These days there are more ways than ever to make a little extra money if you need to increase your cash flow.
In the bad old days, you might have had to pick up some extra shifts at a local fast food joint or give up your evenings to clean offices if you needed to bring home a little extra money.
Happily, these days that situation is somewhat different! Thanks to the internet there is a wealth of opportunities online for some side jobs and part time work. So sit back, open your laptop and earn some extra cash by:
Using Your Skills
If you already have training or skills in a creative area then you should be able to market those for a part time online job.
Websites like Fiver and Upwork are just two examples of sites where people advertise jobs for freelancers with creative skills. So if are an excellent photographer, a gifted writer or a skilled web designer (to give just three examples!) it is easier than ever to find clients who will pay you for the services that you can offer.
Complete Surveys
There are a range of online companies who all offer vouchers, and often real money, to complete surveys on a range of topics.
They could be on products, on your own thoughts and opinions of key items in the news – they can even be about what you watched on TV last night!
Broadly speaking of course, they don’t pay too much individually. However, if you sign up to as many survey providers as possible and are willing to sink a fair amount of time into completing them then you can soon find the cash rewards starting to mount up to a respectable amount.
Online Tutor
Rather similar to the suggestion above to use your skills, if you have talents that lie in a different area from typical creative skills then you can still find a vibrant, online jobs market waiting for you.
This is especially true if you have qualifications in an area such as Math for example. In that case you work online as a Math tutor (click here to sign up as one) – and you can do it from the comfort of your kitchen table or living room!
Hiring online tutors to help children study for their exams is getting more and more popular around the world – and desktop apps like Skype make it easy to talk to people from anywhere. This means that you can tutor your subject to a child – or an adult for that matter – based anywhere around the world by using the internet.
Virtual Assistant
If you are a well-organized, tidy person that you could potentially be an excellent virtual assistant to someone.
Similar to being a tutor, because people can easily communicate around the world, busy business people are these days often outsourcing their support work, such as basic data entry and diary management, to capable people based around the globe.
If you can give up a few hours to help someone manage their day or complete simple tasks then you could earn a decent amount of extra money for yourself.
Enter Competitions
There are these days a number of people who, believe it or not, actually make a living by entering competitions!
Track them down online and enter as many as you can – even if the prizes are not something you want or need. In this case, you can simply sell whatever you win and don’t want. You can even sign up to mailing lists that alert you of new competitions. You may not be able to earn a living, but you certainly stand a good chance of bringing in a little extra income – not to mention some extra excitement!
Annabelle is part of the Content and Community team at SmileTutor, sharing valuable content to their own community and beyond. Annabelle’s passion is connecting parents & children who are looking for English tuition in Singapore.