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14 Best Ways A Web Designer Can Make Money Online
Being a web designer doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to make money just via web design. There are plenty of ways a Web Designer can make money these days. Myself and Mike have been working hard finding out ways web designers can make money. We have got 14 different ways web designers can make money online. If you can think of any more, then please feel free to drop in a comment.
Blog About Web Design
Many web designers have their own blogs. Having your own web design blog can benefit a designer in many different ways. You can earn money from ads, if you have great content that brings in alot of traffic, you can sell other peoples products, and also you can convert some of your traffic into clients by promoting your web design services.
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Design Contests
99 Designs connects clients that need design work, to designers. You can participate in design contests such as logo designs, and earn some serious money. http://99designs.com
Design Stock Images (istockphoto) (graphicriver)
As a web designer, you can use your funky design skills to design vectors to sell on istockphoto, and also you can design textures, templates, graphics and much more and sell them on graphic river.
Write Tutorials For Photoshop Websites
There are loads of web design tutorial sites online, such as PsdTuts. They pay greatly for brilliant tutorials. PsdTuts pay $150 per tutorial they accept, so what are you waiting for, get writing!
Freelance Switch & Smashing Magazine’s Job Board
People always need design work doing. There are loads of people who post work on job boards such as FreeLance Switch or Smashing Magazine. This can be a great way to pick up work.
Bring Offline Businesses Online
This can be an awesome way to earn alot of cash. Web Designers can get in contact with offline businesses, and offer them a fee to bring their business online. Its a great way for web designers to earn more money, and also it will help the business out and gain exposure within search engines.
Create And Promote Your Online Portfolio
Creating an online portfolio of your work generates buzz and can rank you higher for certain keywords in search engines. Blogs can publish your work, which will send traffic to your portfolio. People who like your work will hire you.
Elance
This is the mother of all online places to find work. Looking at elance.com, it looks as if there are around 1,000 new jobs posted every day for web designers to feast upon. Work ranges from HTML, CSS down to SEO and flash. I would seriously recommend checking out elance.com to make some money.
Offer Training / Write How-To’s
There are many websites such as tutor.com, ehow.com and videojug.com that pay you to make how-to videos / articles, and tutor people about a certain subject, such as web design in our case.
Become An Expert In A Niche
A web design can brand themselves as a general web designer, but if you market yourself to a certain niche then you will receive alot more clients. An example of this would be you could be a general web designer, but you could have a few business cards in the golfing niche that say we specialize in web design for golfing, and you can repeat this for many different niches.
Participate On Web Marketplaces
Web Marketplaces such as sitepoint and digitalpoint forums can earn you alot of money. It can spread your name out there, and get you alot of work. If you participate in discussions and show off your design skills, you will find yourself with lots of design work.
Affiliate Marketing
This can make you alot of money in the long run. An example of affiliate marketing would be, if you have just finished designing a website for a client, you could recommend or even offer to help them setup hosting to host the website. If they agree then you can sign them up to web hosting companies using your affiliate link. Such as DreamHost and CrucialWebHost. Then you would receive a certain % of what the client is paying each month for referring them to that web host.
Design Themes For ThemeForest
With ThemeForest, you can design themes for popular content managment systems such as wordpress and joomla, and ThemeForest will sell your theme and give you a commission. Great huh!
Offer The “All In One” Package
Clients can be lazy, and sometimes they look for web designers that offer the “All In One” pack
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Hi, this is Nicole from Rent a Coder. Rentacoder provides access to programming, writing, illustration, even data entry jobs. (You can get a sense of the broad scope of work available here: http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/SoftwareCoders/BrowseWork.asp).
I’d like to point out a few differences between our service and Elance since those differences could influence your satisfaction and earnings.
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Cost:
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The more a site charges you, the less you have to put in your own pocket at paycheck time. Unlike Elance, Rent A Coder does not charge you a monthly subscription fee for any bidding or certification privileges.
1) Free and unlimited bidding and certification privileges
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Workers on Elance cannot place more than 10 bids a month unless they pay a subscription fee ($10/month for 25, $20/month for 40 or $40/month for 60). They also cannot be certified in over 5 areas without paying the same fee. Rent A Coder does not charge any subscription fees.
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Working with a new buyer on Pay-for-Deliverables projects:
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The cheapest and easiest way to work with a buyer is to bill by the hour (called pay-for-time). However, a new buyer doesn’t know yet that you’re productive, and won’t run up a huge bill with fluff hours. To help you establish that trust, both Elance and Rent A Coder let you work with them safely by bidding a fixed price for the final deliverables (called pay-for-deliverables). However, Elance’s extra charges for arbitration may make it prohibitively expensive to exercise your rights.
2) Payment Guarantee
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If a buyer doesn’t pay you for work you’ve properly delivered, both sites will step in and give you the funds via arbitration. However Rent A Coder does this for free. If a buyer doesn’t pay you for work you’ve properly delivered, both sites will step in and give you the funds via arbitration. However Elance charges you $66-$133 to do this. This may also make it impractical to get paid on smaller projects. Rent A Coder, on the other hand, does this for free.
3) Arbitration
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On Rent A Coder you can start arbitration immediately. A buyer intent on abusing the system can stall the start of arbitration on Elance for 21 business days and during this period your money is not available to you. During the first phase (dispute assistance), the buyer has up to 3 business days to respond, and can make this phase last up to 12 additional business days (15 business days total). After this, the arbitration phase ‘begins’, but does actually start because the buyer is given 3 business days to acknowledge the notice of arbitration, and the another 3 business days if they did not acknowledge the first notice. Only at this point is arbitration actually started. See the Elance contract for more information.
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Working with a buyer you know on Pay-for-Time projects:
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Once a buyer trusts that you won’t bill them for unproductive hours, you can bill them by the hour (called pay-for-time). This has many advantages over pay-for-deliverables including cheaper fees, flexibility (you don’t have to define all the requirements in advance to start working) and less risk (under-estimates are no longer your responsibility to bear). However Rent A Coder guarantees payment, while Elance does not.
4) Guraranteed Payment
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Rent A Coder guarantees payment for every hour you properly record in the AccuTimeCard. It also requires the buyer to escrow the funds for the week in advance to make sure they are good for the money. If they try to withhold payment unfairly, Rent A Coder will award you the funds. Elance does not force the buyer to escrow funds on pay-for-time projects. As a result, it does not guarantee payment, and you may do the work and receive less than you agree (or nothing at all). Rent A Coder does guarantee payment.
There are other differences as well. I invite everyone to compare the 7 major services through this link to learn even more: http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/DotNet/misc/CompetitorInformation/WhyRentACoder_ForSellers.aspx
If you have any questions, please let me know. You can also call in to talk to a facilitator 7 days a week, or email us (see http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/Feedback.asp).
Nicole
http://www.rentacoder.com
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