You will probably make about $30-50k in your first year
You've decided that becoming a Grab drivers or Deliveroo delivery man is a quick alternative to a job which provides flexbility during an economic downturn. However, when times were good, incentives were withdrawn and earnings were reduced. In bad times, news about hundreds of people show up at their centres , and with the influx of additional drivers and delivery men, also result in reduced earnings. If you are currently already driving for Grab, or working deliveries and don't already make about $100k in annual earnings, we have listed here some businesses that you can start from home with minimal/no investment that could help supplement your Grab/Deliveroo earnings.
You will probably make you more money in the long run and can work full time on your own business. Most of which you can get started within a day if you'd just put in 8 hours today and you will probably need to put in about 20 hours a week on the business.
Here's a list of business you can start while you drive for Grab or send deliveries for Deliveroo.
Private Delivery Services
Yups that is right. This will probably be the easiest of the businesses that you can start as you'll probably already be in possession of a vehicle. There are more deliveries than just food to be done. Everyday, thousands of people require private deliveries to be made to the laundromat, work place, furniture etc. I'm not talking just about major house moving, on occasions we might need a bed, chair or table sent somewhere. Our kid to be dropped off at school during regular hours. If you are already a Grab or delivery driver why not put your vehicle to your own private niche delivery service.
Creating Study Guides
This will probably be more relevant if you are a student or completed your education at least at a Secondary school level. With home based learning and probably an increased reliance of online learning in future, online study guides will almost certainly see an increased uptake. Complement this with video / email / chat or face to face tutoring and you could see good earnings from this business.
This will probably have nothing to do with your Grab/Deliveroo service but why not put your education at work instead of just running errands. You'll be doing others a favor and probably also become better at your own school work.
Helping others sell on online
Not everyone wants or has the time to create a good listing online or want to deal with the hassle of doing so. You might have a friend/family or even a mate at school who has that extra coffee machine, blender, phone lying around and they have been too busy to get it on Carousell. How about doing selling it off for them and taking a small cut for it. Once you get familiar with it, you can do this in minutes. Eventually you might even be able to become an eCommerce advisor to small business owners.
Help local businesses go online
You'll be surprised to know that almost 50% of small business owners are still not online. With
FirstSite, you do not even need to be a tech expert to help them. Just a little drag and drop and research on relevant keywords, you can help any business get online.
Need eCommerce? Using
FirstCommerce
you can help business owners sell across all channels website, Facebook, Instagram, Google from a single platform. Charge a fixed fee for the service or a commission on every sale. Variations of this business model includes drop shipping or partnership models where you aggregate or represent some of your local stores online.
BUT BEWARE of scams online where some expert/guru would like to teach you their magic formula. If they've found the magic formula, you can be sure they will NOT be teaching it to you and keeping it for themselves. The only money these failed gurus make these days are selling that magic formula. Once you type dropshipping into your google search bar, you will be bombarded with these days on your browser from now on.
Financial/Property Broker
Make Grab/Deliveroo part of your business
Common mistakes
Once you embark on your entrepreneurship journey, it can become addictive. You will find your browser bombarded with all kinds of guru and get rich quick or work from home schemes. Please be very careful. If you see videos/content relating to clicking surveys/trading etc. DO NOT click nor pay to join these programs no matter who may seem to be endorsing them. Many of these are failed property agents/traders/business men who now make a business out of preying on others in need of business opportunities. Think about this.
- If you are not paying for the product, you are the product. No amount of survey clicking is going to make you enough money. They are selling away your private data.
- Those who know do, Those who don't Teach. It's a wise saying especially in business. If they make a lot of money trading/selling stuff online/ trading property, why would they have time to teach it to you.
Having a partner on your journey
With experience working with hundreds of small business owners, we are almost certain many will make some of the mistakes above. There is a learning process to building your own business. If you'd like a partner on this journey just leave us a message below.
