Many people are looking to make a little bit of extra cash on the side. Especially during tough economic times, it can be hard to make ends meet with only one job. If you’re feeling like you’re not making enough money or simply want to earn some more cash while doing something that interests you, read on! You can also get service from Socialgreg to have more social engagement especially Facebook, Instagram and Youtube followers, views and likes. We’ve compiled 50 different ways for you to work a few hours a month and make an extra $500-$1000. Keep reading for our list! So let’s start!.
Table of Contents
Easy Ways to Make Extra Money
Take Surveys
Join a Focus Group
Help People By Answering Their Questions on JustAnswer
Test Websites
Get Cashback When Shopping Online
Make Money With Your Grocery Receipts
Make Money Searching Online
Make Money By Sharing Your Internet
Earn Passive Income With Your Phone Lockscreen
Negotiate Your Bills
Make Money By Walking
Make Money By Getting In Shape
Make Money On The Side Online
Snag Bank Account Rewards
Credit Card Bonuses
Make Money With Sponsored Social Media Posts
Become a Telephone Mystery Shopper
Forum Moderator / Social Media Moderator
Become a Search Engine Evaluator
Sell Your Photos
Sell Your Unused Giftcards
Sell Things on Amazon/eBay/Facebook Marketplace
Sell Digital Downloads on Etsy
Sell Clothes on Poshmark
Sell Your Old Electronics on Decluttr
Make Money Texting and Flirting Online
Make Money Selling Feet Pics
Make Money on Pornhub
Make Money On The Side Offline
Drive for Uber or Lyft
Deliver Food Through Postmates / Ubereats / Grubhub
Housesit
Petsit / Dog Walking
Sell / Donate Plasma
Become a Mystery Shopper
Rent Your Car on Turo
Become an AirBnb Host
Be an Extra in a TV Show or Movie
Side Hustles That Can Replace Your Full-Time Income
Create an Ebook
Become an Editor / Proofreader
Virtual Assistant
Pinterest Virtual Assistant
Become a Reseller
Transcriptionist
Bookkeeping
Teach English Online
Become a Twitch Streamer
Start a Blog
Other Good Ways to Make Money on the Side
Make Extra Money At Your Current Job
Ways to Grow Your Money
Final Thoughts on Making Money on the Side
FAQs For Making Money On The Side
What are the most profitable side hustles?
What can I do for extra money?
How can I make $200 fast?
Side hustles are like a little powerup for your budget and financial life. Seriously.
I mean there are only so many expenses you can cut and save on, right?
By picking up a side hustle or two you can pay off debt faster, invest more money, or just spend a little more on fun stuff.
I mean that all sounds amazing, right?
If you’re interested in trying out a side hustle (or two!), this list contains over 100+ good ways to make money on the side!
We got everything from ways to make extra money, online side hustles, offline side hustles, and I even threw in a few things you can do to make money from your current job and some ways to grow your money.
Easy Ways to Make Extra Money
These things won’t make you rich, but these things are good ways to make money on the side because they’re just so dang easy.
Take Surveys
Interested in taking some surveys for cash? Here are some of my favorite survey sites:
✅ Survey Junkie
Opinion Outpost
Panda Research
Vindale Research
✅ PaidViewpoint
Join a Focus Group
A focus group is a group of people that give their thoughts on a specific item.
I made $200+ for trying out a skincare product from home! All I needed to do was answer a short survey about it and give my honest opinion about the product.
Here are a few places where you can join focus groups:
✅ Survey Junkie
American Consumer Opinion
If you want to read more about focus groups, I have an article all about them (including a list of 20 different online focus group panels!).
Help People By Answering Their Questions on JustAnswer
JustAnswer lets experts and professionals make money by answering people’s questions.
Their websites say you could make $2000-$7000 every month depending on your professional experience and how many questions you answer successfully.
Test Websites
Companies will pay you to test their websites to help make sure that everything works and that the site is user-friendly.
And you can usually make a nice chunk of cash doing it!
I don’t have a ton of experience with this side hustle but I know a few legit places where you can make money website testing:
UserTesting
TryMyUI
UserLytics
If you want more info on website testing, Scrivs has a good article on Struggle.co all about website testing.
Get Cashback When Shopping Online
If you do ANY shopping online, you should be getting cash back. Rakuten (formerly eBates) will give you cash back for shopping online (there’s hundreds of stores to choose from!).
They have a phone app, and a chrome browser extension that will blink when you can get cashback from a website that you’re currently visiting and will help you find coupons to use at checkout!
Seriously, it’s one of the easiest ways to make some extra money!
Tips: If you want to make even more money with Rakuten, you can use them to buy discounted giftcards on Raise.com and then you can use the discounted giftcard AND Rakuten when checking out! Stack them savings…
And you can also use a credit card that gives you points or other rewards to get the discounted giftcards.
Make Money With Your Grocery Receipts
There are apps that will give you money for scanning your grocery receipts.
What’s great about these types of apps is that you can stack them. You can use the same receipt on multiple apps to get more rewards!
There are two main grocery scanning apps I use: Ibotta and Fetch Rewards.
Make Money Searching Online
InboxDollars will give you money for searching using their search engine.
I’m totally serious!
They will also give you money for taking surveys and watching videos!
Make Money By Sharing Your Internet
I heard about this one from Sharon over at Digital Nomad Quest.
There is a service called HoneyGain that will give you money for sharing your internet!
HoneyGain shares your internet securely with their business partners who use it to do things like verify ads, collect SEO data, and can sometimes help people access geo-blocked content.
Earn Passive Income With Your Phone Lockscreen
Did you know that you can earn money by getting ads placed on your phones lockscreen?
I know it sounds weird, but yeah it’s a thing!
The S’more app will place ads on your phone lockscreen and every time you view them you will earn a little bit of money.
I tried it myself and really enjoyed it!
Negotiate Your Bills
Certain bills like your cable bill or credit card bill can be negotiated. You can ask for removal of certain fees or a lower rate on certain things.
If you have the time and confidence you can do this yourself.
Or you can use Trim to do it for you! Trim will negotiate bills on your behalf and also help you save money by letting you know about subscriptions you have and helping you cancel them.
Make Money By Walking
There is an app called Sweatcoin that will give you Sweatcoins for walking!
These coins can be converted into actual money or used to get prizes.
There’s an article on LifeUpswing that goes into more detail about Sweatcoin.
Make Money By Getting In Shape
If you want to get into shape by losing weight, there are a few services that will actually pay you to do so!
HealthWage is one of the places that will pay you to lose weight!
Here’s the quick rundown: you place a “bet” (pay actual money) and set a weightloss goal and timeline. If you reach your goal you get a part of the pool of money!
Make Money On The Side Online
If you want to step it up a bit and you’re willing to put in a little more effort, here are some good ways to make money on the side online.
Snag Bank Account Rewards
If you aren’t completely loyal to your bank account, there are checking and savings accounts out there that will give you cash bonuses for signing up!
Some accounts require you to make a certain amount of purchase and/or deposit a certain amount of money – but if you’re able to meet the requirements it could be pretty dang lucrative!
If you want to take a look at the current bank account bonuses available, Doctor of Credit keeps an updated list.
Credit Card Bonuses
This one is pretty similair to bank account bonuses.
Credit Card companies will sometimes give cash bonuses or points (that can be converted to cash) for opening a credit card and making purchases.
This can be a great opportunity if you can reach the spending requirement to get the bonus AND you’re able to pay the card off completely each month (so you don’t pay interest).
Doctor of Credit has a list of credit card bonuses that you can check out.
Make Money With Sponsored Social Media Posts
If you’re finally ready to become the influencer you always knew you could be, you can start making money with sponsored social media posts!
I have zero experience with this, but I know Alexis from Fitnancials does really well with sponsored posts (she even has a course about them!)
Become a Telephone Mystery Shopper
Mystery Shopping normally involved going to a place in person and buying something to help test out their customer service.
Buttt… You can actually do mystery shopping from home using your phone!
You might have to call a company and ask questions or “pretend” to purchase something – all so you can evaluate a company and help them improve!
Interested?
Forum Moderator / Social Media Moderator
If you’re pretty savvy with social media and online communities you can make some good money on the side by being a social media moderator / forum moderator.
Sounds interesting?
There is a company called eModeration (also known as Social Element) that hires social media moderators to work from home.
If you don’t have much experience with moderating social media – don’t worry, they will actually train you!
Become a Search Engine Evaluator
Want to help make search engines better?
There is a job called “Search Engine Evaluator” where you can do just that!
Some of your responsibilities will include going through certain search results and determining if the result is relevant to the search query and if the source is trustworthy.
I know Lionbridge and Appen are some of the companies that hire search engine evaluators.
Sell Your Photos
If you have a good creative eye and some photography skills, you could make money by selling your photos.
Shutterstock (a stock photo website) is one of the places that will pay you money for your photos (once they sell).
Sell Your Unused Giftcards
You know those weird giftcards that you get from people for places that you never go to?
You can sell those for some extra cash!
Raise is one of my personal favorites. You can sell digital or physical gift cards through them and you can get your earnings through PayPal.
Sell Things on Amazon/eBay/Facebook Marketplace
If you have some items that you’re no longer using, you can sell them on places like Amazon, eBay, Facebook marketplace, or Mercari for some extra cash.
Think old toys, games, household items, almost anything!
Sell Digital Downloads on Etsy
If you have some graphic design skills (or are willing to work on them) you could make some extra money by selling digital downloads on Etsy!
Digital downloads can be anything to digital planners or printable worksheets!
This is a great way to make extra money because once it’s listed on Etsy you can just keep selling them over and over – Etsy will even relist the items for you automatically!
If you’re interested in making money by selling printables online.
Sell Clothes on Poshmark
This gets it’s own category because it’s a little different than just throwing something up on Facebook marketplace or eBay.
If you have some good condition or new clothes that you no longer use, I highly suggest using Poshmark to sell them!
Sell Your Old Electronics on Decluttr
I know you have some old electronics or media around your house.
That old first gen iphone, or that DVD of Christmas Vacation that you never watch anymore.
You can make money with those items by selling them to Decluttr!
Decluttr will buy your old phones, old tablets, video game consoles and games. They will also buy your old CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays.
Make Money Texting and Flirting Online
You can really make money flirting and texting from your phone.
You could actually make anywhere from a few hundred dollars to a thousand or more each month.
Phrendly is a super user-friendly website for making money texting, but there are other apps/services you can use, too!
Here’s my review of Phrendly, and here is my article that goes more in-depth on making money with sexting.
Make Money Selling Feet Pics
This is a thing, okay! You really can make money by selling pictures of your feet.
I’ll give you a minute to get over your disbelief.
Make Money on Pornhub
You can make money on Pornhub from your amateur videos.
You can earn money from the ad revenue on Pornhub, from selling videos, tip money, and a few other ways.
Make Money On The Side Offline
Are you willing to leave the comfort of your own home? Here are some good ways to make money on the side offline.
Drive for Uber or Lyft
You could earn a good chunk of money by driving for Uber or Lyft!
Even if you just did it a few days a month you could earn a few hundred dollars!
Deliver Food Through Postmates / Ubereats / Grubhub
If you aren’t into having passengers in your car, you could deliver people’s restaurant orders instead!
The Financial Panther does food delivery as a side hustle, and seems to make a decent amount!
Deliver Groceries Through Shipt
Shipt is a grocery delivery service available in a lot of areas here in the US.
I’ve seen people recommend Shipt as a side hustle option, and it seems like people really enjoy it!
If you’d like to know more about Shipt from someone who has actually tried it, check out this video from Tyra the Creative.
Housesit
Petsit / Dog Walking
Love dogs? You can use Rover to earn money by petsitting and dog walking.
You can also use the WAG app to make money from dog walking.
The Gig Economy Guru has a great video that breaks down how you can make $1000+ a month from Rover and WAG.
Sell / Donate Plasma
If you’re willing to sit through the process, you can earn some extra cash every month from selling your plasma.
Become a Mystery Shopper
This is similar to the phone mystery shopper side hustle – only this one is not online.
Companies will pay you money to test out the customer service and products at certain places.
For example a mystery shopper company might pay you money to order from your local Pizza Hut to see how the customer service is and if they were able to get your order correct. The companies will even reimburse you for your purchases! So extra money AND free products!
Rent Your Car on Turo
If you have a car that you don’t use much, you could actually rent it out through Turo!
Become an AirBnb Host
If you have some extra room in your house, you could make extra money by renting out the space through AirBnB.
This isn’t something I have experienced in myself, but from what I’ve seen from the Financial Panther, you could make a few hundred dollars!
Be an Extra in a TV Show or Movie
This is one of the cooler ways you can make money on the side!
You can earn extra cash by being in the background while people film movies and TV shows!
Side Hustles That Can Replace Your Full-Time Income
Here are some good ways to make money on the side that you can scale up to eventually replace your job income.
Create an Ebook
There are some people that have created tiny (and big!) ebook empires!
Suzy from Start a Mom Blog sold an ebook as one of her first products and made thousands! She has a course about creating an ebook (that I’ve used myself!) called eBook by Number.
You can sell the ebook through your own website, or you could sell it through Amazon so it can be read/viewed on Amazon Kindles.
Become an Editor / Proofreader
If you have a good eye for catching mistakes, you could earn extra money byt becoming a proofreader / editor.
Caitling has a course called Proofread Anywhere that will teach you everything you need to know.
Virtual Assistant
A virtual assistant is someone that helps out business owners and other professionals virtually.
There are tons of different services a virtual assistant could offer! You could be doing email management, graphic design, writing…
Tons of stuff! Gina Horkey as a list of 150+ services you could offer as a virtual assistant.
Pinterest Virtual Assistant
If you’re good with Pinterest you could make money by being a Pinterest Virtual Assistant!
And this doesn’t mean you just pin things (that could be one of your services, though!).
You could also help people set up their Pinterest Profiles, optimize people’s Pinterest profiles, help design pins, help with Pinterest Ads, and manage group boards!
You can read more about becoming a Pinterest Virtual Assistant.
Become a Reseller
I did mention selling things on Amazon, eBay, and Facebook marketplace as a potential side hustle.
But that could also turn into a full-time gig!
Rob and Melissa from the Flea Market Flipper make six figures each year from selling things online! If you’re interested in this side hustle, you can check out their FREE webinar for more details.
Transcriptionist
Transcription is where you are given a piece of audio and you need to write down everything that is said in the audio.
This could be a part-time side hustle, but it’s also something that could be a full-time income!
If you’d like to learn more about transcription you can read our article (it also includes 50 different transcription jobs available).
Bookkeeping
If you have the training / knowledge, you could work from home as a bookkeeper.
The Work at Home Woman has a great article that includes work from home bookkeeping jobs.
Teach English Online
If you have a bachelor’s degree, you could make money teaching English online!
If you’re interested in this side hustle, check out QKids and VIPKid.
Become a Twitch Streamer
Twitch is a website where people can live stream content.
The streamers who stream can make money if people donate, or subscribe, some streamers even have merchandise or sell products!
Twitch was originally for video games but it’s evolved into something else. There are people who stream themselves cooking, traveling, even sleeping.
If you’re interested in making money as a Twitch Stream, I suggest checking out Ashnichrist’s YouTube channel (she’s a coach for streamers).
Start a Blog
There’s people who make six figures or more from their blogs!
I haven’t quite made the six-figure mark (or anything close to it – ahem), but it’s been one good ways to make money on the side for me.
If you’re interested in starting a blog here’s my Bluehost link!
Just kidding.
Here’s a great (and I mean great – it’s one of the best resources) guide about blogging from Pocket Business.
Other Good Ways to Make Money on the Side
If you’re looking for even MORE good ways to make money on the side here are some other good options:
Become a Resume Writer
Start a YouTube Channel
Chat Support / Tech Support Rep
Create a Course
Freelance Writing
Freelance Graphic Design
Make Extra Money At Your Current Job
If you’re looking for good ways to make money on the side I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that you already have a job?
If so, there a few things you can do to help increase your income at that job:
Ask For a Raise
Get a Promotion
Earn Bonuses
Work Overtime
Ways to Grow Your Money
Once you’ve made some extra money on the side you should put that money to work so it can grow!
Here are some good ideas for growing your money:
Investing in Stocks
Peer-to-Peer Lending
Real Estate Investing
Final Thoughts on Making Money on the Side
Can making extra money be a love language?
Okay sorry, sorry.
Anyway, side hustles are amazing things that can really change the tradjectory of your financial life. Seriously.
If you have some time, read through all these good ways to make money on the side and try at least one.
Even if it’s just the surveys. Having that extra money will definitely help (even if you don’t need it).
FAQs For Making Money On The Side
You got questions, we got answers.
What are the most profitable side hustles?
The most profitable side hustles are the ones that you can scale. Some good options are starting a blog, creating an ebook, and selling an online course.
What can I do for extra money?
You can do things like take surveys, test websites, and scan your grocery receipts.
How can I make $200 fast?
The best way to make $200 quickly is to sell something you already own!
