Online Side Hustle Ideas For Teenagers To Make Money | Work From Home

Many teenagers waste their time in nonsense things like watching tv, playing video games and many others. Nou some are there who started exploring themselves and do a side hustle like youtube, blogging and become successful from their teenage only.

Are you among the top 1% of teenagers?

If you want to start a side hustle as a teenage or college student and leave the rat race of getting a job, then here is the place where I will tell you 6 side hustle you can start without any investment.

It will not easy to be successful, you have to put a lot of time and effort to be an expert in it.

Hustle until you no longer need to introduce yourself.

6 Side Hustles Ideas For Teenagers Without Any Investment

#1 Blogging

Blogging is one of the great side hustle to start as a teenager. It can be started without investment also through blogger.com and if you can invest a little amount, then it would also a great start in your blogging career.

There are various ways to make money through blogging - Ad revenue, Affiliate marketing, selling course, doing counseling, selling services, and many more. So, you can see there are a lot of different ways to make money blogging.

Are you an introvert? If yes, then it can be the best side hustle for you as it doesn't anything more than you and your computer. You are only sitting in front of your computer thinking, writing, and spending time at your home only.

You can take your blogging in any direction. You can make your business out of it, or make a personal brand of yourself. It is a highly scalable side hustle that you can make a full-time career later on. Since, how many advantages does it have? I know, there are many.

But it is not a quick money-making side hustle, it takes time to learn and master it. Thus if you are searching for making money quickly, then stay away from it. It is not a fruit of your basket.

If you are willing to put the time in it (even years), then only start blogging and it is my confirmation that if you become a successful blogger, then you would be grateful to invest those time because of a lot of money worth it.

The best thing about blogging is that if your blog gets success then you will make passive income. Isn't it worth your time? I think a lot of money from a passive source worth your time (even years!).

#2 Freelancing

Freelancing is one of the fastest ways to make side money online. To make money through freelancing, you have to provide service to the people and get paid.

It doesn't require any creating websites like in blogging, making of any product, and sell. Instead, you have to sell your skill. Search what skills do you have and what type of service you can provide to others.

What type of service you can provide? See, what other freelancers are making money with :

1. Writing
2. SEO
3. Web design and Web Development
4. Graphic design
5. Marketing
6. Weight loss
7. Social Media
8. CAD design 
9. Law 
10. Photography
11. Voiceover acting
12. Speaking 
13. And many more!!

Freelancing has so many perks and that's why all the young ones are preferring to be a freelancer. Its popularity can be seen by the fact that about 50 million Americans are doing freelancing and it is projected that this trend will continue with about half of the workforce freelancing within a decade in America.

Freelancing allows setting your own schedule and working hours. You can work from anywhere you want to be and also set your own rates and clients (though beginners choose any clients they get). It doesn't require any investment but it requires skill and knowledge.

So, it can also be a good side hustle for a college student who has the skill to offer other people.

#3 Youtube Vlogging

Yeah, I don't think, I have to tell you that youtube is the best way to make money nowadays. You already know many people who are making money through it. 

And as a side hustle also, it is a great platform to start, it doesn't require any investment. But you have to work hard and consistently as the competition is high.

These are the steps to start youtube as a side hustle and make money through it.

How to start a vlog channel as a money-making side hustle

Step #1: Pick up a Vlog Niche

Selecting a niche should be a balance of your interests, expertise, and the traffic in search of that niche. You should also see the market before you pick a niche, because if traffic would be less, then you can't make money making business from it.

Make a list of interests and strengths and do the market, keyword research before deciding your niche.

Some of the ideas:

1.  Health and Fitness
2.  Beauty and Makeup
3.  Gaming
4.  Making food
5.  Making money and side hustles
6.  Travel
7.  Technology
8.  Educational
9.  Movie reviews
10.  Entertainment
11.  And many more... 

Step #2: Create a youtube channel

Just create a youtube channel. Go to youtube, login, and create a channel. Make a logo and cover for your channel. Give your channel a name related to your niche, write a good description with good keywords so your channel can be discoverable.

Step #3: Prepare to shoot and film a vlog

Now its time to shoot and make content for your channel. The first video should be like an introductory video in which you will tell about yourself and your mission and give your audience a reason that why should they subscribe you and why should they follow you, what are your qualifications and stuff like that (just like you are making your portfolio about yourself and your skills).

Tips for shooting videos:

1. Since if you have not a camera, it is not wrong to shoot with a smartphone. Just shoot by the back camera of your smartphone.
2. Have good lighting and audio quality. Test it before publishing your videos.
3. Make your videos engaging, don't bore your audience. 
4. Have a unique style of yourself. Make your own signature.
5. Make an intro and outro that you can use in every video.

Step #4: Edit your videos

Since you have created a great video/content, now its time to edit video. There are many Softwares you can use to edit your videos like iMovie, Adobe Premier clip, Luma fusion, Filmora Go, Video show, and many more which you can use for editing.

Step #5: Export your vlog

Since your vlog is completed, its time to take it online. You can easily publish your video on youtube. But it is also an important step in the success of a video.

Have a good and attractive thumbnail of the video so the people click it on seeing it. Have a great title with keywords related to the niche that makes your video to rank in search results. Also, take time to write a description (with keywords to rank) of your video telling youtube about your video, and youtube can index it into search. 

Step #6: Promote your vlog

Now its time to reach out to people with your videos. Marketing plays so much important role to be successful in blogging. As the more you promote, the more views you will get and more subscribers and likes.

For marketing, I love social media platforms the most. Build an audience, share a post related to your videos or clips of your video on Facebook groups, Instagram pages, or Pinterest.

Work hard to have a wide reach to have more views on your videos. 

Step#7: Monetize your channel

Here is the favorite step of yours that how can we really make money. Since if you work hard and consistently post content on your channel and grew a good subscriber base, then you can make money in many ways.

You can apply to the youtube partnership program to be paid on the basis of your views. But it, not that leverage step. Other leverage steps are making money through adding ads, joining affiliate programs, you can sell your own products or ebooks or courses, you can get sponsorship from a company to promote their product via your videos/channel.

#4 Social Media Influencer

Becoming a social media influencer is a good one to start as a teenager. I have seen many students side hustling to be an Instagram influencer who has so much following.

It is not that hard to grow following and growing an engaged audience of a specific niche. You just need to be implemented the right strategy and provide valuable content consistently.

Some tips to have a great start on the Instagram page

#1: Choose a micro-niche

Most beginners do the mistake of choosing a broad niche. You should pick up a micro niche if you want to be successful because you cant target your audience in a broad niche. There would be various types of people in the broad niche.

Let's say, you pick fitness (a broader niche), so this will include indoor/outdoor fitness, men or women, young or old. Thus if you want to target young boys of outdoor fitness, you can't. But if your niche is outdoor fitness for the teenage boy, so you know who is your audience and who to target.

Hence, do choose a micro-niche, not a wider niche.

#2: Make a good logo or profile pic

Since, if your logo or profile pic is clear and looks professional, then people will attract towards it. Who doesn't like professionals? Obviously no one.

But if you have a bad logo, not a clear picture and looking not professional, so people don't want to follow you.

So, either you can go to Canva for creating your logo, or you can use your own professional/clear photo (But I will suggest you add a logo instead of your photo until you are growing personal brand page).

#3: Optimize your bio

This is very important, you should have a bio which is telling people that what you are offering, what will benefit them to follow you, give people the reason to follow. 

Your bio should include the value you are offering to the people and if you have a website or sales page, then add a call to action that is "get this ebook or course here" or something like that, and beneath it, add the website URL.

#4: Post quality content consistently

Becoming famous on Instagram is not an overnight game. It takes time to grow your page, so don't be discouraged if you don't see results in the beginning as it is normal to anyone. 

You should post consistently and your feed should be related only to your niche. Since competition is very high so you should make high-quality content for your page.

These are the mandatory steps to start the page. Now there are many growth strategies that help you grow followers on your page that you should implement to get results. 

I feel that the best strategy to grow on Instagram is being consistent with offering value and trying different strategies continuously. Try, fail, and then try again is the best tip I can give to you.

Try to implement different things and keep doing those things who increase your followers and leave those tricks which don't help you.

#5 Online Tutoring

Tutoring online is the side hustle you can start now if you have good knowledge in one subject or if you can teach that subject to others in a very understandable way. 

There is a very good amount of money in online tutoring business. So, if you have a subject in which you are a master or expert, just choose one of the following websites to teach online.

Some bast websites that pay to the online tutor

1.  Tutor.com
2.  Chegg tutors
3.  Cambly
4.  Studypool
5.  TutorMe

Becoming an online tutor is not hard, you just be able to express your knowledge in a very teachable way and understandable way. 

And also it needs very few things to start online tutoring. You will need a computer, an internet connection, a headset or microphone, a webcam or skype and the main thing that is you (not you, your knowledge!!).

Pro Tip:

Since you have seen there are many platforms where you can sell your knowledge and expertise. So, it is my humble request to you that you start mastering a skill or any subject because you don't know how much you can make by your expertise.

The whole world is in search of masters, so if you become a master in one niche or topic, you can't imagine how beneficial it would be for you.

So, please start learning/mastering something, it will help you so much later in the future. 

#6 Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a good away to make a little income but it can be more if you are ready to put in the time and work. Affiliate marketing is a very scalable business as there is no limit to potential costumers. All people connected to the internet can be your audience.

So, you don't have to think about running out of the potential audience. Yes, it is a passive income source nut you have to work, you have to build the foundation for a few months, and later on, it will become passive side hustle in the future.

It can't be a great income source if you are not willing to put effort and a lot of time. But believe me, this worth your time and effort.

You just have to promote someone's product on your website, video channel, social media, or even email, wherever you can promote, and if anyone buys a product through your link, then you will get a commission of that sale.

Some of the best Affiliate programs:

• ShareASale Affiliates
• Amazon Associates
• Bluehost Affiliate Program
• Shopify Affiliate Program
• eBay Partners
• Clickbank
• Convertkit Affiliate Program
• Maxbounty Affiliate Network

It is so easy to start as an affiliate marketer. You just sign up on any one of the above programs and get the unique link that you can share wherever you want.

Note: You need to have an audience built up for this to work.

Conclusion

Having a side hustle is very important to be rich. A side hustle is the only way to leave the rat race in which we are stuck right now.

There are many self-made millionaires who have started with these above-mentioned side hustle.

And yes!! I know many of you started but don't get successful. And that is because you quit very often. If you are looking anyway to be rich overnight, then you are in the wrong way. You have to hustle constantly being patient, persistent, and learning from failures.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Remember that the difference between successful and other is only that successful people tried one more time than others.

It is so simple to make money, just pick up one of the ways and give it time. You will start earning a full time living from any one of these. But it will take time & effort and I think it worths your time and effort.

If you have any doubts regarding the side hustle, please let me know or if you have any suggestions you think I should add on, write in comments.

Which side hustle are you going to start? If you are working one of them, then which is that?