Making Money as a Graphic Designer and Where To Do It

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Alright, so one of the final things that I want to do for you guys is give you the different platforms that you can actually go to. I'm going to be typing these all out, there's fiverr.com upwork.com, oh, sorry, upwork.com you have freelancer.com. On top of that, you could even go to youtube.com. And again, just go through search different people who are on the come up, and they don't really have a lot of graphics, or well done graphics for their videos. These are not going to be your typical people who you find on the front page. As you can see, almost all of these people are hitting around 1 million subscribers.

So you're not going to be going to these individuals, you're trying to look for someone who's in that 10 to 20,000 subscriber range, where they're just getting popular enough that they're going to start paying to outsource different parts of their YouTube channel so that they don't have to do all the work. Otherwise you can also approach it Businesses on facebook.com. And you could see different people on there. But the biggest and best opportunities to be had is on fiverr.com. And there may be other websites like Fiverr. But Fiverr is the place where you can literally list a gig for $5.

Say I'm going to do this graphic design. And you can list graphic design for again, social media, specifically listing YouTube, you can say I'll do all your social medias. You can say I'm going to do Instagram, I'm going to do your blog posts. I'm going to list a gig for each of those. I think right now at the current moment, you can list either five or maybe 10 gigs as a beginner. And from there, I guarantee that if you just list it for five bucks, you're going to get a few sales heading to your your account pretty quickly because graphic design for that little doesn't often come that cheap on here.

In fact if I just type in graphic design I'm going to kind of show you, you should also look at and copy people who are already successful, for example, what they have as a portfolio, you want to show similar things as well. So here's the guy is 316 sales. Again, they're trying to make sure that people are doing, who are new to the website are also getting sales. So you see someone that only has one sale here. They've only had one buyer. And they're on the front listing for graphic design, which is getting probably somewhere between 50 and 100,000 searches every single day, just through this website.

Here you have people who are doing graphic design for logos. Here you have graphic design for your 2d game. Again, that's pretty cool. Then, again, graphic design for anything that you need. He's a top seller, any graphic design, any graphic design 2d games. So you can see a lot of these people are doing basically General, any graphic design, I like to be a little bit more specific because people will actually end up putting in YouTube thumbnail or YouTube thumbnails.

And again, people will charge that you didn't really see anybody that were charging $5. So if you're one of the people who charges $5 to do this, and you don't look this tacky, or this tacky I know that's not too tacky of a style. But if you do something more like this, or something like this, you're going to end up having more sales. reason behind this is really you're just trying to create something that isn't easy style, where again, you're getting a quick easy outline of someone and then boom, just quick thumbnail graphic just like that. So these are pretty easy to do when you do any graphic design. You got to make sure that you specify that you can only do certain graphics, you can't just do a universal, although with Canva, really anything's possible, but you want to stay within the realm of extremely easy and extremely quick.

Because if you do that, then you're going to be leveraging your time. Maybe you're not getting an eight hour, you know, eight hours worth of work every single day in orders, you're probably never going to, even if your top seller, but the point is, is that you only work five minutes for $5. And that's the idea behind it. And maybe you only get 20 or 30 minutes of work today. Well guess what? You may 20 or 30 extra dollars for graphic design at the end of the month.

That's $1,000 right in your pocket, just doing 30 minutes of work of boom, and Canva is gonna more than pay for itself. On top of that, you can go inside of Upwork and you can list the job and post. I'm sorry, yeah, you can post a new job and say, Hey, I'm sorry, apply for a new job. I'm really butchering that when You apply for a new job, obviously, you're going to be looking for graphic designers. Inside a freelancer, you have as well, you're going to go through here, you're going to find people that are looking to hire a graphic designer, you want to make sure that you've saved a few Canva designs, just put 510 minutes work into it, grab yourself a portfolio, download those, upload them somewhere, and let people be able to see all of the work that you've done. So that's going to help you definitely secure these projects which are I would consider it in the realm of kind of like this.

If you would consider kind of what I would do a value ladder. You have fiber right here. Up work here. And then Freelancer here. And then kind of your ongoing, these are things that you'll have to, in a sense, do it yourself. You're going to go out and you're going to find people on youtube facebook fan pages.

You can do some Instagram. Most people aren't going to unless you have like a brand company. You can't go out after individuals, usually an Instagram because they take pride in that. But companies are definitely willing to outsource these types of things. You can also do Twitter, but it's not nearly as successful. In fact, what I would suggest is kind of going over into Pinterest and contacting brands there.

And kind of in that order is from most successful, the least successful. I would go after YouTube first, then Facebook, then Instagram You're looking at mainly companies, then Pinterest, Pinterest, still companies because not a lot of people make money on Pinterest in the right ways. So all of this is going to be residual work things where you're gonna probably have an 8020 rule here. This is just so you can make money. This is so you can add to your portfolio. And this is why you build your portfolio.

Because if you can land a job on freelancer, someone may pay you just $200 just to build the front cover for their ebook, and I definitely paid that a few times where I've paid someone a couple hundred dollars just to give me my ebook cover. That's all I wanted. So, but I know I get the best work here. They have huge portfolios, that's why I'm willing to pay all that someone on fiber. I don't know the type of work I'm getting. They give me 510 photos.

That's alright to get started. But on freelancer, they will literally say, here's what it's gonna look like, here's, you know, a preview of it, if you enjoy it, you know, then hire me and we'll work on it from there. Outside of that, do it yourself, go and find other people, they're willing to hire you to do the videos that they upload once a week, or you know, two or three times a week, and get 10 $15 per YouTube graphic that you make forum. Again, a lot of people don't know about Fiverr. And a lot of people don't know about Upwork or how to go through the hassle of hiring someone. But a lot of people don't know about this.

So when you're charging someone 10 $15 they're willing to pay that. You know, people don't often know about outsourcing, they don't think about it firsthand. So to reach out to these individuals, you can really strike up some good deals with them. So that's basically the best way to go about getting yourself established as a graphic designer with basically no talent. You don't need any with No portfolio, you can build one in five or 10 minutes and put yourself on a website or create your website, create a portfolio and add your pictures inside of there, you can really land some good gigs inside a freelancer as well. And like I said, they're willing to pay 100 $200 for simple graphics, that someone here is only willing to pay usually five to five to 20 bucks for here, they're willing to pay usually 10 to 50.

And here, they're usually going to pay 100 Plus, inside here, you can strike any deal. You know, be fair, because that's what's gonna get you a ongoing gig with them. But again, just graphic work design was enough to basically get me through where I had this lapse in period of clients and customers and I needed a few extra thousand dollars keep marketing going. I just did some graphic design with Canva and you can really pick up some Easy side cash

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