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How To Generate Additional Income

10 ideas on second money sources, ideas to create additional money

How to Generate Passive Income?


How do you feel when someone offering regular paycheck for an item or service you are able to provide them without much effort? That would be a great deal!

Or, what do you think when someone offers you regular money for any of your item that you really don’t required? Fantastic!

Generating secondary income works similar.

In this part, we are exploring the possibilities of generating additional income within your limit and with little efforts.

Any additional income certainly narrows your burdens. Some planning over the possibilities of creating additional income is a best practice to head off any crisis.

Here are some practical tips to create additional income from the services you or your family can offer to others.

Here is the Ideas to Create Additional Income

Creating additional income totally depends on person to person. It can be from a service or by providing a facility or supplying something regularly or from a hobby etc.

For your reference, I am giving 10 methods to know how a person can generate additional income with a mix of skills, passion, available facilities and hobbies:

1. How to Make Money from Freelance Activities

If you are a professional, you have enough opportunity to create additional income by providing freelance job to local customers at your free time or holidays.

For an example, if you are working as an artist on an advertisement company with large customers, you can work as a freelancer in your free time to provide services to small firms or individuals to generate additional income.


2. Professional Methods to Make Money


If you have a core skill, you can start train people at your free times to generate decent additional income.

For example, teachers can provide personal home tuition or technical professionals can work as a part time visiting tutor to any training centers etc..

You can even explore the option to get a part time job that doesn’t require much skill.

3. How to Utilize Unused Facilities to Generate Income

Rent or lease out any additional home or part of your home or even a room, yard, garages, land spaces to generate additional income.

4. How to Generate Income from Hobbies

If you have a hobby, you can even generate additional income from it.

For example, if you have a hobby of gardening, sell flowers, vegetables or fruits to shops and other retail customers to create secondary income.

When hobby-based income generation coming to picture, even your family members can also be able to contribute by exploring possibilities based on their hobbies.

“Hobbies can be used to create decent additional income if you utilize them properly”.

The way what I am doing, blogging, is my hobby and it is generating some decent additional income for me!

5. How to Offer Temporary Services to Make Money

Rent your items to others. For example, offer your automobiles, tractors or tools to others for hourly rent. This would generate little income from an item which may sit idly.

6. How to Generate Income from Selling Old Goods and Items

Any item that you or family no more required but, others are searching for, can be sold to generate income. Books, periodicals, old items like furniture, cupboards all will do better for you.

7. How to Make Money from Pets

If you have pet like dogs or any other animals, birds, fishes or others, you have huge opportunities to create additional income from them.

For an example, if you have different breeds of dog, sell the puppies to generate extra ordinary income. Think in that way.

8. Income Through Family Members

Creating second income not means only by you. Your family members can even contribute to generate second income from their hobbies or utilizing any skills.

For example, let your wife to start giving home-based tuition to others, babysitting, flower arrangements, sewing etc. all help to generate additional income.

9. Small Home Business Ideas to Make Money

Starting a home business is a good idea to create more money utilizing your free time.

Some of the best examples for a home business are: growing hen and selling its eggs and meats, maintaining a vegetable garden, flower garden, growing fish, rabbits, pork etc, if you have facilities, creating fertilizers from waste to sell, running a nursery of plants, a laundry etc. can bring decent income.

10. Part Time Consultancy to Make money

Running a part time consultancy to provide any services to the people or business in your area would be an idea to create secondary income.

Some good examples are, providing advice and facilities for rainwater harvesting, waste management, setting a garden, water management, budding and grafting of fruits and flowers and many, many of such.

Depends on your skills and time you can generate huge side income. You can also offer personal services to others like home cleaning, lawn care, part time driver etc.

As I have mentioned earlier, creating additional income depends on person to person. To start such endeavors, one should first identify his skills or interests to utilize for generating income.

Any person with any skill or hobby has enough opportunities to generate additional income. Identify your right option and give a kick start.

It is certain, identifying possibilities for generating secondary income would be a great help at the time of recession or similar situations.

As a best practice, identify an area where recession never affects. Best examples are teachers and nurses.

If come to business, hair dressing or pharmacies. Both are exempt from recession to a great extent. If you have any member in your family working in such areas, you are so lucky.

I'm Sherin Devassy, the founder and editor of The Money Blossom. I love writing practical articles that help others invest intelligently to build wealth. I have graduate degree in Economics and have spent the last 15 years writing and successful ways to investing in stock market. I also have an investment club running. If you want to get in touch with me, hit me up on Facebook or LinkedIn or Twitter