15 Hobbies That Make Money

1. Blogging

At the heart of making money from your hobby is creating a website about your passionate hobby. Look, you may be the best horse back rider in the world. But if nobody knows who you are, nobody will care. If nobody cares, you won’t make any money with your hobby. Which is why it’s incredibly important to make yourself known. Again, the easiest and cheapest way to do this (and make a lot of money) is to reach people online.

2. Gaming

If you’re a gamer and you’re fairly good at it, you can make money by uploading your game play to website like Youtube. People will watch your videos and a percentage of them will click the Youtube ads. You will make a commission every time someone clicks. It could be a few cents to a few dollars.

If you’re really elite, you can join clans and go to tournaments in your city or even around the world. If you’re successful, you can win items like the latest gaming hardware, games, and even cash. Big tournaments pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars. You can also potentially get sponsored by big gaming brands, too. That’s guaranteed money in the bank.

3. Baking

If you love baking, you know you don’t spend hours baking just a few cookies. You bake TONS of cookies. And you can’t eat them all. Instead of giving them to your neighbor or forcing them down your throat, find schools, restaurants, cafes, or bake sales where you can sell your baked goods.

You can (and should) start a baking blog as well. Because your earning potential online is virtually unlimited. You could create a baking ebook and sell it to your readers. Or display ads on your website. Or create baking tutorials on Youtube and make money off Youtube ads.

5. Web Design

If your hobby is web design, you have an incredibly useful skill. This is a skill worth learning if you don’t have a clue about it. Virtually every business is online and new business are created every minute. They all need websites created and managed. You can charge a ton of money too.

You can charge $2000+ to create a website that may only take you 20 hours to complete. You can also outsource someone to create a website for your client. You charge $2000 for the website to be made, and pay the outsourcer maybe a few hundred dollars to make it, while pocketing the change. Rinse and repeat. You’ll want to find someone in a country like the Philippines to create the website because you can pay them way less.

Like virtually everything on this list, I recommend creating a blog to showcase your work to help people choose your web designing abilities for their business

6. Reading Books

Make money from reading books? Yea, you actually can. What you want to do is make a website where you can give your opinion on the books you’ve read. People value opinions and love to hear about what other people think.

People will search online for reviews of books before they buy. Who wants to waste money on a shitty book, and worse, waste time reading a crappy book? NOBODY. Your website can fix this problem.

Along with that, you can leave a link on your blog and refer people to an online bookstore like Amazon where they can buy the book. If they do, you will earn a commission.

7. Making Crafts

Craft making is about as “hobby” as it gets. You need to do a little bit of research to find out what people like to buy. Once you do, start making your own version of that craft. Hopefully people like it. If they do, you have created yourself a little business of creating and selling arts and crafts.

8. Recipe Making

You probably don’t know this, but the most searched thing online is recipes. Yep, more than anything else in the world. So you KNOW there is someone out there interested in your unique flavor of cooking.

Creating your own food blog is absolutely necessary. You can talk about everything related to cooking. I’d also invest in a good camera to take mouth watering photos of your cooking.

A few ways to make money are: displaying ads on your cooking blog, creating a recipe book, reviewing kitchen tools and appliances, selling other peoples cookbooks, cooking classes, or creating your own cooking tutorials on Youtube.
9. Coaching / Teaching / Mentoring

If you are pretty knowledgeable about anything, you can help others gain some of that knowledge by teaching them. For example, if you love doing math, you can help students learn math in the evening. Or if you love soccer, you can coach a soccer team and earn money that way, too.

10. Video Editing

Video editing, like web design, is also one of those internet skills that is incredibly useful. If you don’t have any video editing skills, it’s a skill worth learning.

Business need videos to get their marketing message to their audiences. Regular people like you and me need videos put together for school presentations or work presentations. Amateur singers need to create music videos. Facebook pages are filled with brands and companies that use videos to get their message across. This incredibly useful hobby can be turned into a money making machine when you get your name out there.

11. Making Youtube Videos

Youtube is currently the 3rd most visited website in the world. That tells you that every type of person in the world is on there, and a percentage of them will be interested in learning about something you have expert knowledge on, or being entertained by you.

You will make money primary by displaying Youtube ads that visitors click on. You can also use Youtube to drive traffic to your blog, where they have an opportunity to buy something from.

12. Podcasting

Podcasting itself probably isn’t going to make you money, unless you use it to sell your product or service. But think of it as more of a lane where people can come discover who you are and what you do. If you like to talk or interview people, this is absolutely for you.

13. Traveling

Traveling is my favorite hobby in the world. Did you know you can get paid to travel? Travel companies will pay you to stay at their resort, or give you a free tour, or free gear, in exchange for a write up about your experience with them. You get something for free, they get exposure. It’s a win/win.

For example, if you are knowledgeable about self development, you can start a personal development podcast and talk about things related to it. Let people know about your blog to learn more. They just might end up buying your product/service or listening to your advice on what to buy

14. Investing

I don’t know if investing is really a hobby, but it’s definitely a way to make money. I think people who really get into investing treat it like a hobby. They obsess about it and think about it all the time. I know I”m like that.

I think about stocks I can invest in. I hear people talking about our government or where they think the economy is going, and I can’t help but think about how this could help me pick better stocks. I think making passive income is a hobby in itself, and a worth every second of your time.

15. Writing

Every write has thought about publishing their own book. Whether you take this seriously or not doesn’t matter. You can turn your pen pushing hobby into regular paychecks quickly. The internet needs content. You can get paid by offering your writing to blogs and websites.