Honest Question: If You Had to Start a Side Hustle Online -- What Would You Do?

First thing, by stating you want an ONLINE business, you have already introduced several moving parts into your plan. You can't have one, unless you are online. But I will give you some questions to consider...but as far as simple gets.

The IDEA: YOU want someone to BUY something from you.

So, easiest transaction I ever made was writing on a piece of cardboard; New TV for Sale; $50. Then sat in my porch rocking chair and waited as traffic zoomed by, and in less than 15 minutes I had 50 bux in my hand. That is as SIMPLE as a transaction can be.

YOU have something for sale, someone buys it from you...for your asking price and at breakneck speed.

So you have to be online. Therefore an Internet Service Provider, an avg in USA of 60 bucks a month.

Then you need SOMETHING to sell, and SOMEBODY to sell it to.

The MISTAKE most Warriors make is they start with the something (most often affiliate stuff) first, whereas the SIMPLE way is to find a SOMEBODY (buyer) first, because you know they have the money to buy.

Selling smart TV's down on skid (desolation) row isn't going to work, is it?

What is the simplest product to offer? INFORMATION. All the positive, no negative.

What is the best type of information to sell? PROPRIETARY. Info that no one else has and yet, it is wanted (you know this from seeing people BUYING it today). So, something you create and own would be the ideal.

Now the moving parts...because you are not sitting in a porch rocking chair watching the traffic go by and seeing your offer, you have to put your "TV" where there is traffic.

Then once you have a place with traffic, you need to STOP them, by your cardboard sign (ad-promotion-offer) and they have to walk up the sidewalk and give you the dough.

There are many who will argue about simple being a myth, and for many, it may be.

But say you wrote a report, with the help of AI these days, on the most simple of Online Side Hustles. Are there buyers for such a thing? Well, you are reading this in the middle of a starving crowd, so yea.

Now to eliminate the moving parts as much as you can, you offer your new report at Gumroad, which is an ecommerce platform/marketplace for FREE. They take a little chunk of change for eliminating as many moving parts as they can. No coding, just write a little cardboard sign, so to speak, and let it sit.

However, you may want to add the moving part of TRAFFIC, which mostly happens online with PAID ADS, so there is that part to concern yourself with.

Now, a SHORTCUT would be to find a successful Online Marketer selling these kinds of reports, with a track record, and an audience...and offer to split sales with them. That is as basic, simple, and fewest moving parts as one can find online.

If I am wrong, someone please tell me why?

You want simple; you START with that as a goal and fully define it in terms of what you will do, won't do, TIME to do it, and REASON why to do it all. If you just want to make money fast, and as simple as it gets, stay OFFline and sell your TV on your front porch.

GordonJ

Simple is subjective.

Some multi-step procedure that is simple for
me might not be simple to other people.

That's why it's important for people to develop
their own methods of making money online.

We frequently get noobs who want somebody
to tell them what they should do and how they
should go about it, when there's no way anyone
can tell another person what would work.

That is why, IMO, it's important for people to
read books and learn about the different ways
that income can be generated.

You need to match your skills to the method,
that is something only the individual can do.