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HUSTLE #747 8.5 Coding & Tech Tutoring

Teach Excel, Google Sheets, and Spreadsheet Automation

💰 Startup Cost $0-50
⏰ Time/wk 5-10 hrs
📊 Difficulty ★★★★☆
🏆 1st Month $ $400-1200
💵 Monthly Range $1.5k-4k
⏱ First $ In 2-4 weeks
Wyzant for one-on-one tutoring. Teachable for selling pre-recorded courses. Zoom for live training. YouTube for building an audience with free tutorials.
Spreadsheet skills are universally needed and surprisingly rare — most office workers use maybe 5% of Excel's capabilities. If you're an advanced Excel or Google Sheets user who can write formulas, build pivot tables, create macros, and use Apps Script or VBA for automation, you can teach these skills to professionals who want to work faster and impress their bosses. Offer one-on-one coaching at $50-100 per hour, group workshops for departments at $300-800 per session, and pre-recorded courses on Teachable for passive income. Specialize in specific use cases: financial modeling for analysts, data visualization for marketers, inventory management for small retailers, or workflow automation for operations teams. Create downloadable templates with your coaching — a budgeting template, a sales tracker, an inventory dashboard — that students can immediately apply to their own work. The concrete, same-day productivity improvements make this an easy sell to both individuals and companies.
🚀 First Step
Create a free '10 Excel Formulas That Replace 2 Hours of Manual Work' cheat sheet, then post it on LinkedIn with a call-to-action for one-on-one coaching.
  • Create downloadable spreadsheet templates for common business needs — templates demonstrate your capability and serve as lead magnets simultaneously
  • Offer team workshops to companies — department-wide training at $300-800 per session earns more per hour than individual tutoring
  • Teach automation with Apps Script or VBA — these skills command premium rates because they unlock massive time savings for clients
🛠 Tools & Resources: Wyzant, Teachable, Zoom, YouTube, Google Sheets, Excel, Loom