How To Make money From Home: 21 lucrative Side Hustles

trying to figure out how to make money from home isn’t easy. If it were, hardly anyone would choose to wake up to an alarm and commute two hours to and from work every day. Offices would be a thing of the past and the laptop lifestyle would be the norm.

Even though more and more people are figuring out how to make on the side from home, the trend hasn’t yet completely taken over.

This is partially because people who want to do this inevitably have to navigate the cyber minefield of get-rich-quick schemes and fake money-making scams.

We’ve personally tried dozens of side hustles, and when we were writing our book of 101 best travel Jobs, we interviewed countless people who have figured out how to earn money from home by picking up a side job.

We’ve already written about online jobs that can earn thousands per month and how to get paid to write online as a freelance writer, but those posts were more focused on working while on the road and getting paid to travel.

But what about people who are at home right now, trying to save money for travel?

This article is all about how to make money from home and how to make money online so you can work in your pyjamas (when possible) and make some extra cash on the side of your day job.

In this post, I’m not going to share any jobs that you can’t actually get. I’m not going to pretend that any of them will get you rich and I’m not going to say you have to do all of them in order to earn money.

These are real ways that you can learn how to make money from home, whether you just want to earn an extra few hundred dollars a month with a lucrative side hustle, or if you want to completely quit your job and work remotely. Este post é para você.

This article has been updated 2020. 

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Why Make money From Home?
1. start A website (The best way To Make money From Home)
2. teach English Online
3. rent a room on Airbnb
4. Uber & Lyft
5. Delivery
6. online Surveys
7. yard work & Landscaping
8. vehicle Ads
9. rent Out Your Car
10. child Care
11. sell on Amazon
12. become a VA (Virtual Assistant)
13. sell on Etsy
14. Coaching & online Courses
15. Drop-Shipping
16. Freelance Writing
17. house sitting & Pet Sitting
18. Translation Work
19. Be a local tour Guide
20. teach Yoga
21. start a lucrative Side Hustle
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Why Make money From Home?

Before we learned how we could earn money from home, we were working long shifts at jobs we didn’t enjoy.

Dariece worked at a law firm and I spent time both working on oil rigs and working in a plastic packaging plant. The shifts were long, we hated the commute and despite earning a good living by Canadian standards, we had a hard time getting ahead.

Fast forward 10 years and we’ve quit our jobs and are earning more than double what we were, but now we only make money from home, we travel all year round and we only work around 20 hours per week, maximum.

We take holidays when we want, we wake up when we want and we aren’t stuck in traffic every day.

Our home office is now wherever we choose to be.

Currently, I’m writing this post from a beach house in the Caribbean, looking out over our pool and onto the sea.

I’m not saying this to brag. I just want to show that it’s possible to earn money from home and actually turn the lucrative side hustles that I list in this post into a full-time income!

If we can do it, anyone can. We don’t have university degrees, we aren’t trust fund babies and we didn’t know the first thing about working for ourselves before we started down this path.

The fact is that we researched how to make money from home through doing Google searches and found many different websites with many different jobs (some real and some fake) and eventually figured it out.

Me at my previous job. I would never go back.
In this post, I’m going to list only the jobs that I know are legitimate, and that I know can earn real money.

Vamos começar! below are 21 jobs that you can start today to make money on the side.

1. start A website (The best way To Make money From Home)

Probably the most lucrative way to earn money from home (and on the road), blogging can open up countless doors to money-making potential and is a fun way to practice writing, marketing and photography.

We started thisblog in 2012, without the slightest knowledge of blogging and today it earns as much as $20,000 per month through advertising, affiliate marketing, product sales, and sponsorships.

Of course, in order to earn that much, we’ve had to work around 20 hours per week on our blog, making it more than a side hustle, but it is possible to earn a few hundred dollars from a new blog in less than um ano.

If you can build your audience to 25,000 sessions per month (quite easily done in under a year if you know what you’re doing), you can place Mediavine ads on your website, just like the ones you see on this post.

With 25,000 sessions you’d earn around $480 per month from those ads alone, and that’s not even taking into consideration other ways you can earn money through your blog.

This is definitely not a way to get rich quick. You’ll have to publish a couple of articles every week and market your blog so that you can boost your blog traffic. but it is possible to earn money after just a few months.

Click here to start a blog and get our 4-Part video Beginner blogger course and 200-Page Beginner blogger ebook for free. These in-depth tools will show you how to grow a blog and monetize it so that you can earn money from home as a blogger!

The best part about blogging is that you can blog about pretty much every topic.

If you love to travel (like me), you can blog about travel. Or you can earn money by blogging about parenting, DIY, cooking, fashion, dogs, or pretty much anything else you can think of.

Steps To Take Now:

Purchase a domain name and start a blog now for just $59 (Click Here)

Use our course to learn how to design and build a professional blog

Write posts, market and grow using the tips in our course

In my opinion, if you want to figure out how to make money from home, starting a blog is the single best way to turn online work into a full-time income.

I think everyone should have a blog as an outlet for their creativity, a way to share their knowledge and a way to create viable and reputable income streams from home.

2. teach English Online

This is probably my second favourite side hustle that you can utilize if you want to learn how to make money from home.

Teaching English online can actually be quite lucrative. To start, you’ll need to get TEFL certified, which is quite easy and doesn’t take too long.

MyTefl has a terrific 120 hour course that you can do from home, as does BridgeTEFL. once certified (and if you qualify) we recommend becoming a VIPKID teacher. This is one of the best services available online and jobs can pay as much as $22 / hour.

To get a job with VIPKID, you’ll have to apply, fill out an application and pass an interview, but once you do that you can easily find work on the platform. Unfortunately, the service is currently only for people from Canada and the United States.

If you’re from the UK, you should look into EF education first which is an excellent company to work for.

Want to learn about more ways to teach English online and earn money from home? Clique no link.
Note, if you don’t have a university degree there are still some teaching jobs you can get! Clique aqui para saber mais.

Steps To Take Now:

Click here to apply for VIPKid

Fill out the application and complete the Skype interview

Set your hourly rate and schedule and wait until jobs come in

3. rent a room on Airbnb

As a traveller, I’ve used Airbnb many times to find a well-priced apartment while on the road, but I also have quite a few pals who are earning a nice living from renting out their spare room or a second home as Airbnb hosts.

A few of our pals in the UK earn a lot of money by doing this and it’s a terrific way to make money from home.

Depending on where you live (and your financial situation), you could even purchase a second apartment just to rent out on a nightly rate on Airbnb.

Because the nightly rate is so much more than long-term rentals, most typically you can pay off the mortgage and end up with as much as $1000 / month in your pocket.

Steps To Take Now:

Sign-up for Airbnb as a host

List your home at a lower rate at first

Accept as many guests as possible on short stays to get your review score up

4. Uber & Lyft

These two companies have taken over the rideshare world and have changed local transportation as we know it.

But they’re not just convenient for those who want to get from point A to point B in a car, they’re also terrific ways to earn money from home… well, from the road.

According to the Uber website, you’ll need the following:

Be at least 21 years of age

Have at least one year of driving experience (3 years if you are under 23 years old)

Have a valid driver’s license

Use an eligible 4-door vehicle

Steps To Take Now:

Register as an Uber or Lyft driver (meeting the requirements above and uploading required documents)

Get an UBER inspection at your local green Light location (Click Here and “select city” in the top right of the screen to see locations)

Download and Sign-in to the Uber or Lyft driver app and pick up your first customer(s)

5. Delivery

There are plenty of delivery services available these days that make it easy for pretty much anyone to earn money from home.

With services like Door dash and UberEATS you can earn money from home (or from your motorbike) on your own schedule by delivering take-out orders in your town.

Some people have earned as much as $4,000 / month ($24 / hour) by working a delivery, but if you’re doing it on the side of your full-time job, you can probably expect a few hundred extra bucks in your pocket each mês.

Requirements for DoorDash & UberEATS:

You must be 18 years or older

Have access to a vehicle or bicycle (any car, truck, motorcycle, or scooter)

Own an iphone or Android smartphone

Have a valid Driver’s license

Valid insurance — name on the policy

Provide a social security number (for a background check)

Pass a background and driving record check

Complete an orientation online or in-person

Steps To Take Now:

Register as a delivery person for DoorDash or UberEATS

Meet all requirements above and pass background & driving check

Download the Dasher or UberEATS app and start delivering for money

6. online Surveys

Many companies will pay Internet users to complete their surveys. Internet surveys offer businesses and advertisers useful data to help them understand their potential clientele.

If you Google: “get paid to complete surveys”, you’ll probably get a thousand results. Unfortunately, many of these results are complete scams, so you do have to be careful when taking paid online surveys.

Some of the main sites to check out:

SwagBucks

PrizeRebel

American consumer Opinion

SurveyJunkie

InboxDollars

As surveys take a bit more time than watching ads, it’s more difficult to make a lot of money from this strategy, at it may not be the most lucrative side hustle, but there are reports of people earning over $1,000 per month by completing surveys.

Steps To Take Now:

Head to one of the sites above and create an account

Complete different tasks in order to earn money

Learn which tasks yield the most reward for the least amount of work and do those frequently

7. yard work & Landscaping

Okay so mowing a lawn doesn’t sound like a very glamorous job for an adult, but if you have a bit of experience in lawn care and yard work, you can actually earn a pretty good living in your local neighbourhood.

Offer to not only mow lawns but do the jobs that the young kids in the area can’t safely do themselves, like trimming hedges and using power landscaping tools.

Many people will be happy to pay $20+ for someone to come and work on their yard for an hour. get a few of these jobs and the income can quickly add up.

If you love landscaping and gardening, but you still want to learn how to make money from home, then landscaping may be perfect for you.

Steps To Take Now:

Purchase the appropriate lawn care tools (or request to use homeowners’)

Put up flyers or place your ads in local Facebook communities and groups

Do landscaping work in your neighbourhood and get paid

8. vehicle Ads

According to Wrapify and Carvertise, you can earn up to $450 a month by wrapping your entire automobile in advertising. They offer a pretty unique service