Check Out These Emerging Side Hustles Made Especially For Gen Z
- Author: Jessica Williams
- Posted: 2024-06-27
In the COVID-19 era, it can be difficult to navigate the emerging gig economy. There are several emerging market sectors that members of Gen Z will enjoy. Here are four of the best side hustles to explore today!
Make a Simple Website
The power of learning a bit of web design is often underestimated. In the old days, web designers had to learn HTML and CSS to craft their brands. Now they don't have to learn as much. Most web design platforms are made with a drag and drop interface.
There are plenty of free web design platforms that offer at least a subdomain to new users. Creating a personal website can be helpful for both self esteem and beginning to market personal products and brands.
A common niche in the COVID-19 era is mask making. This is both great for public health and developing a sense of self and a personal brand. Other common niches in this field are burgeoning musicians and novel products.
Sell Digital Products
One trend that's becoming increasingly common as many people find themselves stuck at home quarantining for COVID-19 is selling digital products online. These products often include software and tools for use on computers.
Many digital product vendors offer tools at a rate that factors in referral linking. This can be quite profitable and will usually yield a return of about 25% per sale through users clicking on your links. These include premium file-sharing websites and others.
Selling digital products to college students also typically is a great side hustle. This includes keys for popular products such as Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows. Other businesses often sell game keys and the like.
Sell Stock Photos
Stock photos are images that appear on websites of all kinds. Most images you see on any given site are taken from stock image libraries. These sites operate on a profit model that relies on royalties. Sometimes these royalties are based on the number of page impressions.
In the past ten years, royalties have gone out of style. These royalties have been essentially canceled as the images have become increasingly difficult to track down. Instead, many sites have switched to a per-image sales model. This relies on a single purchase for legal usage of the images. Piracy of them is extremely common, but it does leave users who do pirate them open to a future lawsuit in most cases.
Selling stock photos to webmasters in need of them can yield immense profits. This usually involves something similar to a referral link scheme. To begin doing this, you'd need to find a stock photo website to sign up for. You'd then need to write some unique and interesting articles utilizing the stock photos and link underneath them to the source of the image. This is essentially an implicit sponsorship of your images, and when users click on the source, they'd be redirected to the source of the stock image. When they sign up for the stock photo site, you'd get a portion of sales made to the user.
Of course, taking your own pictures and selling them as digital assets can also be profitable. They'd need to be unique and they'd need to be fully licensed to you.
Sell T-Shirts
Another common niche for Gen Z to make easy money online is selling t-shirts. You'd need to find a t-shirt vendor who sells high quality shirts. Then you'd need to make a few screenprints. These screenprints are usually unique images that you make through something like Paint or the like.
These images are usually eye-catching. It can take quite a bit of time before you're able to be fully proficient. However, once you develop a business idea, it's common to craft an LLC around your brand. These LLCs sometimes result in a slightly higher tax rate. Some of these brands even emerge as a brick and mortar brand, as well.
Conclusion
In conclusion, it's very easy to make money online as a member of Gen Z if you put your mind to it. There are almost infinite ways to make money online.
