This week, three new side hustle reviews highlight nursing, consulting and renting options.
All three offer good opportunities for the right individuals. However, two of the three are limited by professional background or geography.
New side hustle reviews
On the bright side, the best of the newly reviewed money-makers is the one that’s available to everyone.
It’s what we like to call an “armchair consulting” site. These sites enlists people for both online and in-person focus groups. And they pay well above minimum wage for simply rendering an opinion on anything from credit cards to groceries.
Since it’s the most inclusive of these three new side hustle reviews, we start our story with WinnWinn Research. But keep reading, if you happen to be a medical professional looking for high-paying per diem work, or if you have extra space you’d like to rent out for storage.
WinnWinn Research
WinnWinn Research is a site that seeks consumers for focus groups, which often pay hundreds of dollars per hour.
Like other armchair consulting firms, WinnWinn pays generously when you happen to meet the criteria for a specific study. What’s generous? Anywhere from $25 to $300 for 15-minutes to a few hours of work.
Notably, the work typically involves answering questions about your personal preferences.
Each time you’re contacted about a study, you’re given the main particulars, including who the study targets, when the sessions will be held, where, and how long the survey will take.
You’re also told just how much you’ll get paid and what payment method or methods can be used. And unlike poorly paid survey sites, such as Survey Junkie, Swagbucks and Qmee, WinnWinn does not share your personal information with anyone other than the specific client that you’re enlisted to help.
That said, work is relatively rare here. You might get contacted about a focus group or online survey with WinnWinn once or twice a week. And, even with those, you might not qualify after answering additional screening questions. But when you do, the jobs are fun and lucrative.
And if you want to increase your chance of getting a lucrative online consulting gig, you can sign up with similar firms as well. These include Maven, Respondent, UserInterviews and Rare Patient Voice.
Medely
Medely is one of several online marketplaces that connect short-staffed medical facilities with independent health care workers, who are willing to take on-demand shifts.
The site arranges both local and travel nursing jobs. And it helps place health care professionals in a wide array of roles — from nursing assistants to RNs; sonographers to GI techs.
Pay varies dramatically by role and facility. However, health care professionals are given all the details of the assignments in advance, including the hours, the pay, the requirements, and how far the facility is from their home.
What you don’t get with Medely is an employer/employee relationship, which confers valuable benefits. So, like other sites that engage independent contractors, workers expect to earn more with Medely than they do with their employers.
That sometimes happens. But not always. People who have worked with the site say that wages are not competitive in some cities. And, in other cities, the site simply doesn’t have enough work to keep all willing freelancers busy.
That said, it appears to be a pretty good option if you’re a health care professional looking for additional shifts in the 42 markets where it operates. Also check out ConnectRN and Trusted Health.
Stackkly
Stackkly is a peer-to-peer rental platform, which connects individuals with excess storage space with people who will pay to rent it. The site’s biggest selling point is that the vast majority of the site’s commissions are paid by renters, not hosts. This makes Stackkly less expensive to use for side hustlers with spare storage space.
The flip side: Stackkly currently only operates in Texas. The site is planning to launch nationwide. So it will nag you to complete your registration, no matter where you live. But, at least for now, the only hosts who should expect to book rentals from this site are residents of the Lone Star State. If you live elsewhere, check out Neighbor and Stache, which offer much the same service but operate more widely.
How does it work? When someone wants to rent your space, they’ll send a message that you’ll get via both text message and email. The request will say who the renter is and what they want to store. You can accept or reject them, or ask more questions to determine whether your space is appropriate.
Rentals can be set up for weekly or monthly renewals. If a host needs to cancel a recurring rental, the host must give the renter notice equal to the renewal period. In other words, if it’s a weekly rental, the renter gets a week to move their things; for monthly rentals, they get 30 days.
Storage rental can be a great, low-maintenance side hustle. And none of the storage rental sites claims any sort of exclusivity. So, if you like this side hustle idea, your best bet is to sign up for all three — Neighbor, Stache and Stackkly.
Kristof is the editor of SideHusl.com, an independent website that reviews moneymaking opportunities in the gig economy.
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