It is not uncommon for people to have two to three jobs at once. People take up multiple jobs either due to financial requirements or because they have enough time on hand to take up more than one job at a time. Earlier most people used to take up multiple jobs in the service industry. These days, the trend has been to start something of their own. With the help of internet and by picking a set of specialized skills, it has become possible for anyone to implement business ideas or to take advantage of a business opportunity.

Whether you have a nine-to-five job and looking for something extra, or if you are retiring soon and would like to take up a part-time work, here are a few part-time business ideas with which you can earn a bit of extra money on the side:

• Social media consultant : Today, every business needs to incorporate digital marketing into their business plans. In digital marketing, social media advertising is one of the biggest domains to be used by every business, irrespective of its size and consumer reach. There will never be any shortage of business opportunities for social media consultants. You can easily learn the necessary skills by doing online certification programs on digital marketing.
• Accounting services : For people who are good with numbers and understand the intricacies of accounting and bookkeeping, working as a freelance accountant is a great business idea. Many small and medium-sized businesses do not keep a full-time accountant and prefer to use the services of a consultant. As freelance accounting services provider, you can create balance sheets, give income statements, and also create financial reports that are monthly, quarterly, or yearly based.
• Virtual assistant : Similar to freelance accounting services, you can also work part-time as a virtual assistant. These are quite well paying part-time business opportunities. You can work with multiple clients, have your own work timings, and demand your own hourly, daily, as well as monthly pay rate. It is up to you the volume of work you wish to take up. Working as virtual assistant does not require any specialized set of skills, but you have to be adept at handling multiple tasks, have excellent interpersonal skills, and should have great organizational skills,
• Blogger : Being a blogger or a vlogger (video blogger) has become one of the easiest and most fun ways to work and make some extra money on the side. Blogging is one of the most popular and successful business ideas at present. Many bloggers and vloggers go on to take this up full time as the number of subscribers to their blogs increase and so does the number of advertisers and revenue earned. The best thing about being a blogger is that you can talk to hundreds of like-minded people about topics that you are interested in or you have expertise in. For instance, you can talk about travel, fashion, food, books, finance, technology, computer programming, architecture, gaming, and so on. By providing advertising space and offering to review products, you can earn a significant amount of money on the side.