If you need to make money fast and don’t want to get a part-time job, there are plenty of ways to earn money on a flexible basis.
1. Get Paid to Do Market Research
You’ve probably seen ads for paid market research studies while scrolling through Facebook and thought it seemed scammy.
But it’s not. There’s a huge market for consumer data that companies can use to improve their products and increase sales.
And that data comes from real consumers. These companies want to know what you think about the products and services you use every day, and they’re willing to pay you for it. Some companies will pay you just for signing up!
Swagbucks is a reputable survey site and offers a $10 bonus when you sign up. You can earn points when you take surveys and redeem them for gift cards for popular retailers like Walmart, Amazon and Target.
2. Drive with Postmates
Delivering food for Postmates can be an easy way to make $1,000, especially if you’re a good driver and have plenty of free time at night and on the weekends.
Postmates lets its workers deliver food by driving, walking, biking or on a scooter. This means you don’t need a car to do this side hustle.
Every city has its own average rate, and your individual earnings may vary by factors including location, demand, and time of day.
3. Rented Your Car When You are Not Using It
When you’re at work, spending time with family, or sleeping, your car just sits in the driveway.
So why not put it to work?
With Getaround, a car-sharing app, you can rent your car to drivers when you’re not using it.
Like Uber, the company covers drivers with a premium insurance policy. They also handle the logistics of renting out your car so you don’t have to deal with scheduling and handing over the keys. How fast you'll make with Getaround depends on the market rental rate for your car and the way many hours you'll rent it per week.
Getaround estimates that most cars in the United States sit idle an average of 22 hours per day. If you can rent your car for 25 hours a week at $5 an hour, that’s an extra $500 a month, not including any fees or expenses.
4. Cash in on Freebies
Make your grocery dollars count by using Ibotta to get cashback on essential everyday purchases.
If you’re shopping online or in-store, check out these other apps and browser extensions:
Rakuten: Another big cash-back site/app; they’ll give you $10 after you spend $15
InboxDollars: A market research site that gives users a $5 signup bonus.
earn money online by using the inbox dollars search engine
You won’t make $1000 fast with this one alone but when you’re broke every cent matters.
5. Get a Pay Raise
Most of us probably feel like we are overdue for a pay raise.
If it’s been a while since you’ve had a bump in pay – and you feel like you deserve one – it might be time to finally ask your boss for a raise. If you work full time and get a raise of $1 per hour, that will increase your yearly income by $2,000.
A ten-minute conversation that leads to a 50-cent raise is probably one of the easiest ways to make $1,000. It’s not fast, but it will add up over time. Once you figure out what your net increase will be, start automatically transferring that amount to a savings account so you’ll have at least $1,000 saved for emergencies.
6. Host Guests with Airbnb
If you have a spare room in your house, then Airbnb could be the perfect side hustle for you.
It doesn’t require a ton of work or planning to get started as an Airbnb host. Simply create an account, set up your listing, and start booking stays. Your earning potential depends on where you live and how nice of a space you have to offer. The nicer your room or house, the more you can make.
You can also charge more during holidays and big events in your area, like football games, festivals, and concerts. If you live in a busy area, you can easily make $1,000 in less than a week doing this.
If you don’t have space to rent out, Airbnb now offers the opportunity to host Experiences.
An Airbnb Experience is a unique and memorable activity to offer visitors to your area. It could be a backstage tour at an aquarium, a brewery tour, or a guided hike on a local trail.
7. Sell Your Stuff
Another way to earn money when you desperately need it is to sell stuff you no longer need, like that guitar your parents bought you in tenth grade that you never learned to play.
If you live on a busy road, this one is easy – just set up shop in front of your home on a Saturday morning and wait for the yard sale shoppers to stroll in.
If yard sales aren’t an option, expand your market with the help of the internet. Decluttr will gladly take your old books, technology, and CDs. You can manually enter the barcode for your items or scan them with the Decluttr app. They’ll tell you the total payout and you can send in your items with their free mailing label.
8. Get Paid to Tutor
Tutoring platforms like VIPKid are always looking for qualified applicants to tutor in subjects like English, calculus, biology, history, and everything in between.
VIPKid tutors make between $7-9 for each 30-minute session. Because VIPKid focuses on teaching children in China, workers typically have to be available during overnight shifts. Being available on a last-minute basis can also help.
9. Write Blog Posts
Bloggers can make a lot of money, but it takes time to build up a site and audience from scratch. If you want to earn money writing but need to take a shortcut, consider freelance writing for others. You don’t need a degree in English to make a living writing, but you do need solid writing skills.
Take Holly Johnson, a mom of two who makes more than $200,000 a year while writing full-time. She created a course, Earn More Writing, to help writers begin a freelance writing business even with no professional experience.
10. Make $1,000+ per month as a Virtual Assistant
Virtual assistants provide administrative and technical support to businesses. You can decide which tasks to supply supported your experience and preferences.
A few common virtual assistant tasks include:
Email management
Social media management
Research
Writing
Graphic design
For more inspiration, here are 150+ tasks you can offer as a virtual assistant. The services you offer and how you package them are entirely up to you.
Many small business owners prefer hiring virtual part-time help as opposed to full-time salaried employees because it’s more cost-effective. That means there’s plenty of opportunities for you to make $1,000 without leaving your house. You can learn how to create a VA side hustle with Kayla Sloan’s 10KVA course.
11. Offer Freelance Services
Many companies are turning to freelancers for tasks and assignments that aren’t worth it to do in-house.
These tasks can include bookkeeping, managing email, writing blog posts, and building websites. Whatever your skill set, someone out there will pay you for it.
The way these websites make money is usually by taking a percentage of your earnings, so be sure not to sell yourself short or you could end up working for pennies. With the proper skills and a few diligence, you'll make $1,000 fast (generally during a week or less) from freelancing alone.
You can get started on Fiverr where you can create a profile and add a variety of services, ranging from $5 to $995. You can offer cheap prices initially to create a portfolio then raise your rates once you've got good reviews.
Once you've got a solid portfolio, you'll stop using these sites and begin finding your own clients.
12. Pet Sitting
This gig is for anyone who must make $1,000 fast.
Pet sitting pays instant cash, and if you love animals, it’s a no-brainer.
Rover makes it easy to find clients and build up your new or existing pet sitting business. You can choose whether you offer in-home stays, doggie daycare, or simply daily drop-ins.
All you need to do to get started with Rover is complete a brief application and complete your profile.
13. Let Trim Create Room in Your Budget
Trim is a simple app that acts as your own “personal financial manager.” After you link your bank account to the app, Trim will sift through your spending habits, find subscriptions you should probably cancel, negotiates your cable bill, finds you better car insurance, and more. Plus, the app is free!
While it’s not directly helping you earn money, it can help you save at least $1,000 over the next year.
14. Become a Bartender or Server
I have a friend who turns to serve/bartending every time a career/dream of hers falls through.
For people with previous experience, server jobs are usually pretty easy to land, and you get to bring home cash at the end of every shift.
Bartenders and servers at busy or up-scale restaurants can make a few hundred dollars in tips alone on a Friday or Saturday night. Your earning potential also depends on where and when you work (nights and weekend shifts bring in the most).
15. Offer to Help Friends and Family
Turning to friends and family for money when you’re supposed to be a “responsible adult” isn’t easy.
But that’s what a support system is for – to support you when you need it. You don’t have to beg for money. Just ask around and see if anyone in your circle could use your assistance.
Know an entrepreneur? Ask if they need help with their business.
Friends with kids? Offer to babysit.
Clean houses. Mow lawns. Chop wood. Shovel driveways.
Chances are someone you know could use help with something.
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