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10 Side Hustles That Almost Never Fail (Backed By Data)

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The video presents a data-driven approach to identifying side hustles that are highly likely to succeed, arguing that the most reliable opportunities are often "boring" rather than exciting. The speaker highlights that while internet-based businesses and trading have high failure rates due to the need for large crowds or significant capital, sectors like repair, personal care, and pet care boast a 60% survival rate over five years. To qualify for this list, every suggested hustle must pass three strict tests: it requires no inventory, no advertising budget, and most importantly, a customer base that is already actively seeking the service. This eliminates the need to build an audience from scratch or spend money on ads, focusing instead on solving immediate problems for people who are already looking for solutions. The core strategy emphasized throughout the video is leveraging existing skills or experiences to create content and services simultaneously. Examples include cybersecurity professionals teaching others how to enter their field, nurses creating educational content about patient care, and tradespeople documenting their work processes. The speaker illustrates that what feels like common sense to an expert after years of practice is often valuable information to others who lack that experience. By monetizing this knowledge through freelancing, coaching, or YouTube channels, individuals can earn significant income without needing new technical skills. The video also addresses the fear of starting by pointing out that many successful entrepreneurs, such as Dave Ramsey, began by sharing their personal survival stories rather than selling abstract expertise, proving that one does not need to be a world-class expert to help others navigate similar challenges. Beyond knowledge-based services, the video details several physical service industries that are in high demand due to specific market gaps and regulatory needs. These include specialized cleaning for mattresses and upholstery where standard companies refuse to work, estate cleanouts for families dealing with probate, and handyman repairs for small jobs that homeowners cannot find professionals for. Other seasonal opportunities like holiday light installation, snow removal, and pool maintenance are presented as ways to stack income streams throughout the year. Additionally, essential services like senior companion care, bookkeeping for small businesses, video editing for creators, virtual assistance, and dryer vent cleaning are highlighted. The speaker notes that in many of these cases, individuals can bypass expensive agencies by working directly with clients or businesses, thereby increasing their hourly rates while providing a necessary service that is often overlooked but critical for safety and convenience. Ultimately, the conclusion drawn from the data is that the most successful side hustles share a pattern where the customer is already asking for the solution, removing the risk of market fit. The worst-case scenario for these ventures is minimal, often limited to the cost of a simple tool like a brush kit or a truck rental, while the potential reward includes both direct service income and secondary revenue from creating content about the work itself. The speaker encourages viewers to identify which of these opportunities aligns with their current career or hobbies and to take immediate action, noting that the barrier to entry is low for those willing to start. By combining practical service work with digital content creation, individuals can build a sustainable second income stream that complements their primary job rather than competing with it, effectively turning their daily expertise into a profitable business.
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These are the side hustles that almost never fail, and they're backed by data. And I want to start with the number that nobody shows you. Bankrate asked Americans about their side hustles, and 27% have one, and the average side hustle pays $885 a month. Now, the median side hustle pays $200 a month. So, a few people make real money and pull the average up, and half of everybody else is grinding for $200 a month and wondering what they did wrong. So, here's what they did wrong. They picked a side hustle that needs a crowd. A store needs traffic. Trading needs a market to beat, right? An app takes months of development, and then it needs a bunch of people to use it, like you. So, the government tracks which new businesses and side hustles are alive 5 years later. Now, the internet businesses that everyone chases, not many of them survive. But, repair, personal care, and pet care, well, about 60% of those do survive. So, the boring stuff survives, and the exciting stuff doesn't. So, let me tell you how I made this list. Every side hustle on this list passed three tests. No inventory, no ad budget, and a customer who's already asking. And if you can lose real money on it, it's not on the list. And by the way, this is coming from a pharmacist who started his own side hustle on lunch breaks, and then quickly I watched it out-earn my high-paying pharmacy job. And since then, I've helped over a thousand other people do the same thing. So, in this video, I'm going to be showing you the real numbers, examples of real people doing them, and showing you all the data that's available on the subject of side hustles. So, if you appreciate me making this type of content and you want to see me make more of it in the future, then let me know by gently cheesing that like button, and let's jump into it right now. Now, quick thing before we jump into this, because I'm not going to make up a success rate. Nobody tracks exact numbers for this on side hustles. But, here's what is tracked, right? What fails? Multilevel marketing, AARP found that 74% make nothing or lose money. Day trading, 97% of people who stuck with it for a year lost money. Amazon FBA, well, the Jungle Scout's own survey says that about half of sellers make under $1,000 a month. And that's just revenue, that doesn't count profit. And with new real estate agents, they make about 8,000 median in their first 2 years. So, definitely not a full-time income, and it's barely even a side hustle. Now, every one of those needs a crowd inventory or an ad budget. But, here's what survives. The Bureau of Labor Statistics checks whether a new business is still alive 5 years later, and out of all businesses, about 51% survive. For internet-based businesses, it's about 45.7%, and for repair, personal care, and pet care, it's about 60%. So, the government has been telling you which hustles survive for years, and it just gave it a boring name. With that being said, let's talk about number one on the list, which is selling what you already know. And there's many different ways to do this. So, Nicole, one of our community members, works in cybersecurity compliance. And this is one of the least exciting jobs in tech, but it pays really well. And when she first came to us, she had about 85 subscribers on YouTube, and she was about to give up. She was spinning her wheels, posting a bunch of videos, and getting no results. Now, she teaches women how to get into cybersecurity, the exact thing that she does at work. And after implementing our system, she got to over $80,000 in a single month. So, here's the job. It's basically the thing you do at work for a salary. HR, IT, project management, you're a doctor, you're in sales, you're in finance or accounting, or compliance, or the trades. You just either do that thing for a living, you just do that thing as a side hustle as a freelancer, or you can do it as a service, or you can just do it as a coach and literally just help other people do the same thing. And we have examples of all those different types of people in our community. For instance, Nicole coaches people on how to get into governance, risk, and compliance, which is her cybersecurity compliance job. Nurse Jan makes YouTube videos teaching patients what she already knew from 33 years as a nurse. Right? This is the stuff that she was already telling patients on a day-to-day basis. She just put it on camera and started monetizing her channel and made it to over $10,000 in a month just a few months after she getting started with YouTube and monetizing. Zach teaches people how to pick the right trades, which is something that's obvious to him because he spent so much time in it. Stephen teaches other engineers how to use a very niche type of CAD software, which only certain types of engineers use. And he was able to make $12,000 in just a few months. A meta engineer purchased his course, really liked it, and he started getting reached out by companies to do corporate trainings for about $1,500 a day. And And have to be your career. It could literally just be anything that you're good at as well. But obviously, if you've been doing your career for a while, that means you spent thousands of hours of doing it, and so you're going to be good at it automatically, and stuff that's common sense to you is not necessarily common sense to other people. So, Upwork's own study says that the share of skilled professionals freelancing on the side went from 28% to 38% in 1 year. PwC scanned a billion job ads, and workers with AI skills earned 62% more. So again, embrace AI. And 5.6 million independent Americans now make over a hundred thousand dollars a year. And Upwork's median for an HR consultant, for instance, is $50 an hour. So, the simplest version of this is tutoring. A tutor named Steve, for instance, told CNBC that he charges about a thousand dollars an hour and made five hundred dollars in a single year. Now, that's the smart way to do it because he did something very specific, right? If you choose a specific niche, you can charge a lot more. But Wiseant's average is about 35 to 60 dollars an hour, and that's if you're tutoring something simple like math or chemistry. But like I said, it's much smarter to choose a specific niche to do this in, which is what we're going to be going over in the live training this week. Plus, I'm going to be talking about all those people that I talked about on the screen that got great results by posting on YouTube. Because all of these side hustles work incredibly well, and they all seem relatively simple, but the problem with all of them is you need traffic, right? You need people that can actually buy your stuff in order to get paid. And that's what YouTube takes care of, but only making a very specific type of YouTube channel and picking the right niche. That's what we're going to be telling you exactly how to do in the live training this week. So, click that first link in the description and the pin comment below. But you might be thinking, "Shane, I'm not an expert at anything. I just have a job." Well, in 1988, a guy who had just gone bankrupt started teaching couples about money at his church. And this is what he learned the hard way. And the class became Financial Peace University, and his name is Dave Ramsey, and he now makes over three hundred million dollars a year. And he didn't sell expertise, right? He wasn't a financial expert, he sold what he had just survived. And I'll say the tough love part once. You don't have a knowledge problem, you have a starting problem. You've watched a hundred videos like this and you've never done the first step. And I get it. I sat on mine for years. Starting feels like admitting the job isn't enough, but it isn't. Nobody's is. You don't need a new skill, you need a second customer for the one that you already have. And the exact steps to start are on the screen, so pause it if you want them. All right, YouTube just got 10 times easier and nobody is talking about it. You used to need an entire film crew and it used to be a full-time job for you to just do any work at all on YouTube. But now, you can get work done in as little as 15 to 30 minutes a day and you can actually grow a full-time YouTube channel. That's exactly what I'll be talking about at the live training that we're doing this week. Exactly how to start YouTube step-by-step for beginners. So, click the link in the description and the pin comment below to check that out, guys. I will be answering questions before, during, and after the live training. It's completely free. Plus, I'll be giving away an AI that's designed to help you pick your niche if you don't have one in the first place or if you already have a niche, it's going to help you make it 10 times better. So, really looking forward to talking with you guys. This is stuff that we've never talked about before, so click that link in the description and comment below and I look forward to seeing you there. All right, the next one is going to be mattress, upholstery, and carpet cleaning. So, this is one that I know personally because there was one night that I came home from work very tired. It was after a very stressful day and I ordered some Chinese food. And I was enjoying the Chinese food a little bit too much and what I ended up doing is spilling a bunch of General Tso's chicken all over the carpet. And of course, I wanted to clean the carpet, so I called a bunch of cleaning companies and I got rejected over and over again. See, there are certain types of cleaning that require specialized equipment and they're a little bit harder to do than normal cleaning as well. And a lot of cleaning companies don't want to do them. And so, I literally could not find anyone to clean my carpet. And I just had to clean it myself. And where there are problems that people can't solve using normal cleaning companies, this is an opportunity for you to start a side hustle. So, a cleaner in the Pacific Northwest posts his number and he says that makes about $300 an hour cleaning couches and mattresses with a portable machine. Now, this is self-reported, but he does show the tickets. And here's why the work exists. The American Lung Association says that four out of five homes have dust mite allergens in at least one bed. 20 million Americans are allergic to it, including myself. So, people are sleeping on the thing that makes them sneeze. And Angie says that sofas run $120 to $400. So, the average piece is $174. A king mattress is at least $120, and the machine is $429. So, two sofa cleanings and it's already paid for. Now, who buys it? Families with a kid who have allergies or Airbnb hosts between guests or anybody with a dog on the couch. They already know the couch is gross, they just don't own the machine to take care of it. And one how-to video on starting with a portable machine has been watched over 240,000 times. So, people clearly want it and almost nobody follows through. Now, my brother did blue-collar work like this for almost 30 years. And honestly, there's a ton of money in these types of careers. And the exact steps to start on this are going to be on the screen right now, so you can again pause the video if you want to, screenshot it, you can even put it in the cloud if you'd like. With that being said, my brother Zach is 50. He's spent almost 30 years in the trades, and he calls me whenever his email or his website breaks. And last year he started filming what he knows and putting the videos online. And basically just talked about stuff that was common sense to him since he spent so much time in the trades. And by day 29, he made $214 in a single day from those videos. That's a $78,000 year run rate, so he went from zero to a full-time income in less than 1 year. And this year, he made $18,000 in a single month to finish off the year. Not from the blue-collar career or the trade, but from filming the trade. And it's not just trades. Nurses do this as well. Bookkeepers do this. Video editors do this. Anybody with a skill and a phone. And that's what this workshop is all about. This week, I'm hosting a free live workshop on how to grow and make money with YouTube. And at this workshop, I'll be giving away my niche validator, which helps you pick a niche in the first place if you don't have one. Or if you already have one, it'll help you make it 10 times better. This is a one-time event, and there are limited seats. We run out every single time. People message us all the time saying they can't get in. So, secure your seat right now by clicking that first link in the description and the pin comment below. And even if you're watching this in the future, still click that link because it'll automatically put you on a wait list to attend our next live workshop. All right, the next side hustle is going to be estate cleanouts. And this is a really good one. So, a junk removal guy filmed one job and he got paid $1,028 for 45 minutes of work and over a million people watched it. And here's the job. When somebody passes away, the house has to be emptied before it can be sold. Somebody has to do it. And in 2024, 3 million Americans died. That's about 8,400 people a day. And 61 million Americans are over the age of 65. And Angie says that the average junk job is $241 and a full truck load is $600 to $800. So, you can rent a van from Home Depot for $19 an hour. That's your risk. And here's the part that nobody talks about, probate. When there's no will, the estate goes through court. And about three out of four American adults don't have a will. And probate usually takes 8 months to a year or up to 2 years in a lot of states. And it eats 3 to 7% of the estate in fees. So, the family is stuck with lawyers, a clock, and a house full of stuff. And I know this one personally because recently my family unfortunately has had a lot of people die. And figuring everything out is a massive headache for everyone. So, if you can make it easier on a family, they will pay you and they will be incredibly thankful. And you will never run out of work. Now, you might be thinking, "Well, Shane, that's a lot of lifting." So, don't lift. Estate cleanouts are the version where the family pays you for the truck and for somebody to sort, donate, and haul. So, an Army dad in California started with $4,000 and does about $20,000 a month after his day job according to the interview. Two college kids started Junk Teens with a $4,000 truck. And CNBC says that they did $3.04 million last year. And the guy who started 1-800-Got-Junk was 19 with a $700 pickup and that's a massive company now. But it started off as a side hustle. So, you don't need the empire, right? You just need one truck and a Saturday. Now, this is a side hustle that I've personally done a ton of and there's so many opportunities to get jobs here. You can check out Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist, and there's going to be tons of people who need help with this. Now, Weldon, one of our community members, made this his topic. His channel is The Down Sizer Guide, and he helps families downsize and clear out a house. And one video did almost 400,000 views in 28 days. And his first day getting paid for it is $166. So, the exact steps to start are on the screen. Pause it if you want them. All right, so the next one is handyman work. And a guy filmed one day on TaskRabbit, and he made $425 for a day of small repairs. Now, it's self-reported and it's from a small channel, but it's a normal Tuesday for him. Now, here's a job. You hang a TV, you fix a cabinet that won't close, you put together some furniture from IKEA, and you make a ton of money doing it. And Angie's own report says that 70% of homeowners can't find a pro for small jobs. And the average handyman job is $406. And the government projects 148,700 Now, this is one that I've done myself on both sides. I've been a handyman, and then I've also hired people on apps like TaskRabbit to help me with moving or any other types of tasks that I had. And typically, they charge $35 and up. Now, TaskRabbit itself does cost $25 to sign up, at least the last time I checked it. And this is not sponsored by TaskRabbit by any means, but there are tons of people making good money on TaskRabbit. And you don't even have to use that. You could use Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace, etc., etc. But you probably already own the tools, and you're probably ready to get started right away. Now, you might be thinking, "Well, Shane, isn't that illegal without a contractor's license?" Well, in California, the strictest state, you can do jobs of up to $1,000 without one. And most states are looser, so check yours. And again, I do recommend checking out the AI resources, because it will be able to check the specifics of your situation, like I said before. And that's the third link down in the description and the pin comment below. But obviously, make sure you follow your state's regulations. And this is my brother's world, and his channel is Zack of All Trades. He talks about trade jobs, but also trades that you can do as a side hustle or turn into a business. And he teaches people how to get into HVAC, plumbing, and electrical work, as well as many other types of trades. And he spent almost 30 years in the trades himself, so he knows a lot about it from first-hand experience. Plus, most of his friends are in the trades, too. And so this stuff was common sense for him, but it's definitely not common sense to other people. People absolutely love his channel, and he's got over 50,000 subscribers now. And he already had an $18,000 month, so it's very likely that he will end up making more talking about the trades than he ever made doing them. So, if you're handy, you have two businesses: the repairs, and then the videos about the repairs. So, get if you want to know exactly how Zach does that, then go ahead and click the first link in the description and the pin comment below to attend the live training. All right, so the next one is going to be senior companion care. So, today on care.com, in Houston alone, there are more than 100 families that are posting for someone to sit with mom, or drive her to the doctor, or make lunch, or play cards, etc., etc. And they pay $20 to $25 an hour. In Seattle, there's 60 more. And this is just one website, and these are the customers, and they are begging for people to help. So, here's why it doesn't fail. 11,400 Americans turn 65 every day, and the government projects that there are 760,000 openings a year for home and personal care aids. Every single year for a decade. And nobody is training that many aids. Now, you might be thinking, "Well, Shane, I'm not a caregiver. I can't do medical stuff." You're not, and that's why the word is companion. And here's the money. Agencies charge families about $35 an hour, and then they pay the person about $17. The family on care.com will pay you $22 to $30 an hour directly. So, you both win, right? You can cut out the agency middleman. And Jen, one of our community members, is a 60-year-old registered nurse with 33 years of experience. And she teaches seniors as well as their families how to deal with the health care system, and how to age well. The exact thing that those families are asking about. And she was able to make $10,000 a month from her channel, quit her job, and now she's traveling all over the United States in a camper van. And I'll also be talking about her and giving updates on her and Zach in the live training that I'm doing this week. So, click that first link in the description and the pin comment below. But yeah, she's literally traveling all over the United States in her camper van living her dream life. Now, the exact steps to start are on the screen. Pause it if you want them. Time out. Time out, guys. If you ever thought, "I should be on YouTube, but I never started because of the time or the editing or not knowing what to say or not knowing how to get started, AI just solved all of those problems for you. Because you can now make money from YouTube working less than 4 hours a week. 15 to 30 minutes a day is all you need. And this works even if you have a full-time job, you run a business, you're already doing YouTube, and you failed at it, or you're doing YouTube and you're doing pretty well, but you're struggling with monetization, or you're just a normal person who isn't techy at all. Which is exactly why this week I'm hosting a live training on exactly how to start YouTube step-by-step for beginners. It is 100% free, no cash at all. And on top of that, I'm going to be handing out even more bonuses at the training. Now, just to give you one example, you'll be getting my Niche Validator Pro that's powered by Claude, and we have a Chat GPT version as well. And this is a super valuable piece of software where you can finally figure out what the best niche for you is. Or if you already have a niche, it's going to help you make it 10 times better. So, do not sleep on this one. Go and grab your spot down in the description and the pin comment below because the only way to get it is by joining the training. So, if you wait, you might miss out. Now, with that said, at the workshop, you will get to meet me personally. I'll be answering questions before, during, and after the workshop directly. So, I'm looking forward to seeing you there. So, go click that link in the description and the pin comment below. It's happening this week. So, get it on your calendar, and if for some reason you can't make it or you weren't able to be there, still go click that link in the description because it will automatically put you on a waitlist to notify you when we'll be running our next live training. And you will be the first one to hear about it. So, yeah, looking forward to seeing you there. And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming. All right, the next side hustle is a somewhat seasonal one, and there are a lot of really good seasonal side hustles out there, and I'll be talking about those here in a bit. But, I'm going to go over this one first, and that is bookkeeping. So, obviously, there's a lot more opportunities for bookkeeping during tax season. Now, a bookkeeper named Kate Johnson told Side Hustle Nation that she bills about $70 an hour. Another one, Allan Chen, told Starter Story that he does $25,000 a month. Now, both of these are self-reported and they're both on the screen. But, here's the job. There are 36 million small businesses in America, and most of them have a shoebox of receipts and a bank account that nobody has looked at since March. And the people who used to fix that are disappearing. So, just as an example, CPA exam candidates went from 42,000 to 28,000 to 16,000. But, no, you don't need to be a certified accountant to be a bookkeeper. Bookkeeping is a small part of accounting, but it's one that requires a lot of manual work, and you don't need to be an accountant to do this. But, you might be thinking, "Shane, AI does the books now." Well, AI does the categorization, but nobody pays for categorizing. They pay for the person who sits across from them and explains why they're not making money. And on Upwork, against the whole planet, a bookkeeper is $15 an hour. And in your own town, in person, it's 24 to $31 an hour. So, being local is the difference. So, let me show you the AI part life. I made up a landscaping company for this, and the problems are real, but the names aren't. And here's a bank export, 40 lines, an absolute mess. Boom, done. It sorted every line, it wrote the owner an email in plain English, and it took about a minute. Now, watch this. The owner still has to read that email, somebody has to sit down with him and explain why he pays himself last, and that somebody is you. So, the categorizing is free, but the phone call is the job. And Bill, one of our community members, is a financial controller. He's a very high-level accountant, and he helps other accountants get into a financial controller position where they can make a lot more money. And he just teaches them how to do it on his channel. He films the stuff, it's a very boring topic, but a very real audience. Okay, so let's talk about some other seasonal work, because this is a very real side hustle as well. So, I'm going to use holiday lights as an example. So, this one's pretty self-explanatory, you help people set up their holiday lights for Christmas. And here's a 20-year-old on camera, 2 weeks into the Christmas season, and they made over $45,000 in sales hanging lights. And he did about $60,000 the whole season before. So, he actually made a full-time income in one season. So, he worked a couple months out of the year and made a full-time income. Not bad. So, here's the job. Angie says that homeowners pay $220 to $684 for a basic light install, and pros charge $2 to $7 a foot, and the season runs October through January. Then it's over, which sounds like a weakness, but it's not. But it's not just lights. An example of a location-specific type of seasonal side hustle is snow removal, and it's about $125 a visit or $300 to $700 for the whole winter per driveway. Now, pool openings in the spring are about $200 to $400. Closings in the fall, about $200 to $500. And there are over 5 million in-ground pools in this country. People typically get their gutters cleaned out about twice a year. That's about $170 a house. Stack the seasons and you have a full year. So, then you can have four short jobs instead of one long one. Now, you might be thinking, "Well, Shane, seasonal means I'm broke in February." Only if you sell one season. Some people who do this might sell all four. Lights in November, snow in January, pools in April, and gutters in October. It could even potentially be the same customers, the same truck, and a steady side hustle. So, a lawn care guy in Michigan posts his snow prices on camera. $245 a plow for one commercial lot or $2,490 a month for the whole winter for one parking lot. Now, the exact steps to start on this one are going to be on the screen. Pause if you want more of them, and honestly, there's a lot of other seasonal side hustles out there, but I just thought I'd mention some of the most common ones. All right, the next side hustle is going to be video editing for people who make videos. And this one's online. So, one editor on YouTube says he makes over $15,000 in a single month cutting other people's videos up. Another one went from a $55 first gig to 5,000 a month. >> $5,000 per month from a single client. >> Now, here's the job. Every channel, podcast, and business that posts videos needs somebody to cut it up. For instance, Upwork's own page says that video editors make $10 to $60 an hour with a median of $35. Indeed has hundreds of remote video editor openings right now. ZipRecruiter shows over 1,000 YouTube editor jobs, and the government's median pay for video editors is over 75,000 a year. And YouTube's own economic report says it supported over 540,000 full-time jobs in America just last year. And the report says, in plain words, that creators grow by hiring editors. And I know because I'm one of those customers. I pay editors every single month. I've also hired hundreds of editors for my community members. And Jud, one of our community members, makes about $20,000 a month from his channel. And he hired a full-time editor from us. And somebody got that job. Now, you might be thinking, "Shane, I don't know how to edit." Well, neither did most of my editors when they started. Descript, for instance, it lets you edit a video like a word document. You delete the sentence and it deletes the clip. So, you can just learn one tool, take one $55 job, get yourself a portfolio, then raise your prices. Now, the exact steps to start on this are going to be on the screen. Pause it if you want them. There's also a lot of different types of editors out there. Of course, I'm biased, so I recommend going into YouTube editing. But, there's a lot of people who want clipping, for instance, which is where you edit short-form content, specifically where you just take a piece of long-form content, find the juiciest moments from that, and then cut it up into clips. All right. So, the next side hustle is virtual assistant. So, Carla, one of our community members, runs a company that places remote assistants with businesses. And she sells this. And with about 1,400 subscribers and most of her videos under 200 views, she landed a contract worth over $100,000 because the buyers were already looking. And there's big businesses out there that want to hire virtual assistants. So, here's the job. You clean out the dreaded email inbox. Now, I'm a company owner myself, I'm a CEO, and I can tell you my inbox is an absolute wasteland. I get people reaching out to me 24/7, and probably about one in a thousand messages is incredibly important that I should actually read. But, I don't have time to go through all 1,000 messages to find the one important one. So, that's what my virtual assistant does. But, she doesn't just do that. She also goes through my calendar, my bookings, she helps with invoices, basically busy work that would take me a ton of time where my time would be much better spent doing other things like making these awesome videos for you guys. So, for a small business owner who's drowning, Upwork has over 3,000 open virtual assistant jobs right now. Indeed has close to 1,000 remote ones and Upwork's own rates are $12 to $20 an hour for basic work and $38 to $50 an hour for an executive assistant level. So, this is the same middleman math as the companion care that I talked about before. You can cut the middleman out and get paid directly. One agency for instance bills the business about $36 to $39 an hour and it tells applicants the pay starts at $17 an hour. Another one bills $65 an hour and pays $27 to $30 an hour. So, the agency keeps about half. Go direct and both of you win. Now, you might be thinking, "Shane, AI is going to replace assistants." I promise you it's not. And Upwork's 2026 data says freelancers who use AI earn 34% more per hour than the ones who don't. So, you absolutely should be embracing AI and using it to do your job better and do it faster and people are going to be even more likely to hire you. Just like every other technological advancement in all of human history, yes, it does delete some jobs. Yes, it changes the scope of jobs. But, for every one job that gets deleted, usually two or three more pop up. Right? It's kind of like Whac-A-Mole. You whack one mole and two more pop up. So, the assistant who runs Claude is the expensive one. And I'll be honest about the ramp. One assistant on YouTube shows $1,300 a month from two customers at nine hours a week. Another showed her whole first quarter, $932. So, this isn't passive. It's a job that you do from your kitchen and it's something where you're going to make more money over time. And the exact steps to start are on the screen, so pause it if you want them. So, the next side hustle is dryer vent cleaning. So, this one's pretty self-explanatory. You clean dryer vents and they do get very dirty. So, this is a guy who films himself doing it and one 25-second clip of lint coming out of a pipe has been watched over 31 million times. That's how gross it is and that's how many people care. Now, here's a side hustle. Every clothes dryer blows hot air through a pipe to the outside. Lint builds up in that pipe and when it clogs, the dryer overheats. And the Fire Protection Association's most recent report counts 13,820 dryer fires a year and a third of them happen because nobody cleaned the vent. So, 102 million homes have a dryer, and Angie says that the average cleaning job is $145. Now, the tool to do this is $30. It's a brush kit from Home Depot. So, that's your risk, $30. Now, here's the part that most lists miss. Homes are the small version. Businesses are the big one. You can do this for hotels, gyms, salons, nursing homes, pet groomers, etc. Even apartment complexes. Anywhere that a dryer runs all day. And the biggest company in the space lists every one of those on its own website and says that they need cleaning every 6 to 12 months. And real companies charge 125 to 175 per vent on a building. And a 100-unit apartment building is 100 vents on a schedule every single year. And that's just one customer. Now, you might be thinking, "Shane, who the heck is going to pay $145 for something they could do with a $30 brush?" Well, it's the same person who pays someone to mow the lawn, all right? A building owner who has a lot to do just can't do it themselves. So, the fire code says that dryer exhaust have to be maintained the way the manufacturer says. And his insurance company wants it documented. And he doesn't want a brush, he wants an invoice. And I'll be honest because I said I would, nobody has published their personal income from this in the press. So, here's the next best thing. The biggest franchise in the space discloses that its average single unit operator grosses $236,000 a year. And the franchise costs $84,000 to buy in. But you don't have to buy a franchise. You can skip the franchise and buy the brush and just get started on your own. Now, one caveat from a guy who worked inside these companies, for homes, it's a once-a-year job. So, you need volume. Roof vents mean a ladder and insurance. And 100 vents in one parking lot beats 100 driveways. And the exact steps to start are going to be on the screen. So, if you want to, you can pause the video, take a screenshot, and what I recommend doing is actually just pushing this into Claude, and then you can kind of just go back and forth with Claude because it's going to know the particulars of your specific situation, as well as what you need to do locally to get into this. And by the way, we do have a set of AIs and prompts that are completely free that go along with this video, and that'll be the third link in the description in the pin comment below. And those can be really helpful if you want to follow along. So, there you go. The side hustles that almost never fail backed by as much data as possible. So, the pattern was the same every time. Nobody is fighting you for the work. The customer is already asking. Your worst case is a $30 brush. And every one of these pays you two times. Once when you do the work and again when you show people how to do it. Jen did it with 33 years of nursing. Nicole did it with compliance. And my brother did it with 30 years in the trades. So, pick the one that sounds like your weak and just go buy the brush, right? Get started right away. Now, I know that most of you and I are never going to work together and that's completely fine. Right? You're probably going to watch these videos, get a ton of value, you're going to download my free resources in the description which we work very hard to create. We spend hundreds of hours on them, get a ton of value out of those, and you're going to attend my live training which we also put hundreds of hours into every single month and get a ton of value out of that. And we are never going to end up working together and that's completely fine. I always want to give way more value than what I receive. With that being said, there's always going to be 1% of you or 0.1% of you out there that want a one-on-one hand-holding experience. Right? You want one-on-one mentorship. Or you want us to literally just do the work for you when it comes to building your personal brand and starting on YouTube so that you can actually promote your side hustle and get clients on demand. And if that sounds like you, go ahead and click the second link in the description and the pinned comment below to book a call with us. On this call, we'll figure out where you are right now, where you want to be, we'll make a plan to get there, and we'll see if we're a good fit to work together or not. We're very limited in the amount of people that we can work with. Right now, we're only accepting five people. And we only accept about 18% of people who apply. Now, the types of people we typically work with are going to be professionals with at least 10 years of experience or people who are younger but they're overachievers. Basically, people who have something to teach, right? They have value to give to the world. We also work with business owners who want to grow their brand, get more views, get more subscribers, get more leads, and make more revenue from their YouTube channel. And by the way, we teach YouTube as the mother platform, but then you can syndicate that content to other platforms. There's lots of people in our community doing this incredibly successfully and it doesn't take that much time, either. But we also work with YouTube channels that are getting a lot of views, but they're struggling with monetization or people who tried to grow on YouTube and they have dead channels and they want to restart that channel or pivot niches. We also work with YouTube channels that are crushing it, but they want to crush it even harder and we work with people who have large followings on other social media platforms or they have a large following because maybe they wrote a book for instance and they want to bring that audience over to YouTube cuz they know that YouTube is the best when it comes to actually making money. But all those people have one thing in common and that is that they want to treat their side hustle like a business. They want to treat it seriously. So if that sounds like you, go ahead and click that second link in the description and pin comment below to talk with us and we look forward to talking with you, but again, only do it if you're very serious about growing and making money on YouTube. With that being said, check out this video right here to see exactly how I helped Nurse Jen go from zero to a full-time income in just a few months even though she was 60 years old and even though she didn't think she had anything worth talking about.