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title: '7 Side Hustles Ideas to Make $1000/Month'
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date: 2026-06-29
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# 7 Side Hustles Ideas to Make $1000/Month

> Source: [7 Side Hustles Ideas to Make $1000/Month](https://youtube.com/watch?v=I-dlPuqFguo)

## Summary

This video presents seven side hustle ideas aimed at generating an extra $1,000 per month. The creator emphasizes a philosophy of side hustles as flexible, enjoyable, and high-value services rather than second jobs. Each idea is evaluated on ease of starting, making the first $100, and long-term effort, with a focus on the 'Permissionless Apprentice' model for landing clients.

### Key Points

- **Philosophy of Side Hustles** [00:24] — A true side hustle should pay more than a service job, be enjoyable, and offer flexibility. It's different from a second job which has a capped income, is often boring, and ties you to a schedule.
- **The Law of Making Money** [02:19] — Money is an exchange of value. To make money, you must learn a valuable skill and find people willing to pay for it. The formula is: learn a skill + find people who need it.
- **Side Hustle 1: Become a Writer for Businesses** [03:44] — Focus on B2B (business-to-business) services rather than B2C (business-to-consumer) because businesses have more money to spend. Writing is a top service businesses need, including content writing for SEO and writing for creators.
- **Side Hustle 2: Become a Sales Copywriter** [08:37] — Sales copywriting involves writing persuasive text for sales pages. It has a clear ROI for businesses, making it easier to sell. The 'Permissionless Apprentice' model is recommended: rewrite a sales page for free and send it to a potential client.
- **Side Hustle 3: Become a Thumbnail Designer** [12:01] — Thumbnail design is a high-demand service for YouTubers. The creator notes that despite millions of views on his videos, only five people have pitched him, and none were good enough. This highlights the need to actually be good at the skill.
- **Side Hustle 4: Become a Website Designer** [14:48] — Web design is how the creator started. He recommends learning tools like Webflow or Framer and using the Permissionless Apprentice model. An example is given of Henry, who taught himself web design and now charges $10,000 per website.
- **Side Hustle 5: Become a Short-Form Video Editor** [17:29] — Short-form video editing is in high demand due to TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. A successful pitch example is shown where a video editor offered to edit three videos for free, taking on all the risk.
- **Side Hustle 6: Become a Solopreneur's Second Pair of Hands** [22:34] — Offer to be a virtual assistant or operations manager for a solopreneur. The example of Elizabeth Phillips is given, who started as a part-time PA and later became a successful YouTuber.
- **Side Hustle 7: One-Man Video Production Agency** [25:01] — Become a one-person video production agency, offering filming, editing, and storyboarding. There is high demand from businesses for video content, but relatively few good providers.
- **Personal Recommendation: Web Design** [27:56] — The creator would personally choose web design, targeting favorite creators and software companies, using the Permissionless Apprentice model to build a portfolio and testimonials.

## Transcript

in this video I'm going to break down
seven different side hustle ideas that
you can start this year to the point
where you're hopefully making an extra
$1,000 a month and for each of them
we're going to talk about how easy it is
to get started secondly how easy it is
to make your first $100 from it and
thirdly how much time and effort it
takes to keep things going once you've
gotten started and then afterwards I'm
going to talk about what I would
personally be doing if I was say in my
early 20s and trying to make some extra
money and how I'd be applying these
principles to my own life part one the
philosophy of side hustles okay so let's
start by zooming out a little bit and
thinking critically about what we're
actually trying to do here so what is a
side hustle what is the point of doing
the side hustle thing well firstly very
few people would say no to an extra
$1,000 a month coming in even an extra
few hundred a month coming in would be
really helpful for a lot of people
having more money is generally a good
thing because it unlocks autonomy it
unlocks Freedom it lets you buy more
things if you're interested in that it
lets you unlock more experiences and it
lets you basically have a little bit
more control over your own life so how
do you actually make this extra money
that you want coming in well one way is
to try and get a raise at your day job
but we're not going to talk about that
cuz this video is about side hustles the
other way is of doing a kind of old
School side hustle which is actually
just called a second job like for
example let's say I wanted to make an
extra few hundred quid a month I could
get a job at the local Kebab shop down
the road and that's all well and good
because I could be making I don't know
£101 an hour or something like that
working at the said kbab shop but
there's a few issues with me trying to
use that as my side hustle or second job
firstly there is a cap to how much money
I could be getting paid working at the
local Kebab shop secondly working at the
local Kebab shop is probably not very
fun I'm a big fan of Kebabs I love it
but even then it would probably become
kind of boring after a while and thirdly
and most importantly it would tie me
into more shift work let's say I've got
a day job job and then I'm doing the
kbab shifts in the evening I have to
show up at a particular time I don't
have autonomy over my time and I don't
have the flexibility in being able to
work when I want and so these factors
mean that working at the local Kebab
shop I would call less of a side hustle
although you can use that terminology if
you want I would call it more like a
second job so when we say side hustles
what do we generally mean by that a
decent side hustle should take three
boxes firstly it should you it should
allow you to make more money than you
would be working at a local service job
secondly it should be something that you
actually enjoy doing where ideally it
wouldn't necessarily feel like work it
wouldn't feel as if you have a second
job that you're toiling away at just to
make a little bit of extra cash it would
be something that actually fulfills you
creatively and thirdly and perhaps most
importantly it would be flexible you
wouldn't be tied into a certain shift
pattern you'd be able to work broadly
where you want and when you want now in
this video we're going to break down
seven different things that you could do
that take all three of these boxes but
there's one final thing that we need to
understand before we go forward and that
is the law of making money the law of
making money basically says that money
is an exchange of value if you want to
make money you need to provide value to
people who are willing to pay you for
said value now this is a mistake that I
see a lot of people making all the
emails I get from people asking you know
how how do I make money on the internet
all this kind of stuff but like in order
for you to make money someone needs to
someone needs to give you that money you
can't just make money money just does
not grow in trees it doesn't just appear
magically in your account someone has to
actually want to pay you in order for
you to get that money into your account
like for example when you buy a $3
coffee from Starbucks you are paying
Starbucks $3 or whatever it is and then
you're getting a coffee in return
because you perceive that that value the
coffee that you're getting is worth the
$3 the $3 is coming out of your personal
account and going to Starbucks similarly
when you are making money on the
internet it's easy to think of the
internet as like magical internet money
oh if I make a YouTube video I just make
money for free but like that money is
coming from someone in the case of
YouTube it's coming from advertisers and
the people that would say that making
money is fairly easy are the ones who
understand that it's an exchange of
value and there's a fairly simple
formula for this and if you can
understand the formula then you probably
hopefully shouldn't really struggle with
making money and that formula is firstly
you just need to learn a skill or get
good at a skill that people are willing
to pay for and then secondly you just
need to find people who are willing to
pay for that skill and so if you can
just do those things a skill and then
find people who are willing to pay you
for the skill then you won't really have
a problem with making money and so
hopefully you're going to see as we go
through the rest of this video that the
seven different ideas we're talking
about here are all about building a
valuable skill and then finding people
to pay you for set skill so let's get
started side hustle idea number one
become a writer for businesses very very
broadly there are two types of
businesses there's B Toc and there's B2B
so b2c is business to Consumer and B2B
is business to business basically
everything you're familiar with is going
to be b2c business to Consumer so for
example YouTube is b2c like most mostly
it's consumers who are watching YouTube
but actually the way YouTube makes money
is B2B they're are selling a service to
advertisers they're selling to other
businesses and it's worth understanding
this distinction because by far the
easiest way to level up your ability to
make money is to start thinking B2B
rather than b Toc it's to start thinking
what are the services that I can offer
to businesses rather than how can I make
money from my friends and colleagues
because your friends and colleagues
probably don't have money to spend it's
like if you start imagining like oh what
value can I add to my my friend it's
like I could become a cleaner for them
maybe that's B to see but if you start
thinking what value can I add to local
businesses or businesses on the internet
now it just massively increases the
scope of things that you can do to make
money on the internet and the first
major category of services that you can
offer to businesses is writing writing
is one of the top things that basically
every business in the world is looking
for it could be a local business like
your local accountant or your local dry
cleaner it could be an internet business
like software and all this kind of stuff
it could be creators like me and other
YouTubers it could be authors it could
be podcasters like almost every business
that you'll ever come across will have a
need to hire writers to do some kind of
writing now one of the main ones here is
content writing so for example
businesses will have a Blog often and on
that blog they will post articles about
their particular industry and they're
hoping that by posting enough articles
on their website they'll get decent
search engine optimization SEO and then
more people are going to go on their
blog and then they'll stumble across the
business and then that will increase the
sales or the leads for the business and
this is a great Niche to get yourself
into because it's very valuable for a
business to have someone competent being
able to write articles for them B they
absolutely recognize the value of this
and they will pay for the service and C
it means you can just write you can
write about topics or businesses or
fields that you're genuinely interested
in and generally when you're doing
something that you have an inherent
interest in that you actually enjoy
writing about it's going to become way
easier and it's going to feel a lot less
like work the other major category of
people who need writers is any kind of
Creator we hire a bunch of people to do
research and writing for our videos or
for social media or for our website or
for our courses and tons and tons of
stuff every other creator that I know
who's making money who's treating their
creator thing like a business also has a
massive requirement for writers and so
if you want you can make money by
working with your favorite creators and
helping them right content I know people
who charge $1,000 for a single script
for a YouTube video so if you can find a
creator that needs that kind of service
you can make some pretty good money
doing that thing there's another mistake
that people make here and they think
okay cool I'm going to be a writer
therefore let me advertise my services
on a freelance website like Fiverr or
upwork or people per hour or something
like that and I would normally say that
that's a pretty bad idea because if
you're on these freelance websites where
there are 50,000 other people offering
the same service you're already kind of
on the back foot because how is someone
going to find you out of these other
50,000 people instead what I'd recommend
is what Jack buter called The
permissionless Apprentice model so
basically you do work for people for
free without them asking you to do it
and you just then email them and show
them the work that you've done and so
for example if I was thinking how do I
make money as a writer I would basically
go to my favorite YouTubers the ones
whose content I watch anyway and that
certainly doesn't feel like work and I
would just write a brand new video for
them completely for free that would be a
good way for me to a improve my own
skills and B boost up my own portfolio
and see once I've written a script for
them in a Google doc or an otion page or
whatever I would send it to them with an
accompanying video that says hey I've
written this for you completely for free
if you like it feel free to use it and
if you want more things like this then
you know let's let's chat and you know
we can talk about working together for
the long term and I would do this for a
handful of my favorite YouTubers and I
can basically guarantee that at least
one of them are going to reply assuming
my script is good with oh my God this is
incredible you've really nailed the
script in exactly what my style would be
and therefore I want to hire you all
right so something like this how easy is
it to start and actually especially
these days with the Advent of AI
artificial intelligence enhanced writing
tools it's actually becoming way easier
to be a writer than it used to be when
you had to type all the words out
yourself so often being a decent writer
these days is just about being able to
use the appropriate AI tools to create
your first draft then being able to edit
that first draft to see what sounds good
and what's in the style of the people
that you're trying to work for how easy
is it to make your first $100 again I
would say it's a little bit harder than
just getting started because you have to
Now find people to pay you but if you're
using this permissionless Apprentice
model if you're not trying to stand in
the queue of 50,000 people on Fiverr
trying to get hired but but you're
instead actively reaching out and
working for free for people that you
actually want to work with I would say
probably with a few weeks you probably
land your first client and then that'll
probably pay more than $100 and now
you've made your first $100 and then how
much time and effort is it to keep going
well the issue with writing is that you
are kind of trading your time for money
because you do have to do the work of
actually writing being to to then get
paid for it but actually these days if
you use AI tools appropriately then you
can probably massively leverage your own
ability to write stuff and then also
further down the line once you've had
experience in writing you can then start
creating your own assets you can make
your own ebooks or your own courses your
own products and now that is a thing
that then decorrelates writing from the
amount of time you're spending on it and
it then becomes a way of leveling up
this particular side hustle and maybe
making a more of a passive income stream
out of this writing stuff side hustle
idea number two becoming a sales
copywriter basically anytime someone
wants to sell something they will have a
page that gives you the information
about their product for example if you
look on Amazon any product will have
some copy sales copy some writing that's
trying to sell you the product if you
look at any online courses or any
products on the internet like basically
everything will have some level of sales
copy associated with it and so if you're
looking to make some extra money through
a side hustle and you're interested Ed
in for example writing and sales and
marketing and psychology and persuasion
and this kind of stuff you can actually
fairly easily and fairly quickly become
more of an expert in the field of sales
and marketing you could read a few books
like Russell brunson's expert Secrets
Trilogy you could read Alex homo's $100
million offers you could read a book by
I think Jim Stevens called copywriting
secrets and with a handful of books you
would become way more knowledgeable
about sales and marketing generally and
about copywriting in particular that you
probably know way more than any business
that's trying to hire you for the
service and the nice thing about sales
copyrighting is that generally the
return on investment for a business is
fairly obvious like if someone emailed
me and they did the permission as
apprentice model and they saw that my
parttime YouTuber Academy has a sales
page and because of their knowledge of
sales and marketing and copywriting they
would know that my sales page is under
optimized if they were to just send me a
Google dog being like hey I'm a sales
copywriter I've Rewritten the first half
of your landing page for you feel free
to use it but I'd love to work with you
I would immediately say yes absolutely
I'm going to hire this person because
for me if I can improve the conversion
rate on my sales Page by even 1% that
directly translates to bottom line
profits and therefore it's a lot easier
for me to justify the expense of hiring
a sales copywriter for that thing and
the thing with all of these things is
that once you've got one paying client
it's be it becomes a lot easier to land
other paying clients because Word of
Mouth recommendations in the world of
business are just huge and generally if
we work with a with a freelancer or
someone who's really good then I will
know 10 to 20 to 30 other people who
need that service and I'd be
recommending that freelancer to those
other people as well because generally
business owners hang out with other
business owners big YouTubers hang out
with other big YouTubers and generally
the problems that one of those has is
the same as the problem that all their
friends have so really all you have to
do is get your foot in the door get your
first paying client get a testimonial
from them and then word of maath
recommendations mean that you probably
won't struggle to find clients in the
future again assuming you're good all of
this has to be on the presupposition
that money is an exchange of value and
you have to actually be good at the
thing so how easy is sales copyrighting
to start well it's not that easy you
kind of have to be good at the skill
which means you do have to do a little
bit of reading but hey in about a month
you can read all these books that I've
mentioned they'll be linked down in the
video description and then now all you
have to do is do a little bit of
practice and you can do that practice
permissionless like you don't have to
wait for permission for someone to be
like hey yes I want you to redesign my
landing page you could just do it and
you could see if you enjoy it and your
skills will just naturally improve over
time secondly how easy is it to make
your first $100 honestly pretty easy
sales copywriting is such a standard
it's it's just so easy to reach out to a
business and say hey I've improved the
copy on your landing page do you want to
hire me to improve the the copy on the
rest of your website and they'll
probably be like hell yeah and now
you've landed your first client and then
thirdly how time intensive is it to do
well actually I think it's less time
intensive than content writing because
to be honest once you get good at sales
copywriting you find that the formula is
kind of the same for any sort of
business you describe the problem you
agitate the problem you provide a
solution like there's a a formula that
you can read in for example copywriting
Secrets the book and if you follow that
formula you can often copy and paste
things between different clients and you
just become better at the skill over
time so you know your 10th and 20th
client will take a lot less time than
your first or second client so broadly I
would say it's not too bad in terms of
ongoing time and effort side hustle idea
number three become a thumbnail designer
so we're now talking about design as a
service we've talked about writing as a
service now it's design as a service and
one very easy design as a service that
every single YouTuber needs is a
thumbnail designer as YouTubers we know
how important thumbnails are and so if
you can actually get good at the skill
of making thumbnails which is again not
too hard you just follow some tutorials
on the internet about how to use
Photoshop and over time you'll develop
an eye for what decent thumbnails look
like then again you can follow The
permissionless Apprentice model and then
you can email them and say hey I really
enjoy your work I've been watching your
channel for a very long time I'm I'm I'm
a thumbnail designer so I thought I'd
redesign some of your thumbnails for you
feel free to use them if you'd like and
if you'd like to hire me if you like
what I've done and you'd like to hire me
then do please get back to me and we can
talk I have actually mentioned this
point in a couple of videos in the past
and I have had maybe five people out of
the 3 million people or 15 million
people that have watched these videos
I've had about five people email me with
being like hey I would love to be your
thumbnail designer here here are a few
thumbnails unfortunately all five of
those have just like the thumbnails have
not been very good and we've AB tested
them uh and they just haven't performed
as well as thumbnails that I could make
myself but there like five people out of
several million people who watched the
videos and I'm literally saying anyone
can email me and redesign my thumbnails
and I will literally hire you if your
thumbnails are good only five people
have done it and none of them have been
good so again this is the thing of like
exchange of exchange of value you have
to actually be good at the thing that
you're trying to do but the way you get
better at the thing you're trying to do
is by just doing lots of it doing it
permissionless and then over time you
can iterate and get better at this
graphic design stuff so how easy is it
to get started with this well I say it's
kind of hard because you have to learn
graphic design and you have to have an
eye for kind of Aesthetics and taste and
just be familiar with YouTube but if
you're the sort of person who watches a
lot of YouTube videos which I hope you
are if you you gotten to this point in
this video then maybe you'll just have
more of a an inbuilt appreciation of
thumbnail Aesthetics than other people
do secondly how easy is it to make your
first $100 well honestly if it were me I
would pay2 200 to £250 GDP for a decent
thumbnail for one of for one of my
videos I know someone who pays $11,000
for a thumbnail for one of his videos
you know the lowest I've seen people pay
for thumbnail is like 30 4050 which is
again quite a lot considering that it
sometimes only takes maybe 20 minutes or
half an hour of work to create a
thumbnail and especially if you're from
a country where the kind of purchase
price parity is very different to the
GBP then that's a lot of money that you
can make for a very small amount of work
again provided you're actually good at
the thing and then thirdly how much time
and effort does this take to keep going
I would say actually a moderate amount
you do have to make the thumbnails
specific for every video but over time
as you work with specific clients you
you kind of get an idea of their style
like the thumbnail designer who works
with me now it takes it it doesn't take
very long for him to make the thumbnails
for the videos because we kind of have a
house style it's usually a smiling photo
of me and then there's usually some
icons and maybe some text and that
actually maybe takes like 10 20 minutes
to put together whereas initially it
would have taken maybe several hours if
you were trying to design thumbnails
completely from scratch for every single
client so and a moderate amount of
effort over time side hustle idea number
four become a website designer now being
a website designer is actually how I got
my own start when it came to making
money online as a side hustle I was 13
years old I was in school but in the
evenings and on the weekends I'd be
doing freelance web design for random
small businesses that would meet on some
freelance website and this was how I
made my first kind of several hundred on
the internet and again this is thing of
that there are thousands and thousands
of web designers out there it's just
that a they're either not very good or B
just bad at marketing the services to
the right people in the right format
like if you go to Fiverr you'll see
10,000 examples of web designers but
that's again like if you're if you're on
Fiverr trying to sell your services
you're probably doing it wrong and
instead if you follow The permissionless
Apprentice model and interact with
people on Twitter and on LinkedIn and
these platforms where people people who
have money are congregating and are
willing to pay money for services you'll
generally have a much better time of
trying to land work now one of the guys
that we work with for our website is
called Henry and in the pandemic within
about 6 months he taught himself how to
design websites and he built his own
personal website that looked absolutely
amazing it looked like the like one of
the sales Pages for an Apple product and
so he reached out to us and said that
hey he likes he likes the stuff he would
like to do some web design for us and I
looked at his website and I was
immediately blown away I was like oh my
God this guy clearly knows what he's
doing of course I want to hire him
because again every business every
Creator who has a website every business
under the sun will always be thinking
about how do I improve my website
because they know that their website is
really important for their business
branding and for landing sales for their
products and so we hired Henry and now
we've paid him several I think over 10K
plus over the last like year to help
redesign some of our websites like he
previously had a job he didn't enjoy the
job very much and he decided you know
what I'm interested in design I like the
idea of making websites I'm just going
to teach myself and through just tap
watching YouTube videos and taking a
couple of courses online he taught
himself web design to the point that he
can now charge $10,000 for every website
he makes for a client if you don't know
how to make a website I have a video
about it linked over here somewhere so
how easy is this to start I would say
it's pretty easy to start because it's
not that hard learning how to design a
website all you have to do is decide is
this the thing you want to do and then
watch a few YouTube tutorials and then
practice then build up your portfolio
over time how easy is it to make your
first $100 again not overly hard again
if you follow The permissionless
Apprentice model if you're not trying to
queue up with 50,000 other people on
Fiverr and and you're instead actively
reaching out to companies or creators or
businesses that you like and doing a
little bit of a free design for their
homepage initially and saying hey this
is what your website could look like I'm
a web designer I'd love to work with you
you know let's hop on a call and talk
about it it shouldn't be too hard to
land your first client and then thirdly
how much time and effort does this take
to maintain over time again it takes a
lot of time and effort initially as you
start doing the thing but then you know
there are plenty of people I know who
just do freelance web design by
designing sites on WordPress and once
you've made one or two sites you can
often copy and paste the settings and
the appearance and the theme on any
other side that you use and just tweak a
few little bits of it side Hustle idea
number five become a short form video
editor we've talked about writing we've
talked about design the other major
thing that basically every business
Under the Sun is now looking at is video
and in particular short form video with
the whole Tik Tok thing with the whole
Instagram reals thing with the whole
YouTube shorts thing basically every
business that I know are trying to get
into video production and video making
because they know that that's a way for
them to generate more organic traffic
for their business now I want to show an
example here of a Twitter DM that this
guy Juan Gomez sent to my friend Dicky
Bush who runs a ship 30 for 30 this guy
says I spent about 20 minutes crafting a
DM I wanted to demonstrate competence
and relatability I wanted to make sure I
took on all the risk not Dicky and
here's the DM I sent hey Dicky I saw
your YouTube thread and was super
encouraged by your approach love the
fact that you're building in public I've
been receiving tremendous value from
your content and would want to return
the favor in some way if you're ever in
need of a video editor shoot me a
message I've worked as a video
videographer editor for 2 years and have
over 200 videos of experience I really
connect with the topics you talk about
and would love to help you grow your
channel offer I edit your next three
videos for free and you decide if you
want to work with me or not let me know
if this is something you'd find
interesting cheers now this guy from
sending this DM and from like taking on
all the risk himself and offering to do
these next three videos completely for
free not quite following the permission
as apprentice model in that he didn't do
the work up front he asked dick if he
wanted the work done because he would
need to send him the raw files to to
edit he ended up Landing a job with this
very high paying client whose work he
enjoyed where doing the video editing
for Dicky Bush doesn't actually feel
like work to one and I think a DM like
this is something that so many people
could learn from again I get a handful
of emails every single day from people
pitching me on Services none of them are
like demonstrate the competence and the
relatability and the reliability of
message like the one that Juan sent to
Dicky and I think that's a shame because
clearly there are all these people out
there that want to make money that they
want to do creative stuff that gives
them flexibility and autonomy but they
don't realize like how to sell the
service it's like you could be really
good at video editing but if you suck at
being able to communicate that value
proposition to someone else who's
willing to pay you for that service then
you're never going to land the work in
the first place so how easy is this to
start well you actually have to learn
video editing it's not that hard you can
take my own skillshare class on how to
edit videos it's free link down below if
you want to check it out and in a
weekend you can learn how to edit videos
to a reasonable standard secondly how
easy is it to make your first $100 again
I don't think it's very hard at all I
think if you have just an a reasonable
amount of communication skills and a for
some sort of portfolio and some ability
to actively reach out to the people that
might be hiring you it's really easy to
make your first $100 again if you're
trying to stick yourself on Fiverr and
then kind of compete with 50,000 other
people for video editing it'll be really
hard to make your first $100 but if you
do it right if you connect with the
appropriate people on Twitter and
Linkedin and email rather than trying to
go in freelance marketplaces it'll be
super super easy as a video editor to
make your first $100 and then how much
effort does it take to keep going well
unfortunately quite a lot video editing
is one of those things that it does take
a large amount of time and as you get
better at it and as you develop assets
and Transitions and templates and stuff
you can get a little bit faster at it
but it is fundamentally a thing that
requires work and so if you really
wanted to level up this particular side
hustle you could then form a sort of
agency model you could hire other video
editors underneath you like Junior
editors who would do the initial cuts
and that kind of stuff and then you
could be the person doing the Final Cut
and presenting that to the client and
now you're kind of building your own
agency which is a different sort of way
of doing a Hustle but something we're
going to be talking about in future
videos now once you've used all these
side hustles to make this extra money
you're probably going to want to invest
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obviously as with all Investments your
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£100 side hustle idea number six become
a solopreneurs second pair of hands all
right so this is quite a fun one this is
not quite a creative skill but again
generally if you if you know that there
are people out there who you would like
to work for let's say you follow
YouTubers or streamers or businesses or
whatever you can send them an email and
offer to be their second pair of hands
sort of a cross between an operations
manager and a personal assistant so
James CLE for example who is the
ridiculously bestselling author of
atomic habits which you might have read
only has one other person on his team
and this person is his right-and man who
does all of the stuff sort of like a
personal assistant/ virtual assistant/
helping him with all the content he
wants to make and like helping him book
his like conferences and going through
his emails and for that person working
in that role they get to work with James
clar and that's like a pretty cool place
to be and they get to be basically
running the operations of this
multi-million dollar business that he's
got going on with a small team of two
people and that's pretty fun it could
start off as a part-time side hustle and
then it could absolutely become a
full-time thing if you're into that kind
of stuff similarly you might be familiar
with Elizabeth Phillips who used to be
my part-time personal assistant for like
you know a few hours a week and that was
how she got into this world of content
creation and stuff and then by virtue of
being my part-time personal assistant
for a few hours a week she realized that
oh this YouTube stuff is a thing and she
helped out with our YouTuber Academy and
now she's like you know massive YouTuber
several 100,000 subscribers making loads
of money through that and really doing
this sort of personal assistant
operations manager side hustle part-time
thing can unlock a lot of interesting
opportunities further down the line that
you just wouldn't even have realized
even existed if you hadn't done the
thing right so how easy is this to get
started honestly I think it's super easy
again all you have to do is have the
appropriate amount of communication
skills to be able to email or DM someone
and take on all the risk yourself the
thing that Elizabeth did which was
really good when she initially reached
out to me on Instagram was hey I'll be
I'll be your part-time PA for a month
personal assistant for a month you don't
even have to pay me and we'll just see
if it works out I ended up being like no
I'm going to pay you anyway cuz I felt
bad but if you can take if you can
demonstrate taking on all the risk
yourself it becomes very easy for the
person hiring you on the other end to
say yes to that without having to think
too hard about it secondly how easy is
it to make your first $100 again prettyy
once you found the right client and
you've actually reached out to them and
you've gotten your foot in the door and
you you're then demonstrating that you
can add value to their stuff then it's
pretty easy to make your first $100 but
unfortunately this is quite a Time
intensive job usually personal
assistants and stuff are paid by the
hour rather than by outcome and so
you're always kind of tied to a
particular hourly return on your time
but hopefully what will happen is that
as you become more and more valuable to
the business that you're working with or
working for then they might bring you on
as a full-time employee or as someone on
a retainer and now maybe you've even got
the option of quitting your day job
because this pays better and it's way
more fun and gives you way more
flexibility SLE idea number seven onean
video production agency so we've talked
about how basically every business is
looking to get into video and we talked
about being an editor for short form
content on YouTube shorts and Instagram
reals and Tik Tok but actually relatedly
every business is looking for video
whether it's the local accountant or the
local orthodontist or the local plumber
or if it's like a software product or if
it's a Creator everyone is looking to
make more videos and so if you can as a
side hustle be a sort of oneman media
agency oneman content video production
machine you can offer a really valuable
service for businesses and it's also
kind kind of fun doing that for example
Gordon the videographer that we work
with used to be a freelance videographer
and sort of did this thing for several
years where initially he would find
clients in the health and fitness space
because he was inherently interested in
that he'd make videos in that space
completely for free and then he started
Landing paid clients and then he was
being flown to all these like
ridiculously cool kind of world
championship bodybuilding and
powerlifting competitions and he was
doing the video production the
videography the editing the
storyboarding and everything for these
clients and he turned himself into this
oneman media Powerhouse which has meant
that he unlocked tons and tons of
opportunities for working with really
cool people and traveling around the
world and actually doing it with some
amount of flexibility and autonomy you
could reach out to software products
that you like that maybe don't have
compelling videos on their YouTube
channel and you could offer to make
YouTube videos for that software company
and they'd probably say hell yes because
software companies have a lot of money
and they know that they can land more
organic traffic to their product through
video and so if you can become their
YouTube Channel producer and help make
videos about their app now that's a
super easy way of making money as well
and there's tens if not hundreds of
thousands of these software companies
that have enough money that have really
high margins that don't do video that
would love to do video where there's
such a huge gap between where they want
to be and where they currently are where
all you have to do to bridge that Gap is
just learn the skill of doing video
learn how a camera Works learn how to
take videos with your phone learn video
editing by following my skillshare class
whatever you like that's like video is
such a massively underrated service
these days where there's so many
businesses that want it and there are
relatively so few people that can offer
that service maybe this will change 10
years from now but right now there's
it's we're in an incredible era where
there's just so much demand for for this
thing and not enough supply of it I know
a bunch of people who have who are
making side hustle and also full-time
income money as video editors and video
producers and videographers and they
keep on getting more and more and more
clients to the point where they don't
have enough capacity to actually do the
work and they're trying to find other
people but they always say it's really
hard to find a good editor it's really
hard to find a videographer who's
actually good how easy is it to get
started by being this onean media
production agency again not very hard
you can start by filming videos on your
phone you can start by reaching out to
local businesses and you can use those
as free examples to P your skills and
also get better at the act of kind of
selling your services how easy is it to
make your first $100 again not that hard
because generally if you're targeting a
local business and they have money which
almost by definition they do because
they are a local business they will
generally see the value of having decent
videos on their YouTube channel or on
the Instagram page or on their Facebook
page or on their website or whatever but
it does take a reasonable amount of time
and effort to continue with this sort of
thing but again you know if you're
interested and if this becomes something
that you do over the long term you can
turn it into an agency model if you
really want so those were seven
different side hustle ideas I'm just
going to share what I would personally
do if I was in my let's say early 20s
and I was trying to make money for me I
would go down probably the web designer
route because I was always inherently
interested in that I kind of did it when
I was young a little bit I'm I'm kind of
out of date with the latest kind of
tools and processes and how to use web
flow and frameware and stuff but it
wouldn't be too hard for me to learn to
teach myself web design to be able to
use these tools and then I would reach
out to all of my favorite creators
firstly and all of my favorite software
companies and apps that I use on my
phone and any who don't have a good
website I would say I would would offer
to make them a website and I'd offer to
make the first few pages for free and
then I'd get testimonials and then I'd
be using that permission as apprentice
model to then be able to find other
people who are willing to pay me for my
service and I'm pretty confident that
I'd be able to fairly easily make six
figures a year from just doing web
design by virtue of finding the right
people and by virtue of being good at
the skill all right so hopefully this
video has given you a few ideas on what
you can do to make side hustle income
online maybe get to this $1,000 a month
point which could be quite fun but if
you're interested in potentially
becoming a digital Nomad and making this
more of a full-time thing then might
like to check out this video over here
which is my guide to how to make money
online to get to the point where you're
making $3,000 a month and you've got fun
freedom and flexibility to be able to do
it on your own terms so so check out
that video if you like thank you so much
for watching and I'll see you in the
next video