10 of the Best Online Side Hustles for 2024

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Check it out: 39% of Americans have hopped on the side hustle bandwagon, so maybe it's time for you to try this too.

What side hustle will help you pad your checking account , you ask? Good question. A very successful TikTok user who teaches entrepreneurship (and whose book I am ghostwriting) says there are three main areas to make money online, whether that be full time or as a part-time side hustle. People generally buy products related to helping with:

• Relationships
• Business or making money
• Being healthy

Sell something related to these, and you are in the sweet spot of success. And given that, below we list 10 different ways to side hustle your way to success in 2024.

Health

There are all sorts of remote, online side hustles you can create (or buy into) that can help people improve their health. Here are a few options.

1. You could remotely help people get in shape by creating and teaching a Zoom personal training course.
2. A nutritionist, nurse, or other health professional could create a "lose weight the healthy way" package and then sell an ongoing subscription business coaching people.
3. A yoga teacher could create an online yoga class. For example, check out "Yoga by Adriene" on YouTube. Adriene makes millions of dollars a year with her free yoga classes (generating income by attracting advertisers to her YouTube channel).

Relationships

Helping others with relationship concerns could be a fruitful way to create an online side hustle.

4. Aside from his or her regular practice, a counselor or therapist could create a remote therapeutic practice. It could be for people who are not easily ambulatory, or don't otherwise want to go see a therapist in person.

5. Similarly, a marriage and family counselor could create an online practice for couples who may be separated by geography due to work or choice.

6. I know of one psychologist who created a course designed to help menopausal women navigate intimacy. Customers buy the course, watch the videos, and then have the option to continue learning one on one, remotely, with the therapist.

7. Even parenting skills can be taught online.

Business and making money

I have personal experience with this one. I have had great success as an entrepreneur teaming up with large corporations as an influencer. As such, I launched an online coaching service (no longer in effect) that taught other small business owners how to sell their products and services to corporate clients. Selling expertise definitely can work.

8. A guy named Jason Fladien is the master of webinars, selling everything from how to make money on Amazon to how to persuade over the internet to crypto-buying strategies. If you have a specialized business skill, teaching others how they can do it via webinars is a very viable option.

9. Aside from webinars, course creation and hosting platforms such as Kajabi and Thinkific make packaging and selling your expertise to other entrepreneurs very easy.

10. Similarly, you could launch a podcast or YouTube channel of your own, sharing your expertise in a certain area. Not only does this establish you as the expert, but it also attracts advertisers.

Of course, to every rule there is an exception. While the three areas above have been proven, if you have a remote side hustle idea that seems viable, the good news is that you can probably test it out fairly cheaply. Example: My daughter takes chess lessons via Zoom from a grand master in New York. He makes $100 a session. Who knew?

Apparently, he did!

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