The industry of digital art creation is now on the list of the most freedom-giving, flexible spheres that allow you to work from home or any other place you want, not being limited by the terms of regular jobs in certain offices, cities, or even countries.
Absolutely online-switched, a career in graphic design offers you to choose convenient ways and methods of gaining money on the web, to work where, when and how you like the most. In this article, we are going to outline the most profitable areas of online income that are now trending among digital design specialists.
1. Join an online freelance platform
Your online presence on several biggest freelance resources makes you a self-employed specialist who chooses himself/herself the tasks to perform. The guys who created the Fiverr and the Upwork platforms provided an opportunity to go global and work with clients all over the world at the same time.
You can offer the best of your skills, doing things you’re most passionate about (for example, creating thematic icons or making various social media templates), and charge your price per item ordered. It’s bingo if your offers match the highly-demanded and trending products on the market. Then there will be no end to constant online orders.
Or, you can choose a strategy for dealing with the actual tasks that have been already represented by clients on freelance platforms who search for professional performance. In this case, by choosing a task you’re confident to deliver well you may discuss the price with a client, reasoning your rate. This way you’ll always provide yourself with diverse projects.
2. Sell your works on the dedicated marketplaces
Registering for popular graphic design marketplaces like MasterBundles you are in fact creating your digital art store on the basis of your personal account on the marketplace. And the huge plus of cooperation with the graphic marketplace is that you don’t need to struggle to promote your offers because it’s the platform’s part of the work. As well as targeting relevant audiences to buy your works.
If you have already done some designs but they are yet unsold to any of the private clients, just upload them to a graphic marketplace and start earning on them right now. To sell your digital design product you need to sign up for the resource and fill out a simple form each vendor is completing to start working on the marketplace (add a short description of your work and choose a relevant website category for it).
Graphic design marketplaces give you an opportunity to sell a wide range of your products online simultaneously:
- any type of graphics,
- fonts,
- add-ons,
- social media, PowerPoint, CMS, and printable templates
- stock photos and vector images.
Also, such marketplaces are the perfect tools for gaining passive income because each of your uploaded products is sold not only once and for one customer but for dozens of different people each day. So, just one product is already a promise of unlimited passive earnings online.
3. Start your educational design course online
As graphic design is a trending industry full of opportunities, many people around the world are willing to find an appropriate tutorial to master their design skills. And of course, they don’t yet know all the special tricks and process shortcuts that you use as a professional. It’s a great idea to share your experience, knowledge, and design life hacks in your personal tutorial that can be bought online.
To share your unique design style and help others master their skills you may join special educational platforms like Udemy or Skillshare to sell your tutorials there or start a personal Youtube channel dedicated to video courses on graphic design.
If you prefer to express your thoughts in writing more than making a video, you can group your professional advice into an ebook that will be sold on the marketplaces. At the same time tutorials bring you additional income and present you to the audience as an expert in the field.
4. Profit from online affiliate programs
Partnership programs help those to profit who have a website or a blog or a social media account with constant target traffic to it. By spreading the word about some relevant graphic design resources on your personal website/blog you get a passive income from each purchase or conversion your audience is going to make on those platforms following your advice.
Placing a referral link on your web resource/social media profile fulfills the conditions of an affiliate program. And after your community starts using the link, you can expect an income in the range of 5%-15% of the conversions people make following your referral.
Your earnings usually are accumulated in a personal account on the resource with which you’re partnering. To withdraw the money you may send a monthly request for the funds to be transferred straightly to your bank account (literally to your bank card).
5. Receive orders from your community
It means using all the connections you’ve got to sell your skills. Look through your contacts. How many of these people may need your help in graphic design? How many of them can increase their revenues by ordering digital art products from you? How many loyal clients do you have throughout the whole experience? Use the contacts of those people whom you’ve already worked for to reach them out and ask if they need other similar tasks to be done.
And don’t forget about your colleagues! Collaborate with other designers to create massive projects and get to know more people. As you see, your initiative is always the key to bigger earnings.
Summing It Up
We don’t offer you to try all these ways of receiving online income at once (what’s the charm of working remotely online if it takes all your time in a day?!). Pick one or two ways of gaining money online from the list and try. Instant success is inspiring but it’s also very rare right in the beginning, so we recommend you do not draw fast conclusions. Give yourself more time to choose what is the most comfortable way of earning online as a graphic designer for you exactly. Wish you good energy and creative vibes!
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