3 Ways to make $500 a day online as a designer - by 3dcoreldraw Team
In my life I have known very talented well-trained graphic or web designers who are still eking a living offline/online, earning meager salaries from their employers. I bet you know a few of such friends.
The methods explained in this e-guide is tested and fool-proof. I have used combinations of them to make more than $500 a day. Thus I am self-employed, work from home and have lots of fee time to spend with my family. Some of that time I use to update this website.
How you will benefit from this guide.
A) Freedom of Location on the globe: You can choose to stay anywhere in the world and still make $500 or more in a day. You can literally run your business from anywhere in the world, ie; from an internet cafe in Asia, a beach in the Caribbean, the country side or a village in Africa.
B) Freedom of time and place of work: You don’t have to wake up at 5:00 am in the morning to prepare for work amidst the rush-hour and traffic. No need to report to any boss in person, and still come back late at night. Sometimes I wake up at 1:00 am to work when I feel like it. Because there’s total quietness during that time and I can completely concentrate. You can work in your under-wear or pajamas or with nothing on. Working in the comfort of your own home at your own productive time is real fun.
C) Freedom of Salary: As your own boss, you decide how much money to earn or make. I have made more than $1,000 a day online. The more problems you solve, the more money you make. Your productivity will determine how much money you earn or make. The more important and complex the problems that you solve, the more CASH you make. You can receive your work’s worth or money through PayPal, western union or through many bank’s in your country.
D) Freedom of work type/project: Unlike in a traditional office where you’re forced to tackle a specific project(s) whether you like it or not, here, you have a choice to the complexity of project(s) you want to undertake. Thereby, capitalizing on your personal strengths for maximum profit.
E) Freedom of Portfolio & Experience: You get worldwide experience and exposure with your work. Your portfolio will be enriched which will attract many returning clients/customers to you.
F) Freedom of association: If you don’t want to do it alone, nothing stops you and your friends from teaming up in any country of the world and work together, solving design problems. It can be a 2-man team in Denmark or a 7-man team in Tanzania. This is an antidote to unemployed youths worldwide. Design schools can give their students some real world experience by helping them do these projects, under the guidance of teachers. The students can offset some or all of their educational expenses this way.
Are you a designer with the ability to create logos that work? Can you read a design brief and carve marks to represent new and old companies? Then your services are in great demand. Trust me, because I have made lots of CASH this way.
2-path plan to make money designing logos.
Path 1. Get Professional Training. You may want to learn more about professional logo design. The only books you need for your training are:
What makes a logo good or bad? Why do some logos look great after decades of service? Designers, students, marketing specialists, and fans of design need look no further than this invaluable sourcebook for answers to these and many more. Packed with tips and lavishly illustrated. Designing Logos is an accessible reference for the design and implementation of a logo – from the initial creative thought process, through the presentation of logo alternatives to a client, to final application with valuable, practical information on:
- Making a logo endure – Working with clients – Estimating project costs – Finding inspiration – Customizing logotypes – Refreshing old logos – Preparing and conducting logo presentations – Patenting and preserving your logo – Creating a logo standards manual.
Every designers library will not be complete without these two books.
Path 2. Logon and start making money.www.logomyway.com and www.99designs.com are the two websites where you can register a free account and start making money designing logos. This is how it works:
To submit your design, simply search the projects, find one that you’d like to enter and click the green button "Enter This Contest" button towards the top of the contest page. If you don’t have an account yet, you’ll be asked to create one and then you can upload your design. Once your design has been uploaded check back often to see comments from the Buyer and revise your entry if necessary. If your design is chosen, you get paid. It’s that easy.
a) screen recording – by using software such as Camtasia Studio or free software like Z-Capture to record the screen. You can also make a few screen capture yourself and write down your secret/steps to achieve a specific task. Doing screen capture is as easy as simply pressing the “Shift” and “print screen” keys on your computer keyboard. Then just open any graphic software program and “paste” from the “edit” menu. This will work on most programs but may vary on others.
b) written document – either online as a webpage/html or downloadable in the form of Acrobat pdf.
c) audio or video file – on www.youtube.com you will find several examples of this video and audio tutorial where one can watch and listen step by step instructions on how to do some specific task.
Do you use computers or software programs? Have you mastered any of these? Create a tutorial for a popular software program that you use or a special feature technique.
For example, you may be good at using CorelDRAW. CorelDRAW is a popular software program that many people face problems with. You can create a few tutorials on CorelDRAW software and market it to CorelDRAW users on the internet. Many CorelDRAW users will be grateful to you for creating such great tutorials. That’s one way of getting paid for your tutorials.
Another way of getting paid instantly is to submit your tutorial to tutorial websites. You can get $100 - $300 for submiting good quality well presented tutorials. Tutorials can be 1-page or 5-page long or whatever it takes to get the task done. You don’t only get paid, but you get tons of fee traffic to your site by providing a box in the tutorial that contains your name, occupation, website and email address.
Websites to submit your tutorials and get money + exposure
www.tutorialtub.com – Write original tutorials about anything. Once it is approved it will be published in a unique page. You’ will get 50% of the AdSense earning generated from that page.
www.tutorial9.net - They pay $150 to $300 per accepted tutorial. Apart from your short Bio on every published tutorial page, a link to your website and your Twitter profile will be given from the published post.
www.tutorialboard.net - Submit high quality tutorials on Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effect, Autodesk Maya or any other industry standard CG software and get $150 via PayPal for every accepted tutorial.
www.zymmetrical.com – Submit your tutorial on Photography, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Lightroom, Quark, Typography, VJ Software, Design, Self-Promotion and Marketing for Creatives. You will get $10 to $300 via PayPal or Payoneer for every accepted tutorial depending on the quality.
You can always search for more tutorial sites on www.google.com
An e-book or electronic book or digital book is simply a digital group of files that when when combined together can be read on computers or dedicated e-book reading devices.
E-books usually include text and photographs or illustrations. Recent e-books may include sound and video in its content. E-books can include “hot links” that gives readers immediate access to websites referred to in the text.
Your e-book can be a 5-page specialized report, or tutorial or presentation that focuses on solving a specific problem. It can also be a training manual, a short story, a 400-page novel with any illustrations.
Advantages of e-books
a) E-books are easy to produce/create.
b) E-books are easy and fast to deliver or distribute to anyone on the internet.
c) E-books are less-expensive and generally saves the reader at least 50% or more of the cost of traditional hard cover alternative.
d) E-books are easy and light to carry around in e-mails, pen-drives, cd’s or iPods, etc.
e) E-book saves on trees, inks and chemicals used in producing traditional hard cover books. Going Green is a good idea for conservatives.
f) People with poor eyesight have the ability to change the size and or shape of characters when reading e-books.
E-books remain a key ingredient of online publishing and they will be around till eternity. This century is the best time in internet marketing history to make lots of CASH online with e-books.
Offer a quick and easy way for readers to learn a hot topic. And always remember “don’t underestimate what you know”. What you know could be very beneficial to some people.
What you will need to publish/write your e-book
1. Computer with internet access.
2. E-book authoring software – Microsoft Word will do fine for writing the content of your e-book. When you use CorelDRAW to write your e-book, you can publish to Adobe Acrobat PDF easily by clicking on File > Publish to PDF.
3. PDF Converter – Go to www.DoPDF.com and download their free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create PDF files by selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files.
So why are you still reading? Stop reading and start writing Now!
Where to Sell your e-books
1. Your own website or blog with PayPal payment system integration.
2. www.amazon.com – They provide their Digital Text Platform, a fast and easy self-publishing tool that lets you upload and format your books or e-books for sale in the Kindle Store.
3. www.lulu.com – They let you publish and sell print-on-demand books and e-books.
We hope this tutorial/guide has helped you. If you have any questions/comments, contact us at 3dcoreldraw@_gmail.com (remove underscore).
- written by Sean Adams, Noreen Morioka and Terry Stone.
- written by Jack Gernsheimer.