Best Side Hustles to Make an Extra $1,000-$2,000 Per Month

When I quit my job as a high school band director to run this site full time, I supplemented my income by running Facebook ads for some local businesses. I learned as much as I possibly could about digital marketing on Facebook and found my first client — the jeweler that made my wife’s engagement ring.

After that client, I found another and another. Just a few months in, something crazy happened… I was out earning what I made as a teacher, and I was doing it all on my own schedule.

As a digital marketer on Facebook, you are creating, testing, and running ad campaigns for businesses.

The reason this is hands down, one of the best online part time jobs is because Facebook has a massive reach that small business owners are just starting to tap into. Big companies have been doing this for a while, but many small business owners lack the resources and time it takes to run an effective ad strategy.

When you learn how to run Facebook ads for local business owners, you’re helping them strategize and grow their businesses. And for the foreseeable future, Facebook will continue to be one of the best platforms for small business owners to increase their visibility and sales.

But the best part? With just a few hours of work each week, each client is worth around $1,000-$1,500 per month, and you can keep scaling your business up with each new client.

If you’re interested in learning how to run ads on Facebook, I teamed up with my friend Mike Yanda (lawyer turned digital marketer who’s now bringing in $30k/month) to create the Facebook Side Hustle Course . In our course, you’ll learn exactly how to find clients, get them to say yes, and run successful ad campaigns.

For even more ways to make money on Pinterest, read How to Make Money on Pinterest in 2020 (Earn $1,000 Extra Per Month!).

VIPKid is an online platform for teaching English language skills to Chinese students. The hours are super flexible, you work as much as you want, and VIPKid pays up to $22/hour.

Speaking as a former teacher, this is one of the best online part time jobs for a couple of reasons: there is zero lesson planning and you teach in 25 minute long lessons.

If you’re interested in teaching with VIPKid, you will need a bachelor’s degree, but it doesn’t have to be in English or teaching. You also need to have experience working with kids, but that can be having your own kids, babysitting, working at a summer camp, etc.

To learn more about VIPKid — how to apply, scheduling lessons, taxes, and much more — read VIPKid Review: How to Apply, How to Get Paid, and Is It Legit?

teach with VIPKid

Freelancing is one of the broadest and most legit online part time jobs of 2020. There are so many different types of freelancing services you can offer, like:

• Graphic design
• Web development
• Writing
• Bookkeeping
• Photography
• Proofreading
• Virtual assistance
• Sound design
• App development
• Film editing

Side hustling as a freelancer means you are self-employed and providing work for your clients. You may be paid on a per hour or per job basis, and you grow your business based on the types of services you offer and your level of experience.

I know a lot of freelancers who start working just a few hours a week and scale their business into a full time job. Word of mouth is a great way to find clients, but you can also use Upwork, Fiverr, or advertise on Facebook or Craigslist.

Before I tell you why starting a blog is one of the best online part time jobs, you need to know one very important thing about blogging — it’s a slow business model overall.

Blogging isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme. It can take a few months to make your first few bucks.

But, starting a blog is 100% something you can do outside of normal business hours, anyone can start a blog, and the overhead is super low. Once you learn how to monetize your blog, your earning potential is virtually unlimited. Take M$M for example, three years ago I was living on a teacher’s salary, now I’m regularly earning $50,000+ a month from my blog.

Besides potential earnings, blogging is one of the best side hustles because you can blog about anything you want. I blog about personal finance because that’s something I enjoy helping others with, but you could blog about cooking, fitness, dogs, or whatever interests you. You could even legitimately blog about learning how to blog.

If you want to start your own blog, I teamed up with Bluehost to create a completely free installation and setup package for WordPress blogs. It’s called Launch That Blog, and my team takes care of the technical aspects of setting up your blog so you can focus on the most fun parts — creating content and engaging with your readers.

Online jobs, for the most part, are inherently flexible. As long as you have an internet connection, you can work. You can work outside of your 9-5 job, while you stay at home with your kids, while traveling full time, etc.

There’s a lot of freedom in that kind of flexibility.

Picking your own schedule means you can choose how much time you devote to your side hustle. You’re not tethered to someone else’s schedule. Trust me, that feels amazing.

The reality is that with so many online options out there, you’re going to run across a number that don’t pay well. Taking online surveys is a really good example. They’re super flexible, but surveys only pay around $1-$2/hour.

Sure, every little bit helps when you’re trying to pay off debt or start investing, but why settle for so little?

VIPKid pays up to $22/hour. It takes around 3-5 hours per week to run Facebook ads for one client, and that pays $1,000-$1,500/month. Freelancers can charge hourly rates of $25-$100+ depending on the work.

Now, this isn’t easy money. It takes time to set up some of these gigs, but when you put the time in, you’re compensated well for your efforts.