How To Make $1,000 A Day – 11 Methods That Work

To make $1,000 a day, your best option is to start some kind of online or in-person business where you can sell a service to people. Alternatively, using multiple side hustles or freelancing for income can help you reach this goal. Just keep in mind that it can take time to scale your income and that some of these ideas require upfront time and investment before they turn a profit.

How To Make $1,000 A Day

Some of the best ways to make $1k a day involve starting different online businesses. In contrast, other methods involve in-person businesses or different investing ideas. Whatever the case, here are some of our favorite ways to make $1,000 a day:

1. Make Money Blogging

Out of all the ways to make $1,000 a day, making money with a blog has to be my favorite. It's also an idea I have personally pulled off a few times in my blogging career.

I've been blogging since 2018, and in 2022, WebMonkey made $272,000! Most of my income comes from Mediavine advertisements and affiliate marketing. And together, I have plenty of days where I make $1k in a day between these two sources.

Mediavine ads usually make me about $300 or $400 a day, and this is largely passive income at this point. And thanks to lucky days with affiliate marketing, I can sometimes clear $500 to $1,000 in a single day through affiliate income.

And this is just how I make money blogging. You can also monetize by selling your own courses, sponsored posts, and by offering online coaching.

The downside of blogging is that it takes time and work to build up your traffic. But if you learn search engine optimization (SEO) and stick with it, you never know what's possible. After all, blogging is my full-time job now and it's only been four years!

2. Create A Side Hustle Stack

A side hustle stack is exactly what it sounds like: a combo of money-making ideas you use to boost your income.

There are also plenty of ways to create your own stack. Some of our favorite ideas include:

• Using food delivery gigs like Uber Eats or DoorDash
• Making money with online survey sites like Branded Surveys and Kashkick
• Playing cash games on your phone like Solitaire Cash or Cash Giraffe
• Starting an online side gig like becoming a bookkeeper or online assistant
• Using get-paid-to sites like Freecash or MyFreeApp

Even if you don't reach the 1k a day mark, a side hustle stack gets you on the right track. And you can always hustle before and after your main job to make some side income.

Try out Branded Surveys and DoorDash!

3. Start An Ecommerce Business

Like blogging, this is obviously easier said than done. However, the income potential of an ecommerce business is essentially limitless as well.

There are also plenty of ways you can start your own online business without spending a lot of money. For example, you can open an Etsy store for free, and it only costs $0.20 to list an item on your shop.

Etsy is great for selling anything vintage, handmade, or digital, and there are plenty of Etsy sellers who sell full-time. You can also try out businesses like Etsy print on demand selling and work with manufacturing partners to create and sell your goods.

This is what I did for a college side hustle when I tried making money with memes by selling various merchandise, and if you come up with a trendy design, it could sell insanely fast.

And Etsy is just one ecommerce side hustle you can try. You can also launch your own Shopify store starting at just $29 per month. From there, you can manufacture and sell your own merchandise, or create and sell digital downloads like printables or digital art.

4. Start A Service-Based Business

People are willing to pay high amounts of money for very specialized services or for services they don't want to do themselves.

For example, certain landscaping projects can easily cost tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Demolition projects like pool removals can also get insanely expensive. So, if you have that sort of skill set, that's just one example of how you can offer a service to people to make a lot of money fast.

Gig apps like Lawn Love help connect landscaping pros with homeowners. You can also use websites like TaskRabbit to find odd jobs in your city.

But using TaskRabbit or various side hustle apps are just two examples: Other popular and high-paying service based businesses include:

• Handyman
• Cleaner
• Dog groomer and washer
• Event DJ
• Event photographer
• Makeup artist or hair stylist
• Mechanic
• Painter
• Plumbing
• Private chef or catering service
• Tech support

As for making $1,000 a day or more, landing large projects or outsourcing lots of smaller ones is a path to get there. Alternatively, you can focus on offering very niche, expensive services instead.

5. Retail Arbitrage

Retail arbitrage involves buying popular products from big box stores at a discount and then reselling them online for profit.

Usually, retail arbitrage sellers source inventory from stores like Kohl's, Macy's, and Walmart where there are clearance aisles to snag discounted products. After gathering up some inventory, many retail arbitrage sellers list their products on Amazon FBA.

Amazon FBA, or Fulfillment By Amazon, lets you ship products to Amazon warehouses so Amazon can handle shipping and fulfillment when you make a sale. This lets sellers focus on sourcing more inventory and managing their listings rather than worrying about shipping and customer service.

As for what you sell specifically, there are plenty of options out there. But you can make $1,000 per day or more with this business model. In fact, I interviewed a couple that runs a million-dollar retail arbitrage business.

As you can see, they're making over $1k a day on Amazon FBA, and this is just one sales channel you can use! Nothing stops you from also selling on marketplaces like eBay or Mercari, or using more niche websites like Poshmark.

I mean, you can even sell on the Facebook Marketplace if you want quick money and don't mind selling in person. And my post on things to sell for $1,000 has some ideas on things you can sell to make this type of cash.

6. Passive Income Rentals

If you want to try a passive side hustle, you can always try building a passive income rental empire.

This idea of generating extra cash has become extremely popular thanks to platforms like Airbnb that let you rent out spare rooms or entire homes for cash.

And the idea here is pretty simple: buy homes or tiny properties, convert them into Airbnb rentals, and pay someone to manage the guest experience and property for you.

Here's an example: I stayed at a tiny home up in Ontario cottage country recently.

The place cost about $200 per night, and it was basically fully-booked for most of the months it was available. And this is a nice way to earn money on autopilot once you outsource property management.

This is just one example of how to rent stuff out for money, and people are also doing things like building rental car fleets with Turo.

You can also explore even easier ideas, like investing in income-generating real estate with a platform like Arrived. This crowdfunding platform lets you buy shares of individual rental properties, and you receive dividend distributions from rental income.

7. Use Geo-Arbitrage

Earning $1,000 per day in USD is very challenging. But earning this sort of purchasing power per day in other countries where the power of the USD is stronger is much more realistic.

For example, since I'm Canadian but mostly work with U.S. clients as a freelancer, every US dollar I earn is like earning $1.30 Canadian.

So, I only have to make $700 USD to make $1,000 in Canadian income, which is almost what the blog brings in a day. And you can take this even further if you like living abroad.

Personally, I've spent time living in Colombia, and the purchasing power you get with American or Canadian dollars here is immense.

Again, this is a loophole, but if you work remotely and want to try out the location independent lifestyle, geo-arbitrage is definitely one of the perks you get.

Plus, you also get to explore new countries, meet new people, and experience a lot of new things. The time I've spent living in places like Mexico, Colombia, and Dubai have been some of my most enjoyable.

Pro Tip: Find high-paying, remote and flexible digital nomad jobs with FlexJobs!

8. Consulting

If you're extremely experienced in your field, another option to make a lot of money quickly is to get into consulting.

Now this probably isn't too realistic for making $1,000 every day, but more of a making a lot of money in a single lump sum kind of thing. But at the end of the day, if you're making an extra $20,000 to $30,000 on the side from consulting, it's all sort of a wash.

Anyway, I know people who charge these sorts of rates for things like SEO consulting, and again, there's so much money to be made if you're at the top of your industry.

Personally, I've only managed to land $1,000 to $3,000 monthly retainers in the past for paid advertising and SEO consulting, but hey, you gotta start somewhere!

I actually found my gigs on Upwork and from my own network, so I know that it's possible to make money very fast with this sort of hustle. Again, you need pretty specialized skills, but this line of work has incredibly high earning potential and a high hourly rate.

9. Selling Online Courses & Coaching

If you have an online audience, coaching and courses are two incredibly lucrative revenue streams you can leverage.

For starters, it's not uncommon for online courses to cost $300 to $1,000 in certain niches. This means you can earn 1,000 dollars a day with just a few consistent sales (which top bloggers and influencers can easily achieve.)

Similarly, once you create a course, that work is done; you just have to focus on marketing and post-course support, which you can also outsource to some degree.

Fitness influencers do this sort of stuff all the time and sell workout plans and ebooks to their followers and make a lot of money.

Group coaching is another idea you can branch into, and the revenue scaling potential here is crazy. For example, if you run group coaching sessions that cost $100 to attend and invite 20 people, that's $2,000 in revenue for a single coaching session.

10. Make Money On YouTube

One of the more creative options for making money online is to make money with a YouTube channel.

This is another semi-passive income idea I started about two years ago, and let me tell you, YouTube is hard work. But once you learn how to film and edit videos and get your channel rolling with a few good videos, it's possible to grow your channel into an income stream.

For example, I do YouTube on the side as a hobby, and my channel has over 40,000 subscribers and makes about $4,000 per month now.

This is a far way off from making $1k a day, but again, the income potential of YouTube is basically limitless just like blogging and ecommerce. And when you throw in affiliate marketing and brand sponsorships into the mix, it's easier to make this amount of money than you might think.

11. Online Freelancing

One final way to make $1,000 a day is to sell your skills online as a freelancer.

Freelance writing is how I make a lot of my income these days. And it's let me quit my nine to five job, travel the world, making money with a laptop as I explore new places.

When I started freelancing, I was only earning $20 to $50 per article. But after a few years and improving my skills and landing better clients, clearing $500 a day or more is quite possible.

But what I like about freelancing is that there are so many other fields you can freelance in like:

• Accounting and bookkeeping
• Digital marketing
• HR
• Graphic design
• Web design
• Coding
• Email marketing
• Social media management
• Online tutoring
• Paid advertising
• Video editing
• Virtual assistant work

Landing your first clients can take some time, and it takes even longer to scale your income. But over time, you can become a top freelancer in your niche, landing high value gigs and retainers.

Extra Reading – How To Make Money Online For Beginners.

Tips For Reaching This Income Goal

Now that you know how to make $1,000 dollars a day, here are a few tips you can try out to stay on track as you work towards your goal.

1. Set Micro-Goals: Figuring out how to earn $1k every day is hard. But learning how to make $300 a day, then $500, and then $1,000 is much more manageable.
2. Diversify Revenue Streams: Personally, I make money with blogging, YouTube, freelancing, and investing. I think it's easier to grow a few revenue streams into significant amounts than to find a job that pays you $365,000 per year.
3. Avoid Burning Out: This sort of financial goal can take years to accomplish. So, make sure you set realistic expectations and pace yourself so you don't burn out.

Extra Reading – How To Turn 10K Into 20K.

Final Thoughts

I hope my guide on how to make $1,000 dollars a day helps inspire you to tackle a new and ambitious financial goal.

As mentioned, this sort of goal usually takes years to accomplish, so don't get discouraged if you have to break things down into micro-goals.

But with time and consistency, I firmly believe anyone can reach this sort of goal; it doesn't matter if you're running a blog, ecommerce business, or some combination of side hustles.

It took me a few years to start earning this kind of daily income from blogging. And even now, I have to work to keep the income growing. But anything is possible if you put in the work, time, and keep at it.

Looking for even more ways to make extra money? Checkout:

• How To Turn $10,000 Into $100,000.
• How To Earn $1,000 In 3 Days.
• The Best Jobs That Pay $10,000 A Month.