brandmaster:
I have met a lot of people without the required skills trying hard to makes money online , sorry unfortunately your efforts will mostly go in vain. Even for people like us with over 15 top skills the hustle isn't easy talkless of people with one small skill like data entry. Your chances of making real money is pretty slim. So my first advice before you even think of registering on any freelancer site is get the skills.

1. Develop skills - the higher your skills the better your chances of making money. I will share some of the skills I have
1. Social media manager
2. SEO
3. Content development
4. Customer service skills
5. Website design
6. Email marketing
7. Email handling
8. Virtual assistance
9. Data entry
10 web research
11. Blogging
12. Graphics design
13. Sales
,14. Transcribing
15 online research
16. Testing
17 programming
18. Digital marketing
These are the ones I can remember I will keep updating this list.

Now you see these already gave me leverage than someone with just a data entry skill

brandmaster:
Welcome ajet001 and timtim007
So before you even think of registering as a Freelancer , if you don't have the necessary skills , you first need to build a good number of skills , some or this can be done within a week , a month or few months and some can even be combined and you will learn then within a short period.

Every skills I have is self taught, I developed everything from trial and error , I am a very inquisitive person and I have this passion to learn more this has pushed me beyond what you can imagine.

So to develop the skills for free there are a couple of sites to visit , all it will cost you is time and data. Like I always say , if your visit to Facebook and other social media is not giving you money you are only making money for other people. Every time you visit social media someone is making money , there only person not making is you.
1. Facebook is making money from adverts
2. Your mobile operatorr is making money from your data that you are using to watch videos and the content creators are a also making money. So it's time to wise up and invest that time in making money too.

So the excuse I always hear is I don't have money for data. If you don't invest in yourself who will

So here are the sites

1. Udemy
2. Edx
3. Coursera
4. Openlearning
5. Microsoft Academy
6. Google free online turorial sites
There's no skill you want that you won't learn online for.free.

Ajet001:


Thanks for this sir,
What skills will you suggest one to learn?
Your tutelage is required.

Besides , the last time I checked out udemy the courses over there sells for $12.99.

Nteogwuija:
I have most of those skills mentioned apart from programming and designs. Problem is I have applied for lots of jobs on Upwork but haven't gotten any. What could be the issue please?

brandmaster:
Now I have to quickly Address this fast , most people make the mistake of having a generic proposal for their application. If you copy and paste there is a tendency your applications will not be considered, the way to do this is easy, apply for every job individually as a single project , so that the person will know you read the requirements. Eg if someone say I need a website developer to design a church website for me instead of focusing on your skills and saying what you've done before. It make sense if you focus on the job and how you plan to help out.
You may start like this. I am a professional website developer with ten years experience , I can work with HTML,CSS, PHP and I can also use different content management systems .
Being a passionate Christian myself , and Haven worked in the church all my life it will be a good opportunity to serve the Lord and also help in spreading the gospel to other parts of the world by designing a besboke website with the following functionalities (you have successfully captured his or her heart that you are passionate about God's work);
1. I will make it mobile optimized to make sure every one can visit the website from their mobile devices
2. It will be fast and user friendly
3. I will create a donation page for easy offering and tithe payment online
4. I will create an events page to make it easy to list all the events for the year.
5. I will build a robust back end that will be able to meet all your needs


After listing all this , there's no way the person won't call you for the job also freelancing is a skill that you need to learn , another thing that kill many people is they either under bid or over bid make sure you always go through the client payment history before you bid . For example someone that in their payment history the highest they ever paid was $4 per hour to a programmer and you want to do data entry and you are bidding $7 per hour that's a waste of your time .

Once you understand these basic facts it makes your bidding procesa easy

brandmaster:
Truth is, the kind of skills you want to learn will be dependent on you. Ask your self what you want to do, forst go to the freelancing site , see all the opportunities available , then ask yourself which can I do? Then start developing skills on it. Like I said if you go online and google you can get any skills you want, udemy isn't the only option

brandmaster:
Truth is, the kind of skills you want to learn will be dependent on you. Ask your self what you want to do, forst go to the freelancing site , see all the opportunities available , then ask yourself which can I do? Then start developing skills on it. Like I said if you go online and google you can get any skills you want, udemy isn't the only option

brandmaster:
Disclaimer
1. I am not selling ebooks
2. It is not another get rich quick scheme be
3. I am not selling accounts
4. It is a do it yourself thing
5. I Cannot guarantee you will make a dime. Your earning power lies in your hand but I will teach you everything you need to know to start earning.
6. I am looking for a few people to coach and mentor. Please note I can't mentor everybody.

I started freelancing since 2013 back in the days of elance.com . I didn't make a single dollar until after 4 months of trying different methods on Elance , like they say the hardest part is getting your first deal once you do everything else works.

I have made as high as $4000 from a single client and as low as $5 from other clients. I don't believe there is anything called Nigerian or foreign Account , I use my real name. I don't for once feel my country of birth has impacted on my earnings. I believe I am good at what I do and that will always earn me good money. Once you give out value, value will always come to you.
I can confidently say I have made thousands of dollars from freelancing. Please I am not here to prove anything cos I won't share my account details neither will I share my Upwork account. I am here for knowledge sharing.

So let's go straight to the point. There is nothing I will explain here that you wouldn't have already read on one of the posts here. But somehow you still have lots of questions running through your mind.
You can't seems to figure your head on how to get things done. How to send a killer proposal , how to create an amazing profile that will get approved. You are the reason why I created this tread. Sit back relax and let's enjoy the ride

brandmaster:
Welcome ajet001 and timtim007
So before you even think of registering as a Freelancer , if you don't have the necessary skills , you first need to build a good number of skills , some or this can be done within a week , a month or few months and some can even be combined and you will learn then within a short period.

Every skills I have is self taught, I developed everything from trial and error , I am a very inquisitive person and I have this passion to learn more this has pushed me beyond what you can imagine.

So to develop the skills for free there are a couple of sites to visit , all it will cost you is time and data. Like I always say , if your visit to Facebook and other social media is not giving you money you are only making money for other people. Every time you visit social media someone is making money , there only person not making is you.
1. Facebook is making money from adverts
2. Your mobile operatorr is making money from your data that you are using to watch videos and the content creators are a also making money. So it's time to wise up and invest that time in making money too.

So the excuse I always hear is I don't have money for data. If you don't invest in yourself who will

So here are the sites

1. Udemy
2. Edx
3. Coursera
4. Openlearning
5. Microsoft Academy
6. Google free online turorial sites
There's no skill you want that you won't learn online for.free.

brandmaster:
Now I have to quickly Address this fast , most people make the mistake of having a generic proposal for their application. If you copy and paste there is a tendency your applications will not be considered, the way to do this is easy, apply for every job individually as a single project , so that the person will know you read the requirements. Eg if someone say I need a website developer to design a church website for me instead of focusing on your skills and saying what you've done before. It make sense if you focus on the job and how you plan to help out.
You may start like this. I am a professional website developer with ten years experience , I can work with HTML,CSS, PHP and I can also use different content management systems .
Being a passionate Christian myself , and Haven worked in the church all my life it will be a good opportunity to serve the Lord and also help in spreading the gospel to other parts of the world by designing a besboke website with the following functionalities (you have successfully captured his or her heart that you are passionate about God's work);
1. I will make it mobile optimized to make sure every one can visit the website from their mobile devices
2. It will be fast and user friendly
3. I will create a donation page for easy offering and tithe payment online
4. I will create an events page to make it easy to list all the events for the year.
5. I will build a robust back end that will be able to meet all your needs


After listing all this , there's no way the person won't call you for the job also freelancing is a skill that you need to learn , another thing that kill many people is they either under bid or over bid make sure you always go through the client payment history before you bid . For example someone that in their payment history the highest they ever paid was $4 per hour to a programmer and you want to do data entry and you are bidding $7 per hour that's a waste of your time .

Once you understand these basic facts it makes your bidding procesa easy

brandmaster:
Once you have equip yourself with all the necessary skills , the next step is to focus on the one or two freelance site , I will advise you to try and see which one works for you.
There is freelancer.com ,there is upwork and Fiverr

There are other ones too but these are the biggest but as a starter focus on one .

So my focus is upwork.com .

A little history about Upwork , I lt used to be Elance back in the days , it's a freelancing site that offers various job opportunities from website design, digital marketing , data entry , commeynt creation etc
The list is endless.

Before creating a profile is so easy but these days they have put in measures to cut off a lot of random people . So on order to get into the site you need to be well equipped with the right skills. So make sure you have all the necessary skills before registering. I can put you through how to achieve this in a few weeks .

Don't be in a rush to create a profile if it takes you a week no problem. But make sure you fill it to best standard .

infj:
Following
I just started learning web design(HTML5 CSS3, and js) so I'm still a beginner. How long would it take me to be able to take up freelancing jobs?
Thanks