21+ Side Hustles For Women To Make Money And Build Identity

There are so many Side Hustles for Women, but for any woman, it’s quite challenging to find Side Hustles that can fit into a busy schedule.

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There are so many Side Hustles for Women, but for any woman, it’s quite challenging to find Side Hustles that can fit into a busy schedule.

• Are you someone who is in the same boat?
• Are you a working or home-staying mom, spouse, or sister looking for side hustle ideas & want to make some extra bucks and build your own identity?

Don’t worry.

In this post I will show you exciting, legit side hustles for females that can significantly boost your financial stability and build identity. Also if you need more understanding of Side Hustles then you can refer my this master guide: Side Hustle: The Complete Guide For Everyone

Best Side Hustles for Women

List of Side Hustles for Women

The Side hustle ideas are not necessarily always quick money-making schemes. These are legit ways to earn money with patience, and one can be turned into a full-time main hustle.

Let’s get into the list of best Side hustles for females that home staying & busy Women can do.

1. Blogging

Be You are a working or home-staying woman, Blogging can shape your career. Initially, You need not have to invest much and start a fancy blogging website. Just get started and find your Blogging rhythm.

The best Blogging niches for Women are Beauty, Health, Food\Nutrition, Parenting, and Feminism. Not only this, but you can work on other popular niches like Blogging, Tech, etc. if you are passionate about it.

You can make money with Blogging in many ways like:

• Affiliate Marketing
• Showing Ads on the website using Google AdSense
• Publishing Sponsorship blog posts.
• Selling Info products like eBooks, and Courses. (For example my course Side Hustle Beta)
• Brand Collaborations.

Here are some popular female Bloggers you should follow to learn more: Jyoti Chauhan, Nirmala SanthaKumar, Lisa Sicard, Sue-Ann Bubacz, Donna Merrill, Shubha Tiwari, Archana Tiwari

2. YouTube Channel

Opening a YouTube channel is the best side hustle for Women. In your Free time, you can capture some simple videos on mobile and start a YouTube channel in niches like Parenting, Kids, Food Recipes, Beauty, and Feminism niche.

If you type Food recipes on YouTube you will find most of the YouTube Channels dominated by females.

The beauty of YouTube is that you need not have to spend much time.

If you are getting bored with your day-to-day routine simply capture a video of your baby, nature, or anything and start a YouTube channel around it.

Another best idea for YouTube is you can turn your skills and start a YouTube channel around it.
YouTube can give you lots of fame, and opportunities.

Many brands and organizations are looking for brand collaborations\partnerships with the YouTuber who are into Parenting, Kids, Food Recipes, Beauty, and other niches. The brand will give you a certain amount of money as per your contract, in which you have to mention or review products on your YouTube Channel.

Here are some popular female YouTubers you should know: Nisha Madhulika Channel: NishaMadhulika, Kabita Singh Channel: Kabita’s Kitchen, Pooja Luthra Channel: Pooja Luthra.

3. Fitness Instructor

If you are a fitness lover then Fitness Instructor is another best side hustle idea for females.

You can excel in this side hustle idea by:

1. Running your local offline fitness center. 2. Online mode. Here is how you can grow in the Online mode

• Starting YouTube Channel on Fitness.
• Teach Online Live Classes via Zoom App.
• Teach via Pre-recorded Video and share it on the Social Media\Your Website.
• Or register on sites like TeacherOn

Pro Tip: Fitness industry is competitive, so you should focus on the micro-niche in Fitness, for example, Yoga instructors.

4. Tutoring\Become an Online Tutor

You can turn existing skills and become an Online Tutor. If you are holding any particular specialization, have good communication skills, or have knowledge in any of the language\subject then Tutoring is the best profitable side hustle for you.

Sites like VipKid, Tutorrr.com, and Chegg make it easy to sign up as a tutor and make extra money outside your full-time job. Another way you can upload an Online course on Udemy, and sell it.

5. Become a Freelance Writer

If writing is a cup of your tea then what could be another best side hustle idea for busy Women like you? Writing is a high millionaire skill as there is an abundance of opportunities and demand for Quality Freelance writers.

If you specialize in any topic then I would suggest starting writing NOW. Also, you can start writing on popular platforms like Quora, and Medium.com, to sharpen your writing skills.

To get maximum exposure, I would recommend you create your own blogging Website.

As a writer, you can make money in many ways like:

• Paid Guest Blogging.
• Ghost Writer for Organizations.
• Selling your Writer Gigs on popular platforms like Fiverr
• Get Content writing contracts from Corporate Clients.
• Start your own blog and provide your consultancy around Writing Advice, Sell Writing related Courses, etc.
• Make money by participating in Medium.com Partners Program.

Don’t believe how big is the Writing side hustle?

Look at the Cnewcomer a freelancer writer Colin Newcomer's website where he flaunts his freelancing writing portfolio via his Website.

This is how same you can do.

Pro Tip: I would suggest starting your own blogging Website where you can showcase Authority and build a Portfolio as a Writer. Having your own Website helps you to win more clients.

6. Consulting

Consulting can be your next best part-time side hustle idea where you just need to spend minimal hours on Weekends. That means it’s the best side hustle for home-staying Women, busy Moms, and Working ladies like you.

Consulting side hustle businesses have very little to no investment. If you have mastery in any topic, you can turn this side hustle into a full-time Consulting business.

• To start, create awareness about your expertise via social media.
• Provide valuable advice and guidance to others.
• Once you find that audience is loving your consulting then start a paid consultancy.
• You can deliver consulting via Social media, Video calls, and What’s up calls.
• To build authority as a consultant I would suggest creating a simple website and flaunting your skills.

The website builds trust among the audience & it’s best for you to showcase your offering as a consultant.

If you are not sure how to start a website then refer to this guide to start a website.

Pro Tip: You can start consulting side hustle with any skills\expertise you have.

7. Run Cake Shop\Bakery\Snacks Delivery

If you are a corporate Woman, you can imagine how many birthdays are happening every year in your organization. You can easily offer Bakery products\Cake\Snacks during these birthday celebrations. If you know how to make baking products\cake then grab this best good side hustle opportunity.

Believe me, you do not need to find any extra clients if you are already a corporate working woman.

Not working women, but non-working women can tie up with Corporate organizations and offer customized Baking products.

Are you with me on this Side hustle idea? If yes then what are you waiting for?

Go and start offering your services.

If you are living in a metro city, I suggest tapping IT organizations, Clients. In a single IT park, you can network and make so many clients. Pro Tip: This way you can 10x your growth.

8. Sell Crafts\Handmade Products

Do you know how to make Craft\Paintings or any other Handmade products?

Then this can be a good side hustle for moms like you along with a day job. Over weekends you can participate in exhibitions, local events, and big societies, to offer your products. Also, you can offer corporate gifting services to the Big organization to skyrocket your sales.

Think of this as a business opportunity and work.

Pro Tips: 1. You can list all of these products on popular eCom sites like Amazon, eBay, and Flipkart to sell Worldwide. Going online will increase reach and profit by 10X. If you want to cut down the middle commission these portals are taking behind each sale, then you should start eComm Website to sell. 2. If you are busy in the day job and have a fund, I suggest you should outsource the work and only act as a supervisor.

9. Staffing\Recruiting

These days many organizations don’t want the actual headache of recruiting, and shortlisting candidates for the interviews. So running a Staffing\Recruiting Services could be next is a good Side hustle for females like you in your spare time.

You just need to spend daily 2–3 hrs to find the perfect candidate. If you are a working woman then you can hire a team to run this staffing consultancy. This means you can focus more on getting Staffing\Recruiting clients and your team can do the main job of shortlisting, contacting job seekers, and scheduling interviews.

Isn’t it a perfect Woman’s side hustle?

Pro Tips: 1. You should have excellent communication and negotiation skills to run Staffing\Recruiting. 2. Networking is key in this business. So you should network with the HR personnel from the organization. Portal like LinkedIn, and Naukri.com can help you to Network. 3. To reach a candidate, you should use Social Media Marketing Automation aggressively. 4. Partners with the local coaching institute, and colleges to get build potential candidate leads.

10. Graphic Designing

Graphics Designing is the most demanding skill in the current market. Many Marketers, Bloggers, Businesses, Corporate looking for a freelance designer who can offer customized services as per need

For getting started, you don’t need expert skills in Graphics designing. With the help of tools like Canva, you can design well graphics.

You can build your portfolio of Design packages and offer a service to the clients. Also, you can get clients by posting Gigs on a popular platform like Fiverr, or Upwork.

Pro Tip: You can get the client by just networking on Social Media. If you are a busy woman, then I suggest automating Social Media Marketing efforts with the help of tools like Publer to increase your reach on Social Media.

11. Service Arbitrage Business

Most of you are aware of Freelancing, but here is the hidden secret to automating the Freelancing Side Hustl e…

That’s called as a Service arbitrage business, where you can take advantage of differences in the Services price.

Here is how it works: You grab a client project from the Freelancer platform >> search for another Freelancer who can do that same work but at a Low Price >> Get the work done from that Freelancer and Sell the same work at a higher price to your Client.

e.g. If you get a client who is willing to pay $10 per Video editing and you can find another Video editing service provider who is offering editing at $5. You just need to act as a middleman and find the clients. Once you get a client then pass their order on to the editing service provider who is offering the same service at $5.

I hope you get the point.

Sounds good?

Are you ready to try this kind of Side hustle?

If yes then start a Service Arbitrage business by signing up with the Freelancing platform like Fiverr (It’s Free)

12. Become a Virtual Assistant

Most busy entrepreneurs, marketers, and bloggers don’t have time to manage the non-important daily stuff, so they outsource work to the Virtual Assistant.

Virtual assistant work involves scheduling meetings, maintaining daily ToDo lists, managing emails, sending reminders, followups with clients, etc.

The best part, you don’t need to invest full-time as a Virtual assistant. If you have spare time, Work management skills, and Communication skills then this is an excellent side hustle for a lady like you.

Pro Tip: Set your fixed time for the Virtual assistant job. Your main work is to help busy folks in managing day to day activities. To get exposure as a Virtual Assistant, you can list your service on a popular portal like Fiverr (It’s Free)

13. Taking Online Paid Surveys

Did you know ProBlogger, Pritam Nargale has been earning a good amount of money from Paid survey site ySense(earlier it's a ClickSense)? That’s the power of the Paid survey.

In Paid surveys, you have to share opinions, feedback, and some basic info with the organizations, and get paid. You should be consistent and respond quickly to the survey offers. You need not have to invest lots of time, as most of the surveys are of 3–10 mins duration. Also, the best part, is in your the spare-time you can participate in the survey with the help of a SmartPhone.

To note, You will not get paid for every survey you give, so don’t disappoint with it but be consistent with responding to surveys. ( Note: Maximum survey listings have some expiry, so you need to respond to the survey as soon as possible.)

You can get Paid surveys by FREE signing up on the sites like ySense(earlier it was a ClickSense) it offers daily survey opportunities and pays well.

Pro Tip: The more you respond to surveys more you earn. To get good Survey opportunities, you should be active on the Survey Sites.

14. Become a Transcriber

With growing Digitalization, Organizations need a Transcriber who can Translate the existing content (audio, video, text) into a new format.

These types of Transcription Side Hustle opportunities have 3 categories:

1. Transcription: Convert the content from speech (audio) to text
2. Translation: Translate any documents or audio, ranging from interviews to corporate documents, in multiple languages.
3. Data Annotation: Annotate audio, text, image, and other data for artificial intelligence and machine learning needs.

You can sign up to the portal likes GoTranscript to find Transcription Side Hustle jobs.

15. Freelance In Your Field (Gig Economy)

Everyone has some unique skills to Side Hustle. So rather than searching for ideas, you try existing skills to grab Freelancing opportunities. Freelancing with your existing skills is the easy and fastest way to hustle and make money.

Being a Woman, if you are holding skills like Writing, Graphics Design, Video Editing, Resume Writing, and Website Building then Freelancing is the best way to a side hustle.

To get started, simply sign up to Fiverr, and check out the details about what Gigs (Small Services) people around the Globe are selling, their pricing model, and who are the clients they are serving.

Pro Tips:1. Initially, getting clients is tough. To get clients you should apply to the client’s gigs as much as you can. 2. Offer services at low prices to get clients and build your portfolio. 3. To showcase my portfolio I suggest starting a Website. The website helps to showcase authority in your field, build trust in the client’s eyes, and increase the chances to get a Freelancing contract.

16. Interior Decorator Consulting

Interior decorating is another good side hustle for females in their spare time. Not only individuals but big corporate Organizations are also looking for interior decorating services.

To get maximum out of this free time side hustle idea, you can collaborate with the Real Estate builders and offer initial packages to the clients who are purchasing\purchased houses.

Also, you can 10x reach & profit by participating in the local Woman’s groups or exhibitions.

17. Podcasting

The podcast is another of the best digital Side Hustle for busy Moms, working\non-Working Women.

The Podcast is the Audio format of Media to reach the Audience. You can start the Podcast by recording your voice and uploading audio files on a popular Podcast platform like Anchor.fm The end Audience then plays this Audio file and consumes the contents.

The Podcast is mostly the preferred medium for an audience who did not have time to read or watch the content, and for creators who did afford to spend hours on creating consumers. Hence it’s an ideal Side hustle for a busy lady like you.

Wondering, how to make money via Podcasts? Here is the list of ways to make money via Podcast.

• Brand collaboration
• Sponsorship
• Affiliate Marketing
• Ads Revenue
• Collaboration
• Selling info products

18. Selling Old\New Products (Run eCom Store)

Do you know, that you can sell the products that you use in day-to-day life on popular eCommerce sites like eBay and, new products on Amazon?

If not then, you are missing the best Side Hustle opportunity that you can manage while doing the Job.

To get started, first try with a few small products to understand the eCommerce business model, process, logistics, and system. Once you have a good understanding, go and try to sell products in large volumes.

If you don’t have time to run this business, then just be a supervisor, and outsource all the work like order confirmation, packing managing inventory, etc.

Ideally speaking, there are two ways to get started

1. Register as a new Seller on the Platform eBay, Amazon, etc., and follow the next process.
2. Or Start an eCommerce site by building a Website as low as 3000 per month.

19. Sell Information Products

If selling Physical products seems quite challenging to you, then you should try Selling Information Products like eBooks, Online Courses, Seminars, Webinars, etc.

Here is the basic process of getting started:

Create info products >> host these products on your Website or Landing pages or third-party sites >> integrate a payment gateway like Instamojo to accept the payments.

Still not clear? Check out my premium course Side Hustle Beta

Below are two genuine ways to sell information products.

1. Social Media like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn (you need a good presence on social media)
2. Sell via own Website (Basic also fine) or Landing Pages

Apart from the info products selling, you should leverage other side hustles. That’s what I am teaching in my course Side Hustle Beta

20. Become a ProofReader

If you have a good command of any language (English, German, etc) then Proofreader is a perfect side hustle for Women like you.

There are tons of Authors, Book publishing houses, Marketers, and Bloggers who need proofreading services, hence Proofreading is an ideal side hustle. You just need to list the proofreading services\gigs on the popular platform like Fiverr, get the clients and deliver the work as per the client's demands.

Pro Tips: 1. As a beginner, analyze how existing Proofreaders are posting Service\Gigs on sites like Fiverr. This will give you an idea to craft your services package. 2. To get maximum exposure, apply to the clients from Tier 1 countries like the USA, and the UK, as the clients from these countries have good budgets. 3. Build your own Website to showcase a Proofreading portfolio package.

21. Video Editor

Video content consumption has increased a lot, hence Video editor demands are increasing day by day.

Many YouTubers, Media, Publications, Marketers, and Bloggers are in search of good video editors who are providing good Video editing services.

This is a totally worth side hustle job if you have interests, skills, and time. You can master the Video Editing skills by practicing on Video editing software like Filmora

Similar to Proofreading, you can find Video editing opportunities on Fiverr, or share your services on Social media.

Pro Tips: 1. Network with YouTubers, Digital marketers, and Bloggers on Social media to get the Video editing side hustle work.2. List your services on Micro job sites like Fiverr. 3. Build your own portfolio by starting a website.

22. Sell Digital Photos Online

Selling photos is a legit side hustle opportunity.

You can sell any sort of photos, graphics artwork like images, 3D images, and illustrations. There are two ways to sell photos online:-

1. List Photos (or graphics artwork like illustration) on the sites like Shutterstock, Fotomoto, 500Px, SmugMug, and Adobe Stock (formerly Fotolia). These portals take a little commission out of your selling price and share the royalty amount with you.

2. Sell photos via your own website. ( Here, You have full control over pricing, no one is there to take a commission like the above mentioned).

23. Manage social media for businesses, marketers, and Influencers

Due to the recent growth in Digital Marketing, plenty of opportunities are available in the fields of Social Media Management and Marketing.

Managing Social media includes handling Social Media accounts, groups, pages, social media posting, and marketing on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

Many big Corporates, Marketers, Bloggers, and Influencers don’t have enough time to manage social media so they outsource social media management activities to freelancers.

This Side Hustle is ideal for home-staying women as you do not need so many skills and time to invest in Social Media. You can simply automate Social Media Management with tools that I use, called a Publer(They offer FREE plan)

To get clients for Social Media Management work I recommend listing the gig on Fiverr.

24. Reviewing Websites\User testing

This Side Hustle involves typically reviewing or testing a website to get paid. Most tests take approximately 5–25 minutes to complete and pay an average of $10 per test.

UserTesting, Respondent, and TryMyUI are some legit portals that offer to get paid to test and review the website’s work.

To test out websites, you need basic stuff like a computer, microphone, camera, broadband internet connection, and an updated web browser.

In spare time this is another good side hustle.

Note: Not every test qualifies you to earn money so don’t be disappointed. Also, with this kind of side hustle can not make big money quickly but it's ideal to make some cash in your free time.

25. Data Entry

Data entry work is the most available Online Job in the market since its inception. It includes tasks like entering information\data into spreadsheets, words, or particular software.

It doesn’t need any expert skills or a bachelor’s degree but it’s important to have a level of typing speed and accuracy.

Data Entry jobs offer the flexibility to work as a freelancer. Major Data Entry work pays on an hourly basis. Guru is the best site to check out for such opportunities.

Pro Tip: To get good exposure to try Data entry work from Clients out of India as you will get the benefit of currency conversion and generally foreign clients hold a good budget to pay for Data Entry work.

Conclusion on Side Hustles for Women

Being a lady, you have several dependencies and need to take of many things like childcare, kitchen, and take care for the entire family.

As we all are living in the digital era, it’s possible to manage a house along with the Side Hustle.

So above listed Side Hustles for Women are ideal opportunities for you to earn cash in your spare time.

Irrespective, of whether you are a working woman, a home-staying mom, a single lady, a sister, or someone’s girlfriend you should find your side hustle!

As mentioned above, there are many other good Side Hustles for females out there. So, don’t just sit back, choose a side hustle, and grow.

Originally published at https://www.growthfunda.com on October 13, 2020.