Finding the best side hustles

I recently contributed to this article about finding the best side hustles.

Here’s what I told them:

I’ve seen most people having success starting out with freelancing. Many people already have skills they can use to freelance – writing is one of the most popular – and even if you don’t have any existing skills you can learn enough in a few weeks to land your first paying clients.

For example, my friend Justin started learning web development from scratch and landed a client at $9/hour within two months. He then started learning Google Adwords and a year later was up to $50/hour.

You can have that kind of fast success with many freelance skills. Whereas with something like affiliate marketing or dropshipping it can take years before you’re actually earning a living from your efforts.

I also like the advice in there from Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation:

Pick a software tool you love, with bonus points for being an early adopter, and start answering questions about it online. Paul Minors did this with Asana, Pipedrive, and a couple others, creating written and YouTube content, and ending up building a really healthy location-independent consulting operation.

See Nick’s full interview with Paul for more on that approach.