5 Football Business Ideas You Can Run from Home As A Side Hustle and Make Upto $5000 A Month

 

You can make do with more money and multiple stream of income may just be the way to go these days. Even when you are a professional and have a day job that runs the  normal 7 to 5 schedule. Your night hours could just be the right time to make some extra bucks while at home. 

Of course, I understand, if your day job is so stressful and exhausting, you just want to come home and rest for the next day activities, nothing more. You don't want to stress yourself any further in something so difficult to do. This is why I recommend you work on your passion. A job that will help you relax. 

Working on your passion is like playing. Indeed, if you have a passion for football, you will always want to share your opinion about a game or the current burning issues in the football community. All you need is to know how to monetize your opinions, analysis and solutions. You should learn how to set up yourself online or you may sub it to someone else to set up and support you technically. 

You can earn money through advert placement on your platform, selling football goods and services, providing research and solutions, helping promote players, clubs and other football related organizations, helping engage and grow their fans, write articles, proposal, presentations, speeches etc. 

These are the five football business ideas you can run from home as a side hustle:

1. Football Podcast on YouTube: Touchline Fracas is a weekly Football Podcast that gives you enthralling debates from all corners of the footballing world. Whatever the subject, you are guaranteed differing opinions and Touchline Fracas gives regular football fans a platform to voice those opinions and debate with other fans whose opinions contrast. Touchline Fracas makes £15000 a month on advertising. 

2. Affiliate Marketing of Football Related Products:  Affiliate marketing is sell other people's products online and earn commission. Some of the websites where you can find some great soccer products to sell: Soocerloco, soccer garage, soccer.com has some very attractive, high commission football products. Click here (https://www.authorityhacker.com/soccer-affiliate-programs/) Alban Ellis owner of "Authority Hacker" makes over £500k a month on affiliate commissions. 

3. Managing Player or Club's Social Media Account: A lot of football players requires a social media expert to engage and grow their followers on social media.  In today's world, your followers on social media increases your value and offer during contract negotiations. 

For instance, while football icon Cristiano Ronaldo is known for dominating on the field, he also tops the list of the most-followed person on Instagram with over 600 million followers. This is one of the reasons he is paid £173 million a year. 

Players are aware of this fact, but since they are not experts and do not have the time to work on their social media profile, they are willing to pay handsomely to anyone who can do the job for them and do it well. It's not only players, clubs also needs you. It is your expertise and negotiation power will actually determine how much you can earn a month. 

4. Football Marketing Consulting: Campbell Tickell provides multifaceted football marketing and management consulting services for players, managers, clubs and football association and other private football property owners and investors. They also provide representation and meditation services for players, managers and clubs. Campbell Tickets makes an average of  $15 million a year. You set up to provide such expertise online. 

5.  Freelance Writing for Football brands: clubs, football websites, tournament organizers and other sports property owners usually require some expertise to write articles, proposals, presentations, white papers etc. With your writing skills you can position yourself to take the writing stress of them. Freelance writers earn between $500 to about $5000 a month. 

First, you have to promote yourself as a freelance writer with a display of your writing portfolio online. You have to specialize in a particular sport to establish your credibility as an expert instead of doing general reporting. You must know how to market yourself using tools like social media or a blog to gain readers among your intended audience. Knowledge of statistics is helpful no matter the sport.