Start making extra money when you start your small business!
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If you are ready to start your side hustle business but have no idea what to do, keep reading, we can help you! We’ve compiled a list of seven small businesses you can start ASAP and bring in an extra $1,000.00 per month to supplement your current income.
Let’s be clear. If you are currently working a full-time job, we are not encouraging you to quit. We encourage you to keep working until you are financially ready to take on an entrepreneurial role full-time. You can work your current job and operate your small business.
A full-time business takes time to grow, and you need to plan and be willing to take a lot of risks, go through some failures, and learn from your mistakes until you reach full success. Setting specific goals and taking necessary steps to reach those goals will help you along the way. And if your goal is to leave your current job and have your own Limited Liability Company (LLC), then you start with a DBA side hustle.
Here are seven business ideas that will help supplement your income:
Social Media Management
You can start a social media management business today. As a social media manager, you will manage other business or entrepreneur’s social media platforms. You can create content, post content, respond to comments, and monitor analytics. You can offer different services including Instagram or TikTok management services. You can decide what type of content you want to create. You can offer consulting, create courses, workshops, and webinars that provides insight for entrepreneurs or businesses in targeted industries. If you prefer to fully manage other accounts, that is up to you, but as a social media manager, you don’t always have to create, post, or schedule content, you can simply create social media management strategies and help your clients implement them.
Content Marketing
If you’re not interested in managing other social media accounts, you can simply create content for businesses. Content creators are known as bloggers and influencers. If your content is compelling, and you have a supportive and engaging audience, you can be a successful content creator. If you have a specific niche that you like to write about or if you’re an expert at something such as gardening or cooking, create video reviews in which you are using the brand’s products. You can post high quality photos on your social media platforms and write a compelling yet authentic copy, so your followers will be influenced to purchase products from those brands. This type of business may take time to generate income as you do need to be consistent with creating content and have an engaging and evolving following. If you simply want to create content for campaigns, you can do that as well. Choose your content type (videos, voiceover, graphics, or pictures) and provide that as a service. There are a lot of businesses that either don’t have time or lack the creativity to make content and are willing to pay you to do that for them.
Digital Marketing
There will always be a high demand for digital marketing. If you have digital marketing skills, you can offer the following services: Search Engine Optimization (SEO),
Email Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Content Marketing, and Mobile Marketing.
We’ve already covered social media and content marketing above. We’ll briefly explain the other three marketing tools you can offer as a service.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO): If you help clients with their SEO, you are essentially providing methods for businesses to be noticed in web search results. Your job as an SEO strategist is to help your client’s business rank higher than others. You can do this by creating key words and phrases that will drive traffic to their website. Key words and phrases can be included in titles, articles and blog posts, and other information on your client’s website.
Email Marketing: Email marking is still one of the best marketing tools to optimize as a marketing strategy. Providing this as a service for your business is smart. Email marketing is a direct communication tool and allows you to create compelling campaigns for your clients. You can create newsletters, promote products, announce events and sales, offer discounts, or send personalized inspirational emails. There are several software programs available to create appealing content. You can create themes for holidays or special occasions, and use templates for invitations, greeting cards, or newsletters. You can email videos, links, photos, or graphics. You can use social media platforms to create content and send it to your audience. It is a fun and engaging way to drive traffic from one platform to another.
Mobile Marketing: Mobile marketing is fast, effective, and direct. People are always on their phones browsing, scrolling, and chatting. You can help your clients stay connected with their audience by sending the content to them via text message, email, direct messaging, or Apps. Mobile marketing is an accessible method to drive clients to a direct location by providing a simple link. It’s a clever call-to-action (CTA) strategy. If you are efficient with applications, and have knowledge on creating and updating them, you can offer that as a service as well. Businesses are using Apps as their primary marketing tool as opposed to their websites.
Virtual Assistant
There is a high demand for VA’s (Virtual Assistants)! Many people are working from home and small businesses are leaning towards outsourcing their back-office work. If you start a VA business, you will be in the right market to provide administrative assistance. You can provide a list of services and handle various tasks including scheduling appointments, organizing, email correspondence, coordinating events, and even writing copy for social media marketing. If you’re a VA, you can provide services for any business in any industry from the medical field to education. If you are proficient at Microsoft Office, you can create templates for spreadsheets and word documents and sell the downloadable templates on your website. As a VA, you can act as a recruiter and help people find jobs or teach courses to help people build their skills.
Graphic/Web Designer
Are you creative with fonts, styles, colors, and words? Do you like to design creative materials such as bookmarks, brochures, business cards, and flyers? If so, you can offer graphics/creative design services. In some cases, potential clients may want to see your credentials prior to signing a contract. If you have samples of your work, and the potential client approves, you can turn graphics/creative services into a business. The downside to graphic designing is that you will be competing with online design tools such as Canva. Many entrepreneurs will use the tool themselves because they may not be able to afford your services. Nonetheless, if you know how to navigate Canva, you can use it to your advantage, and teach others how to use it as well.
If you are skilled in web design, you can provide that as a service. Websites can be difficult to create and edit, and most people would rather not bother with having a site altogether. Nevertheless, websites are still vital in the digital world, and you can offer web design services to law firms, financial institutions, churches, or medical offices.
Event Planner
If you prefer a business where you can work remotely, the options listed above are perfect choices. If you want an event planning business, you may need to do in-person contact. If you have strong organizational and project management skills, go ahead, and turn this into a business. You can plan personal, corporate, and/or digital events such as weddings, baby showers, birthday parties, anniversaries, company meetings, concerts, and networking engagements. As an event planner, you have a wide range of services you can offer. Also, you don’t have to operate your business all year, you can provide seasonal services only during the spring and summer or fall and winter. If you have more free time in during the summer, provide events that people are most likely to plan during the summer. Event planning is fun and allows you to connect with many people.
Concierge/Lifestyle Management
Starting a concierge or lifestyle management business will also require management and organizational skills. Take your time and think about what type of services you want to offer. You can provide a range of services including event planning, personal shopping, styling, house sitting, house cleaning, cooking, preparing meals, organizing home and office spaces, and running errands. Your clients can range from seniors to mothers with small children. Lifestyle management is a profitable business as many families and small businesses need the extra help to tackle daily tasks.