3 side hustles.
A little more
behind each one.

Turn your knowledge into a product.

Turn something you know into something useful that other people can buy. That could be a budgeting planner, a personal finance spreadsheet, a guide or a series of mini tutorials.

You don’t need a massive course. Start with one focused problem and one useful product. A £19.99 product could be a starting point, with more detailed products around £100 as you develop what you offer.

Example price points, not income forecasts or required prices.

Create it once. Keep improving it.

The work goes into creating it and getting people to see it. Once it’s set up, the same product can sell repeatedly without you delivering it individually every time.

It can become relatively passive, but it still needs marketing and occasional updates.

Find demand on TikTok & Instagram.

I look for products gaining attention on TikTok and Instagram — watching what people are sharing, asking about and engaging with.

The idea is to spot a product people are interested in and get a store and ads ready while that interest is still there. Use those signals to decide what is worth researching further, then develop the store, product page and marketing around it.

In this example, your supplier is in China, you run the store and marketing in the middle, and your customers are in the UK. A customer orders from your store; you place the order with the supplier, who ships directly to the customer.

Check the supplier. Protect the margin.

You still need to check the supplier, delivery times, product quality and whether the numbers work. You’re responsible for the customer experience, even when someone else ships the product.

Sales aren’t profit.

Subtract the product cost, delivery, payment fees, advertising and any returns or other costs before deciding whether it’s worth scaling.

Build videos people keep watching.

In my opinion, YouTube is one of the hardest side hustles to get monetised. It takes dedication, consistency and a lot of work before you start seeing a return.

You don’t have to be on camera, either. You could use AI to help build cartoons or explainer videos, record your own voiceovers, or film yourself. You can also mix those formats together — be creative with how you tell the story.

But older videos can keep earning when people continue watching them.

“I’ve got videos from four years ago that still bring in over £100 a month.”

My own experience, not an earnings forecast for another channel.

Build a library that lasts.

What matters is making something useful or entertaining that people want to watch, in a format you can keep improving.

You can earn from both Shorts and long-form videos once you meet the relevant monetisation requirements.

It isn’t guaranteed income forever, but a useful video can keep working for you long after you upload it.