Online Side Hustles for Business Analysts
These are the online side hustles that are great for leveraging your BA skills:
- User testing – give user feedback on websites and mobile apps
- Find contract jobs on Upwork
- Offer a gig on Fiverr – from writing requirements and user stories to proof reading you can make money on fiverr
The fastest side hustle that pays
Plenty of side hustles out there but I’ve found that testing websites is a brilliant online side hustle that is a great match for business analysts – and it pays fairly well too for a few minutes of your time.
A well suited online side hustle for business analysts is:
Testing websites!
Ta-da! This is brilliant because you already understand requirements and if you are a BA, you work with testing websites all the time already. You know what web developers and the general businesses requirements might be behind the websites. So you – more than the average Joe – would rock at doing user testing!
How does this online side hustle work?
User testing side hustles work by having you sign up with a company online and they send you tests based on the demographic information you provide in the sign up process. When a test matches your demographic, you get notified and simply access the website or mobile app and do the test.
Some companies want you to use video and others just record your voice and screen. You basically talk through your assessment of their website.
They generally want to uncover where the problem areas are, whether the site is intuitive or not, where is best to place certain buttons or sections and things like that.
You basically say the impression you have of each page and follow the steps they ask you to follow. Usually it can take about 15-20 minutes.
Most websites pay $10 per test and you must have a PayPal account to get paid. Do 10 tests and that’s an extra $100 bucks! – sweet!
User testing websites
Here is a list of sites that you can sign up with:
- UserTesting.com – $10 per test
- TryMyUI – $10 per test
- WhatUsersDo – $5 per test
- UserFeel – $10 per test
- Validately – $5-$25+ (based on task)
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Gob bless you!
hi, I reside in UK, can I also do the same please?
Thanks for sharing. I just registered with a couple. hope to make some money
This is great information. Thank you for sharing Paradise!