Lesson Two
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Lesson Two
Anything you can make in your home and with great skill. This could be baking biscuits, making cakes for parties, weaving macramé bags and any other “Hobby” that others would be wiling to pay for. These can then be listed as a made-on demand order to ensure you don’t waste your resources until needed. Making fully prepared meals that can be delivered or frozen is another great way to monetise your kitchen skills!
Fitness and physical training is so important in our world, and if you have the ability to teach, then this could be your cash cow! Whether it is coaching younger individuals on a sport, conditioning your body, yoga and meditation, Boxing or martial arts, or general fitness and training. All of these passions you may already have can be created into a personal training programme that you can offer to clients.
With the likes of Uber, inDriver, Taxify, Bolt, Lyft and others setting up shop in South Africa, there is a wealth of options to become a driver for extra cash. With the relationships managed through Apps and online platforms the process to get started is as easy as googling how to become a driver! A great option for those that have spare time and access to a vehicle, license and enjoy driving around for others.
Everyone loves a party; nobody loves planning them! But this might be your specialty, with a keen eye for decorations and organising catering, music, and other elements. Working with a client’s budget, you can charge your planning fee to take the hassle out of your client’s hands. This is another option that requires minimal resources and capital from your part as it will be your clients budget doing the work for you.
The knowledge you’ve acquired over the years can never be taken away. Therefore, you will always be able to teach the younger generation to learn and understand subjects they find tricky. Whether it’s math’s, science, a local language, accounting, or anything else you excelled at, you can tutor kids with your knowledge. It’s just about picking your specialty and selling your service to the right target market – Locally or remotely!
This is the broadest category and leverages off of the skillsets you already have. From a Graphic designer, make up artist, DJ, Painter, Graffiti artist, Singer, Content writer, to anything you have a talent for. By making it known you are a specialist in that field you can charge clients for your time on a project and build up your client list.
Below is a free PDF document with as many side hustle options we could think of. Read through all of these options for some inspiration on what you could pick to start!
What part of your life can you use to get your Side Hustle started?
