We all need ways to making extra money some time or another. I know I do, with my tennis son ! This is an additional article following on from Supplementing Income Ideas. If you want to have a look at the previous article, click on the link above.
These are not necessarily online jobs but definitely ones that may follow a passion you have or something you have a talent for. My passion for making designer cakes started when I got a birthday cake for my dad for his 65th birthday… I was SOOO disappointed with it. It was scruffy, not neat, and they had spelt my dad’s name wrong. I decided that I could do better myself ! This was before the days of the internet, so I taught myself from books, then went to college and took a City and Guilds in Sugarcraft and Creative Design.
I had children by this time, so making wedding / birthday/ celebration cakes fit well around their day, I wrote four books, and made designer cakes for Disney. A great job that came from my love of design. I stopped making them when I moved to Spain with my son who is the tennis player. I do other creative things but love writing too.
One thing that will really help with making more money online, is to have a website for your business. Your website will showcase your storefront and is a very positive start to your new enterprise.
Online Classes
Can you speak a different language? Or do you have a qualification in teaching english, math, accounting? There are a ton of different topics that you could teach from basic coding to business to photography.. Depending on the level you want to teach, will depend on the qualifications you would need to have. My son has a math tutor that comes to the house, he was recommended and is really good. But if you are teaching online and advertise through an online company such as tutorhunt.com or tutorful.co.uk you may need further certificates. Home tutoring like my son’s tutor, by recommendation, there is no third party so what you earn is yours, whereas with a company, they will take a commission. But you can earn $30-$40 an hour. Lynda.com is a fantastic platform for business, design, education and instruction, leadership, management – a really great place to teach. It might be a little tough to get accepted but guaranteed a great deal of fun working for them.
Having your own website which you can advertise your abilities, your showcase for
Mock Juror
Who would have thought this was a thing? I have never heard of a mock juror before. Ive been on jury service, its part of our public duty in the UK. So this was intriguing research.
What Is an Online Juror?
When lawyers/attorneys are preparing for trial, they may look for feedback on their case similar to those likely to be on the actual jury. So they make up a mock jury from the community where the trial is being held. This gives them feedback as to how they are likely to fare in court, insight into further details they might need to further their case. You might listen to audio, or watch video, material to read and questionnaire. You may get something between $20-$70 and is usually paid through PayPal. Some online jury companies may pay more for actual in-person mock juries, they take more time up.
How Does This Work?
You fill in an extensive questionnaire about yourself. This enables the lawyers to find the suitable mock jurors that meet their demographic and when you fit that demographic, you will be called.
There are restrictions on who can do mock jury.
- You must be over 18 years old
- You must be a US citizen ( not sure if they have a similar thing in the UK)
- Cannot be a convicted criminal
- You cannot be under caution or indictment for any criminal charges or misdemeanors.
- You must be able to read and write with reasonable competency.
- You cannot have any legal, paralegal experience or legal assistant.
- You cannot work in any part of the insurance industry
These restrictions are for the USA, where mock jurors are used frequently, not so much in the UK.
Home Cook
We aren’t all great at home cooking, don’t have the time, or the interest but still love to eat home cooked food regularly or even for a special event. Whilst Im in Spain, my hubby back in the UK has to cook for himself, which frequently means ready meals from the supermarket. They are always high in salt and calories, and goodness knows what E numbers they must have. Even if expense meant he couldn’t have home cooked every night, but at least a few a week. He can cook but he has a busy, high pressure job and the last thing he wants at night is to have to get a meal together. I don’t know if there are as many ready meals in the USA but there is takeout which is equally unhealthy.
So if this is you, you love cooking, have you thought about doing it as a business? You could stick to general home cooked foods, or specialise in a particular type – Indian, Mexican.. French!
For example, www.yummit.com offer a service that you can treat your kitchen as a take-away where people can order food from you, local to you, and come collect. You set your prices, your food, when you’re available and when you aren’t. Sounds great ! Take a look and see if its for you.
Take a look at www.gourmade.com – This company home cooks food, no additives, no preservatives, freezes their food within an hour of cooking. They deliver in freezer bags so the food doesn’t defrost. They offer savoury and sweet, vegetarian… Its great business model to check out… You need a website.. I can help with that. Follow the link below to start your website.
Mystery Shopper
Sound like quite a lucrative, interesting side job?
Do you communicate effectively? This is one skill that a mystery shopper needs to have, with clear writing, in a way that is thorough and objective.
Observation is also important, along with great retention skills. You can’t take any take any survey forms with you to the store, so important to know what details you will require when filling the paperwork.
Deadlines for reports have to be adhered to, with just as much meticulous detail as the report itself. So mystery shoppers need to be dependable and fulfil the assignments on time which means confidence in their ability.
A mystery shopper fills the demographic that is the target market for each particular store. If you fill the demographic you are sent to the store to go through the same experience a normal customer would have. When you get home, you fill in a full in-depth survey of your specific experience.
Payment can take several forms. It depends on the shopping venture undertaken and could be in the form of reimbursement for dollars spent, or a cash payment. You will know the way you will be reimbursed before you start the work. So its not a lucrative job but could bring in a good side hustle.
Photography
We all have no excuse to take photos these days with the depth of detail built into our cellphones. I’m not suggesting that we are all photographers, Im clearly not ! But if you have an eye for detail and see great images wherever you go, maybe you should start selling them? There are so many places that you can sell great photos to people like me….
As an entrepreneur, working online, I use a ton of images.. I can make some myself using graphic programmes, which I love but when it comes to illustrating articles, I have to either try find what I need on some of the copyright free image websites, but they’re NEVER as great as the ones that I have to pay for.. Getty Images, StockUnlimited, Dreamstime.. these are my haunts, trying to work out how to get the images I want for as little as possible. These could be your images ! Go try it out !
House Sitting
This is one of my favourites ! I could definitely see myself travelling around the world housesitting in some awesome places, looking after pets and the house whilst the owners are away on holiday. My in-law’s used a house sitter when they went away to New Zealand for two months. Their house is in a fairly remote area. They don’t have pets but have a big garden with vegetables, flowers etc and the peace of mind they have from knowing there was a responsible person taking care, they could enjoy their holiday so much more.
Generally what happens is that you join a website promoting house sitting both for the house sitters and those requiring house sitters. Once registered, you fill your profile, then apply to the various jobs to house sit. You get paid from $30-$50 a day. The care of the house is not onerous. There will be pets to feed and walk, occasionally a few farm animals but nothing strenuous or time consuming. There is plenty of time to sightsee, walk, chill.. Sounds like the perfect job to me !
Be A Friend
Believe it or not, there are a lot of people out there that need friends.. or someone to go to a party with or a wedding or some other function and they have no one they know they can take. So many events that people look for companions. My son hates roller coasters. I paid for him to go to Dollywood last fall so we could have a day of excitement away from the tennis courts for a change. I thought it would be a great day…. well the first one we went on was ‘Goliath’. What I didn’t know at the time was that it is the fastest wooden roller coaster in the world and… my son doesn’t like roller coasters.. but I swear I did not know that at the time! He was scared to DEATH ! … It was a damp squib after that. Scared him rigid. I could really have done with a roller coaster buddy that day!
So this is where ‘be a friend’ comes in. That person to go and do these things with, biking, skiing, comedy club, wingman/woman, baking… You can be that friend ! Charging around $50/day is a great way to make extra cash….
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Word of caution, this would only be possible through a website that controlled the ‘friends’ a website such as ‘www.rentafriend.com’ that has strict control about exactly what the friend is for. It’s not a dating website, purely platonic, not an escort service… So next time someone comes to your city and wants to be shown around, you could be that person.
Conclusion
So many really interesting ways of making more money and still having a great time along the way!
The one that baffled me a lot on this list is that one of getting paid to become a friend or to go outing with someone. That is nice and one of the most coolest ways to earn money online that I have ever seen. But from this list, the way that works perfectly with me is the online classes. I work as an English language tutor online where I teach Japanese and Chinese students online. They pay quite well and that’s great for a side hustle. Thanks for the list compilation.
Thankyou Tracy. Ive got to say the rent a friend surprised me but it does make sense !
Wow, this are some very good ways to make money that you have written up here. One I am most fascinated with is brings friend. That’s something I haven’t heard before but it sounds cool. I have been doing freelancing for a while now and I have a friend who teaches online too. There really is a lot of ways to make money online. One can just choose what suits one. I would like to try making friends though for those who really need friends. Thank you for sharing this.
Thanks John, yes its really surprising when you read the list what there is to do out there, so really something for everyone, its just recognising your skills and going for it!
These are some really nice means of making money. I use to be a teacher in a high school but one thing led to the other, and I had to be at home and spend time with my family as I was missing out on so many things in their lives. However my love for teaching is still very much in my so I’ll gladly jump of the offer of being an online teacher. I have here of teaching English as a foreign language but don’t know much about it, can you offer any assistance with that?
Hi Chloe, thank you for your comments. Teaching gives you great skills you can use to fit in with your family life. I actually took a year course to teach english as a foreign language, as i live in Spain. It didnt work out as an occupation as I travel too much to commit to a job, but I did CELTA. It if fairly costly but with CELTA you can either set up your own business or find a language school you could work for. I wish you every success.
These are all great ideas. The mystery shopper one could be a good side hustle with the holidays coming up. Get some retail therapy and get paid. One type of job you may want to look into is being a translator. Freelance translators are used in schools, courts, hospitals, law offices, anywhere really. There are agencies that hire freelancers.
Thankyou Maria for your comments. Yes translation is an excellent suggestion!
Thank you for this wonderful piece. These are some of the coolest means making money online and I must admit I’m impressed with all of these suggestions. There are lots of people out here who are willing to quite working under some boss and becoming thier own boss by going into an online business. Currently I’m running a blog page, but if I’m to let go of it, I’ll certain host teaching classes online as its been a part of me to impact knowledge on people. Best regards.
Thankyou Dane for your comments, I hope you are very successful in your endeavours!
Thank you for your post. It is an inspirational article for me. I started online business for a while now and am actively looking for money-making opportunities.
Here comes your articles. There are so many novel ways to make money. I particularly like the way of making money by Be A Friend. I just went to website: rentafrienddotcom. You are so right there are almost any kind of friends available for rent in the world. I am certainly ready for rent for many activities. I bookmarked this websites and will come back to do some research on how to be rented.
It is kind of you sharing this interesting information with us.
Thanks Anthony, Im really pleased you found the article useful!
Thanks for this informative article. I have never heard of a mock juror nor the be a friend service before, but you have given me food for thought on the various services that are available.
I like the be a friend idea as there are so many people who are in need of a friend even if its for one hour which will make a big difference in their lives. This could even open doors for life long friendships.
The internet is really an amazing environment to engage in as it presents the world and what is happening in it at your finger tip.
Thankyou Mazie for your comments, the friend idea is really cool, one that i had not heard about !
Thank you, great article! So, the cooking online ones connect you with local people who will come pick up the food from your house? Do you ever have to deliver it to them?
how do you get a mystery shopper job? Is there usually a lot of competition for those jobs? Also, how much do mystery shoppers usually make? And how much can you make cooking for other people?
also do you think that you could make more on wealthy affiliate or doing one of these jobs? Thanks! Good job writing this article and I think you’re inline images are really nice.
Thankyou for your comments! The cooking definitely you do not deliver, the idea is that it would be a local thing so the customer would collect, you charge what you think its worth, but bearing in mind this is home cooked and no preservatives or additives, its so much healthier for you and the mystery shopper is worked through merchants who offer the services to stores, you would sign up with one of the merchants. You can earn between $30-$50 per shop and depending on which one, depends on exactly how much and whether there are any ancillary benefits.