6 side hustle to make passive income for students in 2023

Introduction

Over the years many questions have been asked on how to make money or what I should do to make money quickly online. but the theory of making money is that by creating value and by solving problems that means there is no quick way to make money. Everything good takes time and by proper evaluation, research and implementation one can be successful in all areas he chooses to invest his time and effort for the sole purpose of making money either online or offline. Now let's take a look  at the 6 side hustle that can generate a good and decent amount of money for both students or someone who really wants to add an extra job to their current job.

when choosing a side hustle online you should consider these three key factors :

1. Flexibility 

2. Fun

3. Money

I have seen so many people who started businesses  online, within the first three months they literally gave up. This is because the work is not flexible for them or they don't find it fun doing it. flexibility matters when you are considering looking for a side hustle online you wouldn't want to start a side hustle that will be looking like your main job, and the key success to every person who succeeded online with side hustles is because they looked for work that seems no work to them they're are happy doing it and they can do the work over and over again. It's called passion and passionate jobs are fun jobs. overall is to know if the side hustle you choose will print money because that's the backbone of all our efforts.

the number one on the list side hustles is

⦁ Research assistant

    

This is one of the best side hustle a student should consider looking into. A Research assistant offers their  services to  teachers, blogger, writers, even to an online coaches by assisting them in researches that involves their area of expertise, here you'll be able to have a skill that includes reading, writing to be able to provide an extensive answer towards a topic your are assisting on it can either be a scientific topics, psychology, finance and many more. Consider a  research assistant as a good side hustle to start in 2023 you are paid hourly by helping someone do an extensive research on the topic they're developing. you may be asking where or a website available for me to become a research assistant, wouldn't it be difficult for someone who will hire me as their research assistant. 

so I'll be listing top 5 website to register as a research assistant or a virtual assistant and start growing your portfolio from there

1. Virtualstafffinder.com

2. fiverr.com

3. upwork.com

4. Peopleperhour

5. LinkedIn

or maybe you can consider looking for job organically by sending a nice email to anyone you know you could assist with their projects.

⦁ Thumbnail designer

You must be aware of YouTube and how YouTubers make so much money by creating video content. Now also on YouTube you may be seeing something like this. 

  

       These pictures are examples of thumbnail on YouTube 

yes that's an example of thumbnail and this particular side hustle has made so many students thousands of dollars doing it and I believe you can earn from it too.

 Thumbnail designer is one of the high paying niche in online business as many YouTubers who makes money online are always in lookout for thumbnail designers who has an incredible skills in graphic designing to help them design their thumbnail because it is one of the way YouTube or other youtube related platform puts their  work out in it's platform so that you and I can see them and watch their content.  but it is a very challenging side hustle so I'll suggest you learn,  master and become very good with designing using photoshop or any other tool you may consider using, so that you will be confident enough to send your work out there and also get hired. you can be earning for about 15-50 dollars per thumbnail design for a start and over the years you can grow exponentially. If you're already a designer and you believe in your work, you can go ahead to redesign some of the YouTubers existing thumbnails and send  to them as a business proposal and hopefully if you get hired you can be earning passively.

⦁ Become A Content creator 

Content creating also is another side hustle you should consider doing as a student. Well you can earn passively by creating video content online like I said about how YouTubers make a lot of money creating videos on YouTube, not only YouTube payment comes in diverse means, Facebook is another platform that pay mad money, marketing and influencing deals also is a part of Income. but this thing takes time but it worth it

Instagram reels is also a part of money. but it is  by invitation from Instagram. Here you create and post reels on Instagram and if that reel get 1000 views within 30 days, Instagram can pay you for that. 

How cool is that? 

If you wish to know how to make $1000-$3000 making reels read

Instagram will pay you $10,000 to make reels

⦁ Affiliate marketing 

Like I have discussed previously in my post about how to make money with affiliate marketing, I think you should consider this business  a side hustle as a student in 2023.  sign in with affiliate programs and start earning affiliate commission. lf you want to know more about how you can make money through affiliate marketing you should read up Make money as an Affiliate Marketer .

⦁ Handmade craft or products:

I consider this  as one of the passionate side hustle to do because you can actually market your craft and get sales. As a student who learned how to do sewing, nail designs, crafting bags and other various skills. You can sell your craft or  products to people who're willing to pay for it and make a decent amount of money. there are so many handmade crafts or products you can  dedicate your time to learn and later on turn it into a making money scheme these skills are

1. Jewelry

2. Candles

3. Artwork

4. Knit or crochet items

5. Pottery or ceramics

6. Handmade soaps or skincare products

7. Woodworking

8. Sewn or embroidered items

9. Hand-painted home decor

10. Customized clothing or accessories

Now that all things are made easy, you can sell those products on an ecommerce platform like Esty or at local craft fairs and reach a wide range of audience who will patronize your craft . That's a good start and a wonderful way to make money while studying or doing your daily work. you can also sell on Facebook marketplace.

⦁ Selling Used products online 

Buying new items can be insanely expensive as the economy is not looking good, but that doesn't mean that people are not buying items, buying and selling is the main foundation of every business ever surfaced on earth so I think you should be ready and willing to scout for used good products and market them online  . This is also a side hustle considering if you want to make an extra bucks  into your pockets. sometimes we may have items we longer use you can actually flip those your items for cash there are so many online platform that allows you sale your used items examples are

jiji.ng

Ebay

Facebook marketplace e.t.c 

but these three are the most popular so i consider you to choose them whenever you want to sell your used products online.

while this is an old business idea, so many students like you are earning passively from it, now you can't just rely on selling only your product because you May not have enough used products that will be making you money overtime so the idea here is to look for used products in platforms like jiji.ng try and talk to the seller to know how much he's selling it after careful bergaing, you can sign up to ebay as a seller or Facebook marketplace and marketing those actual products you got from jiji.ng in those platform for example you got an item from jiji.ng for 15,000naira and sold it for 20,000naira on Facebook or ebay technically you've made yourself an extra 5k without even owning that items, you can do this with different varieties of products and make some good sales and profit.

You can also use WhatsApp to reach out to your friends. They can actually be interested in those products who know.

The lists are the 6 side hustles to to start as a student or anyone looking for a way to add an extra income to their current income streams. There is so much we will talk about so I oblige you take a look at other articles on the page.