Welcome to the 1st edition of The Moon Road. This is a hobby project about earning extra income on the side, aka moonlighting. I’ve been tracking opportunities for a few years using Google Alerts. Now I want to start organizing the information better and sharing it. Unfortunately, a lot of extra income opportunities are not great. They often require specialized knowledge that is difficult to obtain. Or they don’t pay well. So I have to slog through quite a bit in order to extract interesting opportunities here and there.
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Salesforce
This first opportunity is interesting. It’s a career using the Salesforce CRM software. CRM is customer relationship management. In order to have a career here, you need to be trained. You can do that training at night for free. Salesforce provides everything you need. Starting pay for a Salesforce admin is around $70,000. But first, you have to pass the Salesforce admin exam. That’s what the training is for. Here’s a link to my collection of links on Salesforce.
Intro. to the Salesforce admin exam: Admin Beginner | Salesforce Trailhead.
Here is all the material you need to learn in order to pass the Salesforce admin exam: Prepare for Your Salesforce Administrator Credential Trailmix.
Maps
This category is doable but not necessarily easy.
AI
I think AI can assist you in making money but you still have to do some of the work, or farm it out to Fiverr.com.
Increase Your Creativity with Artificial Intelligence | Psychology Today
21 Best AI Landing Page Generation Tools To Create Pages Fast
Make a HIT Song and Music Video with AI (for Free) - YouTube
Invideo AI - Create videos with text prompts - AI video creator
Art
This category is difficult. You have to find unfulfilled niches. Some people seem to be able to find those niches consistently and make money.
Dump Etsy! Try Amazon Handmade And Make At Least $1K/Month...Here's How - YouTube
Lisa Song Sutton
I’ve watched quite a few videos about Lisa Song Sutton. She is such an interesting entrepreneur. If you need a roadmap, just copy her. Start with her mini-mailboxes operation.
I implemented this business model. My recurring revenue skyrocketed. - YouTube
How She Makes $50k a month from Mini-Mailboxes? | Lisa Song - YouTube
Lisa Song Sutton on Pack and Ship Stores, Being Miss Nevada, and Running for Congress - YouTube
[Lisa Song Sutton’s] Mailbox Money Machine eCourse
How 1 House Turned Into A $60 Million Dollar Real Estate Portfolio - YouTube
Laundromats
Danny D’Angelo’s laundromat model is very interesting. Here’s how it works:
Find rundown laundromats for sale. These are at or near the end of the lease.
Cut out the business owner and negotiate a new lease with the landlord.
Pay nothing for the laundromat business.
Tear out all old equipment. Fix up the place.
Put in all new equipment with a loan from the equipment manufacturer.
Danny just wants the infrastructure. Generally, the existing business has been run into the ground anyway. So it’s worthless. If he can’t get it for free then he moves on to the next laundromat. You can watch him talking to landlords as he negotiates for clients.
[Get Danny’s course.] Laundromat for Sale - Free Laundromat
These next videos are from different channels.
This next channel is the Investment Joy channel. This guy has a knack for making money via crappy looking investments: old laundromats, car washes and apartments.
Udemy
I’m being creative with Google Search in order to show you the “make money“ courses on Udemy. The passive income topic shows all of their passive income courses.
Misc
The Actual Way To Make Six Figures From Thrift Flipping - YouTube
TV-Mounting Side Hustle Turned Full-Time Earns $30K a Month | Entrepreneur
That concludes the 1st edition. I plan to publish a new edition every Friday.