HOBBIES THAT MAKE MONEY
1. Taking Paid Surveys
Did you know you can make money expressing your opinion?Companies are desperate to make better products and services, and they need your opinions in order to accomplish this.
You can make a decent income by participating in surveys for money daily. It’s a nice little side hobby because they pay you right away and you can actually make a decent income from it. And you can get started right away. All you need to do is sign up with a few survey websites to begin taking surveys for money.
Here are five really great high paying and reputable paid websites to get you started:
2. Blogging
At the heart of making money from your hobby is creating a website about your passionate hobby. Look, you may be the best horse back rider in the world. But if nobody knows who you are, nobody will care. If nobody cares, you won’t make any money with your hobby. Which is why it’s incredibly important to make yourself known. Again, the easiest and cheapest way to do this (and make a lot of money) is to reach people online.3. Gaming
If you’re a gamer and you’re fairly good at it, you can make money by uploading your game play to website like Youtube. People will watch your videos and a percentage of them will click the Youtube ads. You will make a commission every time someone clicks. It could be a few cents to a few dollars.If you’re really elite, you can join clans and go to tournaments in your city or even around the world. If you’re successful, you can win items like the latest gaming hardware, games, and even cash. Big tournaments pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars. You can also potentially get sponsored by big gaming brands, too. That’s guaranteed money in the bank.
Playing in gaming tournaments for money is called esporting. Big money is paid out at these tournies.
4. Baking
If you love baking, you know you don’t spend hours baking just a few cookies. You bake TONS of cookies. And you can’t eat them all. Instead of giving them to your neighbor or forcing them down your throat, find schools, restaurants, cafes, or bake sales where you can sell your baked goods.You can (and should) start a baking blog as well. Because your earning potential online is virtually unlimited. You could create a baking ebook and sell it to your readers. Or display ads on your website. Or create baking tutorials on Youtube and make money off Youtube ads.
5. Photography
Photography is an incredibly lucrative hobby. It’s absolutely necessary to create a website to display your work. I’d personally choose a type of photography, like “scenery photography” or “animal photography”, or “travel photography” and specialize in that.The sky is the limit for money making potential. You can create photography tutorials to sell, review your photography gear and make money from referring people to places to buy photography gear, or sell your photos. You’ll get paid a flat fee for each photo or get paid on a royalty basis, where every time your photo is downloaded, you get paid.
6. Web Design
If your hobby is web design, you have an incredibly useful skill. This is a skill worth learning if you don’t have a clue about it. Virtually every business is online and new business are created every minute. They all need websites created and managed. You can charge a ton of money too.You can charge $2000+ to create a website that may only take you 20 hours to complete. You can also outsource someone to create a website for your client. You charge $2000 for the website to be made, and pay the outsourcer maybe a few hundred dollars to make it, while pocketing the change. Rinse and repeat. You’ll want to find someone in a country like the Philippines to create the website because you can pay them way less.
7. Reading Books
Make money from reading books? Yea, you actually can. What you want to do is make a website where you can give your opinion on the books you’ve read. People value opinions and love to hear about what other people think.People will search online for reviews of books before they buy. Who wants to waste money on a shitty book, and worse, waste time reading a crappy book? NOBODY. Your website can fix this problem.
Along with that, you can leave a link on your blog and refer people to an online bookstore like Amazon where they can buy the book. If they do, you will earn a commission.
8. Making Crafts
Craft making is about as “hobby” as it gets. You need to do a little bit of research to find out what people like to buy. Once you do, start making your own version of that craft. Hopefully people like it. If they do, you have created yourself a little business of creating and selling arts and crafts.You can sell crafts online on a website like Etsy. Other places are eBay, Craigslist, and even Amazon. Other than selling your crafts online, try local shops, souvenir stores, and maybe even places like the dollar store. Whatever makes sense and profitability.
9. Recipe Making
You probably don’t know this, but the most searched thing online is recipes. Yep, more than anything else in the world. So you KNOW there is someone out there interested in your unique flavor of cooking.Creating your own food blog is absolutely necessary. You can talk about everything related to cooking. I’d also invest in a good camera to take mouth watering photos of your cooking.
A few ways to make money are: displaying ads on your cooking blog, creating a recipe book, reviewing kitchen tools and appliances, selling other peoples cookbooks, cooking classes, or creating your own cooking tutorials on Youtube.
10. Coaching / Teaching / Mentoring
If you are pretty knowledgeable about anything, you can help others gain some of that knowledge by teaching them. For example, if you love doing math, you can help students learn math in the evening. Or if you love soccer, you can coach a soccer team and earn money that way, too.11. Video Editing
Video editing, like web design, is also one of those internet skills that is incredibly useful. If you don’t have any video editing skills, it’s a skill worth learning.Business need videos to get their marketing message to their audiences. Regular people like you and me need videos put together for school presentations or work presentations. Amateur singers need to create music videos. Facebook pages are filled with brands and companies that use videos to get their message across. This incredibly useful hobby can be turned into a money making machine when you get your name out there
12. Making Youtube Videos
Youtube is currently the 3rd most visited website in the world. That tells you that every type of person in the world is on there, and a percentage of them will be interested in learning about something you have expert knowledge on, or being entertained by you.You will make money primary by displaying Youtube ads that visitors click on. You can also use Youtube to drive traffic to your blog, where they have an opportunity to buy something from.
One of Youtube’s most successful money maker is PewDieDie, who earned $7.4 million dollars this year.
13. Podcasting
Podcasting itself probably isn’t going to make you money, unless you use it to sell your product or service. But think of it as more of a lane where people can come discover who you are and what you do. If you like to talk or interview people, this is absolutely for you.For example, if you are knowledgeable about self development, you can start a personal development podcast and talk about things related to it. Let people know about your blog to learn more. They just might end up buying your product/service or listening to your advice
14. Traveling
Traveling is my favorite hobby in the world. Did you know you can get paid to travel? Travel companies will pay you to stay at their resort, or give you a free tour, or free gear, in exchange for a write up about your experience with them. You get something for free, they get exposure. It’s a win/win.You’ll obviously need your own blog and it definitely needs traffic before you start getting things like sponsored trips. You can also make money by referring people to booking websites like Expedia or booking.com. Or anything travel related, like travel gear and tour companies.
The nice thing about a travel blog is that you kind of have to travel to be able to blog about it. So it’s kinda like living the life, isn’t it? Traveling to make money
15. Investing
I don’t know if investing is really a hobby, but it’s definitely a way to make money. I think people who really get into investing treat it like a hobby. They obsess about it and think about it all the time. I know I”m like that.I think about stocks I can invest in. I hear people talking about our government or where they think the economy is going, and I can’t help but think about how this could help me pick better stocks. I think making passive income is a hobby in itself, and a worth every second of your time.
16. Writing
Every write has thought about publishing their own book. Whether you take this seriously or not doesn’t matter. You can turn your pen pushing hobby into regular paychecks quickly. The internet needs content. You can get paid by offering your writing to blogs and websites.This is how I would make money online with my writing skills: I wouldn’t go to a website like Odesk.com to find writing gigs. You have to fight with everyone else to get writing jobs, and you can’t compete with someone from the Philippines who will take jobs for pennies.
This is what I would do: You know what you have knowledge on. Go find blogs who cover these topics. If they look like they have many writers writing for them I would message them and inquire about a writing gig.
For example, I know of a health website that pays $50-$200 per article written by their writers. That person could be you. To earn that type of money, you will need to write quality articles. But, since it’s your hobby, you’re probably very good at writing – so that probably ain’t a problem.
17. Playing on Social Networks
Did you know that having ACCESS to an audience is worth a TON of money? That’s right, your stupid little Facebook page about cat memes could make you money. Don’t worry if you don’t have one. You can create it.Here’s how it works: Choose a topic and a social network to promote it. I’d use Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. You want to build an audience by posting stuff that is relevant to them. After awhile, you can promote/show them products that they would be interested in buying. If they buy, you make money. That’s it.
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18. Making Apps
If you are a computer programmer, you’ve no doubt made apps before. Well, I don’t have to tell you there is a lot of money in app making. So if you aren’t a programmer, you can still make money with apps. You would hire a computer programmer and get that person to make the app. You just need to figure out what’s missing in the app stores that you could fill. If you’re successful, you could make hundreds of thousands of dollars.19. Getting Fit
Are you passion about nutrition and eating well? Have you lost a lot of weight and look great now? Do you really enjoy a certain type of exercise plan? Well, why wouldn’t you want to make money from your experience!!Start a blog about it and tell the world what you learned, how you’ve benefited from it, and the challenges you’ve had. People that find your blog and connect with your story will be your loyal listeners. They eagerly listen to your recommendations for all things fitness related. And you can make money from recommending them these products and services.
Instagram is an incredible outlet for fitness junkies to get noticed.
20. Playing Sports
If you’re fairly good at a sport you can teach other people who aren’t as good at it how to get better. For example, if you are good at soccer, you can create a blog/Youtube channel to show people things like soccer drills, how to kick a ball, or how to buy soccer cleats. You’d make money through affiliate sales or display ads.21. Playing Music, Teaching Music, Producing Music
Music is never going away. Ever. So if music is one of your hobbies, you have an evergreen skill you can leverage to make money with. You can do the traditional thing of giving instrument lessons, like going to someones house to teach them how to play the piano. But you could make so much more online!With music, I feel video is pretty important. You can record yourself playing an instrument or singing a song. You can also give basic tutorials on how to play an instrument. If your videos are popular, you will make money with Youtube ads. And get discovered like Bieber