If you are a freelance provider, you know how hard it is to get paid well with selling your time and skills. But there are always other good alternative ways to gain money with skills and hard work.
And really I do not want to take your time with giving tips to make you earn max $75 a month, I want to talk about real at home revenue.
There are a couple of ways to collect recurring revenue when you are free of client work. All you need to do is keep working even you don’t have any clients in that period of time =) Alright, let’s get to it.
1. Get Blogging, Get Paid
Share your experience and thoughts, promote your stuff and give people nice things made by you.
This will generate a respectful traffic, resulting with getting your blog eligible to advertisers. If you are a regular writer, your blog will get noticed and it will take only a couple of months until you start reaching out people. The more people you reach, the more adspace rates your will have.
2.Sell Your Cancelled Client Work as Stock on Marketplaces
I’m sure all you designers have at least 20-30 pieces of good work psds left alone in your project archives and backup folders. Give them life with making them your products. Organize them and convert them to themes, templates and resellable items. Then you can put these up for sale on the following marketplaces:
- Istockphoto (for your vector illustration products)
- Themeforest (html themes, wordpress themes, psd templates-that one you will love-)
- Templatamatic (html themes, wordpress themes)
The more items you have in those, the more revenure in return.
3. Create Marketable Products
Well once you taste the warm cash coming up from above way, you might want to consider developing more products. People do need and love the following:
- Outstanding Designs as Photoshop Files
- Vector and Photoshop Illustrations
- Icons
- UI Skins / Application Themes
You can develop some of these and maybe have your own marketplace one day. If you are a talented designer and do the above, my guess is you will gain from $2000 to unlimited amount of money per month.
Do you have any alternate ideas? Share with me on your comments. Thank you!
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Calliope Weddings
We share your words because we deal with weddings and events in Italy. Italy was not yet ready for this new profession, we often are faced with enormous problems.
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Maire Annabel
Thank you – I’m always looking for good tips, hints and ideas to improve – I’ve been reading information now for quite , and I’m always trying to come up with original content for visitors to my site. I’ll be sure to check back soon for more ;-)
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jose
relevant and useful post, onur. thanks
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Bobin
cool stuff dude ! Thanks for sharing
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Raymond Selda
Really inspirational post. I’m a freelancer with no projects yet but instead of feeling down I decided to take action and learn web design (im really a web programmer). I already auctioned and sold my first web template at the SitePoint marketplace and I’m motivated to improve everyday on designing to give users a quality product.
One can also make a decent income through affiliates. Thank you for this post.
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Selçuk
hi, everyone can easily find stock graphics, vectors from warez sites. And rapidshare accelerated that. A talented designer can illustrate few images a day maybe, others can download GB’s of vector files in minutes. If you want to earn money, you must be far away from labor. Labor is just a fact of life which others may give. No pain no gain is funny. Listen this : if no gain you’ll feel pain ! Or, more gain more fame. I’m sure much more can be produced.:))
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Salih Kucukaga
Great post Onur and I liked the new look of your web site btw, real quality stuff mate! This is a quite inspirational article for all of us who got heaps of rejected works sleeping in our portfolios, it’s time to make wake them up!
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