Re: ways to earn some money?
@Lucas1853: As a general freelancing word of advice, you generally want to avoid those (its the internet, anyone can do it) services that take cuts and ultimately stand to unfairly benefit from your work. This is especially true of Fiver and their pricing structure. If you truly want to go off on your own, the best way is to get coaching/experience in the field you want to do freelance work for, like if you wanted to be a freelance audio producer/editor. You should definitely expect to start out doing free work, and honestly if you don't like the sound of that then you might want to re-evaluate. But the first thing you want to do is to get that list of references/recommendations/testimonials, because you'll want to put that on your websites, and then actually market yourself as a business. This is where being good at self-promotion really, really plays in your favor. Where it's ok to be that walking billboard as long as you are talking to, rather than talking at. Remember: experience in both your craft and in business management will always come before acquiring equipment. Realize that this route leaves no room for wishy-washy/hypothetical plans, because any (success in five minutes) call-center reassurance is just snakeoil marketing at best, and depending on the provider, may make you lose more before real gain. But the longterm benefits to ditching the service-platforms are huge, making it worth the (shouldn't be called extra) time and resources spent. As you can see, you are in charge of operations and how you get paid. More importantly, middlemen aren't thrown into the equation to skim as much profit as they can off of the workers and the clients.
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