Realistic Way to Make Extra $500-$1000/Month Online
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Summary
In this video, Chad Kimball shares practical strategies for earning an additional $500 to $1,000 per month without compromising your regular work schedule. He discusses a variety of side hustles, from managing social media pages for small businesses to becoming a voiceover artist. These opportunities are accessible and can be performed online, making them perfect for busy individuals. Kimball also highlights tools and platforms that can simplify these side gigs, emphasizing the importance of leveraging technology to maximize efficiency and income. Whether you're interested in content creation, video editing, or virtual assistance, there's a realistic side hustle waiting for you.
Highlights
Managing social media for businesses pays $200-$300 monthly per client, offering a flexible income source. π
YouTube script writing is a high-demand job, no professional writing skills needed thanks to AI tools. π§
Video editing offers potential earnings of $100 to $1,000 per video, depending on complexity. βοΈ
Voiceover work is a great side hustle that can be done from home with minimal equipment. ποΈ
Virtual assistants save businesses 78% on costs while providing varied online services. π
Key Takeaways
Social media management is a lucrative side hustle for small businesses in need of consistent online presence. π±
Writing YouTube scripts can be a simple and profitable gig, even for non-professional writers. βοΈ
Becoming a video editor can yield high income with the growing demand from YouTube creators. π₯
Voiceover artists are in demand, with opportunities to voice audiobooks and video games. π§
Virtual assistant roles offer flexible work-from-home options across different industries. πΌ
Overview
Chad Kimball starts by breaking down the concept of a realistic side hustle, moving away from flashy income promises and focusing on manageable, supplementary earnings. He emphasizes the practicality of these avenues, ideal for those wishing to earn without interrupting their primary jobs. His first suggestion involves social media management for small businesses, noting the substantial needs and lucrative compensation offered for these services.
He continues by exploring the realm of content creation through script writing and video editing. Kimball points out the advantages of modern tools like AI for generating YouTube scripts and mentions the financial rewards tied to video editing roles. By using platforms and software accessible to the average person, Chad assures that these roles don't require professional prerequisites, making them feasible and profitable side hustles.
The video concludes by suggesting voiceover work and becoming a virtual assistant as flexible job options. Platforms like Fiverr and Upwork provide gateways into these fields, while easing the entry with potential high earnings. Chadβs insights revolve around empowering viewers to leverage their existing skills and available technologies to create additional income streams without significant upfront investments.
Chapters
00:00 - 00:30: Introduction This introduction discusses the widespread presence of content promising to teach viewers how to earn large sums of money, often seen on platforms like YouTube. The speaker acknowledges their participation in this trend by sharing their own success story. However, they recognize that these figures may not be achievable or realistic for everyone. The focus of this chapter is on providing practical side hustles that can realistically earn an additional $500 to $1,000 per month, without negatively impacting existing jobs. The speaker emphasizes the goal is to present side hustles that are attainable and sufficiently lucrative.
00:30 - 05:00: Side Hustle 1: Social Media Management The chapter introduces 'Side Hustle 1: Social Media Management,' highlighting its potential as a lucrative part-time opportunity. Full-time social media managers reportedly earn an average of $64,000 annually according to ZipRecruiter. Thus, engaging in this side hustle part-time and earning a few hundred dollars more each month is realistic and feasible. The chapter suggests that leveraging this side hustle can provide additional income without interfering with a regular job schedule.
05:00 - 08:30: Side Hustle 2: YouTube Script Writing The chapter discusses a side hustle related to YouTube script writing, particularly emphasizing its benefits to small businesses. It explains how small businesses often lack the time or skills to manage this task despite its value. The narrator shares a personal success story of their 16-year-old daughter, who received her first client and payment through this side hustle, highlighting the demand and profitability of the service.
08:30 - 11:30: Side Hustle 3: Video Editing This chapter discusses how small businesses often have outdated social media accounts, like Facebook or Instagram pages, which resemble a 'ghost town' with very few posts and often unreliable information. It highlights that sometimes having an outdated page might be worse than not having one at all, as it could negatively impact the business's image. The responsibility for updating these pages usually falls on a secretary or another employee.
11:30 - 14:30: Side Hustle 4: Credit Card Processing Broker This chapter discusses the side hustle of becoming a Credit Card Processing Broker. The text mentions how small business owners often set up social media accounts because they hear it's necessary for business, but fail to maintain them. As a broker, you can manage these accounts, thereby attracting new revenue streams for the business. Your role would involve taking over these social media platforms to improve the business's online presence.
14:30 - 17:30: Side Hustle 5: Voiceover Artist The chapter provides insights into utilizing tools for efficient social media content management, particularly for voiceover artists. A focus is placed on using free tools like Canva for content creation and Buffer for scheduling posts, allowing for pre-planning and automating social media engagements. Additionally, the importance of engaging with followers and moderating comments to build a community is emphasized. These strategies are positioned as means to optimize social media presence for small businesses or personal campaigns.
17:30 - 18:30: Side Hustle 6: Virtual Assistant The chapter discusses the side hustle of being a Virtual Assistant, focusing on managing social media schedules for small businesses. By using tools like Buffer, a Virtual Assistant can automate the posting schedule after preparing content in advance. The potential income from this side hustle is highlighted, with businesses willing to pay $200 to $300 monthly for the service. With just a few clients, one can earn a substantial side income. The flexibility and online nature of the job are noted benefits.
18:30 - 19:30: Conclusion and Free Class Offer The chapter discusses a way to earn extra income by using AI tools to automate post creation, including images and excerpts from articles.
Realistic Way to Make Extra $500-$1000/Month Online Transcription
00:00 - 00:30 you see it everywhere on YouTube make a million dollars a year make a hundred grand a month whatever it is I'm guilty of it too making videos where I show you how I made $1.9 million in a year however for a lot of people that's just not very realistic some people just want to make an extra $500 to $1,000 a month in addition maybe to their day job so in this video I'm going to cover some side hustle and my goal for these is that they're not only realistic side hustles but they can also bring in an extra $500 to $11,000 without without affecting
00:30 - 01:00 your regular job schedule in fact if you stick around until side hustle number two I'll show you how average people have made over $40,000 in extra income just working a few extra hours on the weekend but first let's start with side hustle number one according to zip recruiter those working full-time on this side hustle make an average of around $64,000 per year so if you do the math on that working just part-time at it making a few hundred extra per month on it is totally realistic and this is
01:00 - 01:30 mainly because it's providing something that small businesses desperately need and the small businesses pay very well for in fact here's a video of me driving my 16-year-old daughter home after she got her first client doing this exact thing and here's a screenshot of the first payment that she got from this side hustle although small businesses desperately need this they don't have the time or the skills to do it and a lot of them just don't want to deal with it at at all so what is this exactly
01:30 - 02:00 you've probably noticed that small businesses often have a Facebook account or an Instagram page but they often look like a ghost town literally like nobody lives there there's very few posts a lot of times the information isn't even updated or reliable sometimes they have like one post from like 3 years ago of a sale that they did and frankly sometimes it might be better if these outdated social media Pages didn't even exist for these small businesses because they actually make the small business look bad usually the secretary or maybe the
02:00 - 02:30 nephew of the owner set these things up because the owner of the small business heard oh I need to be on the internet on social media but they don't realize that you have to regularly post on these social media pages in order to bring in any new Revenue to the business from it so these small businesses desperately need someone to manage their social media pages and it's very simple to do when you become their social media manager you're going to be taking over their social media accounts for them and
02:30 - 03:00 maybe even creating new ones scheduling the content moderating comments engaging with new followers on those pages and you can create amazing social media content using a tool for free called canva there's also this tool called buffer which I'll show you on my screen right now which will automatically schedule out the posts for you so you can do the work ahead of time schedule out a bunch of posts for whatever small businesses you're doing this for and buffer will automat automatically post
03:00 - 03:30 it on a schedule into the future without you having to sit there and do it manually so you could take a day maybe a Saturday or an evening and put together a bunch of posts and then let buffer do the work of automatically scheduling those posts out over time now how much can you make with this many businesses will pay $200 to $300 a month for this service so with just two to four small business clients you can hit a pretty decent side income and because it's so flexible and it's fully online it's a
03:30 - 04:00 great option for producing some extra cash alongside your full-time job now I even have a video on this YouTube channel that shows you an AI tool that can also create the posts for you including images excerpts from articles and the whole thing is done automatically go to my channel search box and type in chat GPT and look for the video on chat GPT Plus Google Sheets that's going to show you the whole process of how to set this thing up with AI so you really have to do almost no
04:00 - 04:30 work on an ongoing basis the easiest way to find clients for this is actually just on Google Maps if you go to Google Maps and do a search for any business type I just did a search for tool and die shop here and then if you just click on the businesses here on the left if you click on any of them and then you scroll all the way down to the bottom it will actually show you their social media pages so you can see right here this one has a Facebook page and you can go and look and see does it look like it's updated on a regular basis some small businesses they might not even
04:30 - 05:00 have any small social media Pages listed here and in that case you could actually charge them to set up the social media I'm Facebook or on Instagram as well as charging them monthly to maintain now I have a lot more ways of making money with Google Maps if you're interested in stuff like this just click on the link in the description of this video I have a free class that'll teach you even more and better ways to make money just like this one using Google Maps and the main one that I teach in that free class in
05:00 - 05:30 the description actually makes money for you through Google Maps on autopilot so just click on that link to get that free class emailed to you now let's go to realistic side hustle number two and I'll tell you something I am personally looking to pay some people to do this side hustle for me in fact last month I paid thousands of dollars just to get people to do this exact task for me when you find out what this side hustle is it's actually kind of embarrassing
05:30 - 06:00 and you might even stop watching this video after you find out what it is you might not know this but a lot of creators on YouTube like myself hire other people to write out the script of what they're going to say in their videos and that's because it takes a ton of time and research to come up with a concept and to test it out for a video just like this one that you're watching and then it takes a ton of time to create consistently well-written scripts for for videos that are actually
06:00 - 06:30 interesting so many creators including myself don't actually have the time to do all the research and writing that's required to write their own YouTube video scripts therefore we like to Outsource this part of the video creation to script writers and believe it or not there's a huge need for this I actually have trouble finding good script writers myself so it's a huge opportunity for you now I know what you're thinking you're probably saying oh I'm not a writer Chad you'd be surprised you don't have to be a
06:30 - 07:00 professional writer to get started on this in fact about half the people that I have working for me helping me write scripts for this channel are not professional writers and if you can write in a conversational tone you're already qualified for this job and I'll tell you a trick there is this tool called subscriber. a that actually writes amazing YouTube scripts for you and it's all done with artificial intelligence it's likely that you actually watched a video that was written by subscriber. a and you didn't even know that it wasn't written by a
07:00 - 07:30 human and with that tool it only takes a few clicks of the button to generate an amazing looking YouTube script so there's really no excuse there you don't have to be a professional writer at all to do this if you look on upwork you can see these YouTube script writers here have already earned 30,000 $10,000 $4,000 and even more and I'll tell you something else if you go on this site ytj jobs.co this is where some of the biggest names in in the YouTube world go
07:30 - 08:00 to have people write scripts for them and you can literally just click on talent and you can put in your own little profile there so get people to hire you for this if you're interested you can also use a website called Channel crawler which helps you to find different channels and the nice thing about Channel crawler is it actually shows you the contact information of different YouTubers so that you can contact them to offer services like this to them with just a few scripts each month you could easily make 500 to $1,000 or more and if you want to you
08:00 - 08:30 can get subscriber. to do most of the work for you you can write scripts after work or during your lunch break or just take a couple of hours on the weekend to get it done the script writers that I have working for me I let them work on their own time whenever they want and like I said before I'm paying them thousands of dollars every month just to write scripts for the YouTube videos on this channel this next side hustle I actually don't do it personally but my son does he taught himself how to do it and he's
08:30 - 09:00 made thousands of dollars with this and he started doing it before he even knew how to drive a car now this one is similar to script writing because a lot of YouTube creators like myself spend a lot of time recording a lot of videos but we don't have the time or the skills to actually edit this video down and add in special effects and everything that make it actually interesting to watch if you look at this YouTuber named vega he says he made $100,000 in8 months mons as a video
09:00 - 09:30 editor for famous channels like Iman God you might not know this but many YouTubers pay between 100 and even up to $1,000 per video just to have the thing edited down and Polished now obviously it depends on the type of video and how long it is if you're willing to stretch yourself and learn how this can be a great side hustle for you now getting started does not require expensive or Advanced Equipment in fact my son got started on this with some software that just came on his IM for free you can
09:30 - 10:00 also get Adobe Premiere Pro or D Vinci resolve and there's tons of online tutorials to teach you how to do it in fact my son taught himself how to do it just watching YouTube videos on how to edit basically that will teach you how to combine different clips how to put special effects on it and how to create a polished final product and if you can edit just 5 to 10 videos per month you could easily earn between $500 and $1,000 all while just working on your own schedule even after your 9 to 5 job and because you YouTube is only growing
10:00 - 10:30 the demand for this side hustle is only going to keep increasing in the years to come now I do want to say these side hustles are not autopilot side hustles in other words all the side hustles I've covered so far involve you putting in your own time in order to make the money if you're interested in more of an autopilot business that brings in residual side hustle income whether you're working or not I want you to click on the link in the description of this video I want to send you a free
10:30 - 11:00 class that'll teach you how to set up an autopilot business like I said earlier it uses a loophole in Google maps to make you money day after day whether you're working or not so just click on that link in the description if you're interested in that now let's go on to side hustle number four nearly everyone can do this side hustle as long as you have a computer and you have the ability to visit a fast food restaurant and the thing is if you spend just 20 20 minutes a day on this you'll be amazed at how it
11:00 - 11:30 will grow your side hustle income over time I think the best way to explain this side hustle is to explain it like this I'm sure you've gone to a store to buy something and when it comes time to buy it you paid with a credit card or a debit card you might not know this but the person who set up that credit card system where you swiped your card is probably getting paid a small commission every time someone swipes their card in that store simply by being the person that set it up one time they're getting
11:30 - 12:00 paid day after day without having to do ongoing work those credit card machines on the counter of different stores are not owned by the stores themselves it's usually someone else that brought the machine in set it up for them and got them going with it and it's much easier to set up a business like this than you might think the name of it is a credit card processing broker and basically what you do is you connect a store like a grocery store or a restaurant with a company that Prov provides those little
12:00 - 12:30 machines that go on the counter where you swipe your card and if you're the one to set up the machine there on put it on their counter you're also the one that's going to get a small commission every time someone swipes their card there and those swipes really add up especially if you're in a business with a lot of swipes like a restaurant or a grocery store now going back to zip recruiter they report that the average salary of a full-time credit card processing broker is around $45,000 so there's definitely some good side income to be made with this and the nice thing is you don't need any prior
12:30 - 13:00 experience and you don't have to know the ins and outs of even setting up the system because a lot of times the companies that provide those little machines also provide tech support they even sometimes provide Representatives that will come to the store and set up the machine right there so all you're really doing is connecting the store owner with the company that provides the machine so you can imagine if you just spent 20 minutes per day going into a brand new store and simply asking them
13:00 - 13:30 do you like the machine here that's providing this credit card swipe service for you and if they have any complaints at all about it that's you're in to offer them a better solution and again the company providing the machine will send their own rep out to close the deal and a lot of times even to do the setup of the machine itself all you need to do is do a Google search for point of sale companies see what companies in your area offer a partner program where they'll pay you a commission for connecting them with a store owner who
13:30 - 14:00 needs a credit card swipe machine now let's go to realistic side hustle number five now most of you watching this video have probably gone on Amazon and downloaded some kind of an audio book that you could listen to in the car or maybe your kids are listening to audio books a lot but a report that was published on LinkedIn stated that the audiobook Market is expected to reach 19.4 billion doll in the next two years and you might be asking what does this have to do with me the fifth realistic side also that you can do in your spare
14:00 - 14:30 time is being a voiceover artist and don't worry you don't have to be a professional audio recorder in fact my own daughter when she was just a kid was a voiceover artist for a video game they gave her a script of a bunch of things to say cuz they needed a child's voice for their video game and she got paid just for reading those words into the microphone and you can get started for free or extremely cheap you can just buy a USB microphone like the one I'm talking to right here that's can be under a 100 bucks and there's some free
14:30 - 15:00 software that I use a ton called audacity which lets you record in Stereo and lets you do minor edits and things like that and a quiet recording space and you're Off to the Races platforms like Fiverr and upwork and even one called voices.com make it really easy to find people looking for voice over work projects can pay between 50 to even up to $500 depending on the length and the complexity obviously but with even even just a few gigs per month earning a few
15:00 - 15:30 hundred per month extra or even up to $1,000 extra is totally doable now here's a cool thing Amazon actually has a way for you to sign up as a voice over actor it's called Amazon's audiobook creation exchange and you can actually click and sign up really easy right there on Amazon and you can actually be the voiceover artist for audio books that they're trying to publish right now it's going to be totally flexible you're going to be able to do it from home and
15:30 - 16:00 the pay is great this sixth side hustle is another one that I've paid thousands of dollars for other people to do this for me especially now that businesses are more used to paying people to work from home it's become even more popular for people to make money doing this that is what's called a virtual assistant now according to one study business owners now realize that hiring a virtual assistant instead of hiring like a full-time in-person employee can reduce reduce costs for them by almost 78%
16:00 - 16:30 whether you're a virtual assistant for a real estate agent or a coach or a lawyer or just an entrepreneur like me I can tell you from personal experience business owners like myself are looking for virtual assistance to support and handle a variety of different tasks that can all be done online whether it's managing emails or managing calendar booking flights so many of the tasks that used to require someone to be in an office to do can now be done with a simple computer from home by anyone the
16:30 - 17:00 best places to get started for this is upwork or Fiverr and just posting whatever kind of Online skills you have experience with if you're a quick learner most of your clients are going to be willing to teach you the skills so you can complete the tasks that they're going to be assigning to you in fact that's what I do myself I hire people who work from home on their own schedule to get all kinds of stuff done for my business the disadvantage of being a virtual assistant as with some of the other side hustles I've mentioned here is that you're really Trading dollars for hours in other words if you
17:00 - 17:30 don't put in the time hourly that extra side money is going to stop coming in and that's why I've created the free class in the link in the description of this video where I teach you to set up a business that runs on autop pilot so you don't have to continually be putting in hours in order for the income to come in you can create an extremely stable autopilot income where money is deposited into your bank account whether you're working or not so if you're interested in that I really encourage
17:30 - 18:00 you click on the link in the description of this video put your email in there and we will send a free class to your email that'll go through all the details of setting up a business like that talk to you soon