Start Freelancing as a student with no experience in 30 days
In this article, you'll know everything about making your first 10,000 rupees by starting freelancing with no experience. Maybe you are in school, maybe you're in college, or perhaps you just started your career and want to start freelancing well, this is going to be your beginner-friendly guide to making your first 10,000 rupees.
In this Article You'll know everything about making your first 10,000 rupees as a freelancer in the next 30 days.
2022 is when I made my first 1 lakh rupees as a freelancer and it was that day when I decided that I would never work a day in my life in a job. I was living with my parents. This is exactly how I did it and how you can start with it as well.
- Week 1 = How to find niche
- Week 2 = Learn from free resources
- Week 3 = Implement and collaborate
- Week 4 = Start Earning $10000 per month
Week 1 : Find a correct niche that suitable for you
Finding the Niche or skill you are interested is the first step. People who are experts at notion make a lot of money, people who are experts at creating a particular graphic design for a brand make a lot of money, people who create amazing looking websites for e-commerce make a lot of money but you know who doesn't make a lot of money people who try to do everything right. Please understand one thing: do not waste your time overthinking about what skill to pick, just pick one start with it and you will later on realize if you like it or not.
Well just go on YouTube, just search video editing Masterclass, or just search Adobe Premium Pro crash course or just search DaVinci Resolve tutorial. Go to the top videos and watch each of them. Try to do exactly what they are trying to do as well and learn everything about that software. Learn everything about being a video editor, so you've picked a skill for yourself and you've also started learning that skill.
In the first week also try to understand who is your target audience Do you want to create videos for people who are running their profitable businesses? Pick only the target audience that you want to create videos for marketing. Try to get startups and companies to help them grow organically on social media. Once you figured out your target audience the first week should be all about understanding everything about this field just go on Fiverr and search video editor, graphic designer, logo designer and see how much are people charging and what are they delivering as a result of that and that will give you an idea. Upwork is charging let's just say $10 per hour for creating this edit, you need to have a clear idea of how much is your work worth in reality. So the first week should be all about learning from tutorials taking notes and having an idea of who your target audience is.
Week 2 : Learn from the free resources
week number two, you will Implement all of your learnings. All of the things that you've learned from tutorials into your projects, into your portfolios. You don't need to have a freelance client to create a portfolio. You can just create random names of websites and companies and Brands and start creating projects around that. Use your knowledge and start creating projects as much as you can stop looking for cookie-cutter projects. You might search on YouTube what should a logo designer portfolio look like, what should a Content writer portfolio look like Stop looking for that. Just think about what you think is interesting: create a logo for a brand that you would truly care for.
For example,
I love traveling on Vistara, if I was a logo designer I would redesign the whole brand of Vistara and show it to people. I love staying at Taj hotels so what I would do is I would create a new website for Taj and showcase it in my portfolio. I love watching videos for a particular Creator. The idea is to Simply look out for random Brands and create a project that showcases your best skills and what you can do in that particular project, do create a great project and portfolio host and post it on something like Beans or Vimeo or dribble or it can also be your GitHub or it can also be your website. When you do that, you automatically appear a lot more professional in front of people and they would not think of you as a beginner.
week 2 is all about implementing what you've learned creating multiple projects and showcasing it into a portfolio. That you are building yourself. There are tons of no-code tools, you can also use notion as your website and you can just create a great-looking portfolio that has the best work that you've ever done. You can have three to four websites, that you've created three to four videos, that you've edited some logo designs, that you've done, or just anything, but it has to be concise and showcase your abilities and the effort you took in to create something new from scratch.
Week 3 : Implement and Collaborate with Creators
week number three is a very interesting one. Right now most of the people they learn have a portfolio, but that's it then they're just waiting for people to come in and give them work. That will never happen, what you need to do in week number three is to reach out to be the most discoverable person out there in that particular Niche. What that means is you need to be on Fiverr go on Fiverr.com and create an amazing profile for yourself, create a gig that showcases the services that you can offer to people, and optimize it for search on Fiverr. Number two go on up to create a profile over there as well go on to LinkedIn to create a great profile for the particular keywords that you're looking for right the skills that you have the work that you've done plus the people that you're looking to work with your target audience and once you're done with all of the three, start reaching out to people that you would love to work with. Some so many people reach out to me saying hey I love your content and would love to work and I engage in those conversations because they they have put in the effort to show me the work that they've created for me
For example,
If you want to work with your favourite Creator, don't just go on an email and beg them for work. Download a video of theirs, edit it to the best of your capability, and just share it with them and be like hey I edited this video for you. The biggest turn-off for any client is the way you write and what you communicate and number two how responsive you are when talking to them. These two things if you can master right there is no way that you cannot work with the best clients out there in the world. So you can call DM people on social media platforms. You can also call, and email people you can find their emails from rocket-reach from hunter.com and start reaching out to all of these people.
Week three is going to be all about being discoverable, reaching out to your favourite Creator and showing them the work that you've done. It could be a Creator, it could be a company, it could be anyone that you would want to work with.
Week 4 : Start Creating Content and Earn
The fourth week is going to be if you're still not able to get clients through the third week, the fourth week is where you would start creating content, let's say you're a logo designer right? Recently a ton of companies have changed their logos and branding
For example,
Air India changed its branding recently. You make a real talking about hey I just had a look at the Air India branding and I think it sucks let me remake the whole branding right. So you apply your skills, apply your creativity, and create a fresh branding logo and everything about that brand from scratch you tag that brand and you also post it on Instagram. There is a huge chance that this reel will be watched by tens of hundreds of thousands of people. Many of them would be people who would want to hire and work with you. You have no idea how many opportunities you can create simply by being discoverable on social media, and teaching programming for 350 hours. posting the process of creating that on social media could be Twitter, Linkedin and Instagram. These three platforms you have to be on and share the case studies and Journeys of how you changed a particular brand and what learning you had while you were doing that, keep doing that every single day and in these 30 days you learn the skill you implemented built your portfolio you were discoverable on social media and freelancing platforms and you reached out to people that you would love to work with and in week four you were creating content about what you've just done then you do all of this in 30 days there is a very high chance that you would get your first client who would be ready to pay you 10,000 rupees
Thank you so much for reading this article. This is exactly how you make your first 10,000 rupees in 30 days as a freelancer. Don't forget to comment the questions you have.