 In today's economy, it is not enough to have your regular 9 to 5 hustle and get by with things like inflation, rising housing prices, and a lot more. Now more than ever, it's super important to have a side hustle and be bringing in some extra money. Now, a side hustle isn't just for supplemental income either. A lot of the times people start their side hustles so they can get rid of their main hustles or their main 9 to 5s, their regular day job, so that way they can do something that they enjoy more and have more control of. Whether you're starting a side hustle to help pay for bills, to help pay for rent, maybe some supplies that you need to purchase, or if you just want to have some extra money so you can just relax and kick back for a little bit, maybe take a little vacation, then make sure to check out this video all the way through because today I'm going to be giving you five different side hustles that you can use to start making some more money. Now, the amount that you can make with these different side hustles really varies and all depends on you. It all depends on how much work you want to put into it and how much time you really want to dedicate to it. These side hustles can easily make you an extra 100, 500, or even $1,000 a month, maybe even more. Now, let's stop talking for a little bit. Let's go ahead and run that intro and let's start discussing the five different side hustles to start making you some more money. What's going on, everyone, Mario here with AutoDS and regardless of whatever your reason is to start a side hustle, the one thing that we can all agree on is the fact that you kind of need one these days. Now, if you haven't done so already, make sure you hit that subscribe button as well as ring that little bell notification so you don't miss out on any future money making opportunities. Here with the AutoDS YouTube channel, we've helped tons of people start their drop shipping side hustles and some even make it into a main hustle. A lot of people have decided to just completely leave the nine to five and the traditional day job to start drop shipping as their main hustle and their main source of income. Here we give you tons of free tips and tricks and useful information that you can help to start growing your drop shipping business. We even give you some monthly products with some of the best products to sell for that particular month or based on particular niches. So once again, make sure to subscribe if you haven't. Now, all of the information that I am going to cover for you in this video will be available to you in a quick and easy to reference cheat sheet. All you have to do for access to that is go ahead and comment down below hashtag Hustle 2023 along with your favorite hustle from this list. And we'll go ahead and reply back with a link to the sheet. Now, all of these side hustles are going to take a little bit of time to build. These aren't get rich quick schemes. You can't really expect to get rich off of these within the next week or two weeks or even a month. While it is possible to be bringing in some good money and ultimately make one of these your main hustle, remember to keep in mind that you're going to start this and you're going to keep going with it until you're comfortable with it and know what you're doing. Don't try to start everything all at once. Don't try to start all five hustles within one week because it's not going to work. You're not going to be able to focus your attention where it needs to be. And unfortunately, when you spread yourself out too thin, you're just going to end up giving up on most things. So heed my advice, pick one of these, go with it, learn it, and then start to move on to another one. So let's go ahead and get started with our first side hustle. And that's going to be affiliate marketing. Now, the way that affiliate marketing works is pretty simple. You're going to go ahead and sign up for an affiliate program with X company. Once you get approved for that affiliate program, you're going to get your own links. You're going to go ahead and paste those links anywhere you need to or anywhere you want to. And when somebody clicks on those links and makes a purchase from whatever website that you're promoting, you're going to get a commission. So that's simple. Now, how do you find companies that are actually looking for either brand ambassadors or affiliates? One of the easiest things that you can do is just go ahead and look at different companies that you typically use and you purchase from and just reach out to them, send them an email and ask them if they have an affiliate program that you can apply to. If they say yes, then they're going to send you a link to either apply or join. And if they say no, all you have to do is just go ahead and check out another company. But let me show you a website that actually makes all these things a lot easier. So if we go on over to this website over here called Share Asale, this is actually a website that's meant for affiliates. There's tons of different companies on here that are actually currently looking for affiliates to start promoting their products or their websites. Signing up for this website is actually totally free and you will get approved almost instantly. Once you get approved and your login credentials, then you can sign on to the Share Asale website and start looking through the different companies that are on there looking for affiliates and then simply applying for the programs. So really quick, let's go ahead and go over how you're going to sign up for this. So first you're going to go to shareasale.com and then you're going to click on sign up. Now, this is the most important part. You're going to make sure that you sign up as an affiliate. So go to affiliate sign up. Here's going to give you a few different text boxes. Go ahead and create your username, your password, and the country that you're living in. Then it's going to ask you for a few more questions. So it's going to ask you for your website URL. On there, you don't necessarily have to put a website if you don't have it. If you don't have a website, the easiest thing you do is just go ahead and post one of your social URLs. So just go ahead and put on here your Instagram URL, for example. Once you go through all that, you're going to fill out some more details like your email, how you want to get paid, and all of that fun stuff. Then you're going to be brought to this page. Once you're on here, you're going to see all of the different vendors, all of the different companies that are looking for affiliates. If you don't get taken directly to this page, it's really easy to get here. All you have to do is go ahead and hover over merchants and click on search for merchants. Now here you can either search by keyword or you can go through all of the different categories that they have and select one that's right for you. Let's say I want to promote some automotive products. I'm going to go ahead and click on that. And here you have all of the different companies that are focused on automotive products. And all you have to do is click on join program. From there, the company is going to get an alert and then they're either going to approve or deny you. Now, if you do get approved, you're going to get your own links, that track back to your sales. Now, how much you get paid commission for making a sale really depends on the company. Some companies might give you 5% while others might give you upwards of 10 or 20. When you're applying to become an affiliate for these companies, you're going to get a description with all of the details you need so you can make your decision on whether or not you want to join them. Now, it sounds fairly easy, right? You just get links, start posting them somewhere, people start clicking them and you make some money. Well, it's not entirely that easy. There is a bit of a formula that you have to kind of start to follow or just create your own formula for this thing. It can get kind of spammy depending on how you go about it. So let's say you're on Facebook and somebody asks about a particular product that has to do with cars. You can link them back to an automotive product that you think will be helpful for them. Give them a little bit of advice and then send them your link. But if they're asking about something automotive related and you send them a random link for a rug, they're not going to care about that. They're going to go ahead and either delete the comment or just ultimately even block you. So if you're in social media, if you're on Instagram or if you're on Facebook and you're posting these links, make sure you post them on relevant posts. Make sure the topic is relevant to what you're recommending. Another thing that you can do is simply put the link in your bio. Let's say you're using Instagram or TikTok and you're making some videos with certain products that you want to start promoting. The easiest thing that you can do is make those videos, make that content and then either mention in the description or somewhere in the video. If you want to check this product out, just click the link in my bio. You can also do things like starting a blog, maybe start a website and stick your different links in there. But regardless of the way that you want to start promoting your products, the one thing that you need to remember is you need to stay consistent. Remember, you're not going to get rich off of this within one or two weeks. These are things that are going to take some time to build. So make sure you start building your audience if you have a TikTok account that you're trying to grow or a blog. Now, when it comes to affiliate marketing, it is fairly cheap to get started. You can really just get started for completely free by talking about certain things that you already have or just talking about a certain item without even having the physical item. But if you do want to go into content creation and you want to start making some TikTok or Instagram videos to go along with your promotions, then you might have to spend a couple of bucks to purchase certain products. But regardless, investment for affiliate marketing is either zero or minimal. Affiliate marketing is a great way to start making some extra money. So make sure you check it out if you find it interesting. All right, now onto our second side hustle and that's going to be drop shipping. Now, what exactly is drop shipping? Well, drop shipping is simply put a retail fulfillment method. So let's take, for example, you have an online website that sells shoes. On this website, you're selling all of your shoes for about $150. A customer comes to your store, they find a pair that they like, and they place the order. You're going to get the order for the $150 pairs of shoes with all of the shipping information. Now what you're going to do is instead of going to your warehouse, packing up those shoes and shipping them off, you're simply going to go to your supplier's website, place the order for the same exact pair of shoes. But instead of paying $150, you're going to pay about maybe a hundred bucks. Also, instead of providing your shipping address, you're going to provide your customer shipping address. So what's going to end up happening is your supplier is going to take that order and they're going to ship it directly to your customer. Once they have the tracking number, they're going to go ahead and send that to you and then you're going to update your customer with that tracking number. It's pretty much all there is to it. The extra 50 bucks you have left over, that's your profit. Now, one of the best things about drop shipping is the fact that it's so easy to start. It has such a low entry barrier that pretty much anybody can get started in it. So one of the first things that you need to do is figure out where you want to set up shop. Do you want to start up your own website or do you want to sell on a marketplace? If you decide that you want to make your own website and have your own e-commerce store, some of the more popular or mainstream places to set up shop are going to be Shopify, Wix or WooCommerce. If you decide to go the marketplace route, then you're going to be looking at places like eBay, Etsy or Facebook Marketplace or even Amazon. As a quick tip, one of the main differences between a marketplace and having your own website is the traffic. If you have your own website, it's up to you to bring your traffic to your store. So you're going to have to start running some ads or posting on social media, whatever you need to do to start getting your products or your website in front of the eyes of new customers. Whereas if you decide to go with a marketplace such as Etsy or eBay, that already has organic traffic and it already has people going to that website looking for things to purchase. They're already in the mindset that they want to buy something. They're just going to go to these marketplaces and look for them. After you figure it out where you want to start making your sales, the next part is pretty crucial and that is going to be doing your product research. You want to start figuring out what products you want to sell and where you're going to be purchasing them from. So as you know, at AdoDS, we make dropshipping easy for you. So I'm going to give you three quick suppliers to help you speed up the process. So first off, we have actually none other than AdoDS. Over at AdoDS, we now have our private suppliers. On top of that, we have an AdoDS warehouse where your products get shipped out fairly quick. Usually between six to nine business days, your customer is already receiving their order. Now, where can you access these suppliers? Well, easy enough. All you have to do is navigate to platform.adodds.com and you can start your trial there for just $1. Once you're in, all you need to do is click on over to the Marketplaces tab and over here where it says supplier, you can check out from a few different ones. So you're going to have AdoDS, AliExpress and Amazon. Right now we're focusing on AdoDS. So let's click on that. So once you select AdoDS, I just went ahead and chose the Pets category so we can see some different Pets products and now let's start scrolling down. So you're going to see all of these different products that are some proven hot sellers and ship out pretty quick. As you can see, these all have a shipping time of about six to nine business days and these all come from AdoDS private suppliers. So if you see AdoDS supplier discount prices, that means these are some of AdoDS's private suppliers giving you some special pricing. So let's say we find one that we really like and we want to add to our stores. I want to add this cat bed to my store. So I'm going to go ahead and click into it and once the page loads, you can get all of the different details of the item itself. So you're going to get a bunch of different pictures. You're going to get the different variations that there are. So it's going to be the different colors or the different sizes. And if I decide this is the right product for my store, all I have to do is click on import draft and it's going to import it to my store within minutes. Now you also have places like AliExpress. AliExpress has one of the largest selections of products at this point, pretty much known to man. AliExpress offers tons of different products in a bunch of different categories. Now you can easily search through everything here on the left-hand side through the categories tab that they have. Another great option that they have is if you scroll all the way down, you're going to find the dropship center. If you click on that, you're going to get this. Now this page shows you some of the more trending products in the past few days and items that are currently selling and trending. Aside from that, it also gives you a bit different information. So this product in particular, you can see has a 4.7 star rating and about 1,592 have been sold. So you can see from here that this is a fairly trending product with some pretty good profit potential. Aside from AutoDS and AliExpress, we also have CJ Dropshipping. CJ Dropshipping is similar to AliExpress but with different suppliers. Here you can also find different variations of products that you might not find on AliExpress. If you want the links to all of these websites that I am showing, remember that they're all going to be in the cheat sheet. And if you want access to that cheat sheet, all you have to do is comment down below hashtag hustle 2023 with your favorite side hustle from this list. Now let's say I find a product that I want to add to my store on CJ Dropshipping. One of the ways that I can import it into my store is by saving all of the images manually, copying over the titles and the descriptions and posting it on my store. Now it's perfectly fine. And it could be fairly quick. It might take a little bit of time depending on how much you really have to adjust based on what you have to change in the description or the titles or any editing of the photos that you have to do. But another option that you have is automatically importing. So all we have to do is going over to our store over at platform.autods.com and click on add products. Here we can either upload a single product or multiple products. I'm gonna show you the multiple products because this is actually my favorite way of doing it. So I'm gonna go ahead and click on multiple products and I found this ring that I really like and I wanna add this one along with something else. So I'm gonna go back to my add products page and I'm gonna paste the URL on there and I'm gonna hit enter and then I'm gonna go get my second product. So for the second product that I wanna add it's gonna be this ring same as before. I'm gonna go ahead and copy or cut the URL go back to my add products page paste that one right under it and then I'm gonna hit add as draft. Now both of these products are gonna go to the draft section over on my Autods platform. So let's go ahead and navigate to that really fast. Let's click on drafts and here you can see the two drafts that I just imported. So you have the two different rings. Now I can easily make changes through here by clicking on the image so I can change the title, edit 20 collections, change the tags or I can click on over to description and edit the product description maybe edit the variants if I need to change anything there or the images. Another option that you can do is click on this little arrow right here where it says click to edit and it just takes you to a separate screen. Now from here all I have to do is click on save and it'll save the draft or I can click on save an import and it'll import it into my store and it'll be live in a few minutes. Automatic importing really saves a ton of time especially if you have multiple products. If you're manually importing maybe four or five products maybe even 10, it's fine. It can take a bit of time but ultimately you can get it done but once you start importing 20, 30, 40 products it can get really time consuming and automating the entire process is just gonna save you that much more time that you can reinvest back into scaling and growing your business. Now you know what suppliers you wanna use you know what products you wanna sell now you need to start marketing some of these different products. So the ways you're gonna do this really is gonna depend on what platform you choose. If you're using something like Shopify you're probably gonna be going with either organic traffic using social media marketing maybe making some TikToks or making some Instagram posts or you can run Facebook ads and gain traffic that way. If you're selling on a platform like Etsy or eBay there's also different ways that you can start advertising on there usually with paid boosted listings. Again, if you want any more detailed information on anything that I'm talking about here just make sure to check out the cheat sheet all of the information's gonna be there along with links to more details on particular subjects like marketing. Now after you get your first sale now you actually have to fulfill the order. Remember, since you're dropshipping you're not gonna be fulfilling these orders yourselves. So we're gonna place the order with our supplier. Now you can do that manually by logging into your suppliers website and placing the order directly on the website or on AliExpress, CJA dropshipping whatever you're using or you have a couple of different automated options with AutoDS. You have automatic orders as well as fulfilled by AutoDS. Once again doing this manually is perfectly fine you can get it done but as your business starts to grow and you start to get more orders then it can start to get really time consuming. And that's when automation can really help you out. Now when it comes to automatic orders it's fairly simple. All that happens in this case is whenever you receive an order AutoDS is gonna log into your supplier let's say AliExpress. So AutoDS is gonna log into AliExpress using your login credentials and then it's gonna make the purchase on your behalf using your payment details. Once that's done and the order is placed it's gonna wait till the order gets shipped and then it's gonna update your customer with that tracking number. So that works great and it's fairly easy and quick. The other option you have is fulfilled by AutoDS which is probably the better option to go with for the simple reason that it's not gonna be using your account credentials it's actually gonna be using AutoDS accounts. So instead of using your Amazon or your AliExpress details it's gonna use the AutoDS, Amazon or AliExpress details. This can help a lot with things like account restrictions and account suspensions or bans. Since you're not using your personal eBay or Amazon account let's say there's no way that your accounts are gonna get banned or get restricted. Also instead of using your credit card or your banking details it's gonna use a balance that you top up. And if you wanna see the status of all of these different orders all we have to do is click on over to our orders over at our AutoDS platform and here you can see all of the different order details. So you can see that these two have been shipped already this one was actually delivered and the rest are just awaiting payment. Now with drop shipping scaling is extremely easy. All you really have to do is start putting in some proper product research and start implementing some good marketing techniques and your products can start selling enough to ultimately make this side hustle into your main hustle. And at that point, if it does start to get a bit too overwhelming and you got too much stuff to do it can get a lot easier by simply hiring virtual assistants. Hiring a virtual assistant can really take a huge load off your back by helping you out with a lot of day-to-day tasks that just take up some time. Let's say importing products, writing product descriptions or stuff like that. Those are things that you can easily outsource to our virtual assistant to get some time back to be able to reinvest into your business or for some relaxing time. Now for our third side hustle we have video editing services. This is something that is fairly simple to do but can be very time consuming. Getting started is simple and could potentially be free as well. If you already have a laptop all you have to do is download some editing software. If you use a Windows you can use DaVinci Resolve which is a totally free video editing software. I actually use that myself and absolutely love it. And if you have a Mac you can use iMovie. Both of these softwares are totally free and fairly simple to get started in. Now video editing while it is fairly simple to get started in, it does take a bit of practice to actually master. Learning different transitions, how to add extra footage, knowing where to replace certain pieces of footage with others. It all takes practice and it just takes some time with actual hands on experience. The cool thing about this though is that if you do know basic editing and if you have some basic editing skills you can market your editing services for pretty cheap so that way you can start getting some business and start holding your skills even further. There's also tons of different people that you can offer your video editing services to. For one, you can offer it to YouTubers or content creators. You can even offer it to TikTokers. So you can specialize in either long form content or short form content or whatever you think is best or whatever you feel most comfortable with. But ultimately when it comes to video editing you can niche down to whatever demographic you want. Tons of people out there that need video editing services that you can reach out to and start getting some business. One quick tip that I'm gonna give you is let's say you wanna try to offer your services to a YouTuber. Typically a YouTuber has longer form content. See if they have any shorts. If they do or even if they don't try to get one of those YouTube videos and cut them down to a YouTube short. So let's say if it's a 10 minute video cut it down to under a minute in a phone's aspect ratio and then send them a link to that video so they can check it out and see how they like it. You never know. If they like it they might reach back out to you and tell you, all right how much for this many videos. Now even if you don't have a laptop you can get away with basically just editing on your phone. While that can take a lot longer to edit videos because you're using a tiny screen and you're using tap functions it's still something that you can do or instead of editing longer videos on your phone you can use your phone to specifically edit shorts or TikToks. Now onto our fourth side hustle to start making you some extra money and that's gonna be YouTube. So you can start a YouTube channel and grow it to the point where you can monetize it. You can either monetize the YouTube channel itself or you can monetize your audience. If you wanna monetize your YouTube channel and actually start making money through YouTube ads or Google AdSense there's two requirements that you need to meet. For one you need to have 1,000 subscribers and you need to have 4,000 watch hours within a rolling one year period. The other option is monetizing your actual audience. Now obviously for this you do need to grow an audience first but the way that you can monetize your audience is by offering affiliate marketing or offering your own products. Maybe you can even get brand deals from certain companies and they'll pay you to make videos. So the first thing that you need to do in this case is start a YouTube channel. To do that it's fairly simple all you have to do is head over to YouTube and once you're on YouTube on the top right hand corner you're gonna see the little circle with either an initial or your thumbnail on it. Click on that and then click on create a channel. Here you're gonna type in your name as well as the channel name that you wanna go with and it's pretty much all there is to it. Now once you create a channel you're gonna be brought to the YouTube studio and all you have to do from here is simply click on either create or hit this little upload video button. There you're gonna drag and drop your file and fill in all the details, the title, description, your tags and everything else and you're good to go. Now I know I mentioned this earlier but when it comes to starting a YouTube channel the one thing you really need to do is be patient. Starting a YouTube channel is fairly easy but growing it, that's where the hard part comes in. It's not necessarily hard, it just takes time. It takes time and it takes dedication because you need to create your YouTube videos. You need to edit them or send them out to somebody else to have them edited. Then you need to post them and you need to deal with the fact that especially at the beginning you're not gonna get a lot of views. Most of the videos that you upload at the beginning are gonna have maybe 10 views, 15 views, if that. It's extremely important, don't get discouraged just keep going because eventually you're gonna get better at making your videos and YouTube is gonna start picking up who these videos are meant for. Now with that being said always make sure that when you're starting a YouTube channel you have a niche in mind. Make sure you have a particular topic you wanna make your videos out of and you don't just choose random topics every single video. You wanna make sure that the audience that you get is geared towards a particular topic. So if you wanna focus your videos and your YouTube channel to teaching people how to start affiliate marketing then make sure that that is the main focus of your channel. Yeah, every once in a while you can go ahead and come up with some different video ideas or a few different things to test out but the main topic of the channel is always gonna be affiliate marketing. When somebody watches one of your videos and they subscribe to your channel it's because they like the content that they're watching which most of the time is gonna be a particular topic that they wanna learn about or they wanna keep learning about or just enjoy listening to. That's why my suggestion is to keep it niched because let's say you make the video on affiliate marketing and one person subscribed to you because of the affiliate marketing video if you come up with let's say a video game playing video next up they're not gonna like it, they're not gonna watch it and you never know they might even unsubscribe. Now this last side hustle suggestion is for all of you creative writers that just love writing and that's blogging. Blogging nowadays is absolutely huge. People use it to promote products, people use it to just provide valuable information and people use it for affiliate marketing. The cool thing about blogging is that you can actually link it back to pretty much any of the other topics that I just spoke about. So let's say you wanna mix it in with affiliate marketing you can go ahead and start a blog with specific articles for specific products and insert your links on there. The same can be said for dropshipping, write a blog article reviewing a certain product and link your dropshipping store. Have a YouTube channel, link it to the blog as well. You can base your videos off of your blog articles or your blog articles off of your videos or just mix and match. Maybe you can write a blog article regarding a certain topic and then you make a YouTube video that somewhat covers that topic. You can go ahead and link that as well. There's tons of different options that you can use a blog for and honestly it's probably one of the most versatile side hustles out there and to make things even better this can be so much easier by just using AI. So for example, let's go ahead and use chatGBT really fast and I'm gonna tell it to give me a blog article with a thousand words on the dangers of woodworking. So let's just see what it comes up with really fast. All right, it took about a minute but it was definitely faster than me writing it out myself. So chatGBT just gave me a 1,000 word article on the dangers of woodworking. Now from here really the best thing that you can do is just go ahead and copy it and paste it and then just make any necessary adjustments. Make it sound a bit more human make it sound a bit more to your style and just post it up. Now when it comes to actually choosing your side hustle always make sure that you choose something that you enjoy choose something that you have a passion for and something that you don't mind doing because you never know what could come out of it. Eventually your side hustle might end up overtaking your main hustle and becoming your full-time job but even if that's not what you want even if you don't want to make your side hustle into your main hustle if you wanna just have your side hustle as just that side hustle and have your regular job and that's perfectly fine but ultimately just make sure it's something that you enjoy doing and that you like to do. Remember the infamous quote if you love what you do you won't work a day in your life and that is 100% true and that's why I highly suggest once again that the side hustle that you choose make sure you love it but that pretty much wraps it up for this video remember that if you want access to the cheat sheet all you have to do is comment down below hashtag hustle 2023 along with your favorite hustle from this list. Once again my name is Mario with AutoDS wishing you all nothing but success in your dropshipping businesses. If you haven't done so already remember to make sure to hit that subscribe button as well as ring that little bell notification so you don't miss out on any future videos on making some extra money in either side hustles or with your dropshipping business and with that I'll catch you all in the next video.