Best Side Hustles for Teachers - Attention Getting Marketing

by Gail Oliver, Online Marketing Consultant

Are you a teacher looking to make more money in your spare time? One of the best ways is to sell your knowledge.

For example, there are two shops on Etsy making thousands of dollars a month selling their study notes from nursing college. Their study note products range in price anywhere from $50 to over $200, and they are getting it! What seems to be resonating with buyers is the realistic handwritten, note-like layout. Being a teacher, I’m sure you have study notes like this. Keep reading and I’ll tell you what and how to sell them, but here are some ways to package them:

Educational Products for Teachers to Sell

Study Notes for Students in Teacher’s College (for every year & every subject)
Study Notes for Elementary School Students (for every grade & every subject)
Study Notes for Middle School Students (for every grade & every subject)
Study Notes for High School Students (for every grade & every subject)
Lesson Plans for Home Schoolers (for every grade & subject)

Educations Products That Are Trending

Nursing Study Notes for Sale

You can also look at Google Trends to see the type of educational materials people are looking for. For example, this past week these were top searches, and all of these could be How-To Guides:

How to teach phonics?
How to teach reading comprehension?
How to teach sight words?
How to teach phonemic awareness?
How to teach prosody in reading?

How and Where to Sell

If you wish to sell your study notes and lesson plans digitally all you have to do is scan your notes and turn them into a PDF for customers to download, and then sell on Etsy or Gumroad.

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If you also wish to sell them in printed form, you can do this through a print fulfilment company like Printify, where they will handle everything, even the shipping. But you still need a storefront like Etsy or Gumroad.

If you have no idea how to start your side hustle, I highly recommend downloading my best-selling How to Start a Small Business Planner. It will help you easily get your business quickly up and running with step-by-step planning pages and checklists with everything you need to do. It even includes a hyperlinked list of print fulfillment companies and an Etsy set up checklist saving you valuable time.

The possibilities are endless, and you likely already have the materials. If you have certain knowledge, study or learning tips that work, why not sell them!

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About Me

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With 20+ years in marketing, my advice has appeared in publications from the New York Times to Success Magazine. My blog was chosen by AmericanExpress Open Forum (the people behind Small Business Saturday) as one of their “Top 10 Small Business Blogs“. I am also a contributor at Business2Community.com and a Small Business Expert at SheKnows.com, the #1 Women’s Lifestyle website. I have gotten my clients coverage in Real Simple, House Beautiful, Apartment Therapy, Vanity Fair, Houzz, Glamour, LONNY, DesignMilk, Emmaline Bride, Martha Stewart, Buzzfeed, just to name a few.