Looking for business ideas or side hustle opportunities to make some money online or extra income without leaving home during the Corona virus quarantine pandemic period?
Use this social distancing period to become a ‘coronapreneur’.
In today’s post, I share with you a no fluff list of 10 business ideas or side hustle opportunities you can start today that have been created by the Covid 19 pandemic and you can use to make money 💸 immediately especially with the Corona virus pandemic and even beyond the quarantine period.
The most in-demand side hustles you can do from home and make money immediately during Covid 19 period:
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Online language tutoring
According to the “Impact of COVID-19 on the Global Online Tutoring Market” report, the global online tutoring industry is expected to gain traction during this coronavirus pandemic period.
This is due to rapidly changing circumstances which has forced people to stay home, whom are now looking for productive ways to spend their time in lockdown.
As no one had foreseen or planned for the consequences of the worldwide pandemic, no prior measures were taken. Hence, the online tutoring is playing a key role to fill in for the extra down time created as a result of being forced to stay home.
Other factors that are catalysing the need for online language tutors during this outbreak include various government’s support for the education of students and availability of a large number of online learning platforms in regional languages.
As an online language tutor, you teach and motivate people who want to learn a new language. You can choose to do so either by starting your own language academy or as a hire on already existing online learning academies.
If you prefer the former, then freelance platforms such Fiverr, or UpWork is a great place to start.
You can charge fees ranging from US $5 to $100 a class depending upon how involved the lesson is, and your personal experience.
If you’d rather start your own online language tutoring school, then consider course hosting platforms such as SkillShare, Thinkific, Teachable, Subhub, etc.
The second most profitable business idea, best side hustle opportunity arising, and most profitable skill during Covid 19 is consulting.
If you have a medical and/or environmental safety/workplace safety and health background, and are also good at breaking down very tricky, complex problems – problems that most individuals or organizations don’t have enough resources or experience to solve – to their core parts, analyzing them, and finding the most beneficial and achievable solution; and also have the skill to structure the solutions into actionable plans that others can implement; then there is a ready market available for you to tap into.
I believe a reasonable fee would be between US$ 50-150/hour depending on your specialty and depending on the client’s country.
I would mainly focus on the US and Canada, but also consider South-West Europe.
Consulting services you could provide include:
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As it turns out, many organizations are currently struggling with managing their social media accounts well during these uncertain times.
As a responsive social media consultant, you will work with the businesses to develop new campaigns that respond to the changing business climate due to COVID-19.
Specific tasks could include developing a responsive marketing strategy, reallocating/optimizing budgets to digital channels, revising marketing materials, etc.
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Applying to Covid-19 relief grants and loans
If you have business plan writing, grant writing or fund application skills, then there lies a lot of opportunities for passive income streams to make money online without living home resulting out of the pandemic.
Different individuals as well as organizations are looking for funding for their businesses, their research work, and even patent application for their innovations, and this is where you come in.
As the expert that you are, you help them develop business plans for their loan/funding applications, patent application for the innovative medical devices and vaccines, as well as help them conduct the necessary research.
Your target market here will be any individuals or businesses look for funding, grants or anything related to COVID 19.
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Develop a startup business plan, financial plans, proposals, etc. for SBA covid 19 loan
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Consulting on requirements for importing masks and other PPEs
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) regulation compliance advice
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Businesses looking to change strategy due to Covid
e.g A beauty spa that needs board approval to convert to a medspa and needs a presentation that will wow the board
A good place to start your search would be online job listing platforms such Fiverr, UpWork, Glassdoor, Devex, etc.
There are several ways to make money online by creating explainer videos related to Covid.
A great place to start will be on YouTube since the platform is free and all you need to start is a Google e-mail address.
Whichever way you decide to go, the first step will be to make the videos and then monetize them.
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With making money with your Covid-related explainer videos, patience and consistency is the key.
As you consistently upload valuable, useful and quality videos, you will start seeing your subscriber count and watch time grow organically.
However, Covid 19 is one of the most currently searched terms, so you could just be in luck and have your video go viral in no time.
You could also decide to offer your explainer video for COVID-19 response skills as a service instead of going it on your own. If you decide to go this route, start by listing your services on platforms such Upwork or Fiverr.
Your customers would most probably be non-profits, cleaning and restoration companies that do Covid-19 cleanup, pharmaceutical companies, medical institutions, epidemiology researchers, biotech companies, etc. that need help getting the message out about the work they’re doing.
Make money as a technical freelance writer
The next profitable business idea, best side hustle opportunity arising, and most profitable skill during Covid is freelance writing on technical topics such as Corona virus.
If you’re a writer with technical writing skills, then you could make money online with the tones of freelance writing jobs even during COVID-19 craziness. And without having to leave your home.
To make your freelance writing job search during Covid effective, focus your energies on big organizations with larger marketing budgets.
You should also focus on the industries that are currently ‘winning’ as a result of this pandemic and as such have increased marketing budgets: small-business lenders, mobile lending apps, real-estate lenders, ‘crisis PRp’ firms that want press releases written to show the world what they’re doing right during the pandemic, medical research labs and medical-testing companies, webinar hosting and video-sharing platforms such as Webjam, Zoom, Skype, etc.
I recommend that you focus on high-ticket technical writing pieces about what’s happening now with Covid19, such as Whitepapers for firms in the biotechnology, technology, finance, and healthcare industry are also lucrative during this period.
As a freelance white paper writer, you can very easily charge upwards of US $1,000 for a 2-pager.
Different firms are also scrambling to put out Covid 19-related position pieces to stamp authority, discuss industry issues such as temperature screening for COVID-19, and how it can get businesses back to work, and to also reveal industry research data such as impact of Covid on fintech, online learning, etc.
Though slightly low ticket compared to technical writing, freelance web content creation is a profitable business idea, best side hustle opportunity arising, and most profitable skill during Covid, and there’s still some bit of money to be made.
As more businesses transition online, they’re looking to hire content creators to help them build an online presence.
Your main focus will be businesses that need high quality Covid 19 – related web content about corona virus or covid-19 impact topic of their choice. e.g. the precautions they’ll be taking against Covid once business resumes, etc.
You can also work with cleaning company blogs in creating engaging and informational SEO optimized blog articles centered around home cleaning, commercial cleaning, lifestyle, disinfection, and health and wellness in the wake of Covid-19.
You can also target newly created Covid 19 information aggregator websites and work with them create content from publicly available information.
Like the already aforementioned most profitable side hustle opportunities during Covid, you can make money online as a freelance web content creator without having to leave your house.
Online Researcher
Online research is the next in this list of profitable business ideas, best side hustle opportunities arising, and most profitable skill arising during due Covid 19.
With all the uncertainty surrounding this pandemic, people are looking for information.
And this is where you come in with your online research and fact checking skills.
You will get paid offering your researcher and fact–checking services to businesses, scholars, academics, lawyers, educators, journalists, medics, etc.
Sample assignments include: collecting COVID-19 related tweets and applying natural language processing techniques such as topic molding to see what people are saying or tweeting about COVID-19 and 5G etc.
Virtual event planner/organizer
Another most profitable business ideas, best side hustle opportunities arising, and most profitable skill arising during due Covid 19 is that of a virtual event organizer/planner.
As a virtual event planner, your duties will largely focus on helping clients plan interactive meetings, events, or celebrations that happens over the internet. Some of your tasks include live streaming and coordination.
Due to COVID-19, many individuals and organizations are not able to have traditional ceremonies, meetings, and events such as conferences, weddings, birthdays, military retirement ceremonies, etc., with all my family and friends present.
With that being said, they are therefore looking to have their events through alternative platforms such as Zoom, Webjam, etc. and to hire virtual event organizers to ensure the events are still memorable and that they run as smooth as possible.
And this is where your virtual event planner skills come in.
A great place to find virtual event planner jobs is on Ziprecruiter, Upwork, Fiverr, etc.
The next high paying side hustle opportunity and work from home job you can start NOW and make money online in 2020 is becoming a content repurposer.
With more people staying home and most of aspects of their lives shifting to the online world, content creators are struggling to keep up with audiences’ demand for a steady pipeline of high quality content.
This is largely either due to lack of the necessary skills, lack of the time to hire, train and/or manage a content team.
And this is where you step in as a content repurposer aka content splicer.
As a content repurposer, you can make money online during this quarantine period by helping the content creators to transform their already existing content into other digital assets such as Facebook memes, Instagram teaser videos, short-form captions, blog posts, podcast episodes, newsletters, eBooks, etc.
To get a portfolio to showcase to your potential clients, go through any one of your target creator’s already existing work, select one that you think is the best, and narrow down on alternative platforms and formats you envision the content being most successful on (Instagram stories, Twitter post, LinkedIn feature, etc.).
You then transform the content into that said format and share with the content creator to showcase your expertise and then pick up the business conversation from there.
Make money with your industrial design skills
With the wake of the Corona virus pandemic, PPE (personal protective equipment) will be an unwanted necessary part of our lives for a while which calls for mass adoption globally to mitigate COVID-19’s devastating effects.
As a result, businesses are constantly looking for affordable ways to adapt the PPEs (gloves, masks, face shields, etc) to make them more exciting to wear, especially among non-medics.
And this is where you come in.
Work with these businesses to engage your industrial design expertise to redesign PPEs and make them more practical, appealing, comfortable, and desirable to wear.
Considerably one of the most profitable side hustle during covid and best ways to make money online without leaving home during Covid.
Design COVID-19 themed merchandise & floor graphics
Almost similar to the industrial design expertise side hustle above, a side hustle opportunity or profitable business idea for talented and creative graphic artists arising out of the Covid pandemic is to design eye-catching merchandise such as e-cards, face masks, lapel pins and badges, t-shirts, tote bags, wedding-postponed gifts, stickers and tattoos, distance bracelets, etc., that make a statement during this COVID-19 period.
You can also use your graphic design skills to create new signage, displays, logos or marketing materials for hospitals, Covid 19 social distancing floor graphics for supermarkets, banks, shops, etc.
Take advantage of tools such as Photoshop, Inkscape (its open source and free tool to use), Paint.NET etc to create your designs.
This is a service you could choose to offer to others for payment, or create your own designs and sell them.
Should you consider the latter, a great place to list your products is on the Etsy platform.
You could also consider listing your merchandise using print on demand (P.O.D) platforms whereby you simply upload your artwork, and the company takes care of everything else – printing and shipping your merchandise to the final customer on your behalf – such as Spreadshirt, Teespring, Zazzle, Sunfrogshirts, Merch by Amazon, etc.
Themes you could consider for your merchandise include:
Things people miss during the COVID-19 quarantine, lockdown, curfew period
Examples: food, travel, family, school, friends, office, the outdoors, etc.
Socially responsible activities during COVID-19 quarantine, lock down period
Examples: Social distancing, wearing a mask, constantly using sanitizer, washing hands, etc.
First thing I’m doing once COVID-19 Lockdown is lifted
Examples: International travel, hugging and kissing everyone😉, barbecue with family and friends, back to office, etc.
Pre/post COVID-19 taglines
Examples: Shaken but not broken, I survived COVID-19!, I am not a quarantine loser, like a good neighbor stay over there, quarantine and chill, I washed my hands, social distance expert, etc.
Make money posting videos on YouTube
With more time spent at home to help flatten the curve with no one having foreseen or planned for the consequences of the global Covid 19 pandemic, people are looking into the internet to fill in for the extra down time created.
As a result of being forced to stay home for extended periods of time into the unknown (most without pay), people are facing a myriad of challenges adapting to a world in which public gatherings are forbidden, and they have the internet (and children for others), vying for their attention at home.
Behind the scenes, questions linger as to how to deal with this crisis that could last weeks or months.
This is where you come in.
If you believe that your words of wisdom and inspiration will get audiences glued to your YouTube channel, then it can be another one of those best side business ideas or side hustle opportunities you can start today that have been created by the Covid 19 pandemic and you can make money by joining the YouTube Partner Program and earning money from Google ads.
But before you qualify for monetization on YouTube via their partner program, you will need to have at least 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 cumulative watch time in the past cumulative 365 days.
As you wait to get monetized, you could also consider brand sponsorships and affiliate marketing.
Quality assurance app and website testing
One of the best side hustles to make money at home amid the covid pandemic is as a
With the increased demand for web, mobile and software development, has come demand for quality assurance testers.
As a website or app quality assurance tester, you will make money by essentially testing that a website or mobile application does what it was designed to do.
YOUR TURN…
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