Check out these 11 fiendishly good ways to make money online at Halloween!
Halloween can be a great time of year to make some extra money online, many people will have specific seasonal niche sites that will largely be profitable at certain times of year – such as Halloween and Christmas.
But niche sites aside, you can also pull in some great profits by selling directly online, such as via Merch By Amazon, Etsy, Amazon FBA or Ebay.
There are a variety of ways you can make a very decent extra profit this year, so why not dive in and see what you can do?
If you want to make money all year & not just for Halloween, this training is the training that helped me get started!
#1 Sell Halloween Related Items On Amazon
Some people make an absolute bundle of cash over Halloween by selling on Amazon, often using the fulfilment by Amazon program.
You send Amazon the stock, they deal with the packaging, customer service and returns. This takes such a huge load of hassle over everything.
First though, you need to source your stock at a good price. One place to do this is Alibaba – where you can source products very cheaply and sell them for a profit.
If you’re interested in selling on Amazon in general and don’t have a clue how to get started, there are some good value courses on Udemy – find them here!
#2 Create Halloween Costumes
So many Halloween costumes you can buy look cheap and badly made, don’t they?
People looking for something extra special will be happy to pay a premium price for something really special.
You could sell your amazing creations online – and even offer custom made options.
Amazon, Ebay and Etsy are all good possibilities for selling on.
If you have some creative flare and already make clothes of your own, this may be an interesting & profitable venture.
#3 Create Designs To Sell Via Print On Demand, (like Merch By Amazon).
One of my mini side-hustles online is creating designs that upload on to clothing items on Amazon, (tank tops, tshirts, hoodies…. and a growing number of things).
I’m actually at my current upload limit, so any money I currently make is completely passive – I’m not creating or uploading designs right now.
I’m not a designer, but with brilliant design programs like CANVA, anyone can create designs.
The great part is, the print on demand service take care of printing the items and shipping them to your customers – so, you just need to get your items seen.
Some platforms like Amazon, Redbubble, and Etsy – generate traffic for you, but you need to target the right keywords.
With Etsy, it’s a little more complicated, as you have to link up with a provider like “Printful,” to take care of the print on demand aspect.
You have to sign up to Merch By Amazon and there is a wait, but you can join platforms like Redbubble right away.
I started with Amazon in the month of August a couple of years back and I had my best month in October, when one of my Halloween designs took off!
It became a best seller for a while and I was making daily sales with it.
While the competition has gotten pretty crazy for Amazon US – now they are opening other platforms like the UK and Germany, there is still opportunity.
Combining two or more niches together, can be a way of getting your design seen…
See the design above actually combines a while variety of things… Ghosts, Halloween, Bees, A funny play on words…
#4 Sell Second Hand Halloween Costumes
After Halloween is over, people are selling their old costumes for a fraction of the price.
You may pick them up on online auctions, garage sales and so on, then you can save them up for next Halloween and sell them online.
You could also consider drop shipping, which means you wouldn’t have to deal directly with the packaging and selling.
Check out my post on how to make money with a Facebook fan page, you could build a business around having an Halloween specific fan page and selling Halloween related items – such as t-shirts and accessories.
#5 Make Halloween Treats To Sell
I’ve noticed plenty of homemade treats being sold on ETSY – whether it be sweets, cakes fudge, or biscuits.
You could really make a decent profit from this over Halloween.
There can be strict regulations when it comes to selling food, so just make sure you check all the details out prior to taking the plunge.
For example check out these super cute Halloween biscuits on Esty.
#6 Create your own Halloween decorations
If you’re good at craft, Etsy again is a great place for you to get started.
Halloween decorations are incredibly popular – but so often the stuff you can pick up in the shops is not great quality and all pretty generic.
If you could create something with more longevity and a bit more individuality, you could find your products in hot demand.
For example, check out this cool Halloween lantern from Etsy below.
Discover more things you could make and sell online here!
#7 YouTube – Terrifying Videos.
You have to be a bit careful with this one, (if you’ve seen the recent scary clown phenomenon eeek)…
But creating scary videos by playing pranks on the public, (for example) and putting on YouTube could turn out well for you, if the video goes viral.
Obviously, this isn’t really one to rely on or a short term plan, you do need a lot of views on YouTube in order to make a decent profit…
Thousands and thousands in fact.
However, as a long term plan, you could dedicate a channel to Halloween and add extra things, such as making Halloween treats/recipe videos, Halloween decoration advice and funny videos.
Link these to your own Halloween Niche website and you could create an additional income stream, via making sales via your website with website with affiliate marketing.
#8 Fiverr Gig At Halloween
If you haven’t already got a gig on Fiverr maybe it’s time you started!
There are a bunch of Halloween related Fiverr gigs out there.
There are a whole host of gigs available – gigs like, creating Halloween styled videos, Halloween party video invites, voice overs, flyers or logos.
While you start selling gigs at $5, you can create add-on extras that can make it more profitable for you.
Fiverr also has a decent affiliate program and I talk more about affiliate marketing below.
#9 Affiliate Marketing At Halloween
Affiliate marketing makes you the middle man and means you don’t need to deal with purchasing any goods, packaging, delivery or returns.
You can just suggest products or services to people and if they do make a purchase, you can make a commission.
What you will need to get started affiliate marketing is a blog or website – although some people have been said be accepted on to the amazon affiliate program with just a large social media following.
Even so, having a website is a good idea long term and setting one up these days is incredibly simple and fuss free…
You don’t have to know any coding like you did in the past.
You could promote any number of Halloween related items – or you could stick to one particular area.
For example, by having a Halloween costume related website – or Halloween home decor.
Learn how to make your first affiliate sale!
#10 Blog About Halloween
If you already have a blog or website, now will be the time that you should be writing your Halloween related posts.
Themed posts can be popular, you may find yourself having more shares of your posts, so make it fun and relevant to your niche.
For example, obviously a foodie blog would work great for Halloween recipes, a parenting blog would work well for kids crafts or Halloween costumes, a home decor site could have a Halloween decor dedicated post.
You can monetize your blog using affiliate marketing, google adsense or other related PPC Ads.
Get my money-making blog guide here!
#11 Create Halloween E-books
Self publishing your own e-books could be a very profitable way to make money and seasonal e-books are a huge hit!
As you can see via the image above, (I spy on authors using a great tool – kindle spy) this self published kids ebook has made $1,262 in the last 30 days.
You don’t need to be an illustrator, or even a writer, in order to put a book out on Amazon.
You could actually outsource the content by hiring someone on Upwork – I personally found a very talented illustrator on Upwork.
Amazon also have a free childrens picture ebook creator, that makes creating illustrated kids books easier than ever.
You don’t just need to focus on kids books if that’s not your thing – supernatural style romance, recipe books and spooky grown up stories can be popular too.
If you’re interested in Kindle publishing; this program helped me understand how to create/publish kindle books.
If you’re interested in writing, check out these 20+ ways you can make money writing online.
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I feel these are all great tips but you have to be dedicated and do some work early before Halloween comes to have success and not just to waste your time.
Well, if you start with any of these tips right now but concentrate on having a success for next year, that is definitely what you could set as a goal. For this years Halloween I believe it’s too late 🙂
It’s definitely a good idea to think about plenty of these in time for next year and start researching – however, if you got your skates on, there really are things you could get out there for Halloween. For example, the Halloween type ebooks will be selling sometime after Halloween and some sell all year, so it’s worth just getting it done and putting something out there — the time issues could be an extra motivation. A short kids book could be written in an afternoon and I got my illustrations sorted before in a matter of days. If you already have a blog or website then you can certainly put a post there and similarly with affiliate marketing, if you have the knowledge there is still time to make some money from it. With Etsy, you could certainly put out some sweet bundles or something similar, that would take zero preparation. If you’re just in the training phase, then it’s a good idea to get some guidance and training now, in preparation for next year making money online! Have a great Halloween! 🙂