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Intro to the video on How to make money online as a beginner

if you're trying to make money online

and you're trying to break past that

crucial first milestone of making your

first hundred pounds and you should find

this video really helpful because what

I'm going to do is walk you through the

process of how I made my first hundred

pounds of online business and break it

down into seven relatively simple steps

that you can follow along with and also

I'm going to show you how it can be done

without spending any of your own money

up front making money online is

something that can make big changes to

your lifestyle and it's something that I

personally think is achievable for a lot

of people out there if you're willing to

put in the time and effort however it's

not easy and there's a lot of

conflicting information out there on the

subject and it can get very confusing

and overwhelming if you're a beginner so

what I want to do in this video is show

of you a bit about my personal story

show you how I first started generating

a regular income online show you the

type of work that I did and why I think

it's best for beginners and I also want

to walk you through the exact process

that I used the exact platform that I

use

walk you through the entire thing from

start to finish show you exactly how you

can generate that first hundred pounds

of online income and that is a really

good motivating milestone to hear and

it's a great springboard to then move

towards generating a full time income

online

Content of How to make money online as a beginner's video

so just really quickly here is a

brief overview of what the video is

going to contain as always there will be

links in the description so that you can

jump to any of these sections I would

recommend watching the whole video in

full if you want to get the best results

from it firstly I want to give you a

quick overview on my background in

online business so tell you how I first

got started what my current businesses

are now and that's just because I think

if you're going to listen to anybody's

advice in any subjects then you should

see some evidence that they have

actually achieved results in the thing

that they're teaching you about secondly

I'm going to explain why I think that

online freelancing is the best way for a

beginner to start making money online

I'm going to show you what it is white

work for me and how it send me on a path

to becoming a full-time business owner

and for the main part of the video I'm

gonna walk you through the seven steps

to make your first hundred pounds online

with online freelancing I'm going to do

this by giving you lots of screen shares

showing the exact website I use and

we're just trying to give you everything

that you need so that you can go away

and do this on your own and as usual

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My online business background

okay so I just want to really

quickly share my story with you just to

give you a bit of background on what my

experience is with online business so I

own a website called standout CV com

which is currently one of the UK's

biggest CV advised websites and its main

purpose is to help people learn the jobs

they want by teaching them how to write

a good CV it's had over five million

visitors since I started in 2014 and it

generates income through selling

advertising space of businesses and also

by selling CV writing services to

personal customers have some other

smaller websites and online projects but

standard CV com is by far and away my

biggest source of income but before I

created this website I had no idea about

how to make money online I had never

worked in a digital job or an online job

before and I'd actually spent a few

years prior to that trying to start some

kind of business but I had never managed

to make any of them profitable that is

until around 2012-2013 when I discovered

online freelancing I started doing

online freelancing work on the side of

my full-time job and what I was doing

was charging people to rewrite their CVS

for them or resumes if you're in the US

and that was the first time I was ever

able to generate a consistent online

profit with any kind of business I did

it for about a year and during that time

I earned around 10,000 pounds by working

on it during the evenings and weekends

but more importantly than the money it

taught me so much about online business

and really allowed me to build a

foundation of knowledge about on my

business and digital marketing in

general which then allowed me to go on

and create my own website which then I

later on was able to generate a

full-time income from and quit my day

job

Why online freelancing is best for beginners on making money online

so enough about me what is online

freelancing and why do I think is the

best way to start making money on the

internet online freelancing is when an

individual like you or me provide

digital services to a business or

another person and charge them a fee for

doing it these services can be anything

from writing a product description for a

website or entering data into a

spreadsheet all the way to more advanced

things like graphic design or web

development so you've got lots of

flexibility to find and choose a service

that's right for you and I'll talk a bit

more about how you do that a bit later

in the video and what's actually made

this a lot easier in recent years is

that a lot of freelance marketplace

websites have popped up which are full

with businesses and people who are

looking and willing to pay for services

so essentially what these websites do is

they connect sellers like

you with the people that want to buy

your services so this has made things a

lot easier

places like people per hour and

fiverr.com are incredibly popular with

small business owners who are looking

for freelance services and the platform

has make it really straightforward for

someone like you to set up a profile

quite quickly and start selling your

services straight away so why do I think

that online freelancing is the best way

to start making money online as a

beginner number one is that it doesn't

cost anything to start it's totally free

to sign up to any of these freelance

websites they don't try to any money

upfront and they only take a small

percentage fee of the sales that you

make after you've made them so you keep

the vast majority of the money that you

make on those platforms now if you

compare that to something like selling

products on Amazon or starting a blog

those things can work really really well

but they will have setup cost and they

will have running costs and that's not

really good if you're a beginner because

a you might not have the money to spend

in the first place and be it's not a

good idea to be risking too much money

before you've actually learned how to

generate money number two is that you

can start earning instantly so when you

provide freelance services on any of

these online platforms you invoice the

buyer from within the platform and the

platform itself actually encourages the

buyers to pay you in a few days and that

means that you can actually start

generating an income in your first month

and in the world of online business that

is very very fast and if you compare

that to something like starting a blog

or a YouTube channel they're both very

very valid ways of making money online

but they can take months or even years

before you start to turn a profit I can

tell you that from personal experience

because I've actually done both of those

things myself I'm afraid is that it

teaches you online business within a

risk free environment now that might

sound a bit strange but what I mean by

that is when you are offering freelance

services on these platforms it's almost

like you're running your own mini

business within the platform because you

have to learn how to attract and win

customers on the platform you have to

learn how to provide those services

effectively you have to learn how to

deal with customers in general and you

learn how to create a good reputation

within that marketplace it's a really

good way to learn the basics of online

business and it certainly helped me to

prepare for going it alone and starting

my own standalone website the best way I

can think of describing it is it's like

riding a bike with stabilizers you're

still riding the bike but you've got the

support the stabilizers to hold you up

when you're using one of these platforms

you are running your own business

you're doing it from within a platform

that gives you a lot of support in doing

that and a lot of support in connecting

you with your potential customers and

you don't have to worry about a lot of

the things that you would if you're

running a fully standalone business for

example you don't have to worry about

paying for web hosting or cash flow or

where to run your next advertising

campaign all you have to do is focus on

finding your customers within that

platform connecting with them and

delivering your service so overall I

found online freelancing an amazing way

to start making money online because it

was totally risk-free 2sy allowed me to

start owning when he straight away and

it just taught me so much about online

business and digital marketing so now

that you understand what all no

freelancing is and why it's such a good

starting point for making money online

Making money online :7 steps to first £100

let's move through the seven steps you

need to follow to make that first

hundred pounds and start moving towards

making a regular income online and to

break this down let's say that as a

beginner you start off charging ten

pounds per service for your service now

obviously you will be able to increase

that rate a lot as you gain more

experience as time goes on but let's say

that you start off charging ten pounds

per service in order to hit that target

of your first hundred pounds you just

need to make ten that sales of those

services so essentially what I'm doing

with this walkthrough is just showing

you how to make ten sales on these

platforms following the way that I did

Step 1 on making money online: sign up to a site

step number one is really easy and that

is just to sign up to a freelance

website now there are quite a few out

there but the two I would recommend are

people per hour or pph for short and the

reason I recommend this one is because

it's actually the one that I use to sell

free health services on when I was a

freelancer and I still use it this day

to actually buy freelance services from

freelancers for my business it's a

really good platform it has lots of

active buyers and it's really really

easy to use

it's a uk-based site but both sellers

and buyers on the platform come from all

over the world so it doesn't matter

where you're based anybody can sign up

to be a seller on the platform then

there's fibre which is a u.s. site but

again the buyers and the sellers come

from all over the world so you can sign

up from anywhere doesn't matter where

you're based I've never worked there's a

freelancer on Fiverr but I do use it

occasionally to hire freelancers for my

business so I know the platform 30 well

and I know there are a lot of

freelancers on there making a good

income there are lots of other sites out

there but pph and five are by far the

biggest with the most active buyers on

them so I would recommend going with

either of those you could of course sign

up to both sites at the beginning but I

would recommend going with one platform

sticking with it learning it really well

and there may be a bit later on down the

line you could expand some more sites

but I think when you're first starting

out it makes sense to really focus on

one if you try and use two at the

beginning it might get a bit

overwhelming so just get yourself signed

up to one of those sites have a play

around with it we need to do is just

enter an email address and a few simple

details and you'll be up and signed in

within a few minutes

Step 2 on making money online: Pick a service

okay so step two is

where things get a little bit more

involved and that is picking the service

that you will deliver so if you have a

scroll through pph and fiber you will

see that there is a huge range of

different services that people offer and

it may seem a bit much at first but

actually it's really good because it

means that you should be able to find

something that suits you so there are a

few ways you can approach this but

basically you just need to pick a

service that is a in demand meaning that

a lot of people want to buy it and be

something that you can do well so that

you can deliver a good service to

customers you just need to scroll

through the platforms and look at all of

the offers or gigs being offered by

sellers and on both platforms you can

see figures for how many times the

service has been sold and you don't

necessarily need to pick the most

in-demand service on either of the

platforms you just need to see some

evidence that people are making regular

sales of those services because that

means there are active buyers in the

space and active buyers what you need to

make money and to find something you can

do well as a couple of different

approaches you can take

obviously if you already have something

that you do in your current job or as a

hobby on the side that matches some of

these services and that's great you can

obviously look to sell those as a

service however if you don't currently

have any skills that you can sell that's

fine it just means you'll have to learn

one now obviously that's going to take

you a bit of time but in my opinion

learning a skill that you can charge

people money for is in very very good

use of your time now obviously some

things will take longer to learn than

others and if you're looking to get

started quickly then I would recommend

starting with a basic skill or something

like virtual assistant type work data

entry or very basic writing tasks now

these things aren't the highest paid

skills on these platforms but they do

allow you to get started quickly and

start selling services in a relatively

short space of time and also once you

start making sales of those services you

can then look to start developing your

skills so for example you might start

off doing data entry and move into doing

data analysis or you might start off

writing basic articles and then slowly

move into doing more complex right

like sales copy and things like that by

doing that what you're doing is you're

increasing the value of the service you

able to offer people and that means

you're going to be able to increase your

rates of pay or perhaps whilst you start

off selling basic services you could

even learn a whole new skill on the side

so you could start off doing things like

data entry and writing but on the side

you could be learning graphic design you

could be learning coding you could be

learning video editing and that kind of

work can see you and really really high

rates of pay and the best thing about

this is that all of the services you see

being sold on pph and on Fiverr can all

be learned for free right here on

YouTube I've learned everything that I

know about building websites running on

my businesses from even reading articles

or watching YouTube videos and I've

personally never paid for a course there

are some good course is out there on

places like udemy and Skillshare which

can teach you a lot but personally I

think there's more than enough free

information out there to get you started

and if you do really feel that you need

to pay for a course that's fine but just

don't spend more than you can afford

I think paying between 10 and 50 pounds

per course okay maybe even a hundred if

it's a really specialist technical

subject that you really need but please

don't be roped into buying one of these

courses that costs hundreds or even

thousands of pounds because then it

becomes something that might potentially

might actually ruin you if it doesn't

work out and obviously you that is not

ideal so take your time picking a

service to offer have a look around both

of the platforms see what services are

out there have a look at some YouTube

videos practice a few different things

try some things out you know see what

you enjoy see what you pick up easily

and just give something a go and

remember you always have the option to

change and try new things later down the

line so don't stress out about picking

the perfect thing the first time around

as I said when I first started I did

freelance CV writing which is

essentially writing other people's CVS

for them now I used to work in

recruitment at the time so I had a basic

idea of what a good CV should look like

but I didn't really know the process of

rewriting someone's CV or the

consultation process that was involved

so I essentially pick something that I

sort of knew but I still had to learn a

few new skills which involved just

reading a few blogs online which videos

to kind of merge those two things and

become good at delivering their service

Step 3 on making money online: Create a profile

the next step after you've chosen a

platform and picked the type of service

you're going to deliver is to create a

profile on whichever platform you've

chosen now the features of these

profiles differ slightly between people

per hour and five

essentially they allow you to:add free

things that is a photograph a text

description of yourself and a portfolio

section where you can upload examples of

your work and these profiles are

basically like your shop window so you

need to make them look appealing as

possible to encourage buyers to buy from

you so I've got some tips for creating a

profile but before I go into them I'm

actually thinking about making some

templates to help people write freelance

profiles some downloadable templates so

if you think that something you might

find helpful let me know in the comments

below and if I get enough interest I

will make this sort of freelance profile

templates so tip number one is to use a

real photo of yourself we need to do is

get a photo taken of yourself wearing

something relatively smart with yourself

smiling in it and the reason to use a

real photo is because buyers on these

platforms they like to buy from real

people and they like to see who they're

buying from it just creates more trust

so if you have a real photo of yourself

you're much more likely to make sales

than if you're somebody who's hiding

behind a logo or graphic or something

like that

tip number two is that when you're

writing the text description in your

profile make sure you do the following

three things offer a very specific

narrow set of services so don't just

write in your profile that you can do

every service under the Sun in an

attempt to try and get everybody to buy

from you because it just won't work

and the reason it won't work is because

buyers look for experts in that

particular type of service that they're

looking for so let's say for example I'm

looking for a person to design

infographic for me I'm going to be

looking for a graphic design expert so

when I am running a search on the

platform I'm not going to be looking for

someone that does a bit of writing a bit

of coding a bit of graphic design I'm

gonna be looking for someone that

focuses and specializes in design work

because they're gonna be the most knotty

person to carry out a good design work

job and if your profile is jumbled and

you are offering lots of different

random services that aren't connected

then when buyers are searching for

specific skills it's very unlikely that

your profile is going to show up in

those search results so that's why it's

so important to make sure that you are

offering a very very narrow specific set

of services and you should also focus on

explaining how your services help to

solve your buyers problems so let's say

for example you're a writer then your

typical buyer is likely to be perhaps a

website owner and the kind of problems

they have are the things like they need

lots of

content they need it quickly they need

to error-free so they don't have to

spend lots of time checking it so when

you're writing your profile try to put

yourself in the shoes of those buyers

think about what problems they have and

explain how your skills can help to

solve those problems for them and the

last profile tip is that you should

include lots of examples of your work in

the portfolio section of the profile

because if you expect people to buy from

you then realistically you're going to

have to show them what you're capable of

especially if you're new to the platform

so even if you've not done real client

work before just put together some

practice pieces or maybe even do a mock

piece for a friend or a few friends and

just try and upload as many examples of

your work as you possibly can it doesn't

matter if it's written work design work

videos whatever it is just try to

showcase as much of your work as you

possibly can

Step 4 on making money online: Create service adverts

step 4 is to create adverts

within the platforms so we've been

either of these platforms you can create

adverts for a specific service so you're

going to deliver for a particular price

on pph they are called offers and on

Fiverr they're called gigs so for

example if you're offering writing

services you might have one advert that

offers a 500 word article and you might

have another add further offers a 1,000

word blog post and so on and so on and

really just want to try and make as many

of these as possible and cover a wide

range of services within your niche

because once you've created them these

adverts just sit there forever on the

platform and when by a search for those

services your adverts can appear people

can visit them and they can order them

so it's good to have as many as possible

so that you can passively generate

orders and the idea when write something

needs to be really specific about what

you're offering and again focus on

explaining how the service will benefit

a potential buyer and I'm actually

thinking about creating some more

templates for writing adverts on these

platforms so again if that's something

that might be of interest to you please

let me know in the comments below and if

I get enough requests I will make some

Step 5 on making money online: Bid for jobs

and the next thing you need to do for

step 5 is to bid on jobs that are being

posted by buyers so what this means is

that buyers go on to the platform and

they post a job for a specific request

for a job that they need doing so

basically when you're doing this you

just search the platform for job

requests in your niche by using

different keywords that relate to that

niche and you write proposal to the

buyer and try to persuade them to hire

you for the job if we look at this job

here for example this person is looking

for a copywriter to do a specific piece

of copywriting for them if you wanted to

propose to

this job you just need to write your

message in this box here tell me what it

is you're offering and tell them exactly

why they should hire you and you set a

price for the the feel that you want to

charge for that particular job and then

that message and the fee will go through

to that person and then they can decide

whether or not they want to hire you so

this is obviously a much more active way

of getting jobs in than the adverts buy

in the early stages this will be the

most effective way for you to actually

land work on either of these platforms I

won't lie to you during your first few

weeks on either of these platforms

you'll find it very very hard to land

work and this is simply because you're

brand new to the platform

you've got no feedback on your profile

and you'll compete against other

freelancers who do have feedback and

nine times out of 10 buyers will usually

go with the people who have feedback

it's just like when you're shopping on

Amazon you'll usually be quite reluctant

to buy a product if it has no customer

reviews on it already so in those early

stages you've just got to put in a lot

of work searching for jobs applying to

as many as possible writing a custom

proposal for each one going in with low

prices and really just trying to give

buyers as many reasons as possible to

buy from you when I first started

working as a freelancer on people for

hours a CV right so I would stay up all

night writing proposals to people and

the majority of them ignored me and it

is a little bit disheartening to be

honest but I eventually did manage to

land a job I wrote somebody CV for ten

pounds which actually wasn't a lot of

money for the work involved but what

allowed me to do was to then ask that

person for feedback which I could put on

my profile once you get that first bit

of feedback to put on your profile it's

a complete game-changer

Step 6 on making money online: Gather feedback

and that brings

me nicely on to step six which is to

gather feedback feedback is so important

on these platforms because the more good

feedback you have when your profile the

more likely people are to buy from you

and the more money you can charge so

with every job you do make sure you do

everything within your power to make

sure that all of your buyers leave good

reviews for you and that always starts

with doing a really good job with all of

your services so you have to provide

everything you promised and you have to

do everything within your power to make

that customer happy I mean for those

first few clients you really have to

roll the red card out and it finishes

with asking for feedback most buyers on

these platforms won't leave feedback

unless you ask them and that's simply

because they're busy and they've got

other stuff in their mind so after

you've delivered that good piece of work

to a customer and you confirm they're

happy with it then simply ask them to

leave using feedback just say something

like I'm really glad that you happy of

the work if you could leave me

feedback I've massively appreciate it

and you'd really be helping me out and

if you ask for feedback in a genuine

nice way not that having already

delivered some good work then 9 times

out of 10 people will leave good

feedback for you and because all of this

feedback appears on your adverts on your

shop window then buyers will start to

trust you more you'll find it much

easier to win jobs people will start to

buy from your adverts and you can slowly

start to raise your prices and just to

give you an example of this I actually

started off as I said writing TVs for 10

pound per cv on people per hour but over

time as I gradually built my reputation

built the feedback on my profile I was

eventually able to increase my rates to

100 pounds per cv so you've just got to

be really determined and persistent in

the early stages keep plugging away keep

writing proposals it will be tough but

once you start getting those few jobs in

you start getting a few bits of feedback

on the profile I promise you it gets

much easier from that point onward and

Step 7 on making money online: Repeat and refine

step 7 is to simply repeat and find that

process so it's really just about

repeating the steps until you make those

first 10 sales until you make that first

hundred pounds because once you break

past that barrier that's a great

confidence booster and you'll have

learned so much about online business

and from there you want a really good

platform to move forwards and start

working towards the next big milestone

which is making your first thousand

pounds online and that is where things

start to get a bit more exciting let's

do this you'll need to do things like

adding new services to your freelance

profile learning new skills that pay

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