EARN MONEY IN SPARE TIME

The amount of extra money you can make from a side hustle depends on a number of factors. While the following ideas are a great place to start, your level of effort, the demand for the work, and the market you’re in can all influence how much side hustle money will land in your bank account. Try:

The steps to starting a side hustle can vary depending on your creative skills, start up costs, and the level of effort for the side hustle you choose. A few basic first steps include:

After an initial investment of time and effort, some ideas can eventually net you a good monthly income. Some of the most profitable side hustle ideas to make extra money include:

The easiest side hustles to start are those that require no specialized skills or upfront costs. While many turn to the gig economy to offer services through sites like TaskRabbit or do rideshare driving, you can just as easily set up a simple website to help you get freelance work or sell your services.

It’s recommended to set aside at least a few hours each week to work on your side hustle. Prioritizing your time and focusing on the most important tasks to grow your business is crucial. With dedication and hard work, you can turn your side hustle into a successful business and make extra money

It's really easy to do. Simply shop via one of their tracked links and you'll get a percentage of what you spend back in the form of cashback.

Whether you are shopping online or in person, if you use a cashback credit card you will get a percentage of the money you spend back in cold, hard cash.

With the Platinum Cashback Everyday Credit Card (APR 30%), you can earn 5% cashback on all spending in the first six months of opening an account (limited to up to £100 cashback), and there's no annual fee to worry about.

With cashback cards and cashback sites, it’s important to remember the idea is to get money back for spending you were going to do anyway – don’t spend more than you can afford, simply so that you earn more cashback!

If you like to have a mooch around the shops and eat out, why not earn some extra cash as a mystery shopper?

Sites like MarketForce will pay you to drop in unannounced to shops and restaurants to rate the experience and will pay you for your feedback

If you can take a decent snap of cityscapes and landmarks, you may be able to flog them to agencies, including Shutterstock, Alamy and 123RF.

YouGov is among the most well-known sites, but it can take years to reach 5,000 points to get £50 in payment.

PopulusLive has fewer available surveys and the payout is limited to £50, but you could get up to £1 for every five minutes doing surveys, meaning you may reach your total quicker than you can on YouGov.

Learn more by reading our fitness reward app challenge, in which we look at how much we could earn using BetterPoints or Sweatcoin.

Websites like TaskRabbit allow people in certain cities to list tasks they need help with such as picking up a parcel or moving home that they are willing to pay for.

For example, if you have a driveway outside your home that you don’t always use, you could rent it out through a site like JustPark.

Your space is more likely to be in demand if you live near a sports stadium, tourist spot, airport or train station.

Sites like OfficeRiders effectively help companies find space in private places for work meetings, events and co-working, while Kitchen2Rent does what it says on the tin.

Earn Money In Spare Time

Sitting on an old mobile handset that you don’t use anymore? Don’t leave it gathering dust at the back of the cupboard, flog it online!

You can sell it yourself on a site like eBay or Gumtree, or use one of the many mobile phone recycling sites to see who will pay you the most for your old phone.

Unfortunately, there are a number of unscrupulous sites that promise big payouts, then try to short-change you once the phone has been sent.

A number of these sites offer cash for old tablets too, so if your old iPad or Kindle is sitting unloved and unused, cash it in too!

All you have to do is enter the barcode from your DVD on sites like MusicMagpie, Zapper and CeX, and the site will give you a price for your DVD.

It's probably a good idea to go down to a sale first, to get an idea of where the best pitches are and pick up some tips on how best to flog your wares!

How often do you reckon you search for something on Google, Amazon, eBay or Yahoo? Most of us search on at least one of these sites fairly regularly.

Enter your search term as usual, and a Qmee result will appear alongside the normal search results. Click on the Qmee result and you’ll pocket a cash reward.

It’s only a few pennies a time, but it can quickly add up. For more details, read Qmee: get paid to search online.

Sign up to a market research firm and you’ll be sent invites to take part in all sorts of survey projects, with a cash incentive.

For example, by signing up to Focus4People, we got invitations to take part in surveys on travel, news, energy and credit, which offered up to £50 for one hour.

Even better, why not get paid to watch the telly? Thanks to TheViewers.co.uk you can make a few quid just for having an opinion about some TV shows.

This might mean giving feedback on what you've watched recently, reviewing a new show before it airs nationally, or helping develop ideas for new shows.

On PeoplePerHour.com, there are thousands of people adept at website design, image editing, writing and social media who are selling their services an hour at a time.

If you are more useful with your hands – perhaps you are a dab hand with a paintbrush or a bit of carpentry – then why not stick an ad on a site like Gumtree or in your local newsagent?

Yes, it really is possible. There are thousands of people streaming their game playing on sites like Twitch, and some are making a pretty decent living from it.