If you have an artistic career but are not in the higher end of the scale where income is served on a silver platter, there are still self employed ideas you could develop that might give you a handsome income. In this post I’ll try to inspire you to pass limiting thoughts you may have about your opportunities. I hope this may open up your inborn creativity to come up with online self employed ideas that could serve you really well.
In the online world standing out from the crowd is really important in order to succeed. This you could make your advantage. You could use your creative talent to produce stuff that would help blogs and websites have their own identity – an element of recognition.
Self Employed Ideas with Music
If you have a talent for music you could create short jingles or small themes that you could sell either tailored or in limited numbers within niches or geographical areas. You could sell your work to websites selling jingles or you could build your own brand and website.
You could also team up with other artistic talents and produce inspirational videos.
Self Employed Ideas with Art
If you have a talent for graphic design its obvious that you could sell your talent online. You could create your own business or you could freelance. At 99designs.com you can reach new clients and build your portfolio.
You could also try Elance.
If you paint or draw beautiful images you could team up with music talents and create inspirational videos. You could offer this as tailored videos to larger companies who wants to inspire their employees, or to small internet business owners who could use your tailored videos to go viral with their stuff.
Self Employed Ideas with Photo
If you’re more into capturing the moment there is also an ocean of opportunities online to make a good living out of your passion. Beautiful photos are always inspiring. You could team up with someone with poetic writing skills and develop inspirational products. You could create your own inspirational website or you could sell inspirational videos to website owners – videos they could use in their acquisition of customers or to inspire their workers.
The power of images is well known and with Internet the need of images has grown immensely. Freelancing is of course possible, but you might earn more from your photos by building your brand and sell your pictures from your own site.
Self Employed Ideas with Crafts
Whatever you’re producing there are people out there that would like to buy from you if they only did know about you. With Internet it’s easier than ever to reach a buying audience – even with small niches that is difficult to make profitable in the offline world. Within crafts there is always a market for selling different creative techniques as well. Many people like to learn new hobbies. So why not spread and teach your skills and knowledge with the help of Internet?
Creating your website
Whatever your talent may be, find someone with skills within Internet marketing and webdesign to help you create a profitable website and offer your service or products to online buyers. Outsourcing the production and maintenance of your website can be done without you breaking your neck financially. You can find people from all over the world that might be happy and satisfied to earn what you have to offer as we all know the standard of living differs greatly around the world. A great place to look for online skilled help is craigslist. Both in India and the Philippines you might find trustworthy and highly skilled web programmers, web designers and internet marketers to do this kind of work for you.
You might just as well create a website where other people as well may sell their products and services. Then of course you would claim a fair provision from their sales.
Also let someone else take care of the delivery of your goods so that you can concentrate upon the creative production that you do best and love to do.
We are surrounded with an endless stream of opportunities. However we need to open our minds and look for them. What I wish for you is you expand your creativity and reach out to the world with that which you’re really good at. You may even come up with new online self employed ideas no one have been thinking of before…
Aase K – the self employed income coach
