26 Ways to Make More Money

Here's a list of 26 ideas for making more money. Some of the ones I like best include:

1. Pet sitter. Right now I’m looking for a pet sitter for my miniature dachshund. The kennels charge at least $20/day. Could you undercut the kennels, charge $15/day and keep a few pets in your home?

Might as well make some money off all those pet lovers, huh? ;-)

4. Tutor. If you have a college degree, use your downtime to tutor kids in the summer or even over the Internet.

I wonder what the going rates for this are. Must be good since whole businesses are built on tutoring.

10. Teach at your local community college.

Marketing? Business? Personal finance? Growing roses? There's a lot I could teach.

14. Do you love to garden and use organic methods? Depending on how large your harvest may be, you could offer “in season” locally grown, organic vegetables and fresh herbs for sale to a restaurant.

This could be part of my future plans if we find the right new home.

22. Make jams and jellies.

This goes with #14 to me.

25. Freelance writing.

I've done this one. Decent money for the time investment.

See any on the list that you like better?

Comments

[K]

26 ways to make money if you don't already have a full-time job?

[Michael Blackburn]

Back in the 90's, I used to tutor and made $12-$15 an hour through a business, $25+ on my own. A dollar's worth a lot less now, and the echo boomers are just hitting the college application process en masse. I would guess run-of-the-mill tutors are making well into the 30's now.

Hint: don't bother tutoring subjects like math and english. Focus on test-prep, that's where the money is. Sick society we live in.

[pj]

I am a student and a tutot. I teach economics, mostly for law and business students. They tend to have the most money.

The rate per student per hour has been 25 euro for years, bur recently went up to 30 euro. There also is a entry fee of around 170 euro, although this is often used as a first degree price differentiator. (So we have a first talk with the parents, look at their clothes, car, manners,negotiation skills etcetera and give a discount on the entry fee if necessary, but never on the hourly rate.)

I receive half of the revenue, the other half is for the company that recruits the students. It gets juicy when we start teaching to groups of up to 3: 45 euro per hour (or 37,5 at the old rate). I did a lot of that last year and saved over 600 euro per month working less than a day per week.

So yes, it's a great business as a tutor. Not so much as a company, because a lot of tutors run away with the clients and the business model is therefore not that scalable.

[pj]

Additional info for those interested: The entry fee is 100% for the company, and I am talking about the Belgian market.

[Sharon]

I've had your site in my Bloglines for about a year and skim your posts faithfully.

I took this one to heart and became a secret shopper this week. I've already saved $125 on my pet's vet bills, something I needed to do anyway. Thanks for the GREAT suggestion!

[FMF]

Congrats, Sharon! Thanks for sharing your success story!