Selling Services - Worth the Hassle?

So I am looking to start making $$$ asap on the side, but not sure where I should be selling services, payment processing, etc and even if it is worth the hassle.

So far, I have looked at two options and this is what I find. Now, I am not giving up, but more trying to figure out if the hassle is going to be worth it.

Option 1 - Create content. Genuine made in the USA content, but I see people selling 500 words (non spun or claim to be at least) for $3.50. How the heck are you making any $$$ at such low rates? To make money and provide a decent service with proper research, etc and make it worth my while, I am thinking more along the lines of .15/word (low end). However, then I price myself out of the market?!

Option 2 - Hosting. Again, I see people selling for such low rates, how are they making any money. I see unlimited shared hosting for $5/year. This I understand, it is a numbers game, but how long before I start turning a profit on reselling my hosting space. At the point I start profiting decently, the vps/reseller account is way oversold. Then , I / brand becomes another hostgator with crappy service and support. I do not want my name associated with crap with any service(s) I decide to offer.

Where to sell that I do not get r@ped on fees and having 2-3 week payout times? Ex fiver, takes 20% and couple weeks till payout. Gumroad sounds decent, but they don't allow hosting or subscription services and I hear all kind of things about Stripe.

Sorry, I probably overthinking some of this, but I don't want to waste my or anyone else time. I am the type of person that if I am going to do something, I want to do it right from the start or not do it at all.

Any advice from buyers and sellers or anyone else who can would be greatly appreciated.

Just don't limit yourself to those two options there's way more services you can find and resell for profit.

The services you mentioned can also be resold instead of competing use them. Like the 500 words that cheap can be resold as a premium service.

Just improvise as you search more. All the best

Buy that content. It's utter junk. Hosting that is shared is worthless. I have better options for free.

When you have quality, your content is up to $1 per word. Scientific advertising is what that is.

You need to consider the client caliber, value, niche, purpose, target groups and persona.

If you want to sell at scale, you need botting or an email list or smth like that.

Social media work exceptionally well for selling marketing services.

Sell services or products to small/medium sized businesses instead of individuals because its much easier to contact them.

There are about 30 million small businesses in the US.

If you can get just 1% of them to buy from you, thats already a lot of money.

I can't make money with writing or hosting but this doesn't mean others can't, and in fact, there are so many people who make money with content and hosting.

Play to your strengths (If you don't feel you have them then develop some).

Don't go the low price route unless you can churn out stacks and stacks of X service for peanuts.

Instead...

Decide on a niche and focus on providing high quality services to that niche market.