5 Potential Hands-on Ways Entrepreneur Freelancers Can Make Money at Christmas

5 Potential Hands-on Ways Entrepreneur Freelancers Can Make Money at Christmas

Christmas only comes but once a year, and with it comes many opportunities for a Freelancer to make some money from the festive period as well. If only for a short while! But since there is a demand for things to get done by people at Christmas time, as an entrepreneur you can cash in on this demand that people need by offering them as a service to those that do.



Ways to Make Money at Christmas

Think about some of the things people need doing around Christmas time. Things they don't have the time for or would much rather prefer to outsource. Things that both offline businesses and online businesses and people might need. From gift wrapping to present wrapping collection service. From putting lights up and taking them down! Plus more opportunities online such as writing and promotion to many more.

Here are 5 potential hands-on ways to make money at Christmas.

1. Christmas gift wrapping.
   Don't knock it but if you're a gift gift wrapper, you can cash in on that talent by offering it as a service. Think about offering it to your first family and friends first. Let your local community know at your town hall, social buildings and events. Make up a few flyers advertising it with your contact details. Offer a collection and return or even on-site gift wrapping service with a "24 hour on-call" service for people who are in a rush and are rubbish at gift wrapping and you're onto a winner! You could charge a nice amount for this as it's quite an important job.
   
2. Christmas gift wrapping collection.
   Some households have a lot of people and there's a lot of gift giving! And there's also about a ton of gift wrapping paper, cardboard and clip ties and stuff to throw away or recycle. To many people it's a hassle and they just throw them in the garbage. So you could offer this as a service by placing flyers through doors before Christmas and offering to collect it. You'd have to set a price though like $5 or something to make it fairly worth doing. You'd probably need a council truck too or something. All might cost you money but get 100 customers at $5 each and that's $500.
   
3. Christmas Light fitting service.
   A much more feasible service that is in demand this time of year is putting up Christmas lights. From residential people that are getting on a bit in years and don't have the strength or balance on their feet they might have had and wouldn't mind paying some young sonny Jim $50 to do it for him instead. To high street shops and stores that are so busy with all the extra customers and shoppers they wouldn't mind paying a small and reasonable fee to have it done for them either. Especially if you are going to do a good job! You would have to do the work though and they'd need to supply the lights but it could work!
   
4. Christmas gift buying service.
   This one would require a bit of trust on behalf of the client but you could offer a gift buying service to people. You could provide your own catalog of things or take requests. You could just then go out and buy what it is they want and then deliver it to them and collect the payment for it charging a little extra on top of course + tax.
   
5. Provide a Catering service.
   Food is a big deal at Christmas. If your passion is with cooking and you can do a great Christmas spread with all the trimmings. Then you can offer this as a service to people, families in your local area or nationwide that might need it. You could Christmas Dinner delivery for people who didn't have the time to cook a Christmas Dinner. For families or even the lowly student living on his own right now. You could charge quite a lot for this service and they would pay for it as well.
   

How to Promote Your Services?

You would probably have to create some flyers you could post through doors or place in shops and send to people and businesses in your local area or even do it on an International scale. But you could probably just walk into shops and speak to the manager or owner and fly talk them into agreeing to it if you show some nice photos of your previous work / customers.

In fact this might sell really well door-to-door canvassing in your local area. You could do it yourself, or even employ a team to do that for you and pay them a small cut of what you get of course if they get you a client. You'd probably have a client for life as well the next year and so on.

Online Ways to Make Money during Christmas

Don't forget that many websites will be adding Christmassy items to their site an want to write and publish articles for Christmas for promoting their good and services. Many small blog owners will love to have Christmas themed content for their blogs around this time of year. If you're a write you can provide this as a service. Perhaps to create Christmas themed articles like top 10 gift lists for him and for her.

Likewise, those same blog owners and webmasters, business website owners etc, will want promotion as well. There's a big demand for Social Media Management and they'd love for a professional to promote their Christmas products on Social Media for them.

Well that's 5 potential methods to make money during the Christmas holidays!

What other ways are there for freelancers to make money around Christmas?

Have you ever done any of these things or have a similar method to share?

Both online and offline methods that are actionable and have potential.

Thanks and have a merry Christmas even if it's a bit early.

You have to be early with this though!

Mike.