Daily: May 7, 2012

Succeeding in freelance design requires smart work and business habits that can pave the way to prosperous design careers for many who desire this path. In this post we discuss the different ways that you can earn some passive income and build the ultimate side hustle .

How much should a freelance designer make?

 How much designer should expect to make if he made the switch to freelance design. There are the several which are included.

Country of residence
Experience and expertise
Business Goals
Financial needs and many more.

Sell Stock Photography Online

If your’re a designer I am sure you have a camera, so why not put it to good use then. Go out and take some photos of things or places, their are loads of things you can take pictures of, just use your imagination. When taking the photos think of shots that you would purchase to use for a design or get printed at a Printing Company, the idea is to photograph something useful that everyone would be able to use.

T-Shirts/Clothing

No matter if you’re a web designer, logo designer or anything in between, we all have creative juices that sometimes just flow out of control.
Put that extra energy to use and design some t-shirts. Make them for yourself and you never know who else might love the design. Places like Design by Humans have members vote on t-shirts and the winners win money. The shirt of the day wins $750, the shirt of the week wins $1,000, and the shirt of the month wins $1,750.

Publish an ebook

If you have a moderately-trafficked blog or web site then ebooks can be a great way to make extra money on the side. The great thing about ebook sales is that you only have to create the content once. Then the product can sell for years into the future.

A few options for ebooks include a small ebook for your clients or potential clients about what makes a web site or logo successful. The nice thing about ebooks is that you’re not only creating passive income for yourself, but your also building credibility for your design business.

Explore Job boards

Exploring job boards could be of great help to you, their are so many in the design industry with so many jobs, that you won’t be bored sifting through. You have Blogging Job Boards, Design Job Boards, Social Media Job Boards and more. The thing about job boards are that you can decide for what job you want to pitch or apply for which makes it really useful when deciding what you want to do at the time.

Vector/Graphic Files

All of us listened about Envato and their vast list of marketplaces that is dominating the entire world. So, if you want to earn more money must take the old design, polish them up and place them on websites like Graphic River.