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The Easiest Micro Hustle to Start (and Sell) This Month

Turn your ideas into income with easy-to-make digital products that sell themselves

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Jo Barnes
Oct 06, 2025
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I still remember the first digital product I ever sold.

It was a $7 PDF guide. Nothing fancy. Just a simple written explanation (with screenshots) of a process I’d seen a video of.

And when it sold, I made $28. It felt like magic! That first thrill of money arriving from something I’d created once, while I wasn’t even at my desk.

That little PDF gave me the confidence to create a $37 video course, which went on to make about $30,000.

Then I tried a $197 membership, which brought in $117,000 in just seven days, followed, over the last 15 years, by dozens of digital products.

Some have flown, others have completely flopped. But every single one has been ridiculously simple to make & test compared to running a big business.

Back when I started in 2010, it wasn’t as easy as it is today. There was no Teachable where you could just upload your video and hit publish. You couldn’t embed a YouTube video inside your own course.

I had to duct-tape websites and payment buttons together and hope it did…

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