I think this was intended as a hypothetical question. So assuming you have NO skills, NO friends.
Here's what I'd do:
1.contact some business owners, top quality freelancers etc
2.Ask them if they needed help with anything at all.
While you're searching for people to help, join groups and forums like this one and look for ways you can makes lives better.
It's exactly what I did and how I got started.
Back in June, I was barely making by on upwork and was stuck in a rut. I had been scraping by for a really really long time and all I got were low paying gigs.
Help my client increase his revenue by $12,700? And they would bargain with me for 2.5 dollars.
The worst part of that crap was that you couldn't say I don't want to work with you because they would leave a bad rating.
But my goal was always to start a business, so I was still grinding away and reading blogs on entrepreneurship etc.
Now on one the blogs I read, the founder spoke about planning to start another business as a side hustle. I figured that if he was going to start another business there's a chance he may need some help with the menial tasks.
I wanted to see first hand how you built a successful business.
So I contacted him. Couple of emails and an interview later, he hired as his social media manager. This turned out to be one of my highest paying gigs.
I made more working with this client in 2 months than I did grinding away on upwork.
But my rates were fixed at $25/hour. And I knew that this was it. If I wanted to charge higher rates I had to get better at copy.
Now that I knew this email shizz worked, I contacted one of my favourite copywriters and started working for him in exchange for learning his skills.
This was in November ( I think). Since then I have started getting other clients and have grown my rates a ton.
It's not a super crazy salary and I certainly want more. But from barely making by to $8K/ month in less than a year is a big deal for me.
And honestly not having skills is not a big deal, now that I'm kind of on the other side. The biggest problem I see with hiring some is the unprofessionalism. If you can just be responsive, work hard and on time. You will always have work.
Here's what I'd do:
1.contact some business owners, top quality freelancers etc
2.Ask them if they needed help with anything at all.
While you're searching for people to help, join groups and forums like this one and look for ways you can makes lives better.
It's exactly what I did and how I got started.
Back in June, I was barely making by on upwork and was stuck in a rut. I had been scraping by for a really really long time and all I got were low paying gigs.
Help my client increase his revenue by $12,700? And they would bargain with me for 2.5 dollars.
The worst part of that crap was that you couldn't say I don't want to work with you because they would leave a bad rating.
But my goal was always to start a business, so I was still grinding away and reading blogs on entrepreneurship etc.
Now on one the blogs I read, the founder spoke about planning to start another business as a side hustle. I figured that if he was going to start another business there's a chance he may need some help with the menial tasks.
I wanted to see first hand how you built a successful business.
So I contacted him. Couple of emails and an interview later, he hired as his social media manager. This turned out to be one of my highest paying gigs.
I made more working with this client in 2 months than I did grinding away on upwork.
But my rates were fixed at $25/hour. And I knew that this was it. If I wanted to charge higher rates I had to get better at copy.
Now that I knew this email shizz worked, I contacted one of my favourite copywriters and started working for him in exchange for learning his skills.
This was in November ( I think). Since then I have started getting other clients and have grown my rates a ton.
It's not a super crazy salary and I certainly want more. But from barely making by to $8K/ month in less than a year is a big deal for me.
And honestly not having skills is not a big deal, now that I'm kind of on the other side. The biggest problem I see with hiring some is the unprofessionalism. If you can just be responsive, work hard and on time. You will always have work.