How To Make $100 A Day: 65 Creative Ways To Make Extra Money In 2019

There are a TON of ways to make extra money fast.

With a few side hustle ideas and resources (lots of which you can find online for free!) you can start earning a few extra bucks a month.

And yes, you can earn $100 a day, with some hard work, determination, and planning.

Now, making money on the side doesn’t have to be confusing or as painful as you might think. Some side hustles you can do while you watch some tv in your room.

And we can all do without the stress and anxiety that comes with not having enough money for bills, debts, or even fun nights out with friends.

But how exactly do you go about learning how to make $100 a day?

This guide rounds up more than 65 ways on how to make money online (or from home…or on the side of your main job) through this long post so you can see and pick which one fits your lifestyle best.

I love writing about saving money, budgeting, along with finding cheap dinner ideas, but sometimes you need to learn how to make EXTRA money (and fast) to make sure your income is also growing as you save and you’re burning the ‘financial candle’ at both ends.

Earning extra money can change your life for the better, and often for the long run.?

Because then there is:

• Less worrying about money
• Less FIGHTING about money with your partner
• Getting out of debt FASTER
• Breaking the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle once and for all
• Reaching financial freedom and retire sooner rather than later
• Leaving your life draining 9-5 job
• Reaching true financial freedom and getting ahead in your investments

One thing you’ll have to invest to start making extra money is TIME. And I should also add HARD WORK. Learning to make money from home reads great in writing, but it’s putting in the work to get there that is the difficult part.

Some ways to make money can add a few hundred dollars a month to your budget while others can turn into a full blown business. It all depends on what your financial goals are!

For a while, I freelance wrote for an online link building company and was able to bring in an extra couple hundred dollars a month. There were times when I DID NOT want to do the writing work (because as much as you can love writing it can get old) but I did it anyway because I knew I’d love the extra income in the end. All this to say, the extra money is out there for you to claim, but not without effort.

It doesn’t happen overnight, and it doesn’t happen without dedication.

So, ditch the TV and lets get to it! Here are some of the best ways to make extra money fast, no matter your situation or skill level.

How To Make $100 A Day: 65 Creative Ways To Make Extra Money In 2019

1. Get Paid To Take Online Surveys 

If you don’t mind answering a couple of multiple choice questions, you need to check out Swagbucks.

It’s one of the easiest ways to make money from home and earn free gift cards by doing things like shopping online.

The notorious t-shirt design business has been given a bit of a makeover.

If you’re risk averse you can open an account with Tee Spring.

With Teespring, you can try your hand at designing primarily t-shirts, though there are also other items like totes and pillows.

The way Teespring’s business model works, you don’t pay them anything until you’ve made a sale! That is, they have a base price for a t-shirt (10 bucks) you decide the price of your t-shirt, and every time you make a sale they get their $10.

With this set-up, you technically get to keep 100% of the profit once you’ve made a sale.

✅ Check out TeeSpring here.

16. Babysit Doggos

Who doesn’t like to have pets around if you love animals? It’s the perfect make extra money win-win deal. You get to babysit gorgeous pups that you get to give back at the end of the day, and you get to make some cash in the process.

With sites like Rover, you can get the word out there of your doggy services and start making some much needed extra money.

✅ Check out Rover here and start dogsitting/walking.

17. Start Pinning Affiliate Pins on Pinterest

Pinterest recently started letting people add affiliate links to their pins again.

With some motivation, a pinning strategy, some pins, and applying to a couple of affiliates you could be well on your way to making some income on the side.

It’s also a great way to start a side hustle with little money down.

You can check out this informative post on Mom’s Make Cents to find out more about how to get started!

18. Deliver Things With Postmates

With Postmates you can deliver just about anything and get paid for it. Similar to DoorDash, it delivers food, but it also delivers alcohol and groceries in under an hour. If you’re looking to make extra money fast, Postmates might be your best bet for starters.

You can use their app and use your current location to see what delivery orders you can get done around your area so you don’t have to travel too far to make some extra money.

✅ Get started delivering with Postmates here.

19. Open An Online Store with Oberlo + Shopify

You can open an online store and sell just about anything with Shopify and Oberlo. Both platforms help you use the dropshipping model to help you get your store up and running.

✅ Get your first 14 days of Shopify FREE here and start your first store!

20. Create An Online Course

With online resources like Teachable and Udemy you can make passive income from home by creating courses on topics you’re knowledgeable about. Online courses can be a great way to make extra money once you create one and get it in front of the right people.

✅ Here’s a Teachable quick-start guide to help you get started.

✅ How to create a Udemy course.

21. Become An Instagram Influencer

You can make money on Instagram by promoting the products you use to your followers. Best of all you don’t need a big number of followers to be able to do this successfully. Here is a great post on Medium that lets you know more about it if making extra money this way interests you.

22. Start a YouTube Channel

While starting a YouTube channel isn’t going to get you money right off the bat, it’s been a great way many people make passive income at home. There are a TON of things you can make your channel about, you don’t necessarily have to prance around on camera to make passive income from home.

✅ Read: The Complete Guide to Building A Successful YouTube Channel

23. Mystery Shop

You can definitely get paid nicely to mystery shop at different stores and businesses in your local area. Big businesses pay big bucks to be able to get a candid look at their products and services. With Market Force Information you can start becoming a mystery shopper and earning money.

24. Get Money Back When Prices Drop

Did you know you can get money back on items you’ve already bought with Paribus?

Once you shop online, they’ll track your receipts, and find claims for you to get money back on your purchased items! Pretty cool for the minimal amount of work it takes.

✅ Open your Paribus account here.

25. Become A Part-Time Bookkeeper

Part time bookkeepers are always needed and you can get started working from home if you have the skills and the knowledge for it. Places like Indeed have listings for part-time bookkeepers that you can always check out to pick up clients and make extra money.

26. Sell Old Clothes

ThredUp lets you sell your gently used clothes and turn a profit on stuff you don’t even wear anymore. All you have to do is request a bag, fill it with your items, and send it over to get payment for the items they choose to keep. Sounds a lot better than just dumping perfectly good clothes at the local Goodwill.

✅Get started with ThredUp’s Closet Cleanout here.

27. Find A Side Gig On Shiftgig

If you’re in a hurry to make extra money and would just like to pick up a few hours real quick you can claim shifts through apps like Shiftgig. You can get paid weekly and only work a couple of extra hours on your days off/free time.

✅ Check out Shiftgig here. 

28. Rent Out Your Car

Turo is basically like an AirBnB except its for your car. Once you list your car (which takes about 10 mins) Turo sets a price for you based on location, car make and model, and other local factors. Or you can choose to set your own prices. It’s a way to passively make money at home by letting your car work for you.

✅ Get started with Turo here.

29. Start A Pool Cleaning Service

Clean pools on the side! Pool maintenance can be a pretty practical business once you have a few tools to get started. All it takes is that one neighbor with a pool as a satisfied customer that can refer you to other pool owners.

30. Monetize Your Twitch Account

If you don’t already have a Twitch account, it’s basically an online vlogging platform mostly for gamers. That good news is if you have one or would like to start one to make extra money you can monetize it!

✅ Here is how. 

31. Sell Designs On Society 6

Selling on Society 6 is free and you can get started in as little as a few minutes once you’ve uploaded your product designs. It’s one of the may creative ways to make money selling your artwork.

✅ Read: The Start To Finish Guide To Selling On Society 6

32. Sell On Creative Market

If you’re a good designer and love creating things, why not sell on Creative Market? You can earn up to %70 on each sale and open your own shop on their platform. They sell anything from hand written fonts, images, illustrations, and more.

✅ Learn how to start selling on Creative Market here. 

33. Donate Plasma

Did you know you can donate plasma (the colorless fluid in your blood) and get paid for it? Some people can make as much as $70 per visit. As always, you should consult with your doctor to see if donating plasma is safe for you.

If you’re looking for creative ways to make money that doesn’t necessarily take up too much effort, this is definitely a route worth checking out! Here is some more information on the process.

34. Become A Pinterest VA

Pinterest virtual assistants are in demand now more than ever. With online businesses becoming more and more popular, becoming a Pinterest VA is a great way to reel in extra money.

Keep in mind virtual assistants aren’t just for Pinterest, but can also be for email management, blog management, and other online based tasks.

Amy Lynn Andrews has a kickass post on how you can get started on your virtual assistant journey.

35. Start Writing And Making Extra Money

Start writing and getting paid for it!

Don’t worry, you don’t have to write like an encyclopedia to write articles that do well online (in fact, it’s the total opposite). There are many freelance sites out there where work for freelancers is posted daily. It’s definitely a creative way to make money at home.

The one where I’ve personally found the biggest success is the ProBlogger job board. But other job boards you can look at are:

• Freelance Writing
• All Freelance Writing
• Indeed
• Living The Editor Life
• Working Nomads

If you think your thing would be more copywriting, which is basically just writing copy for companies to sell better, Neville from Kopywriting Kourse has a humongous post on how to get started and what you can expect.

Pro Tip: If you’re serious about picking up freelance work, make sure you stalk those job boards like a hawk. You aren’t the only one looking for side work, and the jobs as snatched up quicker than you can say ‘bazinga.’

Ryan Robinson, a pro freelancer, has a great guide for freelancing beginners that takes you through each step to ensure snagging gigs.

36. Join Focus Groups

If you want to get paid for sharing your opinion or your outlook on certain products or services then try joining focus groups in your area.

Side Hustle Nation has a a great list of consumer research companies that you can register with to find work.

37. Start An Instagram Shout Out Account

Many Instagram accounts are out there for the sole purpose of making money off ‘shoutouts’ or sharing posts for a fee. The only catch is you need to grow a large following first (not impossible but possibly time consuming).

The gist is, start an account, make it look really pretty, gain thousands of followers and either start emailing people with your posting offers or they’ll start emailing you.

If you want to get started about starting an Instagram account and amassing a large following, check out this ultra complete guide to Instagram on Buffer. When it comes to easy side hustle jobs, if you’re a social media addict this one might just be your thing.

38. Pick Up Gardening

Do you have a knack for plants and landscaping? You can get paid to garden for your neighbors. All you need are a few tools and some word of mouth to get started making some money on your free time.

Here is a cool post that can help you decide how exactly you want to start your gardening business and start making extra money on the side.

39. Recycle

You can get paid to recycle. Yup, that’s right. You can get paid to do something you’re already supposed to be doing anyway.

All you have to do is collect recyclable items in bulk that you can get paid for like scrap metal, bottles, cans, electronics and even old car batteries. Here is a cool post that goes more in depth on how to successfully go about it.

40. Sell Unused Gift Cards

If you have any gift cards lying around that you know you aren’t ever going to use, sell them for cash. With Cardpool you can enter your gift card, get an pay out offer for it and receive money relatively quickly.

✅ Check out Cardpool here.

41. Start An Online Store With Woocommerce

With Woocommerce you can start your own store and sell a number of things like printables, t-shirts, mugs, pillows (with dropshippers like Printful, it’s super easy to intergrate). Woocommerce makes it easy to start a store that you can drive traffic to and sell your goods.

✅ Check out how to start a store with Woocommerce here.

42. Write and Publish Your First E-book for Free

If you’re good at writing and telling stories, or are knowledgeable in a certain area, nothing can stop you from publishing your very first book.

With Kindle Publishing, you can sell your first e-book, or decide to sell your book as a physical paperback copy, on Amazon. It can be as easy as writing it, opening an account with your book information, and have it ready to sell in a few minutes.

You can earn up to 70% (notice it says ‘up to’) on each sale and you have certain control over your publishing rights.

Check out the guidelines and see if self-publishing is something you’d like to take on and ehem, start as soon as this weekend!

43. Help The Google Search Engine

As a search engine evaluator, you can help Google’s search engines index tons of information right. While algorithms are becoming more and more advanced by the day, there is always data humans can categorie/make better decisions about. And you can do this from the comfort of your home. It’s a great way to make money online if you have the patience for it.

✅ Here is a resource that shows you how to get started. 

44. Transcribe

Those subtitles you see in videos or podcast conversations that are transcribed don’t write themselves. They need people to do it and its another way to make money online. .You can do this with sites like Transcribe Anywhere.

✅ Here’s how to get paid to transcribe.

45. Start A Mini Affiliate Review Blog

Starting a review site in a niche you enjoy writing about can be lucrative in the long run if you put in the consistent effort. Take a look at this one, for instance, about buying the best double stroller for twins. You can learn more about the ins and outs of starting your own niche site with this in-depth post on the types of sites you can start.

Read this guide to start your first blog and start putting your online business together (you get a FREE domain name for your site when you sign up through the link).

46. List Your Services On Craigslist

Sometimes making extra money on the side simply means putting yourself out there, and you can do this with sites like Craigslist. Most of us have a skill that other people are willing to pay for, so why not take advantage of that and make a few extra bucks on the side?

Anything imaginable from computer repair to phone screen replacement, to nail art to even good old babysitting.

47. Translate Online

If you know more than one language, you can get paid to translate online. With Unbabel you get paid weekly if you have good attention to detail and love translating languages. Here is an in-depth guide of translation servies you can work for to earn cash from home.

Other translation services to check out:

• One Hour Translation
• TextMaster
• Tethras

48. Teach English To Chinese Kids Online

VIPKids lets you teach English to Chinese kids online from home. If you really dedicate yourself, you can add thousands to your monthly income.

VIPKids has a platform that makes working from home easy and lets you set your own hours. You can earn up to $30 per hour once you go through a short vetting process.

✅ Here is an in-depth article to get you started teaching.

49. Sell Your Crafts On Etsy

Selling your crafts online has become seriously popular thanks to great platforms like Etsy that let you do so with ease. People all around the world have learned to make money online and from home by using their creative skills to make extra money. Here is a ‘7 Steps For A Successful Start On Etsy’ post you might find helpful.

Other platforms like Etsy you can use to sell your homemade goods:

• eCrater
• Indiemade
• Amazon Handmade
• Artfire

50. Become A TaskRabbit

Become a tasker with TaskRabbit!

Make money by doing tasks other people are willing to pay you for. Whether that is picking up an item and delivering it, or moving boxes from one place to another, you’ll never really know until you sign up with Taskrabbit and pick up some tasks around your neighborhood.

Some of the things they list on their site are home improvement tasks, moving and packing, furniture assembly, general handyman.

✅ Become a Tasker here.

51. Lose Weight And Earn Money

Placing a bet on how much weight you can lose within a span of time can be a great way to motivate yourself…and make money in the process. With sites like HealthyWage you can enter a goal for your weight loss journey and can win money by reaching those goals. It’s a great way to kill two birds with one stone.

✅ Learn more about HealthyWage here.

52. Sell Your Hair

Sell your hair for money and rock a new look while you’re at it. With sites like HairSellon, you can sell your hair if it is in overall good condition (and long).

Obviously, the longer it is the more you can potentially get for it. Here is a hair price calculator to help you figure out if its worth it. This one definitely falls under the category of easy ways to make money at home.

53. Sell Your Photos

If you want to make money online and from home consider selling your photos. This is especially great for the people that have a knack for these things. All kinds of stock photos are needed nowadays and your photos can be sold to people that need them. Sites like Fotolia, Alamy, and Shutterstock are some of the many places where you can sell your stock photography and make some extra money.

✅Here is a more in-depth guide for a quick start on selling your photos to make extra money.

54. Review Websites

Usertesting pays you up to $10 to review sites for them. After a small test, you can sign up to review sites submitted by their users and get paid for it.

✅ Check out Usertesting here to get started.

55. Create and Sell Printables

People love printables! And if you have a love and real talent for making appealing printables you can try and make some extra money with them by selling them online. Here is a cool guide that can help you get started selling your first few printables. Anything from stationery to planners to home organization printables can be a creative way to make money from home.

56. Start A Moving Service

Lots of people are constantly moving and needing help with their furniture and heavy boxes. Why not start a moving service as a side hustle on the side? You can always advertise your moving services by word of mouth or on Craigslist.

57. Install Cell Phone Apps

With cellphone apps like Shoptracker you can make a few extra bucks on the side for doing nearly nothing. All you have to do is download, install them, and accept their terms of use. For the most part, they usually collect anonymous buyer information and consumer behavior that companies pay money for.

58. Proofread

You can make money from home fast by learning to proofread! There is a ton of demand out there for people that need things proofread, from books to even posts online. One of the cool perks is that you can do it from anywhere and is a viable way to make either a side income from home or a full time income from home. Check out Proofread Anywhere to see if its a fit for you!

59. Lend Money

Using the money you have to make even more money is one of the oldest ways to make extra money in the books. With Lending Club, you can lend money to others safely  and make money off the interest. You basically act like a small bank.

✅ Check out Lending Club here. 

60. Dropship On Amazon

Dropshipping through Amazon is how many people are making nice income on the side. Once you open up a storefront you typically sell items through Amazon that you don’t even have to store the inventory yourself. There is definitely a learning curve involved and it doesn’t happen overnight. But the earnings you can make once you get past the initial changes have been life changing for many.

✅ How To Dropship On Amazon

61. Write On Medium

Medium, a free online blogging platform, pays their writers according to how many likes or ‘claps’ an article gets. Ass you write and amass a bigger following, you can start earning more money by writing on their platform.

✅ Check out Medium here.

62. Flip Old Things On Craigslist

If you know anything about Gary Vaynerchuk he is the king of ‘find something for $1 in Goodwill and flip it online for $10. Flipping what most people would consider ‘junk’ on Craigslist can be a pretty lucrative side hustle once you get the hang of it. Here’s a Gary Vee video to motivate you to get started making extra money from home (and possibly even a full time income).

63. Get Paid To Walk

The Achievement app rewards you with points that you can then redeem for money for simply walking and staying fit. You are basically getting paid for being healthy.

✅ Check out Achievement here.

64. Invest In Real Estate

Investing in real estate can make you some serious return in cash if you know how to go about it. While it’s not necessarily something that will make you money in a month, it can be a lucrative side hustle if you put some effort into in in your free time. Real estate investing is great for residual passive income!

65. Tutor With Chegg

Chegg pays tutors starting at $20/hr to tutor fellow students trying to get help with their homework. Once you go through a vetting process, you can choose your own teaching hours and start making money from home.

If you’re wondering how to make $100 a day online and have a knack for tutoring, you might want to check out Chegg’s tutoring program!

✅ Learn how to tutor with Chegg here.

Get Started Towards Making $100 A Day

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There are plenty of creative ways to make money if you put ‘making extra money’ on your priority list. There are much more than what is listed here, but this list is plenty to get you started on the path to make extra cash for bills, debt payoff, or building your savings.

Got any favorite ways you make extra money? We’d love to hear about it in the comments!

Want to learn of more creative ways to help you make $100 a day? Check out these resources:

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