How do You Survive as a Full-Time Freelancer?
🤹 How do you survive as a full-time freelancer?
Courtesy of @millionframes
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I used to ask the same question before I went freelance full time and I have seen a lot of people looking around for answers to this universal doubt.
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🔍 I generate money mostly by client work and creating some passive income sources. Here I suggest a few sources from where I generate passive income.
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1️⃣ Client Work
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2️⃣ Savings (Might come handy at low times)
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3️⃣ Digital Products like UI kits
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4️⃣ Design Mockups
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🛸 Started freelancing and looking for generating some passive income as a designer?
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🥋 But nothing is easy, remember that. Passive incomes are not something that works on their own. They require effort as other things in life required so dive into it and work hard without expecting results in a month or two.
Client Work
Client work is a major source of income when I am freelancing. Though it isn’t easy to get clients at the start. We surely have to work hard for it.
Savings
You already would have heard that savings are important if you are switching from a full time job to freelance. So I did the same. I saved around 5 months of income before I left my job before I went full time.
Selling Digital Products on your personal website
This is my new source of passive income which I have started a few months back where I sell digital products.
I design interfaces that users love to use.
Selling Video Templates on Envato
This is my main source of passive income while I’m not getting clients or not working on design projects.
Selling Design Mockups on Ui8.net
This is a part of my passive income which keeps me running while I’m not working on client projects.
Started freelancing?
Looking to earn some passive income as a designer?
Here is a video by Jacob Cass and Mike Janda where they share some amazing insights & resources which you can put to use and earn money.
Tip!
These passive incomes which I generate daily took me almost 2 years for creating 30+ digital products which are used globally.
So you need to start and but don’t look for results at once or in a month or two, these things take time but always pays off.
What does it take?
- Hard work
- Dedication
- Accepting Failure
- Patience
- Resting but not quitting.
Bonus — 8 useful tools for everyday usage:
Crello — a free graphic design editor that helps create images for social media, print, and other web-based graphics.
FlowKit — allows designers to create frighteningly fast user flows within Sketch and Figma.
GetResponse — an email marketing platform that enables you to create a valuable marketing list of prospects, partners, and clients, so you can develop relationships with them and build a responsive and profitable customer base.
Integromat — is a powerful automation tool that connects your apps and services to work smarter, not harder.
Leadpages — lets you build beautiful, high-converting websites, unlimited landing pages, pop-up forms you can add to your other websites.
FlyWheel — is managed WordPress hosting built for designers and creative agencies.
LetyShops — this service allows you to get a cashback of the amount spent on the purchase — up to 30%!
Zadarma — cloud communications platform that offers the best VoIP phone system — IP PBX, virtual numbers in 90 countries.
Manychat — visual bot builder for Facebook Messenger with broadcasts, analytics, scheduled posting and many other features!
Funnelytics — the best funnel mapping software available to marketers and entrepreneurs today.
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