ProFinder service helps companies hire top local professional freelancers.
• Microworkers – A marketplace to work and earn, or offer micro-jobs.
• Monster – A global online employment solution for people seeking jobs and for employers who need great people.
• People Per Hour – A platform that gives business access to thousands of trusted freelance experts who can work flexibly from anywhere.
• Remote – Jobs for remote workers.
• Snagajob – An hourly marketplace that connects workers and employers.
• Textbroker – A freelance site for writers and produces articles and content writing service.
• Telework Recruiting – A platform for professional remote-only jobs.
• Toptal – An exclusive network of top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts in the world.
• Upwork (formerly Elance-oDesk) – A freelancing platform where businesses and independent professionals connect and collaborate remotely.
• VA Networking – A business social networking place on the web for virtual assistants to network online.
• We Work Remotely – A jobs platform for remote workers.

Apart from these online marketplaces where people are already going there to search for specific services they are looking for, you can also sell your services using your own website.

There are pros and cons for both approaches – existing marketplaces or own website.

There are uncontrollable fees associated with marketplaces and ad-hoc changes to their terms, conditions, and usage may impact your business and profits.

The good thing about marketplaces is that there is already existing traffic that you can immediately tap into with little or no marketing effort on your part.

However, if you have your own site, you need time and money to advertise your website and drive traffic to it. You also need to have some technical knowledge about website design and implementation even if you outsource the work.

The good thing about having your own website is that you have absolute control over its usage and functionalities. There is no one telling you what to do.

Traditional platforms like classified advertisements in local newspapers, community noticeboards, mail drops, etc. will also work.

Advertising yourself

Human billboard

If you don’t mind parading yourself around in public places and enjoy a little attention, you can work as a human billboard.

You can start by holding a placard or wearing a sandwich board.

Living statue

If you have the patience to be living statues on street corners, you can be a performance artist.

Pose for art classes

If you can stay still for long periods of time, you can offer your services to art schools and other institutions that offer drawing classes that often hire live models to pose for classes.

Some classes require you to pose either clothed or naked.

Public speaking

If you have the gift of gab or like speaking in public, public speaking is a worthwhile side business to pursue.

Many authors, medical practitioners, scientists, artisans, politicians, and other subject matter experts earn extra income by delivering speeches, seminars, and presentations.

Mobile/vehicle advertiser

If you don’t mind having advertisements glued on or wrapped around your car, you can turn your car’s exterior space into a prime real estate for paid advertisements.

Visit websites like Auto Wrapped, Carvertise and Wrapify for more details.

Modelling

If you’ve got the right attitude, there should be a product or service out there looking for the right model to promote their brand.

Since modeling is a complex field, get all the advice you need before jumping right in. Find a mentor who can guide you through some of the early challenges. Depending on your preference, you can specialise in a single media format such as video or still images. Build a compelling portfolio.

Take your sports sponsorship to the next level

If you are a professional sports person with a large number of social media followers, you can sell your Tweets, Facebook and Instagram posts.

YouTube star

If you love the spotlight, consider creating and promoting your own YouTube Channel.

You can use the social media platform to market affiliate products, sell products and services you create yourself or receive advertising revenue for your informal tutorials or entertaining videos.

You can apply to join the YouTube Partner Program. Once your channel reaches 10,000 public channel views, your channel activity is reviewed to make sure your content adheres to the YouTube’s Partner Program policies, Terms of Service, and Community Guidelines.

YouTube carries a lot of organic traffic. The more people watch your videos, the more money you make.

There are different ways to monetise your YouTube channel using different types of advertisements.

• Display ads – These are visuals that don’t actually cover your video. They are located to the right of the screen.
• Overlay ads – These are banner ads that pop up at the bottom of the video screen.
• Skippable video ads – This might be the best option for you when it comes to inserting ads to your videos. These video advertisements play for a few seconds. The viewer has the option to move on or keep watching the sponsored message. This puts the power in the hands of your viewers.
• Non-skippable video ads – Brands will pay good money for ads that cannot be ignored before the video plays. It intrudes on the listening or watching experience of your viewers.

Come up with some video ideas; turn on a digital video camera and make a video; redo the video if it’s not up to standard; sign up for YouTube and allow ads to be shown on your videos; create a channel and give it a name; upload your videos and give them titles so that people who are searching for things related to your videos will find it; send links to the videos to your friends to get them started; and make more videos.

Freelancer

Aquarium cleaning

If you know a technique to clean aquariums without killing fishes, this is a job for you.

You may need to buy the right equipment and chemicals for the job.

Administration services

If you have excellent administrative skills, can type 90 words (or more) per minute with great accuracy, enjoy working with others, have great customer service skills and have experience in an administrative environment, this could be a job for you.

You could help people catch up on filing, complete data entry, answer incoming and return calls, and other daily tasks as required.

Appliance repairs

If you are qualified to repair appliances, you could do small appliance repairs for your own customers or be a contractor to appliance stores to cover their warranty service calls or both.

Animations creator

If you have the skills and experience to create animations, you could sell your animation creations and creativity.

Many businesses are looking for different ways to engage their customers and animations can be a way to do this.

Answer questions

If you are an expert in a field, you can get paid for your expertise when you answer people’s questions.

You make extra money online by noting these questions and giving correct information to people based on their unique situation.

Visit websites like Brainmass, JustAnswer, and LivePerson.

Antenna services

If you are an experienced technician specialising in domestic and light commercial work, you can provide antenna-related services. These include new antenna installations, additional TV outlets, relocation of existing outlets and data points, wall-mounted TV’s, repairs of existing systems, and replacement of existing damaged antennas.

Antique refurbishment

If you love antiques and refurbishing worn-out antiques, you could invest the time and care needed to transform those old items into something amazing for a profit.

Bag making

If you know how to hand-make specialty bags, you can start a premium bag making business.

You may want to learn the skill outright and embark on its creation and finishing.

Bartending or Waiting Tables

If you enjoy providing good hospitality service during nights and weekends, bartending or waiting could suit your personality and interest.

Bicycle delivery

If you have a bicycle rack attached to your car, you can be a bike delivery person.

You can work for companies like Amazon who are stepping up their efforts to expand same-day delivery.

Bicycle repairs

If you love bicycles and you are able to fix them, this could be a great business for you.

There is always a market for bicycles wherever you are.

You could also offer a storage unit where people can store their bicycles during winter after you repair them or do a tune-up work.

Birthday party planner

If you love parties and entertainment, chances are you have ideas and activities of what people like to do for fun and get paid for it.

Birth doula

If you are a calm and patient person who can provide emotional and physical support for couples during labor and baby delivery, you can be a birth doula or a postpartum doula.

A postpartum doula provides help for new moms while recovering from childbirth such as breastfeeding support, bathing or handling siblings.

You can start by working with an experienced doula to gain confidence and experience and determine if this is suitable for you (and get a good reference as well).

Boat cleaning

If you love boats and have the skills to clean them, this could be a business for you.

You can work on boats that are taken out of the water during winter or mid-season repairs. You can also work on other parts of the boat, depending on the type of boat and skills you have.

You can start by driving around and going to houses where there is a boat in the yard. Or you could go to a marina and offer your service there.

Bookkeeper

If you are a trained accountant or bookkeeper, you can help small business owners who cannot afford a full-time bookkeeper.

Whilst you don’t need to be a Certified Public Accountant in order to become a freelance bookkeeper, it’s necessary to have the required skills and knowledge in bookkeeping.

Here is some accounting software you can use: QuickBooks Self-Employed, FreshBooks Cloud Accounting, Xero Accounting, Wave Accounting (suit Etsy or PayPal business owners), and GoDaddy Bookkeeping.

Visit websites like BalanceYourBooks that provide outsourced online bookkeeping and controllership services to small, mid-size, and fast-growing businesses.

Book reviewer

If you love books, you can get paid to read and review them.

Visit websites like Any Subject Books, BookLook Bloggers, Kirkus, and Online Book Club.

Bridal consultancy services

If you are good at organising, have a passion for weddings, and you are someone who pays attention to even the smallest details, you could be a bridal consultant helping brides reduce the stress of organising a wedding.

Brides to be and their wedding parties spend a lot of money on bridal gowns and wedding supplies because weddings are memorable once-in-a-lifetime events.

Broker

If you can bring buyers and sellers together and facilitate transactions, you can charge a fee or commission for each transaction you enable. Uber, Grab, and AirBnb are great examples of an online brokerage model.

Types of brokerage models include marketplace exchanges (i.e., Orbitz), buy and sell fulfillment, (CarsDirect, Respond), auctions (eBay), transactions broker (PayPal, Escrow), and distributor. These models could either be offline or online.

Business plan writer

If you have started a business and can write a good business plan, you can help people realise their dreams of owning small businesses.

As more people start to realise that being more self-sufficient can help them through economic downturns, self-employment is becoming a norm. While someone may have all the know-how to create their product or service, they may not have the skills and knowledge to actually run a business or get it started. This is where you can help them launch their business.

Busker

If you can play an instrument and sing, take your music to public squares or popular transit stops.

Always keep in mind the local laws relating to busking.

Beautician / home beauty / makeup

If you have skills and knowledge in body piercing, hair removal, make-up artist, manicure (and pedicure) salon, foot massage service, wigs, or organic hair and skin products, you can offer these services in your own home or at your customer’s home.

Call center agent / representative

If you have call center experience and skills, you can be a call-center representative.

Visit websites like Arise and LiveOps.

Canteen operator

If you want to operate a food outlet during school hours only, you could operate a school canteen.

You have to comply with local food handling laws and source for food suppliers.

Car log-book service and mechanic

If you can maintain or repair cars, this is a good opportunity to provide mechanic services.

Cars need to be serviced regularly. This could be a constant income for your when you have sufficient returning customers.

Career advisor/coach

If you are good in career counseling, why not use the skill of listening and mentoring in your own career coaching business.

Caregiving

If you have a genuine affection for the elderly and have good knowledge of first-aid and basics of elderly care, this is a job for you.

Carpet and upholstery cleaner

If you can clean carpets and upholstery and have the required tools, equipment, and chemicals, this is a job for you.

Carpenter services

If you can repair and refurbish furniture, you can help households with carpentry services.

Car flipper (buy and sell)

If you love cars and aren’t afraid to haggle, start a car flipping business.

Search for car deals in classified advertisements and online car sales websites.

Car washing and detailing

If you love cars and can do detailing and cleaning, you can start earning a side income by making cars look fresh in your free time after work and on weekends.

A lot of car owners simply don’t have time to personally care for their vehicles. All you need is simple equipment such as car shampoo, polishing wax, sponges, a pail and a sturdy hose.

Caterer/meal deliverer

If you love to cook delicious meals for groups of people, start a home food catering business. You may also need to deliver the food.

Understand the regulatory and legal requirements to have your home kitchen ready for commercial food production.

Chat agents

If you don’t like talking on the phone but love giving great customer service and can type quickly and accurately, this is the job you’ve been looking for.

You’ll learn valuable skills and fascinating knowledge about businesses and industries you’ve not come across before. You’ll drive a conversation from inquiry through to sale and turn unhappy customers into ecstatic customers.

Visit websites like The Chat Shop.

Chatbot consultant

If you know Chatbots and organisations that want to jump on the chatbot bandwagon, you can offer your technical services to these companies.

You no longer need vast amounts of coding knowledge to create a chatbot. In fact, there are now chatbot-building platforms like ChattyPeople that allow you to create a bot for free in a matter of minutes.

Child entertainer

If your friends and family have ever called you a ‘big kid’ or that you have a natural ease or passion with kids, child entertainment may be suited for you.

This could be anything from dressing up in a Dorothy the Dinosaur, Spiderman or Elsa to posing for photos. If you have some talent, you could perform magic, song and dance shows.

Child proofing

If you love to keep children safe and have an eye for child safety and security procedures and equipment, you could be a child safety expert that ensures that all regulations are followed.

Child reading scorers

If you have the patience to listen to child recordings and type up every reading error the child makes, this is a job for you.

Visit websites like Literably.

Children’s photographer

If you are passionate about taking great portraits of children, be a children’s photographer.

Newborn photography, family photos, and birthday parties are popular life events for you to get involved in.

Coach – business or personal

If you have the expertise to give advice and provide actionable steps that people can take to improve their professional or personal lives, you can offer your services as a business or life coach.

Group and personal coaching are becoming more popular.

Commission-only sales

If you love connecting with people and have the willingness to take on some risk, a commission-based freelance sales role could be a great fit for you.

Many businesses seek part-time commission-only salespeople.

Comper

If you love competitions and have the skills and knowledge to give correct answers within the shortest possible time, try out a range of competitions like giveaways, surveys, quizzes, contests, and free samples.

Visit websites like Competitions, Compers, Lottos, and Facebook competitions.

Computer cleaner

If you can clean computers and keyboards, you can offer this service to offices because commercial office cleaners do not normally clean computers.

Consultant for businesses

If you are a consultant or professional looking for interesting work, join Expert360’s network of top consultants and work with start-ups or small businesses through to large corporates.

Content marketer

If you have the right skills and experience in content marketing, you can assist start-ups, established businesses, and people needing to build credibility and trust.

Since companies will always need high-quality content to bring in new customers, your skills will always remain an asset to invest in.

Counseling – college / university

If you have the skill and talent to help and guide students through important periods in their lives, you could be a college or university counselor.

Your services can include admissions, career advice, financial aid, athletics, extracurricular activities, and other concerns.

Court researchers

If you like to collect data or research, you can make money by collecting information like tax liens, deeds, lawsuits, probate cases, civil cases, names, addresses, and mortgages for lenders, lawyers, marketers, and reference check firms.

Visit websites like Advanced Background Check, DeedCollector, First National Acceptance Company, IT-Boss Research, Integrity Title Records, JBS Court Research, Omni Data Retrieval, Sentinel Data Retrieval, Sunlark Research and Wolfgang Research.

Customer service

If you’re a customer service specialist, you can provide customer service and training to teams and individuals.

Some businesses outsource their customer service operations and many of these organisations accept home-based contractors.

Data analysis

If you love numbers, and data analytics and reporting, there will be organisations who can hire you for data analysis work.

Data entry

If you have accurate and quick typing skills, data entry jobs can be easily done by you at home.

Database administrator

If you can perform the task of a database administrator, you could provide this technical service to small businesses.

Your role may include capacity planning, installation, configuration, database design, migration, performance monitoring, security, troubleshooting, backup, and data recovery.

Dating Consultant

If you have good people skills and understand dating, you can be an online or offline dating consultant or match maker.

You can help people who have such a difficult time at dating.

Dating websites like WhatsYourPrice let suitors pay women to go on dates with them.

Debt collector

If you have good interpersonal and debt collection skills, you can be a debt collector for organisations.

Deck maintenance service

If you can maintain a deck, you can make some money doing regular deck maintenance or minor repairs.

Deck maintenance includes checking and repairing damaged or loose boards, cleaning and applying sealant and paint. This is usually an annual requirement and you should be able to get repeat business.

Dessert making

If you love making desserts and have a knack for making amazing and delicious desserts, start your own dessert business.

You can sell your desserts on consignment in local stores and cafes.

Dietitian

If you are passionate about diet, food, and nutrition, you could give people practical advice about what to eat in order to be healthy.

Digital media conversion

If you have the equipment and technical know-how to convert old school media like tapes and CDs into digital files, you can offer this service to tech-phobic and time-poor customers.

Disc jockey

If you are an audiophile and have a great sound system and a large selection of music, you can be a DJ for various events and receptions.

Domain names flipper (buy and sell)

If you’re good at finding popular yet undiscovered Internet domain names, you can make a quick profit by buying and reselling domain names (i.e., digital real estate). A domain name is just a website address (e.g., eBay.com) and there are lots of extensions (.com, .org, .net, etc.) to choose from.

Domain names are available for sale on GoDaddy or NameCheap and can be resold on Flippa or Sedo at far higher prices if they have commercial value.

Use Lean Domain Search and Domains Bot to help you identify other domain names for sale, including those that have expired.

Driver for Uber, Lyft

If you are over 21 and have a drivers license, a four-door car, and personal auto insurance, you can sign up to drive for Uber, Lyft, or SideCar.

Driving instructor

If you can get qualified as a driving instructor, you can help parents who don’t have the time or want to teach their own children to drive. This can be done in your own car or the car of the teen or teen’s parents.

Drone operator

If you have a drone that has a camera attached to it, you could fly your drone and take beautiful videos and pictures of a property, event, etc.

The digital imagery and pictures captured by drones offer much more than panoramic video footage. They could be used for mapping, planning, modeling, inspection, and security services.

Electronic repairs

If you’re the sort who takes apart computers and electronic gadgets for fun, operating an electronics repair business is a natural decision.

Engraving service

If you have the proper engraving equipment, you could help people who want to customise their pens, pieces of jewellery, and decorations.

Event planner or coordinator

If you are a great organiser and enjoy events like family reunions and large parties, you can step in and take charge of the planning and coordination.

Events range from parades, weddings, reunions, birthdays, anniversaries, conferences, meetings, graduations, product launches, political rallies, fashion shows, memorials, fundraisers, receptions, trade shows, conventions, company picnics, holiday parties, and meetings for staff members, board members or stockholders.

Exercise instructor, personal fitness trainer

If you love to work out and know the ins and outs of nutrition and exercise, this is a great opportunity to earn some extra money especially with one-on-one instruction and coaching opportunities.

Share your passion with novice exercisers, either out of your home or through a local gym or community center.

You need a good physique that will be your best advertisement for your business.

Face painter

If you can build a good rapport with children and work fast creatively as they don’t like to sit still for too long, face-painting may be for you.

You can easily teach yourself with YouTube and an array of books and cheap short workshops.

Fashion / image consultant

If you love pulling together the perfect outfit to fit the occasion, become a fashion or image consultant.

You may help someone get a complete wardrobe makeover. Or you may help someone work on their image to land their dream job or partner.

Field agent

If you want to improve how businesses serve their customers, use your smartphone to collect photos, video, and information from stores and many other locations.

Visit websites like Field Agent.

Finder – Antique and rare items

If you love antiques, old cars, etc. and have a good knowledge of rare items, use your passion to help people find their dream antiques, art or cars and earn a commission.

Florist

If you are good with flowers, creative decoration, and flower arrangements, you can provide this service at home or during your free time.

Forex trader

If you know how to trade in foreign exchange, you could start this trading business.

Funeral coordinator

If you can organise funerals and wakes for loved ones of the deceased, you could be a funeral coordinator.

You may need to be licensed and have the required training.

Furniture maker, restorer, and repairer

If you already have a workshop and love making furniture, turn your hobby and passion into a business selling handmade furniture.

Gifts consultant

If you can make or source unique gifts for people, this business is for you.

Graphic designer/desktop publisher

If you can creatively design logos, business cards, infographics, book covers, etc, with Photoshop, you can scan marketplaces like 99Designs, CrowdSpring, DesignCrowd, and Fiverr for projects involving logo design, web design, brochures, and other marketing material.

You can find graphic design jobs at these places, or by going directly to companies or agencies like Design Jobs Board, Design Jobs,  Behance, Dribbble, Coroflot, and Graphic River

Businesses always need graphic designers to help them convey information visually through logos, advertisements, posters, and websites.

An increasingly easy-to-use Adobe Illustrator and websites like Canva and Visme are making it easy for anyone to create or alter images.

Graffiti cleaner

If you have the skills and patience to clean graffiti, you can get contracts for monthly cleaning of buildings or walls.

Buy the necessary cleaning products to remove all types of graffiti on all types of surfaces.

Green consultant

If you have the skills and knowledge to go green, you can help companies figure out ways to improve their carbon footprint without sacrificing their bottom-line.

Greeting card writer

If you are good in poetry and creative writing, you can earn some money writing and publishing greeting cards.

Grocery shopper

If you like grocery shopping, you can offer this service to people who just need a little assistance and a lift to and from the shops.

Hairstylist

If you have the skills and experience in cutting and styling hair, you can offer a hairdressing service at home and possibly a mobile service for seniors or disabled people.

Handyman

If you are a handyman or qualified tradesperson, you can sell your services on Check a Trade, Thumbtack, Service Seeking, Service Central and Rated People.

Help others start websites

If you are a tech-savvy and can help people start their own websites, this can be a great way to make extra money.

Help people stay on their medications

If you can help patients and the elderly get into a good routine with their medication, this is a way to make money.

Visit websites like GoodStart. You make calls to those starting on new medications. The pharmacy wants to make sure that these people will use their medications correctly and take them as prescribed.

Help job-seekers find better jobs

If you have a large network of job-seekers, you could break into the recruiting business.

Visit websites like myRefers, WiseStep, and Zyoin that connect employers with prospective employees via networking. You get a fee or commission when the person gets hired.

Home appraisal

If you have an appraiser credentials (including relevant training and professional licenses), a strong knowledge of the real estate market, and have a network of industry players including mortgage brokers, real estate agents, banks, and fellow appraisers, you can provide a real estate appraisal service.

Home health aide

If you have worked in the healthcare sector, you could provide mobile health services to people who require at-home care.

The exact service will often depend on your skills and experience.

Ideas (sell your ideas)

If you have great ideas, you could sell your ideas.

Visit websites like Innocentive and Name Station.

Indoor plant care service

If you like taking care of indoor plants, this is a job for you.

Target local businesses, hotels, shopping malls, and busy home-owners. The service involves watering, feeding, trimming and replacing plants.

Information security consultant

If you are good with information security and have the required skills and experience, you can offer on-call services to businesses.

The growing importance of information security opens up plenty of opportunities for independent information security consultant or specialist.

Insurance agent

If you have a passion for financially protecting people, you could sell various types of insurance products and earn sales commission.

Internet marketing consultant

If you have good internet marketing skills and knowledge, you could help small business owners promote their businesses online using various tools, search engines, and social media platform.

You can either offer this as a ‘done for you’ service, or coach business owners in doing it themselves.

Internet / online researcher

If you are a researcher and can conduct in-depth research using the Internet, you can help people conduct in-depth Internet-based research and get paid for it.

Some people or business do not have the time or patience to carry out in-depth research.

Visit websites like Wonder.

Interpreter or translator

If you’re fluent in a foreign language, you could work as an online interpreter or translator. (Even the best translation software can’t understand linguistic nuance.)

Depending on your skill-set and language proficiency level, you could find work translating blog posts or eBooks, transcribing recorded lessons or speeches for people, or translating through Skype.

Visit websites like Language Translation, Telelanguage, and Welocalize.

Jingles creator

If you can create unique or entertaining jingles, there are lots of businesses looking for creative and unique jingles.

Junk removals

If you like clearing out old stuff and have a vehicle and trailer, you could have the unenviable task of cleaning up a house.

Most people have rubbish and old furniture that they would like to get rid of.

Junk removal can be as simple as hauling away unwanted stuff to the dump, or it can be as complicated as separating out the trash from the treasures and handling the actual sale of the goods.

Law / legal practitioner

If you are a qualified practicing lawyer or legal professional, you could provide online legal services or advice.

Leaflet distributing

If you like walking and can distribute leaflets around your neighborhood, you could call into your local shops and restaurants to see if they need help distributing flyers, menus, etc.

Lifeguard

If you are a certified lifeguard, you can offer your services at the local pool.

Market researcher

If you like gathering valuable information regarding products, services, and experiences that will assist businesses in producing a higher level of customer satisfaction, you could conduct market research interviews by telephone or Skype.

Visit websites like Maritz.

Marketing and promotion consultant

If you have experience with marketing, businesses would like to hire you to promote their products and services.

Whether you are helping a business with traditional marketing materials or instructing them on the fine art of social media, this is a business that has almost unlimited potential.

Businesses of all sizes are in constant need of bringing in or attracting more customers.

Marriage coaching/ counseling

If you can help couples cope with challenges of marriage and build a better relationship with their spouse, you could offer marriage coaching or counseling services.

Massage therapist

If you have an interest in massage and enjoy working with your hands, consider specialising in one of the different types of massage therapy such as craniofacial, aromatherapy, Shiatsu, reflexology, trigger point and sports massage.

Get qualified and work out of your own home or make house calls with a portable massage table.

Matchmaking service

If you can connect single people together based on their personality traits, you can charge a fee for every successful matchmaking.

Meal planner

If you like putting together a list of recipes along with a grocery list for time-poor but budget-conscious shoppers, you could do meal planning and help people keep to their grocery budget.

Medical biller

If you know about medical billing and the healthcare industry in general, you can offer medical billing services to the healthcare industry.

Medical billers are vital to the healthcare industry.

Migration advisory and services

If you are a qualified migration agent, you could offer advice and services to potential migrants wanting to immigrate.

Mobile foot massage

If you have the skills to perform foot massage, you can help those people who spend a lot of time on their feet as lifestyle turns out to be more stressful.

Mobile oil change

If you can offer a mobile car engine oil change by going to your customer’s house, people would be willing to pay for this service.

Mobile party entertainer

If you like entertaining children, you can invest in a jumping castle and be a mobile party entertainer.

Get the right equipment and jumping castle set. Buy the appropriate insurance, get trained and supervise safe play.

Moderate forums

If you like spending time in online forums, some forums will pay you to moderate their message boards.

If there is a forum you often visit, you might want to see if they are hiring.

Mortgage broking service

If you can represent a few lenders and have mortgage broking experience, you can offer this service on the side.

Movers (help people move)

If you are fit and can get a couple of physically fit guys to help you move things, you could be the local mover for house moving jobs without competing with large moving companies.

Visit websites like Buddytruk and GoShare.

Musician

If you’re a musician, advertise your musical skills and talents on your own portfolio site or on websites like Gigmasters, GigSalad, and WeddingWire.

Nail studio

If you know the art of painting nails and nail beautification, and fixing artificial nails, you can offer this service in your own home or at your customer’s home.

Nutritionist

If you are trained or is an expert in the science of nutrition, you could advise people on matters of food and nutrition impacts on health.

Occupational therapist

If you like to help people achieve a fulfilled and satisfied state in life, you can offer services that promote health, prevent injury or disability, and develop, improve, sustain or restore the highest possible level of independence.

Packing/unpacking service

If you are good at packing and unpacking things and dealing with stressful situations, you could offer this service to people or businesses moving to new premises.

Think about supplying the packaging materials as upsells.

Painter

If you are a good painter, you may be able to find people who are willing to pay you to paint the inside or outside of their home.

Photographer

If you’re a photographer, advertise your skills and talents on your own portfolio site or on websites like Gigmasters, GigSalad, and WeddingWire.

Phone case business

If you can source custom made phone cases, you can sell uniquely designed cases on Amazon, Etsy, Handmade, and Fancy.

With turnkey solutions like Case Escape readily available, you can now get ready to go kits that’ll give you everything you need to start your own phone case business.

Picture framing

If you’re willing to do some research and learn how to frame and cut glass, picture framing may be a great business opportunity for you.

Pop-up restaurant or cafe

If you have met all health and safety checks and you love cooking and hosting dinners, you can decorate your living room, stick some posters in your front window and start a restaurant in your house.

You could also do this in your local shopping mall.

Pregnancy fitness instructor

If you love working with pregnant mothers and have a passion for fitness, you can be a tremendous asset to these mothers.

You will need to be qualified pregnancy fitness instructor. Create a comfortable and secure environment for these classes.

Pregnancy photographer

If you love people (especially pregnant mothers) and enjoy this unique photography, why not combine the two and offer couples with unique memories of their pregnancy.

Product demonstrator (supermarkets)

If you like demonstrating a product and meet people in supermarkets, you could do a quick five to ten-minute talk on a newly stocked product and introducing a special ‘today only’ offer.

Productivity coach

If you like working with people and help them be more effective and productive in the workplace and at home, you can be their productivity coach.

Project manager

If you have great project management skills and experience, you could offer this service to organisations where you could telecommute or work from home.

Programmer and developer

If you are good at computer programming, here are some of the most prolific job boards for programming and development out there:

• Authentic Jobs
• Angel List
• Krop
• Startupers
• We Work Remotely
• Stackoverflow
• GitHub
• Remotive.io

Property maintenance

If you are good at real estate maintenance, you could perform property maintenance and upkeep for homeowners, landlords, and tenants.

Property sourcing for investors

If you know the local real estate market and can find great real estate properties below market value, you can source suitable properties for investors who simply have no time in exchange for a percentage of the sale value or a flat fee commission.

Notary public

If you can qualify as a public notary, you can serve as validators of and impartial witnesses in public legal documents especially those related to affidavits, oaths, deeds, estates, power of attorney, and business agreements.

You must meet certain legal requirements to be a public notary.

Referee

If you love sports, you could be refereeing games held at community parks and college sports fields during nights and weekends.

Resume writer

If you’re excellent at writing, editing, designing, and proofreading resume and cover letters, consider selling those services.

You could build or revise resumes, LinkedIn profile cover letters, and professional thank-you notes.

Visit websites like ResumeEdge.

Search engine optimisation (SEO) consultant

If you have good search engine optimisation (SEO) technical skills, you could help small business owners get rank on the first page of Google when Internet searches are performed for selected keywords.

SEO can break down into a lot of different services at the freelance level:

• Link Building
• Copywriting (different to copywriting before)
• Site Analysis
• Full campaigns
• Traffic generation

Visit websites like Search Engine Journal Jobs, Indeed, and Trovit

Secret/mystery shopper

If you like shopping and have a keen eye for details, you can be paid by a company to go into a retail outlet and pretend to be a normal customer making a purchase.

While you’re there, you discreetly assess the quality of their service, their adherence to standards, their maintenance, and anything else the assignment requires.

Visit websites like Best Mark, InteliChek, Market Force, and MoBee.

Shoemaker

If you are a specialised shoemaker, you could offer this service to those people who only want to modify one shoe because of the uneven length of their leg (one long, one short).

Shoe repair

If you know how to repair a variety of shoes, you could offer this repair service.

Sports coach

If you used to play sport in school, you probably still have some idea about how the game is played and can coach a team.

Consider taking on a coaching position at a local school or club in your favorite game. Depending on the size of the club and the type of game played, you could be paid hourly or earn a salary.

Social media expert / jockey

If you are good in social media, you could potentially get paid to manage a variety of social media platforms.

Many businesses are too busy running day-to-day operations to stay on top of their Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest accounts. They are willing to pay someone with the knowledge and time to do it for them.

Visit website like VoiceHub.

Software engineer

If you know software production, you can help customers with the development, operation, and maintenance of software.

With the online-based nature of software development, you can work remotely and offer your services to multiple customers at the same time.

Stress management service

If you have experience and training in meditation, yoga, or other stress management techniques, you can help others with their stress.

Swimming pool maintenance

If you can maintain a pool well and know the regulations around pool cleanliness, safety, and maintenance, you can offer this service to pool owners or property managers.

T-Shirt designer

If you love designing T-shirts that are commercially and artistically appealing, organisations will pay to use your designs.

Visit websites like Threadless, Zazzle, and CafePress. 

T-Shirt printing

If you know how to manufacture or print great designed T-shirts, you could turn this into a service.

Tablet/ smartphone repair service

If you know how to repair tablets (or smartphones), this is a great business opportunity.

People are looking for a less expensive way to fix smashed screens and other damages that can be costly through the manufacturer.

You could also offer a mobile service where you drive to your customer’s home and repair the broken screen on the spot.

Tattooing service

If you have skills and creativity to do tattooing, you can offer this service in your own home.

Tax preparer

If you have experience with personal income tax (or anyone willing to attend training courses), you can offer tax preparation services as a seasonal business.

You may need to be qualified to work part-time for established tax agents.

Theatre checkers

If you like going to the movies, earn some extra cash and watch them for free.

Visit websites like Market Force.

Transporter – School, aged care, medical appointments

If you have your own car and a clean driving record as well as clean police and working with children checks, you can pick up and drop off children to and from their school.

These children might be old enough to not need a babysitter but aren’t old enough to drive or may not have a public transport option. Using a private driver allows parents to have more flexibility in their work hours.

You could also offer transportation service to the elderly or to someone who needs transportation to their medical appointments.

Toner cartridge refill service

If you don’t mind working with black ink and getting your hands dirty, you can make money by sourcing empty cartridges from offices, refilling them with the appropriate ink and reselling them.

Empty cartridges are usually thrown away and buying an original or OEM toner cartridges at an office supply store can be expensive.

You can buy printer cartridge refill kits from websites like Uni-kit.

Tour guide

If there is someplace you love and are very knowledgeable in, you should lead a tour.

Travel consultant

If you love to travel and find yourself randomly searching for airfare sales or browsing Lonely Planet, carve out a niche for yourself as a private travel agent.

Tree pruner, cutter, removals

If you have a chainsaw, trimmer, etc. and is fit to climb trees, this is a job for you.

Make sure you have adequate and appropriate insurance cover as falling trees can cause significant damage to houses and property.

Upholstery repairs

If you are good with your hands and can repair upholstery, you can help people repair or restore their upholstery.

Video producer

If you have the equipment and love to produce high-quality videos, you can produce videos for people and organisations. Rates may vary by area, equipment, and background.

You can offer to make, edit or download videos (online or to DVD) for your customers.

Voice-over actor

If you have a great radio voice, you could be a voice-over actor for YouTube videos, radio advertisements, explainer videos, corporate narration, documentaries, e-learning courses, audio-books, TV commercials, video games, movies, and cartoons.

Visit websites like Bodalgo, Voices, Voice123, VoiceBunny, and The Voice Realm.

Window cleaner

If you can effectively clean windows and are not afraid of heights, you could provide window cleaning services.

Website design

If you can design great looking websites, you can help small businesses design websites that will attract customers and generate leads.

Web design is all about mastering the art of creating a beautiful, value-driven experience for people visiting a website. There are always new websites popping up in need of professional web design.

Website development

If you can develop and build websites, you can help small businesses with their Internet or online presence.

As a web developer, you have skills that are in extremely high demand. You can get up to speed on building websites in as little as a few months with inexpensive or free online education programs like Codecademy, Treehouse, and Udemy.

You could also offer ‘done for you’ websites for particular niches.

Website maintenance

If you can design, develop and maintain websites, you can help small businesses with their continuous web presence and charge them monthly reoccurring fees.

Websites flipper (buy and sell)

If you’ve developed websites that generate Internet traffic and revenue, you could sell money-making websites to buyers on marketplaces like Flippa for 10 to 20 times the websites monthly revenue.

Window/mural painting/sign writing

If you have artistic skills in painting windows, signs or murals, this could be a business for you.

Yoga/meditation instructor

If you have an interest in yoga and have the patience to teach yoga or meditation, you can have the classes anywhere – in your home, at community centers and your customers’ home.

Remote/virtual worker

You can be a remote or virtual worker that works anywhere for organisations and clients around the world that offer flexible work arrangements. This means that you can negotiate your working hours to suit your lifestyle and other work schedules and get paid for the agreed work that is completed by you.

You can be an account manager, a human resource associate, recruiter and web designer who works remotely to earn additional money. The sky is unlimited with the world wide web.

Receptionists

If you can answer phones with a smile that small business customers will hear and love, you can work from home using your computer, high-speed internet connection, and a headset.

Your calls might include assisting callers with questions and booking appointments and performing basic receptionist duties.

Visit websites like Vicky Virtual.

Remote technical support

If you know how to manage an IT network, you can offer outsourced IT services to small businesses.

Many small businesses don’t have room in their budget for a full-time IT employee.

Virtual assistant

If you are organised and good in office administration and support, be a virtual assistant that performs a wide range of services to anyone around the world.

Virtual assistants perform a variety of tasks: set up appointments, type out emails, buying supplies, open and reply emails, schedule work or blog posts, write mock-up letters and proposals, or perform data entry – it’s all done from the comfort of your own home!

Visit websites like UpWork, VirtualAssistants or Zirtual.

Animal care and services

There is a love affair with animals and pets, which includes dogs, cats, birds, snakes, reptiles, and jellyfish.

Money is spent on food, supplies, vet care, and pet services.

Animal grooming

If you like giving animals the required hairstyle, the animal grooming niche is wide enough to cover a variety of animal lifestyle.

Animals with claws need regular trimmings. Some breeds of dog require haircuts just to be able to see.

You can offer things like bathing, hair brushing, haircuts, nail and paw care, and face and ear care.

Animal masseuse

If you can provide complementary or alternative veterinary medicine, you can help pets overcome chronic pain via massages.

Check your local state veterinary medical board for further advice and guidance.

Animal photography

If you can take great photos at just the right moment, animal photography could be for you.

Photos could end up on a stock photo site. The legal area of taking a photo of a pet and using it for commercial use is unclear. Get a written release if you intend to use the photo for public consumption or when they are uploaded to the website.

Animal trainer

If you can teach animals to do things and have the skills and patience to turn problems pets into well-behaved ones, this could be a service you can offer.

You need to learn the principles and practices of animal training. A good way of marketing your services is to show potential customers your training programs.

Dog walker

If you like pets and walking, you could easily begin a side gig walking a dog when you take your exercise.

Dog walking is the perfect side business for anyone who has a few hours to kill during the day. You simply pick up the dogs and take them on leisurely walks to keep them (and you) in shape.

Pet models and actors

If your pet is good natured and can handle a crowd, pet modeling or film work can be the one for you.

Pets obviously need to be in good health and trained to obey basic commands.

Visit websites like Animal Actors to showcase animal stars.

Pet party planner

If you can provide fun and interesting games for animals, this could be a business for you.

There are lots of themes and activities you can offer to pet owners including pet weddings.

Pet photography

If you love pets and enjoy photography, why not combine the two and offer pet owners unique picture memories of their beloved pets.

Pet shows and competitions

If you like to show off your beautiful pets, you could make money with pets, pet shows and competitions.

Pet sitter

If you have a healthy respect and love for animals of all kinds and have space to host them, pet sitting is an ideal way to get involved in the animal industry while making money.

Visit websites like Care and Dogvacay.

Pet taxi driver/transporter

If you have a car with a comfortable carrier, you could help people get their animals to veterinary or grooming appointments because they are at work, or perhaps don’t have a car or transport.

You can provide a collection of the animal, delivery to the proper place and delivery back.

Sell your time doing everyday things

Air conditioner, cooling and heating systems cleaner

If you know how to clean air conditioners, home cooling and heating systems, you could offer these services.

Cooling and heating systems need regular cleaning.

Like a car or any machine for that matter, it’s important to do preventative maintenance to ensure that these cooling and heating systems last longer, run at high efficiency and minimise potentially dangerous health issues. A well-maintained system could save money on power bills as the system will not have to work as hard to do the job.

Babysitter

If you like children and know people who have children, you could easily begin a side gig as a babysitter.

Young mums and dads have it tough these days. They both have to work and need to look after their children. They deserve a break for date night every now and then. That’s where you come in.

Visit websites like Care and Sittercity.

Become a micro worker

If you like getting paid for doing small tasks or odd jobs, head over to websites like Airtasker, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Clickworker, Microworker, OneSpace, TaskRabbit, WeGoLook, and Zaarly.

You can enter specific jobs into the search fields of these websites. Read through the job descriptions to see if they offer the option of working at home.

The other way to search is to enter keywords like ‘work at home’, ‘work from home’, ‘telecommute’, ‘telecommuting’, ‘home-based’, and ‘home workers’ into the website’s search field.

There are plenty of odd jobs that you can do for people such as painting, fixing a cupboard door or helping someone pack or move. You do not necessarily need any specific or specialised skills.

Think creatively and you will come up with something you can do.

Cash back for shopping

If you like earning cash back from your shopping, you could visit websites like Checkout 51, Coupons, Ebates, Favado, iBotta, InboxDollars, Receipt Hog, Shop, ShopAtHome, Shopmium, Southern Savers, and TopCashBack.

Chef

If you love cooking for other people, you could go to someone’s house and prepare homemade meals for their family, do all the dishes, and clean-up after that.

Cleaning services for homes and businesses

If you like cleaning and are prepared to roll up your sleeves, you can earn additional money by cleaning someone’s house, apartment, or office (usually at night).

Lots of people will pay someone to do the cleaning for them. Not many people like to clean.

Tenants vacating a rental property should clean the property before handing back to the agent. This is a good opportunity for you to provide an end-of-lease cleaning service.

Visit websites like Helpling.

Computer troubleshooter

If you like fixing computers, this could be a good business to get into.

Lots of people do not have the skills to fix or repair computers, and navigating computer software and applications.

Courier/delivery service

If you live in a bustling area and have a car, local businesses could use your services as their local courier service.

Unlike big-name services, you can offer more flexible pickup and drop-off times.

There’s peer-to-peer delivery service like Post Mates and Roadie that can be a great way to earn extra cash along with your daily commute, a road trip or any other trip you’re already taking. You can pick up as much as you want as long as they fit in your car.

Delivery person

If you got a bicycle, motorbike or car, you can make some extra money by delivering food, grocery, newspapers, or things to people during your spare time.

Contact local takeaways and bigger chains like Dominos to see if they have any delivery jobs going.

Visit websites like Shipt. It is an on-demand grocery delivery service looking for reliable, independent people to shop for groceries and deliver to their members.

Digital forensic service

If you have the technical background to recover lost, deleted or corrupted computer content, this may be the service you can provide to individuals and businesses.

Dressmaker (alterations, sewing, and tailoring)

If you can sew or make dresses, you are in the position to offer dressmaking, sewing, garment repair, or alteration services.

Costumes can play a big part in your business. It can be very time consuming making a little one’s ballet costume or school play outfit.

Gardening services

If you have a green thumb and some knowledge about vegetables and plants that grow well in your area, you can give people access to fresh produce or a great looking garden.

Some people are willing to pay others to get a vegetable or flower garden started for them.

Gutter cleaner

If you are not afraid of heights and can work on a roof safely, gutter cleaning is a job for you.

With the number of bushfires increasing, this could be on a to-do list on a lot of people’s bushfire planning list.

Help a person with disabilities with day-to-day life

If you like making a meaningful impact in someone’s life, you can help a person with disabilities shop for groceries, make meals, do housework, or help them find a job.

Home day-care provider

If you love children and part of your house can be legally converted into a home day-care, this could be a perfect home business for you.

Some places allow people to start an in-home daycare with minimal licensing and paperwork. All you need is a safe room or two for children to play in, some toys and activities, and a whole lot of patience.

Be prepared for damage to your furniture and house walls.

Housesitter

If you don’t mind living in different houses or apartments for short periods of time and love different locations to explore, you could house sit for people.

Interior decorator and designs

If you are fascinated by interior design, have an eye for great designs and decorations, and have a huge collection of interior design materials lying around, you could help people decorate their home.

Ironing and laundry services

If you like ironing or can iron, you could make money by ironing people’s clothing and linen.

There are lots of tutorials on YouTube on how to iron and fold clothes.

LED light bulb replacement service

If you are able to source cheap LED light bulbs, you can provide this service without much difficulty.

Mow lawns, rake leaves or shovel snow

If you’re willing to mow lawns, rake leaves or shovel or plow snow, you could easily make money here.

Visit websites like Plowz & Mowz.

Newspaper and magazine delivery

If you have a car and can wake up early in the morning, delivering newspapers can be a good way to make some side money.

Personal organiser/housekeeper

If you’re someone who reorganises closets and houses for fun, offer your services to harried or disorganised individuals and businesses.

Some people like to come back to a tidy house after a long day’s work.

Search the web and get paid

If you spend hours searching the Internet daily, you can make money by installing plugins or search bars from sites like Swagbucks into your web browser.

Swagbucks has a fantastic rewards program. Not every opportunity will be right for you. Use it to earn points for activities that you’re already doing (printing coupons, searching the web, etc.). Don’t let it tempt you to do things that aren’t right for you, purchasing things that you don’t need, or spending time on activities that aren’t of interest to you.

Save up your Swagbucks points. Turn them into gift cards for your Christmas shopping.

Senior citizen assistance / senior companion

If you like working with elderly people helping them with a wide variety of tasks and activities, you could make some money by helping adult children of elderly people support their parents.

You could do their personal shopping, take them to doctor’s appointments, pick them up from surgery or dentists etc., or just take them out for lunch, coffee or a drive if they are just lonely.

Spy at the mall

If you like to be a spy or field agent doing tasks like going to a supermarket to check up on a display or presentation.

Visit websites like EasyShiftApp, Field Agent and Roamler to download their apps and they will send you jobs based on where you are.

Styling and staging houses

If rearranging furniture and house decoration is your idea of fun, you could help homeowners maximise their house’s perceived value and sell their homes faster for more money.

You help sellers stage their house and get their homes looking beautiful for a great sale price.

Sell what you have or what you make

You can sell things offline and online to make money.

Sharing economy

Bed and breakfast

If you got a spare room, live near somewhere of interest, or close to a student area or university, you can offer a bed and breakfast service.

You’ll almost certainly need planning, mortgage lender and health and safety approvals first.

Rent out your spare room, unit, or house

If you have a spare accommodation, visit websites like Airbnb, Bedycasa, or Roomorama and post your accommodation as a short-term rental.

Living near a tourist area, sporting venues or commercial hub has its perks. You can rent out a room in your home – or even the entire place – for a day, a week, or longer.

Check your home and contents insurance policy, body corporate rules (if you have one) and local laws to make sure you are covered.

Rent out your house for a movie shoot

If you have a house or room that is unique, you can rent your property to film crews and photographers for magazine shoots, adverts, TV shows and the latest blockbusters.

Rent out your car

If you’re not using your car on a daily basis, you can rent it out.

Visit websites like Car Next Door, Getaround, JustShareIt, and Turo.

Check your car insurance policy and local laws to make sure you are covered.

Rent out your truck or trailer

If you have a truck (or trailer) that people can use, rent it out in exchange for a fee.

Some people don’t like to commercially rent a van or a moving truck because it cost too much.

As an added service, you can help them move their stuff.

Rent out your car park

If you drive to work every day and live in close proximity to the city or major transportation hub, your car park at home or driveway will be empty. Websites like Divvy let you rent out your car park.

Renting out space in your driveway is a great way to earn some extra cash. You can make life a little bit easier for the city worker who can either walk to work from your place or catch public transport closer to their office.

Rent out your parking space for events

If you live near a stadium, venues at festival times, or near where royal shows or expos are usually held, you could be charging for someone to park on your driveway or car space for the duration of the event.

Rent out your garden for weddings or functions

If you spend a lot of time working and maintaining a beautiful garden, you could hire your garden as a function venue for weddings or parties, depending on how practical, or big it is.

Rent out your shed for storage

If you have a shed or garage that you don’t use or perhaps only use half of, it’s worth renting it out to someone who needs to store their belongings.

Storage companies charge a bomb to look after people’s things. It’s not something they want to pay top dollar for if they are in between places or wanting to head overseas for a few months.

Alternatively, they may need to store a vehicle, boat, or caravan for the times when they aren’t using it.

Make sure they have adequate insurance if something happens to it while it’s on your property. It’s advisable to have some kind of written agreement in place that will exclude your liability.

Rent your bike, snow sports, or any other gear

If you have a bike sitting in your garage untouched for years, you can rent it out on websites like Spinlister.

Rent your clothing

If you have a closet full of clothing that you haven’t worn in a long time, rent them out.

If they don’t fit anymore or not fitting your current lifestyle include them in a garage sale or sell them.

Visit websites like Loanables, Style Lend.and The Volte.

Rent out your musical instruments and studio

If you have a guitar lying in the corner of your room without regular usage, you can make money by renting it on websites like Sparkplug.

You can do this for other your musical instruments like amps, mics, harps, or even your rehearsal room or studio.

Rent out land for caravan, camping space

If you have a big block of land with a decent amount of space around them, you can rent it out as a caravan or camping space.

Rent out your office space

If you have a bigger office than you currently need or have a few spare desks sitting around gathering dust, make money by filling those seats on a temporary basis through websites like ShareDesk or Office Hub.

Rent out yourself as a friend

If you have a passion to accompany lonely people, either at home or during a walk, you can offer a strictly platonic paid companionship and get paid hanging out with strangers.

Visit websites like RentaFriend.

Rent out your creative cake

If you can make beautifully designed centerpiece wedding cake, you can rent out your display cake covered with real fondant with the inside made of foam.

This ‘real’ cake has a small compartment to place a small portion of edible cake for the cake cutting ceremony. After the couple’s ‘feeding each other’ act, your display cake is taken back into the kitchen and the guests are served regular sheet cakes from the local bakery or wholesale store.

You will help the couple save a ton of money on their wedding cake!

Teaching or educating others

You can teach anything to anyone when you have the required knowledge, skill, and equipment. There is no limit as to what you can teach, either online or offline, when you have the patience and passion to teach and impart knowledge to other people. The main thing is to find some who will buy your training.

You can tutor anyone over Skype no matter where you might live. The world is your marketplace with technology.

Art teacher

If you have the knowledge and talent for drawing or painting, why not teach others to draw or paint better.

Cooking trainer

If you are a wonderful cook, you can teach others how to cook.

You can consider using your home for people to come and learn the art of cooking meals.

Computer training and lessons

If you have a passion for computers and love teaching your computer and technical skills and knowledge, you could tutor or work with seniors and beginner computer users.

Craft teacher

If you know how to sew, crochet, knit, woodwork, sculpt, or frame photos, you can teach these courses and do something you love.

Dance instructor

If you know how to dance (or was a dancer), you could give dancing lessons.

Kidpreneur teacher

If you have the skills and patience to teach children and teens about running their own business and being a kidpreneur, you could off them a fun and useful learning experience where parents will love it.

Here’s a TED talk that will inspire you.

Language tutor

If you’re a native English speaker, there are tons of foreigners looking to practice their English skills. If you are good in another language, you could also teach it.

You can help them by engaging in English (or other languages) conversation.

Visit websites like Cambly,  iTalki, and VipKid.

Music teacher

If you know how to play an instrument well (particularly the piano or guitar), you can teach others how to play musical instruments.

Teach DIYs

If you like do-it-yourselves (DIY), nothing beats teaching novice learners about your passion, hobby, or craft.

Explore dozens of DIY portals (such as DIY.org, DIY Network, and Instructables) to get ideas on how to earn a side income just by teaching or showing others how to do the things you love.

Teach online courses

If you love teaching and can design and deliver online courses, join the Mass Open Online Course (MOOC) movement.

Visit websites like Codecademy, Treehouse, Udacity, Udemy, and YouTube to offer your training online. You can even set up your own tutorial website with an interface for online payments of related books and courses.

Textbooks seller

If you just finished college, you might be able to turn your textbooks into cash.

Visit websites like BookFinder, and Cash4Books.

Tutoring (off-line and on-line)

If you are a subject matter expert or a recent college graduate, you might have no problem tutoring others in your spare time.

Educators and teachers can help students with homework or offer on-demand teaching over the Internet or Skype.

Visit websites like Chegg Tutors, Study Pool, Superprof, Sylvan Learning, Tutor, Tutor Vista. UK Tutors, and Your Tutor.

Small business trainer

If you have small business experience and like imparting your knowledge, you could train other small business owners.

University notes seller

If you are (or were) top of the class at university and have assembled a great set of notes that people would die for, you’re in the position to sell them after you have those handwritten notes typed up and reformatted.

Visit websites like Nexus Notes, Stuvia, and Notesale.

Most websites are free for you to list your notes and they tend to take a cut of your profit in order to handle the marketing etc.

Tell them your opinion

Accommodation and area reviewer

If you live in an area that has lots of tourists, you could review and write about the local B&B’s, motels, hotels, inns, and other accommodations.

Your reviews could extend to places of interest or historical attractions.

If you can show business owners that you can bring them more customers, they will be prepared to pay a small annual fee to stay featured in your reviews.

Focus groups and market research

If you like participating in focus groups to share your thoughts and opinions, check out Focus Group, Stable Research, and Farron Research for paid marketing research.

Food reviewer

If you love eating out and trying new places, turn it into a small business by featuring these places.

You are in a strong position to generate revenue from restaurants and food outlets in your local area. Take plenty of great pictures of your food and the venue you visit so that your readers can get a good sense of what they can expect, including the name of the owners and their staff.

Mobile apps review

If you love trying out the latest apps in App Store or Google Play Store, get paid for trying new apps with Best Review App.

Review and recommend things

If you have your own blog running, you can review and recommend products and services to your readers.

When your referral visitor goes to an affiliate’s site and makes a purchase of the recommended product or service, you get paid a commission.

Search engine evaluation

If you like to use commonly-accessed Internet search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. to seek out bugs or errors, visit websites like Appen and Leapforce to fix their search results.

Software reviewer

If you love trying out new software, you could review software and provide your opinion.

Songs reviewer

If you have an opinion about good and bad music, Slice the Pie will pay you for your musical knowledge.

Surveys (online)

If you like giving your opinion through surveys, you can earn prizes, gift cards, or points that you can redeem for cash.

You should not be paying anything to participate in completing online surveys.

Visit websites like American Consumer Opinion, Global Test Market, Harris Poll, My View, Survey Club, and User Testing.

Website reviewer

If you like trying new online products and apps, you can record your test and give verbal feedback as you do the assigned task on websites like User Testing or Userlytics.

The assigned task could be to try to buy something from an eCommerce site or comment on the look and feel of a new app.

The purpose is for a website owner to watch someone, who is new to their site, navigate their website. The website owner gets a ton of value by doing so.

Writing

If you have strong English and communication skills, and exceptional grammar, you could advertise your writing skills as a writer, editor, proof-reader, story-teller, copy-writer, or ghost-writer.

Advertise your writing and reading services on existing websites like Fivver, Journalism Jobs, and Upwork to find work online.

But you can also find copywriting-specific jobs posted on Freelance Writing Gigs, MediaBistro, and Morning Coffee Newsletter

You could also submit your articles for payment to established websites like A List Apart, Constant Content, Freedom with Writing, Freelance Writing, Funds for Writers, iWriter, Make a Living Writing, Matador Network, Textbroker, Uxbooth, Write Naked, and Writers Weekly.

Copywriter

If you have skills and experience in advertising and marketing, you could be a copywriter that pulls together promotional materials for businesses.

You could write advertisements, articles, newsletters, commercials, and direct mailings.

eBook writer and publisher

If you have an interest and talent in writing eBooks, Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing and Smashwords can help you independently publish your eBook and make it available around the world.

You don’t need a traditional publisher and have the financial backing to publish your own paper-based book anymore.

But don’t worry, creating an eBook isn’t a hard task either. You can simply create them in Microsoft Word, save them as a PDF, and export them to eBook software like these sites below:

Editor

If you have a good command of English or any other language, you can start an editing business.

Grant writer

If you understand how grants work and how to ask for funding, you could help non-profits, universities, hospitals, and other community organisations complete the application process for funding.

Grants are notoriously tricky to write, especially for first-timers.

Listing writer

If you have a gift for writing a list, go to Listverse. A list example, “10 Female Scientists Who Made Our Stars Shine Brighter”

Visit websites like Buzzsumo for ideas.

Press release writer

If you have knowledge and experience with writing a press release, you can offer this service and make money.

Proofreader

If you’ve got a keen eye for grammar and formatting, proofreading could be for you.

To become a proofreader, sign up for this free mini-course on Proofread Anywhere.

Scrapbook maker

If you are good at scrapbook making, offer your creative services to people who only dream of having beautiful scrapbooks.

Take their ideas (or even add yours) and materials and assemble a unique scrapbook for them.

Slideshow / presentation maker

If you have a gift for making fantastic slideshows, you could quickly turn anyone’s pictures into a beautiful, custom slideshow, and profit from it.

People would love to have a beautiful slideshow to commemorate the passing of a loved one, an anniversary, or a special birthday. Some may be happy to outsource the visual layout for work meetings, investor pitches, and lectures.

Slogan writer

If you have talent and creativity for creating slogans, start writing on Slogan Slingers.

Speechwriter

If you enjoy writing speeches, you can be a speechwriter.

You could also write wedding vows or best man speeches.

Stories seller

If you are great in storytelling, you could sell your story to local and online newspapers and blogs.

Transcriptionist

If you are a great listener and fast typist, you can help organisations transcribe or convert speeches (either live or recorded), handwritten, and voice-recorded notes (dictation) and reports into electronic text or word-processing documents that are suitable for printing and reporting.

Transcription services are often provided for business, interviews, legal and medical purposes.

You may need to be qualified before doing the work by attending the required training and undergoing testing before you are given any work.

Visit websites like BabbleType, FancyHands, Fast Chart, GoTranscript, Speak Write, TigerFish, and Rev.