and you're trying to break past that
crucial first milestone of making your
first hundred pounds and you should find
this video really helpful because what
I'm going to do is walk you through the
process of how I made my first hundred
pounds of online business and break it
down into seven relatively simple steps
that you can follow along with and also
I'm going to show you how it can be done
without spending any of your own money
up front making money online is
something that can make big changes to
your lifestyle and it's something that I
personally think is achievable for a lot
of people out there if you're willing to
put in the time and effort however it's
not easy and there's a lot of
conflicting information out there on the
subject and it can get very confusing
and overwhelming if you're a beginner so
what I want to do in this video is show
of you a bit about my personal story
show you how I first started generating
a regular income online show you the
type of work that I did and why I think
it's best for beginners and I also want
to walk you through the exact process
that I used the exact platform that I
use
walk you through the entire thing from
start to finish show you exactly how you
can generate that first hundred pounds
of online income and that is a really
good motivating milestone to hear and
it's a great springboard to then move
towards generating a full time income
online so just really quickly here is a
brief overview of what the video is
going to contain as always there will be
links in the description so that you can
jump to any of these sections I would
recommend watching the whole video in
full if you want to get the best results
from it firstly I want to give you a
quick overview on my background in
online business so tell you how I first
got started what my current businesses
are now and that's just because I think
if you're going to listen to anybody's
advice in any subjects then you should
see some evidence that they have
actually achieved results in the thing
that they're teaching you about secondly
I'm going to explain why I think that
online freelancing is the best way for a
beginner to start making money online
I'm going to show you what it is white
work for me and how it send me on a path
to becoming a full-time business owner
and for the main part of the video I'm
gonna walk you through the seven steps
to make your first hundred pounds online
with online freelancing I'm going to do
this by giving you lots of screen shares
showing the exact website I use and
we're just trying to give you everything
that you need so that you can go away
and do this on your own and as usual
there be lots of links to helpful
resources in the description below the
video so you might want to open that up
and of course if you are hovering the
mouse down that way I'd really
appreciate it if you could hit the like
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but this is going to be a really long
detailed videos
you'll probably need to save it so you
can come back and review it at a later
date okay so I just want to really
quickly share my story with you just to
give you a bit of background on what my
experience is with online business so I
own a website called standout CV com
which is currently one of the UK's
biggest CV advised websites and its main
purpose is to help people learn the jobs
they want by teaching them how to write
a good CV it's had over five million
visitors since I started in 2014 and it
generates income through selling
advertising space of businesses and also
by selling CV writing services to
personal customers have some other
smaller websites and online projects but
standard CV com is by far and away my
biggest source of income but before I
created this website I had no idea about
how to make money online I had never
worked in a digital job or an online job
before and I'd actually spent a few
years prior to that trying to start some
kind of business but I had never managed
to make any of them profitable that is
until around 2012-2013 when I discovered
online freelancing I started doing
online freelancing work on the side of
my full-time job and what I was doing
was charging people to rewrite their CVS
for them or resumes if you're in the US
and that was the first time I was ever
able to generate a consistent online
profit with any kind of business I did
it for about a year and during that time
I earned around 10,000 pounds by working
on it during the evenings and weekends
but more importantly than the money it
taught me so much about online business
and really allowed me to build a
foundation of knowledge about on my
business and digital marketing in
general which then allowed me to go on
and create my own website which then I
later on was able to generate a
full-time income from and quit my day
job so enough about me what is online
freelancing and why do I think is the
best way to start making money on the
internet online freelancing is when an
individual like you or me provide
digital services to a business or
another person and charge them a fee for
doing it these services can be anything
from writing a product description for a
website or entering data into a
spreadsheet all the way to more advanced
things like graphic design or web
development so you've got lots of
flexibility to find and choose a service
that's right for you and I'll talk a bit
more about how you do that a bit later
in the video and what's actually made
this a lot easier in recent years is
that a lot of freelance marketplace
websites have popped up which are full
with businesses and people who are
looking and willing to pay for services
so essentially what these websites do is
they connect sellers like
you with the people that want to buy
your services so this has made things a
lot easier
places like people per hour and
fiverr.com are incredibly popular with
small business owners who are looking
for freelance services and the platform
has make it really straightforward for
someone like you to set up a profile
quite quickly and start selling your
services straight away so why do I think
that online freelancing is the best way
to start making money online as a
beginner number one is that it doesn't
cost anything to start it's totally free
to sign up to any of these freelance
websites they don't try to any money
upfront and they only take a small
percentage fee of the sales that you
make after you've made them so you keep
the vast majority of the money that you
make on those platforms now if you
compare that to something like selling
products on Amazon or starting a blog
those things can work really really well
but they will have setup cost and they
will have running costs and that's not
really good if you're a beginner because
a you might not have the money to spend
in the first place and be it's not a
good idea to be risking too much money
before you've actually learned how to
generate money number two is that you
can start earning instantly so when you
provide freelance services on any of
these online platforms you invoice the
buyer from within the platform and the
platform itself actually encourages the
buyers to pay you in a few days and that
means that you can actually start
generating an income in your first month
and in the world of online business that
is very very fast and if you compare
that to something like starting a blog
or a YouTube channel they're both very
very valid ways of making money online
but they can take months or even years
before you start to turn a profit I can
tell you that from personal experience
because I've actually done both of those
things myself I'm afraid is that it
teaches you online business within a
risk free environment now that might
sound a bit strange but what I mean by
that is when you are offering freelance
services on these platforms it's almost
like you're running your own mini
business within the platform because you
have to learn how to attract and win
customers on the platform you have to
learn how to provide those services
effectively you have to learn how to
deal with customers in general and you
learn how to create a good reputation
within that marketplace it's a really
good way to learn the basics of online
business and it certainly helped me to
prepare for going it alone and starting
my own standalone website the best way I
can think of describing it is it's like
riding a bike with stabilizers you're
still riding the bike but you've got the
support the stabilizers to hold you up
when you're using one of these platforms
you are running your own business
you're doing it from within a platform
that gives you a lot of support in doing
that and a lot of support in connecting
you with your potential customers and
you don't have to worry about a lot of
the things that you would if you're
running a fully standalone business for
example you don't have to worry about
paying for web hosting or cash flow or
where to run your next advertising
campaign all you have to do is focus on
finding your customers within that
platform connecting with them and
delivering your service so overall I
found online freelancing an amazing way
to start making money online because it
was totally risk-free 2sy allowed me to
start owning when he straight away and
it just taught me so much about online
business and digital marketing so now
that you understand what all no
freelancing is and why it's such a good
starting point for making money online
let's move through the seven steps you
need to follow to make that first
hundred pounds and start moving towards
making a regular income online and to
break this down let's say that as a
beginner you start off charging ten
pounds per service for your service now
obviously you will be able to increase
that rate a lot as you gain more
experience as time goes on but let's say
that you start off charging ten pounds
per service in order to hit that target
of your first hundred pounds you just
need to make ten that sales of those
services so essentially what I'm doing
with this walkthrough is just showing
you how to make ten sales on these
platforms following the way that I did
it
step number one is really easy and that
is just to sign up to a freelance
website now there are quite a few out
there but the two I would recommend are
people per hour or pph for short and the
reason I recommend this one is because
it's actually the one that I use to sell
free health services on when I was a
freelancer and I still use it this day
to actually buy freelance services from
freelancers for my business it's a
really good platform it has lots of
active buyers and it's really really
easy to use
it's a uk-based site but both sellers
and buyers on the platform come from all
over the world so it doesn't matter
where you're based anybody can sign up
to be a seller on the platform then
there's fibre which is a u.s. site but
again the buyers and the sellers come
from all over the world so you can sign
up from anywhere doesn't matter where
you're based I've never worked there's a
freelancer on Fiverr but I do use it
occasionally to hire freelancers for my
business so I know the platform 30 well
and I know there are a lot of
freelancers on there making a good
income there are lots of other sites out
there but pph and five are by far the
biggest with the most active buyers on
them so I would recommend going with
either of those you could of course sign
up to both sites at the beginning but I
would recommend going with one platform
sticking with it learning it really well
and there may be a bit later on down the
line you could expand some more sites
but I think when you're first starting
out it makes sense to really focus on
one if you try and use two at the
beginning it might get a bit
overwhelming so just get yourself signed
up to one of those sites have a play
around with it we need to do is just
enter an email address and a few simple
details and you'll be up and signed in
within a few minutes okay so step two is
where things get a little bit more
involved and that is picking the service
that you will deliver so if you have a
scroll through pph and fiber you will
see that there is a huge range of
different services that people offer and
it may seem a bit much at first but
actually it's really good because it
means that you should be able to find
something that suits you so there are a
few ways you can approach this but
basically you just need to pick a
service that is a in demand meaning that
a lot of people want to buy it and be
something that you can do well so that
you can deliver a good service to
customers you just need to scroll
through the platforms and look at all of
the offers or gigs being offered by
sellers and on both platforms you can
see figures for how many times the
service has been sold and you don't
necessarily need to pick the most
in-demand service on either of the
platforms you just need to see some
evidence that people are making regular
sales of those services because that
means there are active buyers in the
space and active buyers what you need to
make money and to find something you can
do well as a couple of different
approaches you can take
obviously if you already have something
that you do in your current job or as a
hobby on the side that matches some of
these services and that's great you can
obviously look to sell those as a
service however if you don't currently
have any skills that you can sell that's
fine it just means you'll have to learn
one now obviously that's going to take
you a bit of time but in my opinion
learning a skill that you can charge
people money for is in very very good
use of your time now obviously some
things will take longer to learn than
others and if you're looking to get
started quickly then I would recommend
starting with a basic skill or something
like virtual assistant type work data
entry or very basic writing tasks now
these things aren't the highest paid
skills on these platforms but they do
allow you to get started quickly and
start selling services in a relatively
short space of time and also once you
start making sales of those services you
can then look to start developing your
skills so for example you might start
off doing data entry and move into doing
data analysis or you might start off
writing basic articles and then slowly
move into doing more complex right
like sales copy and things like that by
doing that what you're doing is you're
increasing the value of the service you
able to offer people and that means
you're going to be able to increase your
rates of pay or perhaps whilst you start
off selling basic services you could
even learn a whole new skill on the side
so you could start off doing things like
data entry and writing but on the side
you could be learning graphic design you
could be learning coding you could be
learning video editing and that kind of
work can see you and really really high
rates of pay and the best thing about
this is that all of the services you see
being sold on pph and on Fiverr can all
be learned for free right here on
YouTube I've learned everything that I
know about building websites running on
my businesses from even reading articles
or watching YouTube videos and I've
personally never paid for a course there
are some good course is out there on
places like udemy and Skillshare which
can teach you a lot but personally I
think there's more than enough free
information out there to get you started
and if you do really feel that you need
to pay for a course that's fine but just
don't spend more than you can afford
I think paying between 10 and 50 pounds
per course okay maybe even a hundred if
it's a really specialist technical
subject that you really need but please
don't be roped into buying one of these
courses that costs hundreds or even
thousands of pounds because then it
becomes something that might potentially
might actually ruin you if it doesn't
work out and obviously you that is not
ideal so take your time picking a
service to offer have a look around both
of the platforms see what services are
out there have a look at some YouTube
videos practice a few different things
try some things out you know see what
you enjoy see what you pick up easily
and just give something a go and
remember you always have the option to
change and try new things later down the
line so don't stress out about picking
the perfect thing the first time around
as I said when I first started I did
freelance CV writing which is
essentially writing other people's CVS
for them now I used to work in
recruitment at the time so I had a basic
idea of what a good CV should look like
but I didn't really know the process of
rewriting someone's CV or the
consultation process that was involved
so I essentially pick something that I
sort of knew but I still had to learn a
few new skills which involved just
reading a few blogs online which videos
to kind of merge those two things and
become good at delivering their service
the next step after you've chosen a
platform and picked the type of service
you're going to deliver is to create a
profile on whichever platform you've
chosen now the features of these
profiles differ slightly between people
per hour and five
essentially they allow you to:add free
things that is a photograph a text
description of yourself and a portfolio
section where you can upload examples of
your work and these profiles are
basically like your shop window so you
need to make them look appealing as
possible to encourage buyers to buy from
you so I've got some tips for creating a
profile but before I go into them I'm
actually thinking about making some
templates to help people write freelance
profiles some downloadable templates so
if you think that something you might
find helpful let me know in the comments
below and if I get enough interest I
will make this sort of freelance profile
templates so tip number one is to use a
real photo of yourself we need to do is
get a photo taken of yourself wearing
something relatively smart with yourself
smiling in it and the reason to use a
real photo is because buyers on these
platforms they like to buy from real
people and they like to see who they're
buying from it just creates more trust
so if you have a real photo of yourself
you're much more likely to make sales
than if you're somebody who's hiding
behind a logo or graphic or something
like that
tip number two is that when you're
writing the text description in your
profile make sure you do the following
three things offer a very specific
narrow set of services so don't just
write in your profile that you can do
every service under the Sun in an
attempt to try and get everybody to buy
from you because it just won't work
and the reason it won't work is because
buyers look for experts in that
particular type of service that they're
looking for so let's say for example I'm
looking for a person to design
infographic for me I'm going to be
looking for a graphic design expert so
when I am running a search on the
platform I'm not going to be looking for
someone that does a bit of writing a bit
of coding a bit of graphic design I'm
gonna be looking for someone that
focuses and specializes in design work
because they're gonna be the most knotty
person to carry out a good design work
job and if your profile is jumbled and
you are offering lots of different
random services that aren't connected
then when buyers are searching for
specific skills it's very unlikely that
your profile is going to show up in
those search results so that's why it's
so important to make sure that you are
offering a very very narrow specific set
of services and you should also focus on
explaining how your services help to
solve your buyers problems so let's say
for example you're a writer then your
typical buyer is likely to be perhaps a
website owner and the kind of problems
they have are the things like they need
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