7 Worthwhile Skills You Can Learn Online to Start Freelancing in 2022
Note: This is an ongoing article. I will keep adding the simple skills in the list (that anybody can learn without so much efforts) time to time as I find the best ones.
Ever heard about people earning thousands of dollars in a month with freelancing?
Does this fascinate you? But you don’t find yourself worth doing freelancing?
Well, you can do this!
Rather everybody who wants to earn some extra income, can do it.
In this article, I’ll show you 7 proven freelance skills that you can learn online and make real money.
I’m just not blowing smoke into your eyes. I have worked on these skills myself over the years and turned some of them into regular jobs.
I’m not just being optimistic, but honestly! These skills are quite easier to start a freelance business and generate a good revenue using them.
So, are you ready?
Impressive, let’s set your feet in!
Note: This article is to give you a very abstract idea about the said skills. We will discuss each of the skill with details in separate articles. You can subscribe to our updates to get information about them.
Pinterest Marketing
Pinterest is considered as a savage monster for websites to drive quality traffic. It won’t be wrong to say that a major part of the traffic comes from Pinterest. But only if it is well managed.
This is where you can play your role.
Your job will be to manage the Pinterest accounts of the businesses in a way that can generate proper traffic to them. You can learn how to use the Pins to drive traffic and earn a lot by managing Pinterest account for different businesses.
You only need to know the difference in managing personal and business accounts. Managing a business account requires an in-depth understanding of the strategies that are used to handle businesses on Pinterest. You will need to learn how to create and share great Pins? and how to properly manage Pinterest analytics based on your strategy.
Manage Facebook Ads
Digital marketing has become a very broad field these days. With so many different platforms with different strategies, it is nearly impossible for an entrepreneur to run a business effectively along with properly managing their digital marketing needs.
While talking about to Facebook ads, many business owners are very much concerned about it. Some of them don’t exactly know how to do this and some of them don’t have time for this. This is where your part is involved.
Facebook Ads is a tool that uses a great digital marketing strategy. If you become a master in running Facebook Ad campaigns and how to properly configure, optimize, and monitor small business Facebook ad campaigns, you can earn a pretty good income.
WordPress Development
If you are interested in learning a skill with high-value having the ability to generate huge amount of money, then WordPress development should be your first choice. Its demand is increasing unnoticeably.
The big reason for this is, in today’s digital world, if anyone is willing to run a business successfully, he/she needs a website. And WordPress is most common and successful platform for website development. So, if you can build a website, you can help the entrepreneurs in achieving their goals.
Here you must be thinking that you don’t have anything to do with coding and most probably this job isn’t for you… are you?
Well, no need to worry about this.
I honestly have seen chemical engineers making eCommerce websites for clients on freelance platforms. Even they are considered as the top-rated sellers out there.
So, you can also be the one!
The beauty of WordPress is that you don’t need the programming knowledge to make a website. All you need is to learn for WordPress is: how to set up a hosting, work with themes and page builders, and run and manage the site.
Honestly, everything here is as easy as ABC.
If you are want to become a pro in it. You can learn HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript.
And boom! You are incomparable.
Photo Editing and Graphic Designing
If you have an artistic mind and your mind bloom with ideas when it comes to photo editing or graphic designing, it can be very profitable freelance work for anyone who knows the use of Photoshop. With so many Photoshop tutorial available online; all you need to do is to choose a market niche in which you can give your services.
For example, as far as I know, many photographers are trying to find time to edit their photographs. The photographers often take photo editing as very time consuming. They focus on taking more photos while putting the burden of editing on some freelancers.
Moreover, you can design the logos for new businesses, make designs of T-shits and hoodies, edit the products for eCommerce, and much more.
Ultimately you will be the mind behind website designs, brand identities, print advertising, and so much more.
However, I would like to let you know that graphic designing is one of the most complex art today. It is a combination of artistic and psychological skills with a blend of technical skills.
So, only adopt it if you think you can make it really like it deserves to be.
Content Marketing
We are living in the glazing period of digital marketing and the only way to get succeed in it is to generate a high-quality content. After the years of spam email marketing and other similar tactics, we have entered an era of digital marketing where the priority is the content quality.
This is where you can get into act.
Content marketing may be the right choice for if you think you have ability to create compelling text, audio or video content is to reach a precised niche of audience, this job is for you. Another plus is that the average annual salary of a content marketing manager, according to some sources, is $ 81,000 per year.
Now you can have an idea that how much you can earn through freelance work of content marketing.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
We can discuss a lot of things while digging into the SEO world. This is a skill that almost every business needs. Even I myself spend many hours a day in optimizing the websites of my clients. You will find a lot of entrepreneurs and marketers spending a lot of time to analyse, optimize and manage their websites. You will also find a lot of entrepreneurs who don’t get time to do this, and even a lot of them who don’t even know how to do this.
If you are willing to spend time on websites to find the technical problems with your analytical and skills and solve them, SEO is the best job or you. If you have got some serious SEO skills, you can even work on your own website to generate the quality leads for your freelancing business.
So, how was that?
A quite nice idea?
Let’s add a little bit more in it!
Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
Every ad that appears on a Google search results, is created and managed by someone who was paid for it. Can you be that person?
Search Engine Marketing is a complete niche in the field of digital marketing. It goes side-by-side with SEO that is a skill of High-value these days. This is a highly profitable skill for freelancers because it’s not that easy to manage the paid campaigns properly that can drive massive traffic to the businesses. As, it isn’t that easy, it also takes time to learn this skill. You need to have some analytical skills to become a pro in it. That is why businesses need some expert for doing this.
So, if you think you have good analytical skills, go for it.
Final Thoughts
Today’s digital world has a number of unique features that can provide many benefits. Plus, as more companies are interested in recruiting freelancers rather than managing wages, it’s the great time to learn new skills.
Here, we have only shared the skills you don’t have to spend years developing them to start a successful career. You just need to find the niche that you can serve better.
If you found this article helpful or want to learn new skills, then just get started and let us know in the comments. We can’t wait to see you developed the skills in you on the basis of self-help and how you started making money with them!