--- title: '5 Online Side Hustles That Actually Work in 2026' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZiV2udb3gjY' video_id: 'ZiV2udb3gjY' date: 2026-07-16 duration_sec: 926 --- # 5 Online Side Hustles That Actually Work in 2026 > Source: [5 Online Side Hustles That Actually Work in 2026](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZiV2udb3gjY) ## Summary This video presents five online side hustles that require zero investment and are viable for 2026. The host emphasizes practical, actionable strategies for each hustle, including client acquisition methods and earning potential, with plans to demonstrate them in future videos. ### Key Points - **Newsletter Writing for D2C Brands** [00:29] — Email marketing offers high ROI ($1 spent yields up to $45 return). Brands need newsletter writers. Find brands via LinkedIn's 'People Also Viewed' section. A non-writer earns $10,000+/month; start with 5 brands at $500/month each. - **Shopify Landing Page Designing** [02:45] — Design professional landing pages using apps like Gem Pages or Page Fly. Find clients via Meta Ad Library or TikTok Ad Library (with VPN). Pitch brands with improved designs. Earning potential: $1,000-$2,000/month (₹95,000-₹1,70,000). - **Helping Influencers Monetize Audiences** [05:20] — Assist influencers in launching digital products (courses, eBooks) or services. Profit-sharing model (10-20%). Find clients via cold email or Instagram DMs. Unlimited earning potential. - **Providing Local SEO Services** [08:16] — Optimize Google My Business listings for local businesses (dentists, gyms). Charge ₹5,000-₹20,000/month for Indian clients; 1,000-1,500 Dirhams for Dubai clients. Client acquisition via LinkedIn DMs and referrals. - **Selling Digital Products on Etsy** [13:08] — Create digital products (planners, templates) once, sell unlimited times. Use Alura tool to analyze demand. Upload 20-30 products; it's a numbers game. Host plans to make a dedicated video on this. ### Conclusion The video outlines five zero-investment side hustles for 2026, emphasizing practical client-finding methods and realistic earnings. The host encourages viewers to start with newsletter writing and hints at future tutorial videos. ## Transcript five online side hustles that you can do this year and next year with zero investment. And you know the best part is that all the side hustles that I will share with you in this video, we will also do them practically in future videos. wasting any time let's start this video because time is varied. Ready? Let's do it. you can actually start is newsletter writing. Did you know that in the US alone, there are over 110 online D2C brands today? And in India, there are more than 11,000 brands and growing. Now, one of the most important revenue channels for every e-com or D2C brand growing. Now, one of the most important revenue channels for every e-com or D2C brand Why do you think brands sell these emails? Well, it's because they make money. If You Don't Already Know Email Marketing Is One of the Highest ROI Channels for Brands and Ecom Stores. As of today, every $1 spent on email marketing gives a return of up to $45 for every $1 spent. So there is always a need to send good newsletters to brands and that is where you can jump in to provide your services. The process is very simple. First, you need to find potential brands to whom you can outreach to sell your services. And then you simply have to start pitching them. For example, if I tell you, then see this email from Flex Pro Meals. See how many times this brand is using the same email template. Isn't it ? It's because they don't have any newsletter writer. But at the same time, you should pause and read the email of this brand. Much better, is n't it? And better means more sales for the brand. So if you think you can write well, write stories, write engaging emails, then this side hustle is for you. Look, I have a non- writer who earns $10,000 plus per month by writing newsletters. But you can start small. There may be five brands for which you write a weekly newsletter email each at $500 a month which amounts to about ₹40,000 per month per brand, four emails for every single brand, but how will you find brands? It is simple, actually you just have to come to this brands find the link in the description below and then you have to click on the Lindin profile of a brand and then once you come to the Lindin profile of your brand, you just have to come to the Lindin profile of your brand, you just have to You can pause and see. And for finding more similar brands, you just have to click on the People Also Viewed section. And Lindin will suggest you many similar brands like this. And you can do this by opening every brand. I am telling this from personal experience. This is the best side hustle to start this year. I would also start with this if I had to start all over again. Great. And with this, let's move on to our second side hustle which is Shopify landing page designing. Before you think, this is too generic. Watch the video carefully because my client finding approach is going to be quite unique for this particular skill. I will not tell you to create an account on Upwork or Fiber and the work is done. I will give you something concrete. But before that, what service will you provide exactly? Let's talk about that. Well, first of all, look at these two landing pages on these e-commerce websites. And then now look at these two landing pages. What do you think? Which websites will customers trust more? Definitely both of them , right? Well, why? Because the landing pages of both these websites are very professionally designed. Now you also have to do the same work. But how do you design landing pages ? It is not that complicated either. Well, you can use many Shopify apps like Gem Pages, Page Fly etc. And nowadays you can even use cloud etc. to build great landing pages. But still if you want to learn how to create landing pages , then you can watch all these videos. And now comes the main part. You can learn to make it but where will you get clients from ? So what do you need to do to hunt clients ? First of all you have to make a list of some niches like supplements, protein powders, fashion, clothing etc. Then you have to come to Facebook or Meta's Ad Library like this. And then you have to search your keyword like this. To visit landing pages and websites of all the brands running ads in the US, India, UK, Canada, etc. Then with the help of hio, you can find the emails of the contacts of the brands like marketing managers, CEOs and mail them that you have already created a better landing page design for them which will generate better revenue and sales for them. And once you get a reply, you will quickly create landing pages for brands and then you can close them. Trust me I work with D to C founders and dropshippers all day long. One Thing They Are Always Looking Forward To Is Great Landing Page Designers. Why? Because they have to test different sales funnels, landing pages and angles. This Guy in My Slack Channel Gets Paid $6000 Every Single Month for Doing Lending Pages. So even if I keep the figures conservatively, then I would say earning keep the figures conservatively, then I would say earning $1000 to $2000 a month is very reasonable, which comes to about ₹95,000 to ₹1,70,000 per month. And on top of Meta Ads, you can also scan TikTok's ad library using VPN to get clients. Visit Simply Landing Pages. If you like it then leave it. If it's not good then you can pitch the brand with a better version of the landing page. Cool. And with that, let's move on to our third opportunity, which is helping influencers monetize their audiences. This guy whose DM I received helps influencers himself. And when I said achha khasa, I really meant achha khasa. The interesting thing is that the investment required for this work is ₹. So what do you basically have to do here ? It is a very straight forward strategy. Nowadays there forward strategy. Nowadays there entrepreneurship and from painting to clothing. There are a lot of influencers who create content. But you know what? not have any idea how to monetize the audience , how to earn? And that's where you jump in and you help them monetize their audience. How? There are two ways. One, you can help them in launching digital products. Such as courses, training programs or eBooks and secondly you can help them in launching services so that they can book clients and generate revenue. So basically you set up everything for the creator. Product, pricing, funnel everything. And the creator or influencer pays you on a profit sharing basis. Whatever you decide, 10%, 20% etc. Meaning, nowadays even 18-19 year old children are generating income by doing this like this guy. So, I don't see a reason why you can't. But that's fine. How will you find clients? Again there are two ways. Or you can do cold emails. Find emails of creators and then send them cold emails like this. Or you can build your Instagram profile first and then start sending DMs. The earning potential is unlimited. It will start slow but you can scale it as much as you want. So there you go. Well, before we move on to the video, guys, I want to again emphasize the importance of having a website in today's era. If you still do n't have a website, be it a business website, a portfolio website, or an e-commerce website, you're missing out on a lot of undone businesses. If you don't have one and have said that, today I want to tell you about Hostinger Horizons. Hostinger Horizons is a tool that can Hostinger Horizons is a tool that can coding skills, without any technical knowledge. All you have to do is give a prompt. For this example, suppose I want to create a website for my flower shop, what I'll do is simply give Hostinger a prompt like this, and then in a span of a few minutes, you'll have your website ready, just like this. Let me scroll down and show you how well the website is built. You can also edit the site if you want. Simply by just talking to Horizons here and once you are satisfied you can click on publish upgrade your plan by adding your payment information using the code shift10 and to get extra 10% discount and then with simple steps you will have a site ready that you can use to market yourself and your business better. You will find the link below in the description for Hosting Her Horizons. Don't forget to use discount. And with that being said let's get back to the video. And now let's move on to our fourth side, which is providing local SEO services. If you search on Google now, Dentist Near Me or Best Gym Near Me, then the first profiles that you see are those with Google My Business, they get free clients every day. And you know what the funny thing is? Many local businesses still don't know Many local businesses still don't know their listings come to the top, and that's your opportunity. Now look, you will find people saying everywhere that SEO is dead. SEO is dead. He doesn't know anything about SEO. And SEO is that thing is far from the reality. I have a subscriber named Sol who lives in Dubai and has first. Hi Sol, please introduce yourself. ? What has been your experience? All of that. Hi everyone, my name is Sohail and I am doing SEO from past two years. And real estate company. And some of my clients are from And some of my clients are from India and Dubai as well. And like my neighborhood we also like real estate and like home services like roofing and HWC and also ok and I said yes or and I said yes or amazing and you know everybody knows here what are local SEO services you know you help local businesses with SEO and charge for it I just want to know how you used to find clients and then you used to charge those clients and how much can a person charge so I just tell me about the client hunting approach that you used to follow. Yes for me like what I used to do? I like I used to search from Lindin and like most of my clients I used to get from referrals it's like that like Lindin and referrals only so have you ever done anything like cold calling or DMs or anything like that ? Or I've sent DMs before but not Ok. So DMs convert or or like but you have to like do it in volume big volume right but but they do convert right people can buy DMs amazing so Lindin DMs and referrals right and how much how much you used referrals right and how much how much you used to charge for these you know the services ah yes so like if you are going with a small business then you can like then you can ask them for around ₹15000 because if like if you want to do SEO and content writing both then you can ask for 15,000 and like may be little less like 12,000 and 13,000 s well but but if you are going with the like with the hire like a large business like large business like you have to like it depends on the project which they give you it depends on that only right so maybe it's safe to say that 10 to 20000 per month Client for this or or or got it and this 10 to 20000 are we talking about Indian clients or Dubai No like this, specifically I am talking about Indian clients. And for like if you want to like if you want to get Dubai clients then you can charge around like how much? 1000 Drams and like around 1000 to like 1500 Dirhams. like around 1000 to like 1500 Dirhams. Great So what do you think as a beginner this person should start local SEO services on the side. Is it okay? Or so like or you can do like you can start doing this because this time like in this era we have your work like it's like it's really good side actually if money amazing well thank you so much for all the so the process again is not very complicated guys first of all you have to choose a niche like dentists lawyers gyms sales people etc then you have to start pitching them if you want you can do cold calling or you can also visit physically it is up to you. And then what do you do once you close one or two clients ? You have to ? You have to you will add better categories, add better business descriptions, add high quality photos, add reviews with a review strategy , post weekly Google posts there. Optimize the Q&A section well , add local keywords, and do small things to boost your visibility. And if you want to know in detail how to find clients for this particular skill or service in a systematic manner, then you can watch this video. And for this side actually I would say beginners can easily charge ₹5,000 to ₹10,000 for this service. If you can communicate with international clients then of course the revenue can be quite high. And if you thought Local SEO was boring, you might find the last side actually quite interesting. Which is selling on Etsy. But I don't mean selling any and every product on AdC specifically digital products. Meaning, create the product once and sell it unlimited times. So first of all, let me show you some examples of digital products on ET. As you can see, there are Etsy, manifestation journals, wedding planners, printable calendars, resume templates, Canva templates, Etsy, and honestly, you can create all of these products with just the help of C# and AI. But the real question is which product should you create or sell? Well this is where people make mistakes. Before making a product, you have to analyze the demand. I'll show you a tool that lets you analyze ad listings and get a better idea of ​​which products you should sell and which you should n't. [MUSIC] The tool is called Alura. So what do you do? First of all, you have to what do you do? First of all, you have to come to it. So, for example, Aura is estimating that this listing is generating approximately this number of sales. And if its price is $12 then you can roughly calculate how much total revenue it has generated so far. Now obviously these are not exact numbers but are very important for research. So first of all you have to handpick a lot of niches with the help of some AI tool and then one by one you have to take estimates with the help of Allura as to what type of products you can create. Then you can take inspiration from them and then you can start selling your products on Etsy. Now I would recommend you to upload at least 20 to 30 products on ads. Don't do this that you upload a product refresh the dashboard to see if there was a sale or not. A lot of people don't know this, but selling AIDS is a numbers game. The more quality products you upload, the more chances there are that someone will pick up the product. This side hustle is so interesting that I am also thinking of making a video on it. We will start an AIDS store. We will research the live product and then try to sell it. And if I see a good demand for the ad in the comments, then I will make sure that I will upload the video soon. But for now, if you just want a video that explains everything about AIDS, then you can watch this video. And that was The Video Guys. If you have any questions, the comment box is always open and with that being said, I will see you later in the talk.