What kind of freelance work can I do at this stage?

[Abhijit]

Hi Connor,

I see that you are looking to earn some money by using your intermediate skills in Graphic and Web designing and online marketing. However if you know that you have a basic knowledge of all these things then there is a much brighter scope for you in future. I want to ask you why do you want to do the wonderful and creative job of web/ SEO for such a short time? What after these short time span is over? Will you continue with this profession further?

I have few things to share with you:-

1) In your case you will look for some local clients. Believe me, local clients who are laymen and doesn't have any know-how of technology are mostly unaware of the efforts you are putting in your work. They will always ask for more for less money.

2) As they dont know the value of the work done their requirement keeps on changing time to time which will bring you more and more rework. Eventually the projects will not finished in definate timespan and extended deadlines means delayed payments!

3) As I already asked if you are looking for a short term career in Web/ SEO? If yes then give up the thought. SEO and Web design/ development is a vast subject. You need at least few years to get mastery over them and emerge as a complete professional. So if you will invest few months to do this work, it will not help you in near future.

My suggestion would be:-

a) Dont just think of making some petty income in few months with these great professional options.

b) Make a long term business plan and work towards achieving it.

c) Am I discouraging you? Do you want me to suggest you the names of the sites where you can get some freelance business? No. I am simply putting light on the reality.

The gist of my answer is - Don't look for short term business in this domain and if you go for sites like elance.com and fiverr.com to make money, look for a long term business plan.

I hope you have got my point. Thanks for reading and all the best!