Your side hustle should resonate not only with your skills but also your personality.
If you’re considering venturing out and launching your own side hustle this year, some side hustle ideas might be more congenial to your personality and skill set than others.
For example, if you consider yourself to be an extrovert, have a contagious energy, are confident using technology and being on camera, and possess exceptional organizational skills, then carving out your own career path as a freelancer within a people-facing industry requiring these skills (such as events) is a good way to supplement your salary. (Some of these side hustles are listed below.)
We tend to excel more at things that we are exceptionally good at, and in roles that are best suited to our disposition. This is especially the case if you already work in a job that, for some reason or another, you absolutely hate. You won’t be able to bring much passion to your work if it is in a toxic environment or not compatible with your temperament.
However, you may feel stuck because after all, your job is what’s paying the bills and putting food on the table. But if you decide to start a side hustle that works well with your personality type, you will be able to get more enjoyment, satisfaction, and money out of it, providing more balance to your work week.
Here are a few side hustle ideas to get you started:
1. Podcast Outreach Management
There are many small businesses and freelance podcast hosts that make for excellent hosts and have the perfect business model and content topic ideas for their podcasts, but where do they find the guests?
That’s where this side hustle comes in. Your role as a freelance podcast outreach manager is to be the intermediary and connect both parties. You would be involved in finding the perfect guest expert match, to suit the needs of the podcast and its listeners, and you would help with planning in advance for future episodes. This requires you to have an unconventional approach for digging around and researching for the best guests, and then following up with initial outreach and scheduling prep calls and meetings with them. You’re essentially the host’s right-hand person.
2. Webinar Management/Hosting
Being a freelance webinar manager requires you to have a strong working understanding and grasp of the main webinar hosting platforms, such as WebinarJam, so that you can be on hand to assist with troubleshooting and ensure virtual webinar events run smoothly without getting into technical difficulties that interrupt the attendees’ and hosts’ experience. You would also advise and administer virtual event setup.
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3. Freelance Event Planning
Events planning can be stressful as you are managing several tasks at once, coordinating suppliers, and often will be there on hand to assist for the day of the event. And of course, there will always be those last minute emergencies that threaten to ruin the entire event. But at the same time, it can be an enjoyable and fulfilling adventure. You can often undertake this side hustle during the weekends when most events tend to take place, and conduct much of the admin work that goes into planning it during your spare time in the week.
To succeed with your side hustle as an event planner, it’s useful to already have some experience. But most importantly, you’ll need to build and exhibit skills such as:
- Thorough organization and project management to coordinate all aspects of the event, from behind the scenes to the main items of the day
- Communication skills to liaise with various parties
- Strict attention to detail
- Last but not least, the ability to work calmly, think straight, and retain composure while under pressure
4. Event Marketing Management
As an events marketing manager, it helps to have first-hand professional experience in the market and industry your client’s events are positioned in and catering for. This is because it will make it easier for you to promote yourself as a freelance event marketer, since you would have narrowed down your niche as one with expertise within that specific field. A side hustle of this nature requires you to think outside the box and get creative with ways to reach potential delegates wherever they may be, to gain their buy-in so they actually want to attend or sponsor the event.
You will need to consider approaches from every angle, combining traditional advertising with event ambassador opportunities and digital marketing. You might decide to approach this business from the perspective of providing advice and consulting to clients to help them manage the marketing aspect of the events they run, or you might offer an additional package or service in which you perform the necessary marketing for them.
5. Event Hosting/MC
Having a side hustle as an event host or master of ceremonies (also known as emcee) is perfect for you if you consider yourself an orator, are able to gracefully navigate an event and the main platform, and can set attendees at ease. Event hosts keep the various aspects of the event running smoothly and on schedule, and entertain and inform so that delegates feel the event was worth the travel. Providing this service provides an excellent representation for brands and keeps their delegates engaged. You’ll need to be confident and bring a strong personality as well as exceptional communication skills to this gig.
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Now it’s over to you. How will you shape the next chapter of your career journey with your side hustle?
Source: 5 Side Hustle Ideas To Make More Money In 2024
