Transcripts
1. Welcome to Class: A few years ago, I was
struggling to survive. As an orphan in university, I had no money, no skills, and no idea how to
support myself. But then I discovered
online work, and it changed everything. Hi, I'm Tso gamba, and I've built a
successful online career as a transcriptionist, content creator, and digital marketing
specialist from scratch. I started with no
skills just like you. But today, I run my
own online business, have a thriving YouTube
channel and spend most of my time helping others
build their online careers. This class, I'll guide
you step by step through the process of starting
your own online career. We'll begin with beginner friendly online jobs
that don't require specialized skills and work our way toward building
high income skills, creating a personal brand, and scaling your online income. Here's what you learn first. We will look at
simple online jobs that you can start today. Then I'll show you how
to set income goals, build your online presence, and learn high income skills. Also talk about turning your side kigs or
side hassle into a profitable online business and managing your
time effectively. By the end of this class, you will have a clear
actionable plan, the online money making
blueprint that will help you achieve financial
freedom through online work. Now, there was a
time when I felt hopeless and struggled
just to get by, but online work changed that. If I could turn things around, I truly believe
that you can, too. I'm genuinely honored to
help you begin this journey, and I can't wait to see
what you'll accomplish.
2. Class Project: Throughout the class,
you will build a personalized blueprint
that will guide you step by step to start
making money online. Each lesson adds a
piece to your plan. This project is both
practical and personal. It is designed to grow with you. So by the end of this class, you will have a clear customized plan for
getting started. Having a clear plan of action is the perfect starting point
for making money online. Since I know creating a plan all at once can be
very overwhelming, especially for beginners, so this is the
easiest way to do it. Technically, you'll be creating
your plan for success. To get started with this class, you will need a few things. One, you will need
either a laptop, a desktop computer
or a smartphone. You will also need
Internet access, so make sure you have
reliable Internet access, three, this is optional. You might need a notebook
if you're one of those people who like
taking notes physical will also need the downloadable online moneymaking
Blueprint workbook and the class chit sheet, which can be found in the
project and resources section. The workbook will help you track your progress
throughout the class. You will be required to fill in the relevant section at
the end of each lesson, building your online
moneymaking plan. It includes prompts,
space for reflections, and actionable steps to help
you create your blueprint. The class chit sheeet
on the other hand, is a quick reference
guide to easily find important points
discussed in the class. Use this when you
need to revisit specific lessons
or key takeaway. Order to get the most
value from this class, you will need to one,
stay consistent. Take the time to complete each task in the workbook
after every lesson. Two, when filling
in the workbook, be as honest as possible. This will help you create a plan that's genuinely useful to you. Three, don't hesitate
to engage with the class community or ask
questions if you get dark. I'm really excited for you
to start this journey. You are going to learn not
just how to make money online, but also how to achieve long
term success. Let's dive in.
3. How Online Work Saved Me: We are going to start
with a little story. And this is the story of how
I started and why I truly believe that making
money online is honestly a way out
for a lot of people, and it is very possible in
case you are doubting Thomas. I was an orphan in university, and I had so much to think
about in terms of finances. I had to think about school fee and rent and put
food on the table. So I try to find ways to kind
of fill this financial gap. So I said, You know what,
Tess, go look for a job, a job that would allow me to
work and, you know, study. And I don't know how
it is outside Kenya, because I grew up in getting a job in Kenya is
a bit difficult, especially when you
are a student because most jobs require
full time workers. Most of the time you'll be
denied because they're very strict on experience and
studies and all that. You see, I tried
looking for jobs. I looked for cleaning
jobs in the bank. I looked for jobs
in street shops, shops that sell street food. And to my surprise or not, I was denied most of them. I even tried selling clothes. I put all my money together, all the little money I had, and I got myself some stock, and then I tried
to sell clothes. I tried this for,
like, a week and nobody bought what
I was selling, so I realized, this is not it. And then I remember
a friend of mine, we were in the same class
was doing online work. He was telling me
how people are doing writing jobs and
they're making money. At that time, writing
was very, very popular. And for me, this just sounded
like and true stories, stories to pass the time. And then one day I went
to the movie shop. So there's this shop
where you go and get movies if you
don't have WiFi. So you go with your flash
disk and you choose a movie and the person at the shop just puts
the movie for you, and then you can go
back home and watch. And this guy told me because
he was also my friend, he said, What else, by the way, one of my customers
left his flash disk and wanted me to deliver
it to the movies he chose. And he told me, Do you mind, you know, working with me to his place so we can drop off? I said, You know what? Why not? Let's go? Because I
was free that time. And then we went to
that guy's place and he was in second year then, but I have never seen
I had never seen a university student living the life that that
guy was living. From how furnished
his place was, the furniture he had
was very expensive. The way he carried himself, it looked like he had
it all figured out. After dropping the hard drive, I remember on our way
back, I asked my friend. That guy is a student.
What does he do? And then he told me, just does, you know, writing. I said, What? Online writing and is
able to live that life. In second year at that age. You know, in second year
you're what? 19, 20? You know, they're old.
And for that guy to furnish the home the way
he had furnished it, he had to be making, you know, a significant amount of money. So I looked for people
because obviously I was scared of asking my friend to introduce
me to this guy. So I went Mark to
my friend who was giving me these stories
about people making money, and then I asked him
to connect me to someone who can give
me writing jobs. I remember he connected me to a guy and that
guy gave me a task. It was an academic writing task. And let me tell you, friends, up to this day, I have never understood what
I was supposed to do. So I just told the guy, I'm sorry, but I
cannot do this task. And that is when I realized that academic writing
was not for me. So after a few weeks, obviously, I was reminded of my
financial problems. And after that one
guy, you know, the stories of how people
making money online just kept coming my way like
left right and center. And then I said,
You know what this? Let me give this
thing another chance. So instead of academic writing, because I realized that's a
very difficult space for me, I said, I'm going to do research and find maybe a different
type of writing. I was new to it, so I
didn't know any better. I started researching, Googling, and then I found a platform
called Eye Writer, and then I got accepted. I started writing articles. And although most of my
articles were rejected, some of them were accepted. There's a learning
curve to all that because I was completely new and I spent many nights, sleepless nights, working on articles that ended
up being rejected. It was very frustrating. I remember out of ten
articles that I wrote, as a beginner, only
two were accepted, and each article, I
was getting paid $8. So I remember the
second article. Actually, the person who
I wrote the article for the client was very
impressed with my writing. He even tipped me. In that month, I made $20, and I was like, What? I know this is very little for someone
living outside Kenya. But for me, as a student, in a Kenyan University, this was a lot of money. This was enough to buy me
some food for a few days. And so I said, If I can make
$20, maybe I can make 70. Maybe I can make 100. And so I went on and on and on. So my starting point
was very bumpy in terms of lack of guidance, the rejections I got,
and some skepticism. You know, at that time, people thought when you're
working online, you're scamming people
or you're doing some, you know, shoddy jobs, I had some sort of doubt. I said, I'm going
to try this thing. And when I made that $20, that kind of shifted
my perception a bit. But there was a learning curve, and it was a bit difficult. And that is when
I kind of started believing that this
might actually work. So I said, I'm going to go
early in on it because I needed the money and everything else I
tried didn't work out. I didn't make any money from
everything else I tried. This is the only thing that
had made me any money. Albeit small. I didn't know that this was the beginning
of a big life for me. That time I was just doing it to have something
in my tummy. I was not looking
at the big picture, but that step that step I
took towards online work opened out I measured of
doors of opportunities. Because a few months down the line after starting writing, I got an opportunity with a government project,
a sponsored project. The goal was to train
youth to work online. So they were training
the youth, you know, young people in
school and out of school on different online jobs, like writing, like
transcription, like web development, data
analysis, and all that. And so they were
looking for mentors. After someone has been trained, they needed some
sort of a mentor to help them understand the space, the dynamics of it. And I remember that same friend who gave me a first
task told me, Test there's an opportunity. The government is looking for mentors you've told me you've
been writing articles. Maybe you should try
becoming a mentor because you've been
doing this for a while now and
you're making money. You know, you can help other
young people, and I applied. And then I got that opportunity. And then my income
increased a bit. Now, I had two streams of
income, not just writing, but I was also mentoring people, and I was getting money. And that is where I developed the passion for training
and mentorship. In fact, all I knew was
writing and web development. I was mentoring 15 people. One of my mentes asked me test. I know you mentor us on writing, article writing and
web development, but I heard about transcription,
and to be honest, I had never I had never
heard of transcription. Audio video
transcription, never. I didn't tell her that I don't
know anything about that. I just told her, I'm
going to have to go and do some research and
come back to you. One thing about me,
I don't like to fail my trainees or my mentes. So I dived into research. I was trying to look
into transcription, and I read so much about it, watched videos about it. And that is when it hit me. This is actually something
I might also do. So I went back to my MNTs
with all my findings, all the information
I had found out. And that same week,
I applied for a position as an independent
transcriptionist, independent contractor in
a transcription company. The company is called Verbit. It still exists up to now. I mean, this is not
many years ago, but it was my first company
and it was kind of new. Obviously, there's a
learning curve to that because I didn't know what
I was doing, honestly. And just as my
experience with writing, most most of my
transcripts were rejected, you know, when I first
started working with Fabid. But let me tell you,
once I got the hang of it, my income increased. And so I had three
sources of income, folks. We're talking about
writing mentorship, which ended, you know,
a few months later. And now transcript loved
transcription so much. It changed my life. I
can't even tell you. After that project, there was another opportunity
to be a consultant, an online work consultant. I applied and then and
then got accepted. And I met people, and I've got my first direct
transcription clients. I'm telling you, doors opened, and sometimes I can't even
explain. What happened. In a span of, like, two years, my whole life changed. From an orphan was struggling
to put food on the table, now I had mints. I had more than one
stream of income. If you don't believe that you
can make a living online, learn for my story,
learn from my story. Who I am today has been
shaped by my online work by the fact that I entered this space and
I gave it a chance. Some of the things
that helped me grow to this point from
starting as a scared, 19-year-old who
could not complete an academic writing project to having my own online business, I kind of allowed
myself to learn. I was open to learning.
I was open minded. I said, I don't know
anything about this, but I've made some
money from it, which means it's promising
and I can make more. What do I need to
do? To make more. So I was open to learning. I did a lot of research. When I got my job
as a consultant, I met other people
who are doing this, and I tried my best to learn
as much as I can from them. So when I failed, when my work got rejected,
I didn't just give up. Sometimes I'd sacrifice
the only money I had to buy data bundles
so I can get access, so I can access the Internet
and complete a project, and then it gets rejected. And now I have lost everything,
but I never gave up. Obviously, I'd cry in a corner
for maybe a day or two, but after that, I'd
pick myself up. And go at it again. And there's nothing
as beautiful as resilience when it comes
to working online, especially if you know
nothing about it. And obviously, interacting
with people and being part of a project that was
dealing with online work. I got so many people to kind of guide me to share
their experiences, the lessons they've learned, got access to resources. That indirect support
made it a bit easier for. What I'll tell you when you're
getting into this space is when you have to be willing
to take a chance on yourself. Don't underestimate yourself. Give yourself a
chance to prevail, to try to learn. You'll surprise yourself,
I'm telling you. Be open to learning. You don't know everything, and there is so much to learn. You also need to be
patient and resilient, as I mentioned, because
this thing takes time. Obviously, you can
make it in a week, a month, how long it takes for you to make
it. I don't know. It depends on your hard work, how much effort
you're putting in, the opportunities
you have access to, and all that, but it's
good to be patient. Sometimes things don't work out the way you want
them to work out, but that doesn't mean
that you failed. So be patient and be resilient. Stick to it and do it and
get up when you fail. Surprised by what you
can build when you stay patient and resilient. If I did it, you can, too. I was young. I knew very little about this
space, but I still did it. So what's stopping
you from doing it with all the resources
you have access to. Now, the task for this lesson is I'd like you
to write down why you want to make
money online and what you are willing to
do to achieve this. Knowing your why and what
you're willing to do will help you stay
motivated and focused. Now that you know my story, let's move on to creating
your own plan to start making money
online from scratch.
4. Why Make Money Online: You ever wondered what your
life would look like if you could work from anywhere
in the world at any time? Now, in this lesson, I'm going to officially introduce you to the concept of making money online and why it's
a valuable pursuit. Now, you see the Internet has made the world a
global marketplace, and studies show that
majority of people nowadays are interested in one of these three things
or two or all of them. One, to get into remote work, get an online job or
start an online business. This tells you that
making money online is becoming more popular by day. I'm telling you the
number of people who are even interested
in making money online. When I started back in
2017, have tripled today. And this will continue growing. So if you're taking
advantage of this thing, if you're interested in it,
this is the time to start. You know, the beauty
of working online is that it's not like
traditional work. It's accessible to everybody, as long as you have an
Internet connection, you can't take part. You can't get a remote, get an online job, or
start an online business. You see, there are benefits
to making money online, and one of them is
flexibility. I asked you. Imagine how your
life would be if you could work from anywhere
in the world at any time. You see, I moved from Kenya to England and
my work didn't stop. And then I recently just
came back to Kenya, and my work still
continues because my work isn't dependent
on my location, and I don't have
to wake up at 8:00 A.M. Can wake up at 11:00 A.M. Sometimes I feel like, you know, I don't want
to work during the day. I'm going to work at
night the whole night. There are days I'm like today, I just want to do some self. I'm going to stay in
sleeping, watch a movie, and just take care of myself and my work will not be
affected in any way. There's that flexibility
to work at your own time, set your own work hours, and work from anywhere. W from a cafe, work
from your home, work from a restaurant,
work from the park. The second benefits is the opportunities
available online. They are so diverse. I was telling someone when you
think about online work. Look at the traditional
traditional market. You see the way there
are so many roles now triple that because the Internet has created more opportunities
for everybody. So if you're interested in
data entry, you can do that. If you want to be
a sales engineer and work remotely,
you can do that. If you want to be a consultant, virtual assistant, like, the opportunities
are so diverse. The probability of you getting exactly what you're
looking for is so high. And then there are
niche markets. I mean, if you're not interested in what's already available, you can create your own thing. Have you seen people
who've started online businesses
that are so unique? Like, you know, I don't want to do what everybody else is doing. I'll teach people how to
organize their laundry, and I will create a business
online business out of that. So you can create your own
thing if you feel like it doesn't exist in
the market at that. And the third benefit, of course, is scalability. I mean, the potential to make as much money as you can make
in this world is so high. You can scale your
income over time. You know, traditional work, traditional
employment, you know, you can be earning the same
amount of money for years, but online work allows
you to scale your income. This month you might make $500. Next month, it might be $3,000. Three years, you
might be making three times that because online
work is easy to scale. And there's room for
growth, you know, both professionally
and personally. Let me tell you the
amount of things, the amount of
knowledge I have now compared to what I knew
when I first started. I can't even start
to explain how much I have grown as a person. You see, being self employed
and working for yourself, there's so many things
you need to do. There's so much growth needed in terms of discipline,
resilience, patience, communication
because you're required to do a lot to
keep yourself grounded, to grow yourself, to
know when it's time to leave something and start something to know when it's
time to drop a client, to know how to
communicate to a client, how to retain them, how to
get them, come on board. So you get to grow so
much professionally and personally become
more disciplined. I feel like you also
become more ambitious. So I have learned so much in the seven years that I have
been doing this thing, and I thank God that I
came into this space because I'm looking back to the jobs that I go,
the traditional jobs. There's only one workplace that had opportunities
for growth, not as much as online
work gives me, but only one place that
could come even close. You're probably wondering, Tis, is this for me? This
is for everybody. Online work is for beginners
without experience. In fact, you don't
even have to be a graduate to take
advantage of this. You might have dropped out
of school in high school. It is so because, you know, you can learn, you
learn as you go. You don't need to
have learned and gained experience for you
to take advantage of this. You can get into the space, and then you grow with it.
That is the beauty of it. When I started transcription, I didn't know nothing
about it, but I learned. And now I call myself an
expert transcriptionist. When I started
digital marketing, I didn't know anything
about it and look at me this is for side hustlers. For people who are not looking
to go into this full time, they just want to, you
know, do it on the side. They have other commitments. Maybe you have a full
time job, a nine to five, you don't want to
leave that you're just looking for something
to do on the side. This is for you.
This is also for those people who want
to change careers. Maybe they are looking to pivot. You want to try out a different field without
committing fully to it. Online work is for you because it gives you sort
of that flexibility. It's something you can do at your own time and you
can't stop at any time. So if you are a
beginner, no experience, no education qualification,
I mean, obviously, you need to know how to operate
a computer and all that. Side hustlers, people looking to get some extra
income on the side, people looking to
pivot change careers, this is for you and everybody
else I haven't mentioned. Now, there's something
I haven't talked about, and that is the
financial potential. You know, unlike
traditional work, that is kind of constraint
in the online space, you can diversify your income. You don't just have
to do one thing. You can be a creator,
a consultant. You can sell stuff. You
can be so many things. So you'll have many
streams of income, active and passive
streams of income. And that is why it is so easy to make as much money
as you earn from online work compared
to traditional a friend of mine who
started just as a writer, and today he has his own agency. He used to write for people. He'd get gigs on Facebook
and he'd get paid, just a few dollars
here and there. But today, he has
his own agency. He has his own blog. He trains people in writing. He has direct clients. He has writers who work for him. He's invited as a guest
speaker at different events. So you see, he has diversified his income so that when maybe one thing is not
bringing in money, there's something else
that is bringing in when all these trims
bring in money, imagine the kind of
life he's living. One of the main benefits of online work for me is freedom. Financial freedom for one. Can you imagine if you can live a life where money is
not a problem, really? Money is not coming the
way of your decisions. And to this lifestyle freedom, you get to wake up when you want to live where
you want to live. Like, imagine the ability to spend more time
with your family, to travel the world
while still working. If you ask me Tess, why are you so passionate
about online work? This is why freedom or
even freedom to learn, freedom to grow at your own
pace, at your own time, to learn whatever
you want to learn, it's priceless, I'm telling you. What I'm trying to
say is making money online can completely
change someone's life. It can change your life if you want it to if
you allow it to. Now, for this lessons task, I'd like you to revisit
the previous lesson. Look at the reasons you wrote down why you want to
make money online. And then think about
the things we've talked about in this lesson and then revise your reasons to make money online
or add on to them. Add on to the reasons why making money online
is important to you. Now, in the coming lessons, I will guide you through exactly how to start your journey, no matter where
you are right now.
5. Mindset for Success: Let's talk about
mindset for success. Now, you see the mental attitude you have while going into this and while doing it contributes greatly
to your success. Your mindset kind of
influences your behavior. Your behavior influences
your actions, and your actions
influence your output, and your output
influence your success. You mindset can help you navigate obstacles because
they are there and you need to be strong enough
and disciplined enough mentally to navigate them and to overcome the challenges
that you will face. You see, for you to understand
why mindset is important, I have to tell you
that making money online is not a get
rich quick scheme. That is why we talked about
patience and resilience. I tell people, when
thinking about online work, just imagine it's
traditional work, but now you're doing it online. The dynamics might be different, but the rules are the same. For you to succeed
in traditional work, for instance, you need
to be disciplined. And discipline is part of mindset when it comes
to making money online. Now that you know it's not
a get rich quick scheme, and you know that
you need discipline. Let's talk about growth
mindset and fixed mindset. Now, having a growth
mindset means you believe that abilities
can be developed, skills can be learned,
knowledge can be gained. You believe that challenges are here to instruct
you to guide you, that failure is part
and parcel of success. So when you have
a growth mindset, you know that if you put
in effort in something, if you learn a bit more, educate yourself a bit more. Be able to have
different outcomes from what you had when you knew
little about something. Now, fixed mindset,
on the other hand, is where you think
everything is static. You're like, I will not go
into this space because I know nothing about it and you don't believe you can learn. You want to pivot, you
want to change careers. You want to try something else, but you're held back by your fixed mindset because
you how will I learn that? I don't know
anything about that. I don't know how to navigate
my way around a computer. That's a fixed mindset. The beauty of a growth
mindset is that it's easy to embrace challenges
and overcome them. When you have a fixed mindset, you're more likely
to avoid challenges. I'd really love to
make money online, but I don't know how
to use computers, so I'll just leave
that and continue with my nine to five or
I'll just, you know, I won't try because after all, I am not good at tech or I
am not good at this thing. So when you have
a fixed mindset, you just don't try things. You avoid them completely because you don't
think you can learn, you can gain skills
and abilities and become good at something that you were once not good at. And that is the mindset
you need to drop if you want to succeed in
making money online. A growth mindset will go a long way in helping you
succeed in this space. It will also help you
overcome challenges, especially some of the
common challenges that beginners face,
Imposter syndrome. Have you ever felt like you are a pretender? You know nothing. Imposter syndrome is
this feeling of being unqualified to do something even when you are
competent in that thing. There are times I feel like, Oh, my God, am I really
good at this thing? I really help my client? The way I'm telling
them, I will help them? That is imposter syndrome. When I start
thinking about that, my mindset helps me
get over that quickly. So a growth mindset helps
you deal with things like this because if
there's something that's making you feel
like an imposter, you tell yourself,
but I can learn. Or if you already
know something, you feeling like an imposter, you know, when you
have a growth mindset, you're able to sit down and say, no, this is what I'm good
at. Here is the evidence. So growth mindset kind
of helps you overcome the imposter syndrome
that you feel when you are a beginner
and you will feel it. Challenge that a lot
of beginners face that a growth mindset will help you overcome is fear of failure. You're thinking, people are making money here or
people are doing this, but can I do it?
Maybe I will fail. I'm not good at it. Maybe
even if I try to learn, I just won't be as
good as I want to be. That is fear of failure. You're afraid that
you will fail. With a growth mindset, you view failure as
learning opportunity. When you start
thinking, What if I fail, you tell yourself, I will learn through it because every failure is a lesson. There's also good
old procrastination. You're delaying task
unnecessarily, putting things off. And that is very
common, very normal. I also procrastinate sometimes, but I try not to as
much as possible. The way I overcome
procrastination is I break tasks
into smaller steps, and then I set deadlines. If I have broken a huge
task into five steps, I give each step a deadline. When should I have
completed this thing? So that is how you
avoid procrastination, making sure that
you have a deadline so you won't procrastinate. We talked about resilience, and this is part
of success mindset when it comes to
making money online. So for you to build resilience, there are three
things you can do. One, accept setbacks, accept challenges as
part of the process. Two, you really need to
celebrate small wins. Like, if you achieve something, let's say you broke a huge
task into small steps and maybe you had ten steps and you've completed
five, celebrate that. Or maybe you just completed one. Celebrate that, pour yourself
a glass of wine and say, Cheers to me, done and dusted. Celebrate small wins to
keep yourself motivated. And through this
persistence, persist. Don't give up, persist. The more you try something, the more you're
likely to succeed. In fact, if you have
evidence of some of the things that you persisted in and you eventually
succeeded in, use that as your foundation. So resilience is built
through persistence, through accepting
failure and challenges, and through celebrating
small ones. Some of the practical tips
that I can give you to build a success mindset is
to set smart goals. I know you've heard
this so many times. Set smart goals, specific, measurable, attainable,
realistic, time bound. Tip number two is to
be open to learning. I have started this
class by saying that, and I will continue seeing that. Push yourself to gain knowledge, to gain skills,
continue developing yourself both personally
and professionally. And then be positive,
cultivate positivity. Surround yourself
with positivity. Find yourself people who are doing this and they
are positive about it. Read books that kind
of keep you motivated, watch movies, watch videos
that keep you motivated. Surround yourself
with positivity, not negativity, not people who are saying
this doesn't work. This is a scam,
blah, blah, blah. Those once they
kill your morale, make sure that your
environment is as positive as possible to cultivate
that success mindset. Now, practical tip number
four is to visualize, just imagine yourself in
that moment of success. If your goal is to
make $10,000 a month, imagine yourself looking
at your bank balance, and it reads $10,000. See yourself where
you want to be, and that helps you kind
of stay motivated. I like to do this a lot. Sometimes when I'm
feeling down or when I feel demotivated, I just like to see myself
at the end of the road. Obviously, there's no end
to learning and all that, but at my goal, like, I start seeing myself
in that moment where I have hit or
achieved all my goals. And that just keeps me going. Like it reminds me of what I am working for and
what my life will be if I complete that task
that's going to get me there. If I complete the project, that's going to
get our self care is part of a success mindset. Taking care of yourself in this journey is going to really, really contribute
to your success. So be mindful of your
physical well being, eat well, get enough sleep. You know, the thing about being self employed and
working for yourself and working online is
your work is with you. So you will constantly fight the urge to
continue working. Sometimes I say I quit
my nine to five to work 16 hours a day because sometimes that
is what it feels like. Your work hours
increase, they double. So kind of making sure
you have a routine, you're getting enough
sleep. That's important. Sleeping enough, eating well, and exercising if you're into it will really help you in terms of your
physical well being. For your mental well
being, just make sure you're taking breaks,
very, very important. Don't just work
constantly because you burnout and there's
nothing as bad as burnout. I ended up wasting a
whole week the other day because this week I worked constantly
without taking a break, and I was so burnt out. The next week, I couldn't
get up from the bed. I wanted to do was to lay
down and watch a movie. I was very demotivated. So take breaks as
many as you can, practice mindfulness, you know, journal, do things that
kind of ease your mind. Self care is very important when it comes to making
money online because this is a journey
that doesn't really end if you hit one goal, maybe your goal was to make
$5,000, you'd want more. So you don't want to be in
a constant state of working because that will ruin you
in terms of your health, and that will work against your success mindset because you start thinking,
This is too hard. I'm working too much.
I prefer nine to five because at least there was a limit to how much
I was working. So the bottom line of
this lesson is that the right mindset is very
crucial for success. I'd like you to reflect
on your mindset. Down your weaknesses
and strengths in relation to your mindset
for online work. Talk about things
like time management, adaptability, talk
about persistence. Now, in the next lesson, we will explore some of
the ways you can start making money online as a
beginner. I'll see you there.
6. Easy Online Jobs You Can Start Today: Ready to dive into the actual opportunities
waiting for you. In this lesson, I'm going to introduce you to
relatively easy jobs that are accessible to beginners and form a good entry point for, you know, someone who's starting their make money online journey. One of the online jobs
is transcription, which is very close to my heart. I'm very passionate
about transcription because it changed my life. I have a transcription business which I have built
over the years. Now, transcription is
basically converting audio or video files
into text files. Do a lot of listening. It's listening and typing. You need to have good
listening skills and be good at typing. At least 40 words per minute
is a good place to start. Transcription can
get complicated sometimes because there
are also rules to follow instructions to
follow and transcribing depending on the
client you're working for or the company
you're working for. Your grammar also needs
to be good and you also need to be good at
doing a bit of research, finding out spelling
of names and all that. Now, some of the platforms where you can get
transcription jobs for beginners is good
transcript, transcribe bit. There is Rev, that's
very popular. I mean, there are so many
transcription companies. Some accept beginners,
others don't. There's daily transcription. So for you to find, like, the company that works for you, I usually advise beginners to register on as many as possible. If you're completely new and you've not done
your due diligence, you might be rejected. Your first application
might be rejected. Registering on
platforms and getting the feel of it and doing the
transcription tests kind of introduces you into the transcription world
in a very nice way. I think it's the best way to
get started in this field. So there are more
transcription companies more than what I have mentioned. Here, all you have to
do is do research. Now, as a beginner
transcriptionist, you won't be able to make much, so don't have,
high expectations. I usually say that
when you're starting, it's best to have learning
as your priority. You're trying to understand
the space, the field, you're learning what
transcription is, how to do it, what do
employers look for? What's a good transcript. And now, once you've
practiced a bit more, I usually like to
use these platforms as an opportunity to practice as you build expertise and get ready to now get
high paying roles. Online job that's
easy to do and very accessible for beginners
is data entry. Data entry is simply kind of inputting data into
systems and spreadsheets. This is one of the
most in demand and easiest online job
that anybody can do. So you can imagine a lot of people are interested
in data entry, which means you won't
make big bucks from data entry because the jobs are easy and everybody's
looking for them. So with this jobs don't pay much because they know
there are so many people looking for the jobs. Now to get access to
beginner data entry jobs, register on platforms like
Amazon Mechanical tack, click Worker, one Former, A W. Even fiber, you can get data entry jobs, depends on how good your profile is and
where you're looking. There are more platforms like apen where you can
get data entry jobs. So be sure to do your research. Don't just settle on
what I have mentioned. Here, the third online
job is freelance writing, which is what I started with. Now, there are different
types of writing this academic writing, which
is what I started with, and honestly, it proved
to be difficult for me, so I discarded that and then
I went into article writing. There's also research writing. I usually advise
beginners to try with different kinds of writing to kind of figure out what
you're really good at. So you can settle
for one or two. If you can do multiple types of writing, like copywriting, article writing,
research writing, good for you because
you have more opportunities to make money. Now, some of the
platforms you can look into in order to get
writing jobs is fiber, there's people per
hour, there's work. The text broker,
this eye writer, where I start constant content where you can actually even sell articles you've
written before or you write articles and then
sell on constant content. So there are many, many
writing platforms. All you have to do
is do your research. I will say this for all the jobs I will mention
because don't think the platforms I mentioned
are the only ones available. The fourth easy online job
that you can do that will form a good entry point for you as a beginner is
virtual assistant. Being a virtual assistant is simply being somebody's
personal assistant. Only difference is
you'll be doing this virtually from wherever
you live in the world. Now, this is simply
assisting a business or an individual
with admin tasks. It can be email management,
calendar management, writing. The tasks are so many. What really matters is
what do you want to do? What kind of help do you want to offer businesses
and individuals? And virtual assistance is an in demand kind of online job. And in fact, you can even
create a business out of it. You don't have to
just do it beginner, you can decide to start as a beginner and grow
professionally, get your own clients, and, you know,
increase your income. As a beginner, you
won't make a lot of money really because you're
just getting started. There's so much you don't know, but the more you learn, the more you grow,
the more you get access to many high
earning opportunities. Some of the platforms to get virtual assistant jobs
is Bile Solutions. There's Zito, there's 247 Virtual Assistant,
and many more. All you have to do is perform
a simple Google search, say Virtual assistant
jobs for beginners and you'll get many
companies where you can, you know, apply and start
working as a virtual assistant. There are also online
surveys and microtasks that honestly don't pay as much as the other jobs
I have mentioned, but you can also try them out. These are just tasks here
and there, downloading up, testing stuff here and there that you can get started
with and, you know, have a feel of how
working online feels like or experience
it for the first time. One I mentioned
in this lesson is user testing jobs where you
test apps and websites, it's good for beginners and you get paid per test per task, you can get you can earn
$10 per task, $20, $30. It all depends on the
platform you are working for. You can find user
testing jobs on platforms usertesting.com, and many more, make sure
to do your research. Order to get started
with these online jobs, number one is to do
your research and identify a company that you want to start
with or companies. Let's say you've decided
you're going to go with Virtual assistance and
from your research, you think 247 Virtual assistance is a good place to start. The next thing you do is to
register on the platform. Same applies to maybe
writing and transcription. Maybe you want to
start with Upwork. The next thing you
do is to create an account on
APWTreate a profile, register on your
company of choice, your platform of choice, your market place of choice,
optimize your profile. I know you are a beginner, but it's important to try and build a profile that
would attract a client, especially if you
are registering on platforms like
fiber and Upwork. If you are registering on companies like Rev
and Transcribe M, they will tell you what
you need to do to get in. They will maybe
require you to pass a transcription test
or a writing test. So there are freelance
platforms or freelance marketplaces
like Upwork and fiber in P per hour, where all you have to do
is create an account, optimize your profile, and
then start applying for jobs. Then there are job specific platforms like for
transcription. The Rev, for writing
this eye writer, they also have their
own requirements. They will need to pass
a test before they accept you and stuff
like that. So be ready. Not all platforms are the
same, but all the same, you will need to create a
profile or create an account, go through the
application process, and to give yourself an edge, it's good to put
together a portfolio. Now, if you're looking to start with transcription, go online, look for short
audio, short videos, and transcribe them, and then put those in
your portfolio. If you want to start with
writing, do the same, write an article on something and start on your portfolio. So it's good to just
have some projects that you've done
whether for yourself, for a friend or for a client. This will give you a boost when looking for
jobs as a beginner. When getting started, it's important to manage
expectations, especially when it
comes to income. Like I said, my advice
to beginners is your priority when you're starting should be
to gain knowledge, to understand how
does this thing work? What do I need to be better? What do I need to produce
better transcripts, better write ups,
better articles, you know, to become a
better bachor assistant. So it's good to manage
your income expectations. Don't expect to just get started today and tomorrow
you've made $1,000. So be realistic about your initial earnings and know that when it comes
to these online jobs, the more you work,
the more you earn. So I remember if
you wanted to make a lot of money from
VABIt for example, when I was starting on it, I had to do more work. I had to transcribe more files. So the more you work,
the more you earn. Now, as you get started, you will need to work on
your communication skills because this will go a long way in helping you get clients. You need to work on your time management
because like I said, the more transcription files
I did, the more I earn. So I wanted to do a transcription
file as fast as I can, so I can be able to do
more and earn more. So time management is important. Don't write one article
for a whole week. That means you'll only get
paid for that one article. But if you can manage your time well and work
on an article a day, you make more and someone who's working
on one at collar week. So you see managing your time and being able to
work more and deliver quality work in
their located time or their allotted time is very important because
their timelines when it comes to these
jobs like transcription, if you're working on a platform, let's say you're
working on Verbit, you'll have some
sort of a deadline. They'll give you like 3
hours to complete a file, a three minute file
or five minute file. So you need to be
able to complete your task within
their located time. You don't want to
kind of disappoint the person who's
giving you the job, whether it's the platform or a direct client because that works against you
get bad reviews. Which work against you. Obviously, another
skill to develop is quality improvement. I usually say quality is what matters when
working online. The more quality
work we produce, the more clients and
platforms trust you, the better your reviews,
the more money you earn. So make sure you are providing quality every time with
every task you complete. If you prioritize money
and you do a shody job, you will not make that money, but if you prioritize quality, there's a probability you always get paid for
the work you do. Focus on improving quality, managing your time, and improving your
communication skills. Now, tips for you that will help you make more
as a beginner one, try different online jobs. You don't have to just do
writing or virtual assistants. You can be working on
a writing job here, and here you've applied
for a transcription job. The more jobs you do, the
more you're able to earn and when you try
different online jobs, you're able to know
what am I good at? What should I put
more effort in? Don't just rule out
something without trying it. For me, I tried so many
jobs, data analysis, web development, writing,
even academic writing, and I figure out
it's not for me. I realized web development
takes so much time. I'm a web developer
professionally. It's a skill I have, but I
was like, I can't do this. So you have to identify
what works for you. And for you to do
this, you need to try different online jobs and make sure kind of using
your transferable skills. Well, now transferable
skills are the skills you gained in roles that were not related to
what you want to do. Like, maybe you are a secretary. So try to use the typing
skills you got from your secretarial job to kind of give you an edge when applying
for a transcription job. So make use of
transferable skills. Now, just to summarize
this whole thing, you don't need special
skills to start. There are online jobs that you can get started
with as a beginner, and you can learn as you go. So don't shy away from
starting from zero. I'd like you to identify an online job or online jobs
that stand out for you. The one that you think
you're going to start with and write down why you are drawn to this online job or
these online jobs. So identify an online
job or online jobs that stand out to you and why
they stand out to you. In the next lesson, we
are going to cover how to set realistic income
goals. I'll see you there.
7. Setting Realistic Income Goals: Setting clear income
goals is like setting a destination
on your GPS. In this lesson, we are going to cover how to set short term and long term income goals because goals kind of
provide direction. When I said, it's like setting a destination on your GPS, you need to know
where you're going. And for you to map
out a route or for Google Maps to map
out a route for you, you need to know exactly
where you're going. It kind of keeps you
motivated to keep going. You know, when you've
started working and you are three quarter
or halfway done, you're like, Let me keep going. I am almost done. Being able to see that progress
keeps you motivated. Number three, it's easy
to measure your progress. Like, how far have I come? My goal is $3,000 a month.
Where am I right now? I am at $500 a month. Okay, so you're able to
measure your progress. That is the importance of
setting clear income goals. There are two types of goals. One is short term goals. This is where let's
say you say, I want to make $200 in my first month. Short term. Now, there
are also long term goals. You see, within my first
year working online, I want to build up
to $2,000 a month. For this one, it's one month. You want to achieve $200
in your first month. So if your first
month is September, then by the end of September, you need to have
achieved to $200. The long term goal here, you've given yourself
a whole year to build up to $2,000 a month. So you might start with $200 to 500 to 700 until
you get to $2,000. Setting realistic goals
is very important. I'd advise you to
first start small. Don't set overwhelmingly
big goals because they will
demotivate you. Because if you're getting
started and you say, in my first month, I
want to make $5,000. And then you make $100,
how are you gonna feel? Plus, it's not realistic to make $5,000 in your first month. Let's say you've
started with jobs like transcription
jobs or writing. You might. I'm not
saying it's impossible, but for most people,
it's not realistic. So it's important not overwhelm yourself with setting an
extremely outrageous goal. When I first started, I made $20 in the month that I
actually got paid $20. And then I said,
If I can make 20, maybe I can make 70. So let me aim for 70 in the
next month. Now I've made 70. Let me aim for 100 in the next. Until I build up my income
to $2,000 $2,500 a month, I started small and then
increased over time. Now, as you gain experience, you'll be able to
adjust your goals. So start small and then
build over time, adjust. Don't be afraid to adjust. You can also set
platform specific goals. Like I said, you can try
different online jobs. Let's say you want to be
making $50 from Rev in a week. And then from upwork you
want to make $200 in a week. From Transcribe me, you want
to make $500 in a month. Platform specific goals will help you build up
to your main goal. So first, you need to research the income potential
for each platform. How much do transcribers
on Rev make? How much do writers
on text broker make? How much in then you set your realistic goals within the margins that you find out. So having these small
goals, split goals, like platform specific,
it's very easy to kind of track them to know which
platform makes me more money. Which platform do I need
to put more effort? Which platform makes
me zero money, and I'm spending so
much time on it? Which platform do I drop? Because it's probably
wasting your time. Where do you double your effort? So platform specific goals
kind of just helps you attain your main goal and helps you track
your goals better. It's important for you
to track your progress. Have a spreadsheet
where you put in, how much you've earned
from which platform, how much you earned every month? Has it increased gone down? Use spreadsheets,
use different apps, even just track on your journal, make sure you know where
you are at and when. At the end of every month, assess your income and see, last month I made this,
this month I made this. What did I do differently? Did I do more files? I get high paying jobs, it's very easy to keep track of your progress if
you do regular reviews, assess your progress
periodically regularly so you can track
your performance and your progress better
and be able to reach or to hit your targets faster. Now, the take lesson for you, I hope is starting is the
most important thing to do. I mean, do you know the
main reason most people are not making money online is because
they never started. So starting is the
most important thing. Building momentum helps you
grow day by day, day by day. Setting realistic income goals helps one manage disappointment. Now let's add a piece
to your plan, shall we. For this lesson, your task is to set a clear income goal
for your first month. How much do you want to earn from online work in
your first month? Next to that or below that, please indicate the platform you want to start
with. Is it Rev? Is it up work? Is it five? Is it transcribe?
Is it per hour? Is it another platform
you found out? Please note this down. How much you want to earn in your first month
and the platform? What platforms you
want to start with. In the next lesson, we look at the basic tools you will
need to get started.
8. Tools and Equipment You Need to Start: Now let's ensure
you have everything you need to start
making money online. In this lesson, we are
going to talk about some of the tools you will
need to get started. Now, there are some basic
equipment that you will need. Number one, a laptop. A laptop is very important
when working online. I mean, there are jobs you
can do from your smartphone, but a laptop is going to
make your work very easy. So make sure you have access to a laptop, a desktop computer, or a smartphone, if, to be honest, that
is all you have. When it comes to laptops, don't think high end. You know, a laptop
that works is okay. When it comes to working online, writing an article or
doing transcription, you know, a laptop that has the basic requirements
works just fine. So don't break the bank trying to get the most
expensive laptop. To Internet access,
very important. Remember, everything you're
doing is on the Internet. To access the Internet, you need Internet access. Do you have Wi Fi? Are you
able to afford data bundles? What do you have access to? Do you have a place you can
go where there's Wi Fi? So stable and relatively fast
Internet is very important. Number three, might need a pair of headphones
or headsets. Let's say you are interested
in transcription. That is what you want
to get started with. You will most definitely need headphones, headsets
or earphones. The most basic earphones
or headsets will do. What matters is, can you hear clearly what people
are saying? That's it. So you don't have to
break the bank again to get yourself the most
expensive headphones. Just go for, you know, the ones that work
properly for you. Those are some of
the basic tools you need to get started
with online work. There are other tools
you need like software. You need Google Docs
or Microsoft Word. As long as you have access to the software that
kind of make you day to day easy that
enable you to perform your functions day to
day, you go to go. It doesn't matter which
brand or company you use. Need Canva to design
a few things here and there if you are
a virtual assistant, or if your job, your online job is creative where you need to
make posters and all that. Canva will come in handy and there's a free
version for this, so you don't have to worry
about paying for it. Now, for meetings and calls, you might need Skype, Zoom, or Google Mid. According to what
you want to do, do you think you will need this? If yes, then make sure you have a way to
get access to them? You might grab yourself a free version of the tools
or use someone else's. Now, the also optional tools. One optional tool I
will suggest for you is a hard drive to
store your files. You don't want to lose
access to your files to your clients
files, your audios, your videos, have a hard drive, an external one
where you can store your files just for safekeeping. And just so other
people don't access your confidential files
because some of these jobs, you have to sign a
confidentiality agreement. So you want to actually maintain confidentiality in your hard
drive will come in handy. Now, this is my hard drive. I go with it everywhere.
It's like a baby. To me, I never leave it, and all my files are
in this hard drive. You can also grab yourself some productivity
tools that are free, like a sana, Trello that will kind of just help you track
productivity and all that. These are optional if you
feel like you need them, but you can also
track progress and productivity on your channel if you don't have
these tools already, you will need to get access
to them or purchase them. If you're looking for
budget friendly tools, you want to go for
refurbished laptops. If it's a laptop, you don't have second hand headphones
as long as they work, try not to break the bank. Just go for budget
friendly stuff, refurbished, second hand. For software, use
the free versions. Most of the software,
they have free versions. You don't have to pay
for a pro version if the free version works fine. Now, you also need a workspace, a place to work from nothing as bad as not having a comfortable, quiet place to transcribe
files from or to write from. You don't want to be doing
this work in the living room where everybody is
seated and making stories because that
is very destructive. So get yourself a
comfortable setup. Get a desk and put it in your bedroom if that is the only space you
have access to. Get a comfortable
chair because you don't want to
develop back issues. So get yourself as a
comfortable chair. It doesn't have to be expensive. Get a second hand if you must. And make sure you are as
comfortable as possible. Having a separate place to work also kind of
gives you motivation. It gives you that feel like,
you know, this is important. If I head to work from my bed, nothing would ever get done. So when I go into a new place, even if I'm living in
that space temporarily, I make sure I have a desk
and a chair if I don't. That is the first thing I buy. This is important. It
kind of differentiates your living space
and your workspace and kind of creates
that separation. Dedicated workspace also
helps you avoid distractions. You want to be in a space where people are not coming and going. People are not
talking around you. They're not distracting you from completing your
tasks and all that. My advice, start
with what you have. Don't try to get the
most expensive stuff. If you have the basic
start with that. If you can borrow, do that. You want to make sure
you beginning is simple and it's not costing
you more than you have. Start with what you have
and keep it simple. Then when you start
making money, you will upgrade with time. With time, you'll have maybe
the most expensive tools, the most expensive laptop, but as you're beginning, honestly, you don't need them. You don't need fancy
equipment to get started. What you have is enough. The most important
thing is to start. You can build everything
else over like you to take inventory of the tools and equipment that
you have access to. Do you have access to a laptop, headphones, Internet access? Word, please make sure you
note everything you have down. Either you have it or
you can get access to it easily. Note it down. That's the task for this lesson. Now, in the next lesson, we will talk about
high income skills that you can learn and earn more
9. High-Income Skills to Earn More: Boost your income, investing in skill development
is essential. So in this lesson, I'm going
to introduce you some of the high income skills that you can learn to kind of
boost your income. Online jobs are great, but some of them
will not make you as much money as you'd like. So if you need to
actually be financially free and to be able to
cater for all your needs, then you will need to learn a high income skill or
high income skills. High income skills are important because they have a
high earning potential. Number two, high income
skills tend to be in demand and skills that are
in demand tend to pay more. Now, remember when I
said that skills like data entry are very
much in demand. So you find that the demand for them is higher
than the supply. Now, you find that it's the opposite for
high income skills. Market demand for
high income skills is high in that there are more jobs than there are skilled professionals
able to fill that gap, provide the services needed in the quality that is needed, and that is why they
tend to pay more. High income skills also tend to kind of open doors
of opportunities, opportunities for growth,
business opportunities. If you're looking
to scale and make more money and kind
of build a business, then high income skills
are the way to go. Now, the first high
income skill I'm going to highlight in this lesson
is digital marketing. In digital marketing, we have
search engine optimization. We have social media marketing, we have email marketing. So there are divers roles and diverse skill sets when it
comes to digital marketing. Digital marketing is valuable because brands and
businesses always want to put their products and services in front of
their customers online. Most people are online nowadays, and every brand wants to make sure that what
they are offering, what they are selling
is getting or reaching the audience
that they are targeting, and that is where digital
marketing comes in. So if you are specialized in
search engine optimization, for instance, you'll
be able to help brands kind of reach
their target audience. There's also paid
ads where brands pay you to run ads for
them to set ads for them. And the demand for
digital marketing grows day by day and there are so many opportunities
in digital marketing. This is one of the best high
income skills to learn. The second high
income skill that you can give a chance
is copywriting. Now, copywriting is writing persuasive materials
for marketing purposes. You see, when you're
writing an email, it needs to be persuasive. Copywriter comes in
to make sure that your email copy is persuasive, that it's convincing enough. You're convincing someone to take an action to buy something, to register some,
blah, blah, blah. Copywriting is writing
copies that sell, whether you're writing
emails, captions, whatever you're writing,
you want when a brand wants a customer to read that and to be convinced
to take action. That is where
copywriting comes in, like digital marketing, it's in demand has high
earning potential, so it's a good skill
to invest be helping brands and businesses drive sales and customer engagement. These aspects are very, very important to every brand
and every business online. The third high income
skill you might want to learn is graphic design. If you are a creative person who's interested in
designing stuff for people, then graphic design is a
beautiful path for you to take. Now, you see visual content is very crucial for
marketing and branding. As a creator, there's nothing as important as a
good thumbnail. A good graphic
designer will create a beautiful thumbnail.
Or ahoster. So graphic designers design different materials
that businesses, individuals and brands use for their marketing
and branding. And the more the Internet grows, the more online work
becomes in demand. The more people start
online businesses, the more the demand for
graphic designers increases. As a graphic designer, you'll be using tools
like Photoshop, AdobPhotoshop, Canva,
Illustrator to name but a few. Now, high income skill number
four is web development. Everybody knows this is an in demand skill and
it pays really well. Brands, businesses,
individuals want to position themselves
in the market online, and our website is usually
the best way to do that. That is where our web developer comes in and there
are so many brands, so many businesses, so many
individuals looking for this. Although AI is
coming in into this, human beings are still needed to design functional website. There are brands
and businesses and individuals who don't want
anything to do with AI, they'd like somebody to create their website
from scratch. Don't shy away from learning web development just
because AI is coming in, humans will always be needed. And in web development, you'll be using languages
like HTML, CSS, Java. These are things you need
to learn in order to become a web developer and take advantage of the opportunities
that exist in this space. Data analysis is another
high income skill that if you can you must learn
to earn more money. As a statistician by profession, I can tell you for
sure that there are so many opportunities
in data online. There's so much data that
needs to be analyzed. In marketing, digital marketers, there are those who
specialize in analysis. They need to analyze data that comes from their
marketing efforts. Who are trying to grow their
social media accounts. They need to
understand the data, who is coming to their profile, who is taking action. Why did they unsubscribe? Hook Liton, What link? Email marketing. There is
data there to be looked at. There's so much data that
needs to be analyzed, to be studied, to be
understood to be communicated. And that is where a
data analyst comes in. And this is a growing field. And just like digital
marketing and as I have mentioned,
it's in demand. Why? Because businesses,
individuals and brands, they need to make data
driven decisions. They need to understand
their market and what they're selling and how it's selling, and that is
where you come in. As a data analyst,
you'll be using tools like Excel
to analyze data. Google Analytics, CQuL SPSS. There are so many tools
for data analysis. Just make sure that
you're learning the ones that are
very popular and the ones that most employers
or most clients for. Skillshare has over 1,000 classes on different fields
and different topics. So take advantage of
Skillshare to gain as many skills as possible to learn these
high income skills. Now, I know it feels like sometimes you have to learn something at once, but
you don't have to. When it comes to
making money online and growing yourself
professionally and personally, you start small and then you build yourself piece by piece. And that is what will help
you kind of gain skills, feeling like you're overwhelmed by all the things
you have to do. Like, you have to take a class, you have to learn data
analysis in one month. You don't have to first thing you do is to choose a skill. What do you want to learn? Is it digital marketing data analysis? Once you've identified a
skill, set learning goals. You say, I'll be taking one class per month.
That's enough. So allocate a day in a week to learn or allocate a
week to be learning, to be working towards
investing in your skills. So you don't have to
do it all at once. You can do it step by step. And then as you learn,
apply what you learn, implement what you've learned in your freelancing journey. If you've learned that
analysis somewhere, implement it in your work. If you've learned
digital marketing, add it to your portfolio, do something and put
it in your portfolio, optimize your LinkedIn profile. Just make sure your case
is what you're learning. So implement what
you're learning in your day to day in
your work so that it doesn't feel overwhelming
and now you're done and you don't know
where does this go? How do I just implement
it step by step. My advice would be if you're
learning something new, then try and work on a small project regarding
what you're learning. Let's say you're learning
digital marketing and you learn a
topic on analysis, and that is what
impressed you and you want to become a
marketing analyst, then work on a little
marketing analysis project. Get something
online, work on it, put it in your portfolio, and practicing
these things helps you build expertise faster. Now, I know you're going
to face some challenges as you build your skills, as you gain skills as you learn and develop yourself
and to make money, especially when it comes to
these high income skills because they are in
demand for a reason. One of the challenges
you're going to encounter is time
management or you're feeling like you don't
have enough time to do all these things
to work and learn. You goals, your
learning goals and your income goals are going
to come in handy here. You need to know or you
need to try your best. Balance your learning
and your earning. You don't want your learning to overwhelm your earning because
if you're not earning, you won't even be motivated or you won't even be
focused enough to learn. So make sure you are
prioritizing what you need to prioritize at a time and balance the activities
so that you don't get overwhelmed and decide
to stop everything. You can also just network, join communities
to stay motivated. You know, join learning
communities maybe for digital marketing
or data analysis, interact with other people, talk about your challenges,
and this will keep you. Stay motivated in learning. Maybe you'll be study
groups where you set aside 1 hour or so
every day to study. This will help you keep
going and stay motivated. Now, make sure as
you're learning, you are also building
your portfolio. Like I said, it's good
to do small projects. You can also use the practice
exercises and projects you learn in class to kind
of build your portfolio. Like when you take Atlass
there's a project. You can put the project
once you've completed it on your portfolio so
that you don't have to do other separate projects. You can use what
you're learning to kind of or you can use the practice exercises
to build a portfolio. So that's a good tip to
kind of save yourself time. Now, remember that the
certificates you get can be very important in kind of
boosting your credibility. So ensure you showcase these certificates on
your LinkedIn profile. Make sure you highlight
them on your resume, on your social media
platforms if you can Because sometimes they
give you an advantage. They give you an edge instances where clients trust people who've taken the time
to learn something and can show that I learned
this, I completed it. That's why I'm saying
that I'm good at it, especially if you
are entry level. Having a certificate
show that you actually took time to study will
work in your favor. Make sure you showcase
this wherever you can. Now, the takeaway
for this lesson is, I believe that the more learn, the more you earn,
learning leads to earning. So learning is an
important aspect of earning. Here
is a task for you. Identify a high income
skill that you'd like to learn and make sure
you highlight why, write down what do
I want to learn? Or this is what I want to learn, and this is why I
am drawn to this. Or this is why I want to
learn this high income skill. It can't be digital
marketing, copywriting, or any other skill I have mentioned in this lesson
or something else. As long as it's a
high income skill, just write it down and why. Now, next, you're going
to learn how to build your online presence and
why that is important. Stay tuned.
10. Building a Strong Online Presence: Your online presence is
your digital storefront. Let's make it
inviting, shall we? Now, the goal for this
lesson is to help you create and enhance your online profiles and build a personal brand. Now, you're probably
wondering test, why does my online
presence matter? It does one because a good online presence shows a client that
you are professional. You see some clients or companies that you are looking to work with
or to work for, some of them judge you
by your online presence. How is your social profile? How is your social
media profile? How is your Instagram?
From there, they will conclude, is this
person a professional or not. Judge professionalism from
your online presence. Number two, how you've
optimized and created and position yourself
in the online space can help build credibility. People can trust you just by going through your social media profiles and your website. They will go to your
Instagram, you LinkedIn. Especially, and how
you've set it up, the words you've used, the picture, the projects you've highlighted
your certificates, help build trust with clients. The most important
reason for me, though, the other two
are very important. But the priority for me when it comes to creating and
enhancing my online presence, I usually want to be found. I want to be visible. You see, when you
are working online, you want to be able
to find you online. So having well optimized
and well curated online profiles in just create
that visibility for you. Clients are able to find you. People want to work with you are able to find you. They
know where to find. Looking for professional
data analyst or freelance digital
marketing analyst, they find you because you've
put yourself out there. That's the importance of having an online presence
that works for you. Now, the first step to building a strong online presence is
to create a well optimized, strong profile on job platforms, especially because that is the profile people see when
they want to work with you. Let's say you are on Upwork. You profile can
either get a client in the door or they will swipe and look for
somebody else. Want to make sure you're
using a professional photo so people can see that you
are actually a professional. Don't use weird selfies,
don't use things, use a professional
photo for the platforms you register on pw,
F, and all that. Two, your bio has
to be compelling. You need to briefly
describe yourself, your skills, and what you offer in a very
compelling manner. You copy what you
write will make a client or a person
wants to work with you, either reach out or get off your profile and go
look for somebody. A strong profile on job platforms also has
portfolio samples. We've talked about
putting together a portfolio in previous lessons. A portfolio is
important and it's not as scary as it
usually sounds. We talked about taking
practice exercises you've done in class and just adding them
to your portfolio. You do a few projects here and there for your
friends and family and, you know, add them
to your portfolio. As a beginner, I think people actually understand when
you go out of your way to get samples or
to put together a portfolio when you've not
worked with any client, and that shows dedication
and commitment. A portfolio goes a long way, in helping you get the client. People need to know that you
can actually do something. And when you upload
examples of your work, you see a portfolio literally is just a showcase of
work you've done. Now, when you upload examples of your work, trust you better. Or they trust you more than somebody who's not
shown anything. They just said, I
can build websites, but they have nothing to show. They have no evidence
to show that. I can build websites. And this is something I
have done in that regard. Now, the second way to build a strong
portfolio, obviously, moving away from job platforms
like rev and artwork and fiber is to kind of use
social media for branding. Link TI is very important
for professionals. So you want to make
sure that your LinkedIn is not only existing, but it's also optimized for the job or the clients
you want to attract. So optimize your profile
with a professional photo, a convincing buyer,
optimize your roles. Make sure you're communicating every role the way you have described what
you're doing kind of adds up to what
you're looking for. And that is why I said it's important to make
sure you're able to use your transferable
skills. Your advantage. Complete all sections from experience to education
to certifications. Also, consider getting
endorsements from your friends, from
previous colleagues. Let them endorse
you for the skills they know you are good at. My colleagues endorsed me
for data analysis, research, and all that, ask your
friends, family colleagues, previous colleagues,
or current colleagues to endorse you.
And then network. There's nothing as powerful as being able to just exist in the presence of people
who are doing what you want to do or people who've been where
you want to go. That is so powerful.
Their greatness, their wisdom wraps up. It's important to
connect and if you can chat with industry
professionals, learn from them. Now, Instagram and YouTube
are good visual profiles. If you think having an Instagram account
or a YouTube channel, we add to your profile and
just strengthen your profile, then you want to make
sure that they are well positioned for Tube is great if you want to kind of build a community and have
clients come to you. If you want to kind of showcase your knowledge and your
skills and your expertise. YouTube is great.
So is Instagram. How you choose to use
them is what matters. You can also build a
simple portfolio website, like US Wix to just build a simple
website showcasing your there are many beginner friendly website builders like word, press, queer space, use
whichever you want. If you think a portfolio website is important and
might actually add onto your value and help build that credibility
with potential clients. They're very easy to create,
especially if you use these beginner friendly
website builders. All you need to do is to add an about miss
section who you are, your skills, and what value you offer or what
services you offer. Very important to add your
story and your mission because your story is your
biggest qualification. So talk about your story. How do you find yourself
here? What's your mission? What are you trying
to achieve in life? This are some of the things we include in the About me section. Also include the
services you offer. Obviously, you need to tell
people this is what I do. This is what I can offer you. Include contact information. If somebody likes your
portfolio website, you want to make sure they
have a way to reach you. So include an email,
a phone number, or whatever you're
comfortable with. Include it. You have testimonials
or reviews, let's say you have
an apple profile and you've worked for a couple of clients and they left
reviews for you, make sure to include those as testimonials in your
portfolio website. Let me tell you,
reviews actually convince people to buy
from somebody or not too. Sometimes all a person needs
to see is a positive review. So if you have any,
if you can get a good word just put in towards
your skills and services, make sure you include that
in your portfolio website. When it comes to branding, you want to make sure that you are consistent across platforms. You might have a
YouTube or Instagram, a LinkedIn or website, make sure the language
is consistent. What you're offering
is consistent. The skills you say
you have consistent. So be consistent
across platforms. You don't want
somebody to have or get different vibes from you when they look
at you LinkedIn. Then when you go to Instagram, they're getting a
different persona. So be consistent. You
messaging, be consistent in it. If you can use the same photo, use the same colors if you can just to create
that consistency. Then keep your usernames
and handles professional. I mean, news a good username. Is a name that screams. This is a professional. Don't use weird
usernames and handles. Those can work against you. I mean, I don't
think people are so petty, but some are petty. So make sure
everything that you've included in your profile
is working for you. If your public profiles, social media profiles
are supposed to help you get clients or get jobs, then you want to make sure
that they are professional. Avoid putting
professional content. Can also use SCO to just use keywords to
make sure that when somebody's looking for something
related to what you do or a service on whichever
platform, they find you. Now, the takeaway from
this lesson is being intentional about your online
presence is very important. A strong online presence easily attracts the
right opportunities. Now, for this lesson's task, like you to reflect on your
current online presence. Write down three
things you can do to build or improve your
online presence. You can talk about creating a LinkedIn account or updating it if you
already have one. You can talk about building
a portfolio website. You can talk about optimizing your YouTube or starting to
create content on YouTube. Just write at least
three things you can do to improve or build
your online presence. Now, in the next lesson, I will teach you how to find
clients and get remote jobs.
11. Getting Freelance Clients and Remote Jobs: Now let's put your
online presence to work by finding clients or remote job opportunities depending on what interests you. In this lesson, we are going
to learn strategies for acquiring clients or learning
remote job opportunities. When it comes to finding
freelance clients, there are three ways
you can do this. And I'm going to
share what I do. One, as a beginner, the best place or the easiest
place to get clients, especially your first clients
is freelance market places. So these are platforms
like pw freelancer, five, people per
hour, and many more. These platforms already
have potential clients. There are people who go to these platforms just to look
for people to work for them, people to complete
tasks for them. So you create a profile, you tailor it to
the service you're offering or the job
you want to get. And then you apply for the jobs that are
already on the platform. Or for, you know,
platforms like Fiber, clients who want your services, interested in your services, find you. They reach out to you. For my case, I remember I got two transcription
clients from UpWork. We started on UpWork
and they loved my work. Every project I
completed for them on UpWork they gave
me five stars. Loved it. And so what happens, they requested me to go
outside the platform. So instead of using
APAC all the time, they would send projects
to me directly, and that is how they
became my clients, and I worked with
them for years. These platforms are a good place to get your first clients, to have a fell of
freelance work. These clients might just be the people you're working
for on the platform. Be one time buyers. But if you provide
quality and you do a good job and you build that
connection with the client, they might become your
long term client. Now, you can also get clients by pitching
and sending proposals. This is the second
way I get my clients. I'd find a company that I
know has transcription files, like a research company
or any other company. I think is a potential client. I look at their work,
their projects, and then I kind of
pitch myself to them. So I send them an email
with a proposal saying, I have seen what you do. This is how I can help you. Sometimes I even send a sample to kind of
showcase my work. Let's say I'm looking to
work with a podcast company. I want to transcribe
the podcasts. I will download a file. I will transcribe it, and then I will send my pitch with that sample to
show what I can do. So the second way you
get clients is to just pitch directly to
your potential clients. Send them an email, DM them or send them a
message on LinkedIn. Important part when it comes to pitching
directly to clients or sending proposals is you have to show how you will
solve their problem. Don't just talk, show them. That is why I send a
sample because they need to see that she is
actually the solution. Number three is networking. I mean, I can't even tell you how many clients I have
gotten from referrals. People I met someone, I talked about the
kind of work I do, and when they met someone who was looking for the
services I offer, they referred me to them. They said, I know a girl. She's called Tessa gamba. She has a transcription
company she can help majority of my clients, they come from referrals. So networking is a big part
if you want to get clients. Networking helps you
meet like minded people, people in the same industry. And, you know, when
you're in these forums and groups and just
chatting to these people, you might get an opportunity or when you tell
people what you do, they might refer their clients, their friends, their family. To you. So just put
yourself out there, let people know what you do. Now, when it comes to landing remote jobs or remote rolls
or getting remote work, you can one take
advantage of job boards, remote job boards where
they post remote rolls. So websites like
WeWork remotely, remote.com, even LinkedIn
JOBS has remote rolls. So job boards are a good place for beginners to
find remote rolls. All you have to do
is do your research. You can also look at websites of companies
you want to work for. Let's say you're
interested in working for Google remotely or meta or IBM. So what you do is you go to those companies
websites and look at the job openings because nowadays most companies
have remote shows. Look at the openings
they have and if they have an open remote
show that you can do, apply for it directly. Send in your resume or follow
the application process. In order for you to kind of find roles in companies that
you want to work for, you first need to
do your research and know this is the job I need. So identify the job
that you want first. Have a list of
companies that you want to work with or that
you want to work for. And then now you want to go to the company website and
look for remote roles, open roles, and then
apply directly. You can also get a remote
role or remote work taking advantage of platforms
like indeed, like LinkedIn, like Glass Door, all you have to do is perform job searches, look for open roles that are related to what
you're looking for. If you're interested
in data analysis, look for remote data analyst
roles and then apply. You can actually set job
alerts on LinkedIn so that every time a job you're
interested in pops up, they notify you and
you get to apply for the job first or be among
the first applicants. Actually, if you do
a bit of research, you'll realize that there
are so many remote roles. In fact, almost every company hire people to work remotely. So are fully remote
while others are hybrid. If you look carefully and you look well and you
position yourself well, it won't take you long to
learn your first remote role. When it comes to working online, whether you are a freelancer, someone who's working remotely, or you are running
an online business, it's very important to
cultivate and build relationships with your
clients, with your customers. With the companies you end
up working for remotely. Now, how do you build long term relationships with the different people
you're working with? The first and most effective way is to deliver quality work. That is enough to keep someone coming back or to
keep a job for long. You must meet or exceed your client's expectations or the expectations of the
company you are working for. If you do this consistently, you will find that
you'll be retained as a remote employee or your
client will keep coming back. More and they'll come
back with more projects, more work and you
earn more money. This is also how you
build consistent income. Now, the second way to build long term relationships is
to communicate effectively. You want to make sure you have communicated when
something will be late, when you'll be unavailable, when you won't meet a deadline. If something is not
clear, ask questions. Communication is very
important when it comes to building relationships
with people, clients, companies, respond to their
queries and concerns on time, send regular updates when
working on a project. Our number three is to
set clear expectations. Having a clear agreement
on deliverables, on timelines, on payment, helps build a healthy and
long lasting relationship with clients and companies because everybody
knows what to expect, when to expect it, and how much that is
going to cost them. Order to be successful
when it comes to taking care of client needs, working remotely, just to become successful
in these Arenas. Number one, practice follow up. Once you've completed a
project to the client, after some time, follow up, ask them how did
they find your work? Check in with them, find out whether there's
another project that either they are looking to outsource now or in the future. It is also very important
to request feedback. Always when you
work for a client especially as a freelancer or as a business when you meet
your customer's expectations, it's important to
ask for feedback because testimonials
build credibility. Always reach out to your clients
and customers requesting feedback for the services you provided or for the
product you sold them. Now, tip number
three is to treat freelancing as a business.
That is very important. Treating it as a business will help you maintain
professionalism and establish guidelines
to work along and also just build that
mindset for success. Also open yourself up and you start thinking about
how do I scale this? How do I make more money? How do I offer my
clients better services? Treat it as a business, especially if you
are freelancing. If you're employed remotely, then how you achieve success in this might be
a bit different. But being professional
cuts across. Be professional, whether you are a freelancer or a remote worker. Communicating time,
like we just said, and always ask for feedback. Did you like what I completed? Are there any
revisions to be made? Consistency and
professionalism are key to attracting and
retaining clients. If you're working remotely, are key to keeping your job. I usually say that getting
clients or landing a remote job is honestly the easiest part
of this whole thing. Once you've packaged
yourself well, everything becomes easy to get. In fact, clients find you. Roles find you, but
you first have to package and position
yourself for success. Let that be the takeaway
for you from this lesson. I'd like you to decide on
whether you want to focus on freelancing or you're interested
in getting a remote job, and be sure to outline
your reasons as well, so you can always back up your decisions with
justifiable reasons. Making this decision will help you attract the
right opportunities. With that in mind, let's
learn how to scale from small gigs to a
profitable business coming up in the next lesson.
12. From Small Gigs to a Profitable Online Business: Transform your side gigs into a sustainable,
profitable business. Now, the goal for this
lesson is to provide strategies for scaling
up your online income. Now, why is it
important to scale up? You see, I started my online
career by doing small gigs. I was doing small writing
gigs on a writer, you know, transcribing files, short files on Verbit. Sometimes I'm doing
three jobs in a week. I started by making $20
a month from writing, and then my income increased
to 70 to $102,500. You see, scaling is
important for income growth. It allows you to break
free from income ceilings. Two, it is essential
for business stability. Now, you must diversify your income sources
to reduce risk. When you start, it's kind
of very unpredictable. Sometimes you're making $70, sometimes $1,000, sometimes
you're making zero. Now, that is the kind of
risk you want to reduce. You want to make sure that you have some sort of
consistent income, and that comes in by diversifying
your income sources. Also, scaling is important
for professional advancement. Scaling allows you
to build a brand and reputation in your industry. There are three steps you can take to scale your business, and we are going to go
through each one of them. The first step is to
diversify your services. Now, you can do this by adding
complimentary services. If let's say you're offering your clients digital
marketing services, you can start training
future digital marketers. Oh, you can start
consulting as well. Adding more complimentary
services enables you to make more money
from different things. You can start selling
products that are relevant for what you're providing for the services
you're providing, maybe templates, maybe guides. You can even create
a court Remember, I started with writing, and then I went
into transcription. And now as we speak,
I do transcription. I train, I consult, I offer mentorship and I
also do digital marketing. So I diversified my services. You can also diversify your
services by bundling them, offering your clients packages so that they don't
just buy one thing. They buy a package, maybe services and some products and, you know, consultancy. Packaging your services
enables you to make more money from
one purchase compared to how much you'd
make if you're just selling one portion
or just one now, the second step to scale your business is to
raise your rates, and when do you
raise your rates? You start charging more raising your rates after you've
gained experience. Let's say you have been active in the industry for two years. That's two years of experience. As far as I'm concerned, two years is enough
time for you to have gained experience and
gained positive feedback. That is when you start thinking
about raising your rates. When you've done so much
work, you've built expertise. You know what you're doing. Your service quality
has improved. You've gotten a
significant number of positive feedback from your past and current
clients and customers. Now, that is when you
justify raising your rates. And when you raise your rates, it's important to
communicate this to your current
and past clients. You must highlight
the raised rates and explain the value that adds. What comes with your
increased rate? That is what to tell your
clients so that you can justify increasing
your rates to them. Now, the third step
to scaling is to automate processes
and use tools to make your work easier and also get work done faster
in a short time. Important to
streamline processes. You see, it can be
so overwhelming. The freelance business, it
can be so overwhelming. So making sure that
your process is streamlined because when
you're in this field, especially when you
start as a beginner, you're doing everything
from marketing to creating to doing the services
to invoicing, scheduling, you must do everything
from step one, the last one because
you're not in a position to bring
in more people, you can't afford them maybe. So everything is on you. It's important to
automate processes ,Ts that you can automate
and to use tools, scheduling tools,
invoicing tools, project management tools to make your work easier and faster. Now, for project management, you can rely on free
versions of tools like Asana to just make
sure that you're managing your
projects efficiently. For invoicing, you
can use QuickBooks or an alternative to QuickBooks,
whatever works for you. Just make sure that
you're using tools that are actually making
your work better. That you don't find yourself
doing everything when there's a tool out there that can actually
do that for you. All you have to do is set it up. For me, right now,
the point I am at in my business is I want to automate most of my services because it
can be so overwhelming. Sometimes I'm so tired, especially before I
brought in my team. I used to do everything
alone and it was so overwhelming
because I had to do everything and
sometimes I'd spend so much time doing
admin tasks like invoicing and other project just doing stuff that are not
directly making me money. So my goal right now is
to make sure that I am automating those admin
tasks, as many as I can, those that I can automate
and using tools to make my work easier as far as
admin tasks are concerned, so I can have more time to
create content to teach, to provide services because
that builds my business. Now, scaling from set gigs to a profitable business
requires you to build a br we've talked about branding
in previous lessons. But in order for you
to build, you know, a strong personal brand
or business brand, you must develop a unique
value proposition. What is the unique thing that
you bring to the market? What makes you stand out
from the competition? Why should clients, leave every other person offering the same services you're
offering and choose you? So you have to identify a
unique value proposition. What sets you apart? Consistent branding
is also important. When it comes to just
building a good, strong, personal
or business brand, make sure that you have a logo that you're
using or you're using the same image in
all your profiles or most of your profiles
that are relevant. Your messaging should
be consistent. People should know
this is our test biix. When they find a piece
of content somewhere, they already know this is you, this is your brand, from
maybe the color scheme, from the messaging, the way
you talk, the way you write. So try to use
consistent branding. A brand also requires you to make use of marketing shortages, whether it's SEO
content marketing. You want to make
sure that you're not just building a brand for you. You're putting it out there. So you have to
market it in a way. You don't have to pay for ads, but make sure you're
taking advantage of the freeways you can
market yourself. Use social media,
email marketing, use content to get
your brand out. Whatever you can to
make sure that people know who you are and
what you have to offer, and they understand your brand. Now, scaling is also
building a team, and this happens
when it happens. Don't have to rush
it. Personally, I have worked alone
for so many years. I got to start adding people onto my team after I think five, six years of working alone. That's when I thought
of getting, you know, a personal assistant, a writer, someone to manage my website. You grow your business, you can consider getting part time or full time staff to
help you get work done. If admin tasks wear you down, then try and bring in help. Now, you can hire people
or you can outsource. You can outsource functions
that you don't want to do, but you also don't
want to kind of get someone or hire someone and
start paying them a salary. You can use up work to
outsource to freelancers. Use for. People who offer you, you know, one time services. You don't have to commit. When you have
something that needs to be done and you can't do it, you just source or
freelancer to work on it. Once that person
completes the project, your relationship is done. So you don't have to hire if you're not in a position too, if you don't have
the capability, the financial muscle
yet, you can outsource. And in my experience,
outsourcing is cheaper, though it has its own risks, but it's cheaper, especially for someone who's just growing, who's starting to scale. Now, remember, when you
start working with people, I feel like the biggest
challenge is managing them. I had transcribers,
many transcribers, and managing them was
my biggest headache. So as you try to bring in more people into your
business, into your brand, remember that you
need to also work on your leadership skills,
communication, management. You need to know what will
be the culture around here. How should people
behave? Are there rules? Because if you don't
set guidelines, if your leadership
skills are wanting, your team is going to weigh you down instead of lifting you up. So just be aware of the
challenges that come with, you know, having more
people to work with. Now, you not only have
a business to run, you also have people to manage, and people are not the
easiest to manage. They don't understand your
business the way you do. They don't have the
same goals like you. So it's up to you to
streamline everything, to make sure that everyone and everything is working
to better your business and there's a friend
of mine who gave me this piece of
advice some years ago. She said, Take
your time to hire. Don't be in a rush to hire the first person
that comes to you. Take your time to hire
and be quick to fire. So take your time to hire
and be quick to fire. Don't give people too many
chances to work all over you. So I'm going to give
you the same advice, and I hope you use it. Now, as you scale your business, I'm going to give you some tips or some things to think about. Think about financial
management. You want to make
sure that you're managing your finances, well. Businesses have overhead costs. You have to spend on things. If you have a team,
you have to pay them. There's also profit to consider. So make sure that the way you're managing your finances
is working for you, not against your business. Keep track of your expenses, know what you spend
every month and on what. Keep track of your revenue. How much profit are
you making in a month? It increasing or dropping? Where is your profit going? Are you investing it
back into the business? Make sure to stay on
top of your finances. Tip number two, there are
legal considerations to make. Contracts, especially when
you start bringing in people, their contracts to think about. Do you want to create
the contracts yourself? Do you want to have an
in house legal person? Would you rather outsource
the legal services? So think about about business
registrations and taxes. Taxes are important, regardless of the
country you live in. So make sure you know to navigate all these things.
Don't ignore them. I know when you're starting, they're not really in your mind. They're like, at the
back of your mind. Taxes don't really matter. You're not making as much money. So when you scale and you start making more money because
you've diversified your income, then you must think about taxes. For this lessons task, I'd like you to reflect
on how you can scale your current or
future online gig into a more profitable
online business, and write down the
steps you plan to take. Now, let's say you are
working on a gig right now or you already know what
you want to start with. Now you're looking to
get your first gig. Think about how you're
going to scale that. Write down the steps you
take that will lead you to turning this into a
profitable business. Talk about outsourcing, raising your rates,
bundling your services. Financial freedom
is the goal, right. In the next lesson, we're
going to talk about your journey to financial
freedom, so I'll see you there.
13. Your Journey to Financial Freedom: This lesson, we are going to
talk about your journey to financial freedom and how making money online
can get you there. I am very passionate
about financial freedom. Everything I do is for me to get closer to achieving
financial freedom. And I know this is very
important to many people. Now, in simple terms, financial freedom is
the ability to live life on your own terms
without worrying about money. You can travel to
any country and live there for months without
worrying about money. You can spend a whole week with your family on vacation
without worrying about money. For me, financial
freedom means I can live the life that I want without
being limited by money. I know you understand that
money can't really limit you. Let's say you want to
go to New Zealand, you have everything,
all the documents to get you to New Zealand,
but you don't have money. For plane tickets to
New Zealand. You see? If New Zealand is your dream, if you never make enough
money to get your ticket, you'll never go to New Zealand. For me, financial freedom is really being able
to do the things that I want to do without
money getting in the way. Now, how can making money online lead to
financial freedom? I started this class by saying
that there are benefits, one being being able
to diversify income. I remember saying
that you can make as much money as you
want when it comes to making money online
because you can build multiple
streams of income. You can offer services
as one stream, and then you can train people. You can do affiliate marketing. You can offer
consultancy services. You can even be invited to events as a speaker
and get paid for that. You can write a book and
sell other digital products. There are so many ways
to make money online. And the beauty of this
space is you don't have to constrain yourself to just now, being able to create
multiple streams of income means you will make as much money as your
goals allow you to. Let's say your goal
is to eventually make $10,000 a month. That is very attainable. If you plan yourself well, you can hit that goal. And if making $10,000 a month is what financial
freedom means, for you, then you are
financially free. So unlike traditional work, making money online
allows you to achieve financial freedom
because it gives you ways, there are so many ways
for you to go at it. And if you're smart about it, you can create long
term stability in that you have
consistent income. You've scaled your business. You have set up processes,
you have a team, and your business can
run with or without you. That way, your business
is more stable. You're able to make
a certain amount of money long term because
you are strategic. You're not just relying on the
one time payments that you receive just relying on getting paid after
you've done something. You've set up passive
income streams, things that will make
you money on autopilot. Now, this long term stability
leads to financial freedom. Now one thing to
note is achieving financial freedom requires
consistent action. You must be
consistent in putting effort and strategizing
and hitting your goals. Now, growth is important when it comes to
financial freedom. So developing skills,
learning and growing, also expanding your services
and scaling your income will eventually lead you
to financial freedom. So achieving financial
freedom doesn't just come overnight
or in one year. You need to strategize for it. Every action you take
leads you to that. So make sure that the actions you're taking are consistent. You growth is consistent, and you are tracking your
progress to your goal. Now, in order for you to
achieve financial freedom, there's one thing
you must do before you even start working
towards financial freedom. You must define financial
freedom for yourself. Believe it or not, it doesn't mean the same thing
for everybody. My perception or my idea
of financial freedom is, I know, different
from other people. I've already told you what financial freedom means for me. So ask yourself, what does
financial freedom mean to you? Is it making $10,000 a month? Is that what you consider
financial freedom? Is it being able to quit your day job and still
live a comfortable life? Is it saving enough
money to retire early? Is it buying a home? Is it traveling the world? So first, you have to define financial
freedom for yourself. Allows you to make sure you have clear goals that will lead you
to your financial freedom. Your journey to financial
freedom starts now. These strategies will not only help you make money online, but also build wealth. Now, for this lessons task, I'd like you to reflect on what financial freedom means
to you. Write it down. Also write down
how you will know that you've achieved
financial freedom. Remember, in order for you to achieve goals
and to progress, you need to set
clear SMRT goals. So you need to know when you've achieved
financial freedom. So first, you need to know
what does it mean to you. So reflect on that and put
it down in the workbook. Now, in the next lesson, we will do a recap of everything we've
covered in this class. I'll see you there.
14. Final Thoughts: Now, as you conclude this class, I'd like you to take this whole. Anyone can start making money online, even without skills. What matters is having the
right mindset and starting. In fact, starting is the
most challenging part. But making money
online is not enough. Building financial
security through consistency and growth
should be the ultimate goal. Here's what you've
learned in this class. You've learned about the concept and the benefits of
making money online. Also know the easy online
jobs that you can start with that form a good entry point for your making money
online journey. You've also learned
the basic things, equipment and tools
you need to start. You've learned high income
skills that you can develop, skills that you can learn
in order to earn more. In addition to that,
you now know how to get freelance clients and how
to learn remote jobs. You also know how to scale from small side kegs to a full time sustainable,
profitable business. Also learned about
financial freedom and the strategies you can
use to achieve that. But first, you
know that you must define financial
freedom for yourself. Congratulations.
The first step to earning is learning and you've
completed the first step. There are so many opportunities
to make money online, and I'm so glad you've decided
to take advantage of this. Working online changed
my life for the better. And I hope and pray that
it does the same for you. Remember, everything
we've covered is meant to get you
started right now. Don't wait for the
perfect moment. Start with what you have
and grow from there. And be patient with yourself. Good things take time. Now, don't forget
to finalize and upload your online
moneymaking blueprint. This is the key to turning
your ideas into action. Take a moment to
review everything you've written down
in each section and organize it into a cohesive plan that you can follow
step by step. Even after uploading it, remember to review and
update it as you grow. That is your blueprint. It's your plan for success. Please leave a
review of this class to let me know how you found it. Feel free to subscribe
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underscore, or gamba. I look forward to having
you in my next class.
Tess Ogamba, Creator & Content Strategist
