Side hustles: Woman earns up to £81,000 a month from ‘easy’ Etsy side hustle’ | Personal Finance | Finance

One woman is sharing how she is able to get up to £81,000 from her “simple and easy” side.

Cassiy Johnson of Howell, Michigan only has to work 30 minutes a day designing T-shirts on Etsy.

Entrepreneurs are able to create and sell their own clothes and products on the e-commerce platform.

Trying to second source of income after being stranded during the pandemic, Ms Johnson launched a T-shirt design business on Etsy in May 2023.

According to the entrepreneur, all she has to do is spend 30 minutes a day managing the side competition which she does from her phone.

Outside of her second job, Ms Johnson works in sales where she makes around $17 (£13.67) an hour.

The year after starting her business, the side hustler earned $90,000 (£72,000) from Etsy and chose to do it full time. post.

Based on the documents reviewed by CNBC: Do itthe store has earned over $766,400 (£616,000) and a profit of around a third of that amount.

In her highest-earning month to date, Ms Johnson brought in $100,900 (£81,000) from her hustler-turned-business side.

Her success allowed her to create two additional businesses and allowed her husband to quit his job.

Speaking to CNBC, the business woman the road she took to get her side hustle where it is today.

She explained: “My husband was having a really stressful time at work, and I knew we could live on $90,000 (£72,000) [per year].

“It was a magical time, to be able to be like, ‘You know what, honey, just quit your job.'”

Outside of his Etsy business selling custom shirts, Ms. Johnson branched out into other income streams.

Among them is a YouTube channel that has amassed 118,000 followers and has been extremely successful with its Etsy following over the past six months.

The businesswoman told him: “It’s a grind. You have to do the easy stuff every day for weeks months and years later until it works.

“Therefore, you must always be up to date on your trend research, so that your products can remain competitive against all other print-on-demand vendors.”