Skill that can make $2000 a month?

[BlueMoon]

Congratulations on your success. The biggest problem for me is selling the websites. Would you be kind enough to share some techniques that you use to make sales, please?

I would not consider it a success but that is a matter of definition.

There are no techniques - do great work, build up a portfolio, share your knowledge and do cold acquisition if you have to. Life gives no shortcuts.

 

[deckthehalls]

Why not throw a simple WordPress site up and write ten detailed articles about topics you're interested in, learn about SEO and do basic optimization on the pages. This would impress a lot of people that are hiring for more entry level remote jobs and also help build your profile for freelancing!

Check out this guide and the other articles on his blog

21 Tactics to Help You Become a Better Writer - Nat Eliason

While I still feel unqualified to tell you how to write better, I decided it could be helpful if I shared the advice that’s helped me improve.

www.nateliason.com

@TommyG Holy crap! This has to be some of the best practical/actionable advice I've seen in the (okay to be honest.. very short) time I've been on this forum! Thank you so much Tommy. This is something I'm definitely going to do.

 

[Fastlane Liam]

appreciate the answers guys.

Which piece of advice have you started actioning?

 

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[Elbowgrease]

Just thought I'd share my ten penneth as I was in the exact situation as you and pulled it off.

I was floundering from action fake to action fake through most of 2018 - building half-assed sites, reading success books, trying (and failing) to learn to code.

I was also half-heartedly looking for remote jobs, while living in Asia and teaching English part-time. Unfortunately I didn't really have many digital skills except for being a decent writer and having a passing familiarity with SEO and basic marketing.

I was reading Unscripted , and one piece of MJ's advice really struck me: sometimes the best thing you can do is get a damn job, to learn valuable skills and get to know an industry. After that I really put more effort in.

Soon after I landed an (unpaid) 3 month part-time digital apprenticeship with a fully remote SAAS tech startup. After a month they asked me to come on full time as a writer for $2000 per month. A year later I'm leading marketing for the company - in charge of the blog, podcast, newsletters, SEO, social media, content marketing and paid advertising. It's been one of the most challenging but rewarding years of my life actually, and I feel a lot of things really starting to click now. It's great that I can take this work anywhere around the world, the team and boss are awesome, and I'm also starting to see business opportunities all the time!

So I would say becoming a good writer is one of the lowest barrier skills that is in tremendous demand. Lots of companies pay good writers several hundred dollars for a decent article, and as long as you can speak well and think logically you can be a good writer. It is also one of the foundational skills for being good at a lot of other aspects of marketing IMO!

Thanks MJ, you prompted me to start a whole new career.

How did you find that job?

 

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[IlseVdG]

Sales is the most definitive path to success, especially if $2k/month is the goal right now.
Learn how to cold call, find a product or service or company with leads.

I'm applying for a job that's half legal (my background), half commercial, for that exact reason. It's about detecting needs of entrepreneurs and translating those to legal services and tools. I would be working in a team of team business coaches, sales managers en client advisors. I have an interview lined up on Monday dec. 2nd.

I'll only go with it if I feel that I will have enough opportunities and support in learning the commercial skills, though. At this moment, the job description is a bit vague. There's a lot that I want to ask about it. Ideas about clever questions to ask are very welcome!

I also could worry about the time I'll have left to build my own thing, but I can't just wait until everything is 'perfect', because... that's never going to be the case. I guess I just have to grab interesting chances whenever I get them, and take whatever time that I have left to proceed in entrepreneurship. It certainly is a step up from my current 100 % legal job (with the current difficult circumstances of too little staff and so on). But just to be clear: I'll only be fully happy if I can finally fully get the legal advisory part out of the equation. It's not me. And it's not fastlane anyway. (I'm expecting @Lucky Lu to react on this last one )

 

[IlseVdG]

Custom software development - my experience. If you can develop mobile apps, then it is more then 2k per months. In this case you can work remotely and have a career path in the future

Hi Michael,
How long did it take you to get there?
Thanks!

 

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[IlseVdG]

Cool! Learning to code would be awesome but it's not for everyone. If you think you have some natural aptitude and interest then I'd say go ahead, but it'll be a long and challenging road.

Why not throw a simple WordPress site up and write ten detailed articles about topics you're interested in, learn about SEO and do basic optimization on the pages. This would impress a lot of people that are hiring for more entry level remote jobs and also help build your profile for freelancing!

Check out this guide and the other articles on his blog

21 Tactics to Help You Become a Better Writer - Nat Eliason

While I still feel unqualified to tell you how to write better, I decided it could be helpful if I shared the advice that’s helped me improve.

www.nateliason.com

Thanks so much for this great advice!!
I was already planning on creating an Upwork profile (I'm looking at Lex's course to do that, at this very moment), but these two go hand in hand! I got all Sunday now to get started with all this. This site you mentioned, looks great! I like this idea list idea! I'll get back to you soon about all this, if I may.

 

[macandroid]

I would recommend (basic) web design. I generally make anywhere between €2000 to €9000 per month doing this and have literally done so while traveling the world and living in different countries including the states, south africa, the philipines and spain.

Congratulations on your success. The biggest problem for me is selling the websites. Would you be kind enough to share some techniques that you use to make sales, please?

 

[Silver shadow]

Very interesting answers here.

 

[Annaric Anna]

or 20 people 100 dollars
or 200 people 10 dollars
or 2000 people one dollar

I used this approach a while back.Works well for sales...products or services

 

[PapaGang]

+1 @WillHurtDontCare
Great answer.

 

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[The Patriot Way]

How did you find that job?

I'm wondering this, too. I can write very well naturally, although I can't find a way to sell it other than through e-books, although it seems erotic trash is the main genre that sells. Would be great to hear from @TommyG for more details on finding a writing job.

 

[Deleted67963]

Good question.

I still stick to my point I made there: $100k/€100k in the states/western europe is just F*cking nothing, period. The cost of living has increased so dramatically that you will never be able to buy your way out so to say. However, if you love what you do, it will change things.

The question posted here was related to skills that 1) you can do remote and 2) will allow you to be paid $2000+/month. With basic web development/digital marketing services you can easily do that if you have a basic clientele and portfolio.

As for me, I'm looking to upgrade my skills and really go big. I'm tired of doing custom web dev. work for ungrateful clients all the F*cking time. I want a product to sell.

As a dev consultant my self i'm doing ~6k/m but I totally agree with you I'm tired AF to code for others, and want to sell my own products and diversify my incomes (either digital or physical).

 

[Draperism]

Custom software development - my experience. If you can develop mobile apps, then it is more then 2k per months. In this case you can work remotely and have a career path in the future

Does It need to have previous experience as programmer?
How long does it take to build a decent learning curve from scratch?