17 Side Hustle Ideas You Can Launch In The 2022 Recession
These are my top 17 side hustle ideas you can launch right now. These should be good enough proven side hustles to boost your skills and increase earnings online while sitting at home.
Look there isn’t anything more important during this 2022 recession than increasing your ability to earn income. I don’t know if you’ve noticed but there is money everywhere all you gotta do is just claim it. So in this article,
I want to put together a list of 17 side hustles you will be able to start today with just a laptop as long as you have a wi-fi connection and a willingness to work. I’m not gonna say that these things are gonna make you a millionaire but at least they’ll be able to replace your current income.
Introduction
Now before we get into a list of side hustles here are three things to focus on that will 10x the results you get with this article.
Number one I want you to go ahead and reverse engineer all of the ways that you spend money. I know most people won’t do this but right now. We want you to pull up your American express statement. Your revolut statement whatever bank or credit card you use I want you to pull it up. And I want you to go through the list and look at all of the places where you’re spending money.
You need to understand that business is simply an exchange of money in return for value. So the more cognizant you can be of the places where you are exchanging your money in return for some sort of value or perceived value. The more that you’re cognizant. All aware of these things the better that your ability to actually earn income.
Will be the second thing is if you are trying to provide a service for someone make sure you reach out with some sort of sample. It is gonna expedite their process and expedite their willingness to actually give you money. They’re gonna be far more willing to actually work with you.
The third thing is to do more reach outs and do more work than expected. There is money everywhere but you need to be smart enough to claim it. Now as I said I’m about to shoot off a list of 17 different side hustle ideas. The difference between a side hustle and a business in my opinion is a business is something.
Basically, you’re trying to go all in you know business is something. Where you’re trying to make seventy-five thousand dollars a year a hundred thousand dollars a year. You know two hundred fifty thousand dollars a year half a million dollars a year. A side hustle is something where you’re just trying to make a little bit of supplementary income on the side now.
1: TikTok Content Creation
Anyways let’s get into the side hustle first up we have tiktok content creation. Tiktok is blowing up right now because of its algorithms and for both people and businesses. It is a very valuable asset. Whether you’re actually creating user-generated content for businesses.
Or you’re just being a tick-tock editor for an influencer or a business. That can actually go ahead. And repurpose so for example there are so many podcasts out there you can actually come in and repurpose. All of their podcast content and tell them. Hey, I’m gonna create an entirely new channel for you with tick-tock.
2: Graphic Design
Number two graphic designer are you great with design then go ahead and look at places like twitter and search graphic design help on twitter. You know on twitter people will put out. Hey do you know any good graphic designers this is actually a very easy way to get clients.
You need to understand that there are hundreds of thousands of businesses out there that need better graphic design work and the difference in pay that. They’re willing to give between a good graphic designer and a great graphic designer is massive.
3: Boutique Marketing Agency
Third Side Hustle we have a boutique marketing agency. This is services any sort of service that could be literally anything. Whether that be thumbnails facebook ads google ads ticktalk ads email marketing whatever it is. Basically any service that helps businesses make more money and the agency aspect of it is.
Simply using leverage no longer just doing it yourself but using drop servicing to actually have someone else fulfill the services for you. You’re just finding the clients and wrapping it all under your experience. By the way that business small is. Actually how i got to 80 000 a month back in 2018 two years into running my agency.
4: Youtuber
Next we have youtuber do you have something that you are super excited to talk about something. You know you just can’t stop talking about to your friends and have you always felt that. You might have a good propensity for being on camera well being.
A youtuber can actually be super lucrative bear in mind. It’s a very very slow burn for a long time you won’t make a lot of money. Istarted uploading on youtube back in 2015.
I basically made zero money all the way up until 20 20 21 these days. Made close to 50 000 a month in Adsense and for most of the example 2019. I had monetization turned off anyways but these days. I made close to 50 000 a month. So you know it’s a good supplementary income for sure you know even if you’re just earning an extra 1500 a month doing something.
Probably you would have loved to do anyways or talk about something and it could be anything. You can do anything which you like or in which you have an interest like educating people, chess, online games, etc.
5: Tik Tock Theme Pages
Next, we have tick tock theme pages. Now people were making so much money between 2014 2017 even 2018 with Instagram theme pages. In fact, was one of those people the first business. I ever started Instagram theme pages. And then basically flipping accounts rebranding them to more profitable niches.
Basically selling shout-outs and promotions and stuff like that and that was back in 2014 to 2015. now that is all great but that got very very saturated that’s why I stopped after a year tick tock steam pages are the new wave of this.
6: Youtube Script Writer
Next, we have a youtube scriptwriter. now let’s say you’re very very very intrigued excited interested in a topic. And you know nothing against you for it. But you may just not have the sort of personality that’ll be good for youtube. Then you can actually be a youtube scriptwriter.
You look at the music industry for example and there are so many scriptwriters that are actually sort of the heartbeat and the lifeblood behind some of the biggest artists you can serve that exact same purpose by being a youtube scriptwriter for a YouTuber.
7: Coaching
Next side hustle is a coach. If there is something that you have mastered you are talented. Whether that be chess coach you know there’s a lot of people who want to improve chess. You can be an online chess coach. You could be a guitar coach and you could do that remotely via zoom. Could be a holistic health coach you could be whatever sort of coach that you want.
Know if there’s something that you’re very very good at then you can actually help coach people through it. By the way if some of you guys have a little bit of apprehension towards you. Know coaching why would people pay me just start off your hourly rate at like 20. or something just something super super cheap. Just keep working your way up from there.
8: Video Editing
Next side hustle is video editing. Creating some bangers for people look content is the current best form of marketing. So if you can create videos for people whether that be shorts reels actual youtube videos full-blown. Youtube videos literally. Whatever it is if you can do it and you can do it in a way where you turn things around quickly because a lot of people in a lot of editors are just way too slow.
Number two if you can do it in a way where you look at everything through the lens of the highest retention. You know specifically tell clients. hey i edit things in a way where you’re gonna get the best retention. Possible you are going to get the highest percentage of people watching the video from the beginning to the end. If you frame things that way you will win.
9: Ebay Flipping
Next is ebay flipping this is very good. Especially if you have a lot of stuff around the house that you can sell from day one. And if you don’t have that you can pull a garyvee. Basically go bully some seven-year-olds at a garage sale like hold on like trash talk to me five cents 30 bucks people working.
Our hours for 30 bucks i’m only joking but i do find some of those videos pretty funny. So yeah you can get some of those stuff and then go ahead. List it on ebay and you know a lot of your competition won’t know. How to list things properly they won’t know how to market things properly. You know they won’t know how to actually take photos with the right lighting.
So if you know how to do that you’re gonna have a massive competitive advantage. This side hustle has been there for thousands and thousands of years. There will always be an arbitrage. Okay there will always be a difference between the people who don’t know how to market.
And the people that do and you take two people selling the exact same thing. One person doesn’t know how to market one person does and this person will sell it for twice three times five times ten times. The amount that this person did and they both bought it for the exact same price.
10: Copywriting
Next up we have copyright. People will pay a lot of money if you can take care of their emails for them. Weekly newsletter whatever you know any sort of form. You know their facebook updates anything they need to do to actually get written word out even their twitter post. Anything you can do to help alleviate. The stress that they have of putting out written content.
You know there’s only three or four skills where i would say no matter who you are if you can learn it. And it doesn’t really matter what industry you get into it will serve you for the rest of your life. Copywriting and sales are two of those skills. So as i said whether that’s helping with emails whether that’s helping with sales scripts whether that’s helping with landing pages.
Twitter posts anything if you can help people articulate present themselves. Sell more via written word you in return will get paid a lot of money speaking of skills that will carry through for the rest of your life.
11: Sales
We need to talk about sales. Remote sales jobs have incredible potential. I will say this doesn’t really fall under the side hustle category, because usually if you are selling for a product or service or for example you’re selling for a high ticket coaching offer or you’re selling for a sas company usually they will want us to be full-time.
Don’t think this is one of those things where you’re gonna make fifty thousand dollars a month. You’re not but if you find the right organization. We can very consistently make between five ten fifteen thousand a month.
It’s just most people are very very scared of sales. They’re very scared of sales at that amount of repetition and that amount of volume, because you’re basically just going to be selling all day if you want to be hitting good numbers.
12: Thumbnail Editor
Twelveth side hustle is thumbnail editor look. Ican tell you for a fact thumbnails are so so so so important you know even just the other day. I hired not one not two three full-time thumbnail editors. We all know my thumbnail editing team between all of them they get paid seven and a half thousand dollars a month.
Between base and their bonuses and very clearly when i was hiring for these people. I told them you know no one in america no one in uk like for them to making two and a half thousand dollars a month for in that range is life-changing money. One of the thumbnail editors he’s from togo and the average salary there is 60 a month. He’s a very very wealthy man in togo.
I guess you can say that now you might look at that and you might go iman. Why are you spending seven and a half thousand dollars a month on thumbnails. Well it’s because i know it’s such a pivotal aspect of the video.
So the weekly uploads i do here on youtube going back and doing new fresh thumbnails for old videos to kind of help them rank. And promote better as well as there’s a few channels for example my business partner or the software company or my ceo of my e-learning company.
Uh he’s about to launch a youtube channel as well so there’s a few extra youtube channels that are launching as well. Basically we use all my editors and all the thumbnail editors and stuff like that. Basically all that responsibility gets shared between all of them anyways. The reason i’m telling you all this is because thumbnail editing.
When you position it the right way here’s the issue most people go and they’re like. I’ll do your thumbnail for you cool you’re a commodity. Can get someone to do your thumbnail for ten bucks five dollars fifty dollars a hundred you know it really doesn’t matter rather than selling them your thumbnail services.
It’s gonna go hey i create thumbnails for you but that’s not really important. Instead what i’m doing for you is i’m increasing your ctr and on average. Let’s say your videos go from hypothetically right a four to a five percent ctr that means that i’m going to get you 25 more views 25 more eyeballs. Next month when you hire me compared to this month now that takes you from a commodity.
Yeah you know i’ll pay them 300 a month. Do some you know some thumbnails for me too now. Actually charge 1500 a month 2500 a month, because you’re selling an outcome rather than just a commodity. So just bear that in mind and that applies for a lot of things i’m talking about here.
13: Website Designer
Next we have a website designer. Once again it’s one of those things where it can be a commodity or basically an roi service something where. There is a clear return on investment when a client is basically paying you the money.
Rather than positioning things like oh i’ll just create your website explain what benefits that’s going to have. And also explain that you view things from a perspective of landing page load speeds from a conversion perspective etc etc.
14: Affiliate Marketing
Next up we have affiliate marketing now bear in mind without traffic affiliate marketing is very very difficult. So i will say this if you don’t have a massive audience. This can be a little difficult now me. Personally i make roughly around forty thousand dollars a month from affiliate marketing. Once again it’s a nice little supplementary income.
Basically just comes from three agency related softwares. And i don’t really talk about that stuff publicly but the reason i make forty thousand dollars a month is because i already have pre-existing traffic. So i don’t need to do much promotion or anything like that. Just bear that in mind affiliate marketing is a slow burn.
15: Airbnb Marketing Agency
Next we have airbnb marketing agency. There are so many airbnbs that are just so poorly listed so poorly presented. So if you can have a marketing agency that helps basically airbnb owners with their listing marketing writing descriptions taking the right photos. Once again that has a positive roi that means that not only will they be booked out more. They can also even increase the rates.
16: Upwork
Next one and this isn’t really a side hustle but it’s just something that you can do right now is just go on upwork and see the things that are listed and that will actually just kind of get the cogs turning in your mind and it’ll give you some ideas as to basically different services that you can offer.
17: Discord Moderation
Last one side hustle is discord moderation. There are so many communities via discord. And by the way that could be discord moderation that could be facebook group moderation. Basically just being a moderator for communities there are lots of communities. You know online communities out there that have a thousand people in there five thousand ten thousand a hundred thousand fifty.
Whatever the number is and obviously once you get to that size you need a good team of moderators to actually moderate it. And if you get good enough then you can actually become a moderation agency. You can have people who work for you. Basically you offer a moderation services so rather than a person having to find five different mods.
You just sell your services as a moderation agency and you can tell clients that hey between our team you have 24-hour visibility. There’s people on my team moderating from different time zones 24 hours of the day. So ladies and gentlemen i do not want you to take this as gospel you know i don’t want you to think that i’m recommending. You start any of these side hustles.
I just really wanted to get the cogs turning in your brain because as i said there’s so much money out there. You just need to get serious pick something and go claim some of it. There has never been a better time than right now. So go out there get started and i’m rooting for you.
