Many Canadians have started looking for ways to earn extra cash in addition to their full-time jobs. People looking for side hustles often want to find ways to make money with limited expenses, and without having to travel – meaning many have started looking into ways to make money online in Canada.
Freelance work
One of the more popular methods for making money from home in Canada is freelance work.
This broad category can involve a wide range of methods. From offering graphic design services to writing, the possibilities are endless.
Writing is one of the more popular freelance work methods that requires limited investment from the freelancer. Freelance writers can offer a wide range of different services to clients, including social media writing, web copywriting, and blog posts.
The broad scope of what can be offered is part of what makes writing an interesting choice for many freelancers, as one day, they could be writing web copy for a client and the next, a more technical-focused blog post.
While freelance writing can be lucrative, finding and managing clients can be challenging. It is important to build a portfolio of your work, whether you have had past clients or not. To land future ones, you will need to be able to showcase your writing ability and style.
Those who have never written professionally before might want to consider starting a blog to showcase their writing skills and creating sample works to show clients. For example, if you want to write blog posts for bakeries, you might want to create examples of what you would write for these clients.
Managing and finding clients in addition to freelance work can be challenging, so many choose to partner with freelancing companies like Words of Worth Canada. These companies manage the clients and client interactions, allowing the freelancer to focus on writing instead.
Online courses
Did you manage to gain high scores in certain subjects in school? Or are you passionate about one of your hobbies? Then, you may be able to turn that knowledge and passion into money with online courses.
Those willing to share their knowledge with others can teach those skills online through streaming sessions or recordings. Unlike freelance work, successfully launching an online course will take a bit of additional investment in camera equipment to record the sessions, building a website and advertising the course. With the right amount of investment though, online courses can continue to generate income long after they have been initially recorded.
Surveys
For those looking to make additional income when waiting in line or on public transit, surveys could be your side hustle.
Often only taking a handful of minutes at a time, surveys allow Canadians to share their thoughts and opinions with brands while also earning a bit of money on the side – often in the form of gift cards.
When selecting a survey hosting company, carefully review what payment they offer and the minimum cashout. Often, with survey companies, you will earn points equal to set dollar amounts; once you reach a set threshold, you can cash out.
Monetize a YouTube channel
It has often been said that content is king, which is why many take to utilizing multiplatform methods when launching YouTube channels to increase the monetization available for different videos.
For example, a longer format video would work well on YouTube and Twitch. Still, that same video could also be cut into segments to work on platforms like Facebook and X, or embedded into blog posts. They can also be chopped even further into snippets, in order to be effective on Instagram and TikTok.
Utilizing a multiplatform approach can allow Canadians to take their side hustles even further and increase the ad revenue they can generate through sponsorships or advertisements on different social media platforms, or on their website.
When thinking of content to create, it is important to consider the different ways it can be utilized as well. This will also protect your side hustle if, for some reason, a channel starts to lose revenue or is taken down.
Overall, there is a wide range of methods to make money from home in Canada. All of these have their own set of positives and negatives and require different levels of investment. So long as they are kept up consistently, any of these side hustles can make it easy to earn money from home. Just be sure to look into local regulations regarding how much of that extra income should be set aside for taxes.