13 Hustle Ideas You Can Run Remotely

13 Hustle Ideas you can Run Remotely

There is so many side hustle you can do remotely. The best thing about having a remote side hustle is its convenience. There is so much benefit to having a remote side hustle, like increased performance, time management, and better productivity.

Key Highlights

🎯 Blogging, podcasting, online courses, and affiliate marketing are a few of the most popular side hustles you can do remotely.

🎯 Remote working can help with more time and fewer distractions.

🎯 Remote side hustles make you and the company focus more on performance.

🎯 A Remote side hustle will save you commuting time and costs.

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1. Social Media Manager

The use of social media platforms is by individuals and brands is increasing. Most professional individuals and small brands don’t have time to manage their social media accounts, and this is where you come in.

The job of a social manager is to develop strategies that increase followers and create and oversee social campaigns. A social manager also produces content, reviews analytics, and gives feedback to the key stakeholders in a company. If you can acquire the skills in managing social media accounts, this could be a good side hustle for you.

2. Freelance Writing

Another Amazing remote gig is freelance writing. A Freelance Writer works as a self-employed contractor for an individual or organization; it is different from being a full- or part-time employee.

The best thing about freelance writing is you don’t need to be a professional writer to get started; you need to have good writing skills. With services like Fiverr and Upwork, you can sell your writing skills.

• Choose your niche
• sell your services on sites like Upwork and Fiverr
• Write some samples for employers work
• Pitch yourself well on your profile or cover letter.
• Collect testimonials from your clients

3. Online Surveys

Many websites will pay for taking surveys. The site asks you questions that have been outsourced to them by companies that need the data. You can expect to get paid $0.5-$2 per survey.

You register with these sites and start taking surveys.

OneOpinion, Survey Junkie, Opinion Outpost, MyPoints, Swagbucks, InboxDollars.

4. Graphic Design

If you are good at designing graphics, it doesn’t matter if you are professional or not. You can start earning some cash. Graphic design, designing a user interface, or Logos are some of the services you can offer.

You also sell your services on sites like Upwork and Fiverr. Apps like Canva and Adobe have made designing graphics a lot easier.

5. Become a Virtual Assistant

A virtual assistant is a self-employed contractor who provides administrative services to clients while operating from a remote office.

Virtual Assistance has been around for a while now. Virtual Assistance makes it easier and cheaper to get an assistant to help people in their businesses. It all happens from a remote location independent of the employer’s office.

A virtual Assitant works from anywhere in the world. Get started in Virtual Assistance by getting quiet office corporate skills, a laptop, and a good internet connection.

6. Selling Digital Content

When it comes to generating passive income, selling digital content is a side hustle that you can start. Any content that exists in the form of digital data is digital.

You can create digital products like online courses, E-books, digital training material, audiobooks, and many more. One advantage in selling digital content is you create a product once and keep selling it time after time. You can use services like Amazon, Udemy, Skillshare, and Gumroad to sell your products.

7. Online Tutoring

Just as the name says, it is the process of tutoring in an online, virtual environment. In Online Tutoring, both the teacher and the student are in separate physical locations.

Teaching online is best for people who like teaching and do not shy away from a camera or microphone. The average beginner tutor can make $15-$30 per hour.

You can use services like Zoom, Thinkific, Podia, and Teachable to launch your class.

8. Web Design

Web brands are coming online every day, and they want their presence to be known online. If you are good at designing websites, you can offer your service and get paid.

Most people think you need to learn how to code to design a website. 37% of websites use WordPress, a drag and drop website builder. Learn WordPress in a week and start offering your service on Fiverr and Upwork.

9. Video Editing

If you have video editing skills, you can earn extra cash by helping people edit small and large videos. You can edit people’s IG reels, TikTok, Youtube shorts, and Youtube Videos.

If you improve your skills, you can professionally edit films for people. There are some video editing niches you can start with;

• Explainer Videos
• Conference Videos
• Marketing or promotional videos
• Speaking events
• Presentations.

10. Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a side hustle that you can run from any part of the world as long as you have internet.

Affiliate marketing is the process of getting rewards from companies for bringing a customer to them. Affiliate marketing is not a new niche, so the are many courses available today that can teach you how to get started. It helps if you have a blog or a youtube channel or an audience to market the product.

11. Transcription

With good typing skills and the ability to understand sounds and voices, you can transcribe audio recordings. The role of a transcriptionist is to convert audio files to typed readable documents.

If you don’t have transcribing skills, you can enroll in paid Udemy courses. You can learn from lessons hosted on Youtube.

You can list your services on sites like Fiverr and Upwork. You can also join transcription services like TranscribeMe, Bunny Studio, Rev, and Gotranscript.

12. Podcasting

Podcasting is a medium for distributing audio content to people. It takes some time to start earning from a podcast because you need to gather an audience first. Depending on your topic of conversation, podcasters can make a good amount of money on each episode you release.

Podcasters usually get paid by the number of downloads episodes get.

If you get a deal with a brand, you can get paid up to $20 per 1000 downloads. If your podcast is longer, you can promote to products in an episode and earn $40 per episode. You can also drop affiliate links, and if any of your audience buys a product through your link, you get a commission.

13. Daytrading

This side hustle requires some upfront capital and trading skills to get started. Day trading is when a trader buys a financial, digital asset and sells it on that same day.

You have to be careful when trading the financial market. You should get professional training before you invest real money in the market.

It can take 3-6 months to learn how to trade if you are taught by a professional. Most trading services allow you to Trade the market with fake money in the real market until you are comfortable investing real money.  

Final Thoughts

According to an Upwork survey, one in four Americans are working remotely in 2021. Because of the 2021 Pandemic, many companies adopted remote working. A survey carried out by  Mercer study found that 70% of companies said they were planning to adopt the hybrid model. This result means the is a big future for remote working and you don’t want to miss it.