{"id":222701,"date":"2022-01-08T04:49:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T11:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marioflawless.com\/?p=222701"},"modified":"2022-01-08T05:02:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T12:02:36","slug":"how-to-make-money-as-a-freelancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marioflawless.com\/how-to-make-money-as-a-freelancer\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Make Money As A Freelancer Using Envato Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, I&#8217;m going to show you how to make money as a freelancer using <a href=\"https:\/\/1.envato.market\/dokDBW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Envato Elements<\/a>. If you&#8217;ve never heard of <a href=\"https:\/\/1.envato.market\/dokDBW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Envato Elements<\/a>, it is essentially a subscription-based service, which gives you access to thousands of stock assets that you can use for yourself or for paying clients. Envato Elements, which was launched in 2018 and is currently home to over 1.5 million files from more than 8,000 creators, provides a wide range of graphics, photo\/video, and web assets that can be used for projects such as web design, film, and video production, music production, photography, and logos to name just a few.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-662c210cab0a6\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-662c210cab0a6\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marioflawless.com\/how-to-make-money-as-a-freelancer\/#Currently_a_subscription_for_Envato_Elements_runs_at_198year_which_equates_to_1650month\" title=\"Currently, a subscription for Envato Elements runs at $198\/year (which equates to $16.50\/month).\">Currently, a subscription for Envato Elements runs at $198\/year (which equates to $16.50\/month).<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marioflawless.com\/how-to-make-money-as-a-freelancer\/#How_to_make_money_as_a_freelancer_in_graphic_design_using_Envato_Elements\" title=\"How to make money as a freelancer in graphic design using Envato Elements\">How to make money as a freelancer in graphic design using Envato Elements<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marioflawless.com\/how-to-make-money-as-a-freelancer\/#How_to_make_money_as_a_freelancer_in_web_development_using_Envato_Elements\" title=\"How to make money as a freelancer in web development using Envato Elements\">How to make money as a freelancer in web development using Envato Elements<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marioflawless.com\/how-to-make-money-as-a-freelancer\/#Envato_Elements_takes_the_guesswork_out_of_design\" title=\"Envato Elements takes the guesswork out of design\">Envato Elements takes the guesswork out of design<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marioflawless.com\/how-to-make-money-as-a-freelancer\/#How_much_have_I_made_using_Envato_Elements\" title=\"How much have I made using Envato Elements?\">How much have I made using Envato Elements?<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marioflawless.com\/how-to-make-money-as-a-freelancer\/#How_to_make_money_as_a_freelancer_summary\" title=\"How to make money as a freelancer summary\">How to make money as a freelancer summary<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Currently_a_subscription_for_Envato_Elements_runs_at_198year_which_equates_to_1650month\"><\/span><strong><em>Currently, a subscription for <a href=\"https:\/\/1.envato.market\/dokDBW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Envato Elements<\/a> runs at $198\/year (which equates to $16.50\/month).<\/em><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This is the perfect resource for learning how to make money as a freelancer for creative individuals, freelancers, and businesses. You&#8217;ll be able to enjoy unlimited downloads of thousands of graphics, audio, videos, templates, and more.<\/p>\n<p>And the best part is, you don&#8217;t even need to be a professional designer to take advantage of this. You can utilize the skills of designers that already know what they&#8217;re doing! The possibilities are endless. These assets will level up your design and development skills and make you some extra cash on the side.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_make_money_as_a_freelancer_in_graphic_design_using_Envato_Elements\"><\/span>How to make money as a freelancer in graphic design using <a href=\"https:\/\/1.envato.market\/dokDBW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Envato Elements<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Envato has a huge repository of graphic design assets that you can use to quickly speed up your design process. We&#8217;re talking about print templates (business cards, flyers, posters, magazine covers, cd covers, etc.), product mockups (from computer screens to physical products), website graphics, UX\/UI kits, infographics, logos, and scene generators.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it like this: If you sell 1 graphic per month at $20, you&#8217;d get only $3.50 in profit per month. Now, what if you charged $50 per graphic? Or even $100 per graphic? Your profit would skyrocket. And what if you&#8217;re able to sell more than 1 graphic in a month? PURE PROFIT on any sale you receive beyond the first one.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t believe me, let&#8217;s do the math :<\/p>\n<p>If 1 graphic sells at $50 per month, you earn $33.50 before the credit card processing fee. If it takes you 1 hour to complete that project, your hourly rate would come out to $33.50\/hour. Now, 1 hour is a little overkill when you&#8217;re using these templates, so in reality, you can easily knock out full designs in less than 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s break it down like this. You pay $198 for the first year of using Envato Elements. So now you&#8217;re at -$198. You sell 6 graphics in month 1 at $50 apiece. You make $300 on month 1. You&#8217;ve grossed $300 and already profited $102, which means that you&#8217;ve made the money back that you&#8217;ve spent on the subscription and now, every dollar you earn for the rest of the year is pure profit.<\/p>\n<p>From my experience, a $50 design is extremely easy to sell once you have built up a little credibility.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s only the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>To really make some serious cash, you&#8217;re going to want to dive into Envato&#8217;s video and audio assets as well to produce larger projects. Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re doing video work for your clients.<\/p>\n<p>If you charge over $200 for any type of video work, Elements pays for itself in 1 project right off the bat. This also means that if you charge, say, $1,000 for a video project, and you use some creative assets like video templates, logo intro animations, and stock video footage to piece together the project in record time, professionally, and bam, you just made $800 in pure profit.<\/p>\n<p>Let that sink in for a minute. This is the perfect way to learn how to make money as a freelancer in the video field.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_make_money_as_a_freelancer_in_web_development_using_Envato_Elements\"><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-222703 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/mlmgnqlpoccw.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:240\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.marioflawless.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/How-To-Make-Money-As-A-Freelancer-Developer-Using-Envato-Elements.png\" alt=\"How To Make Money As A Freelancer Developer Using Envato Elements\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" title=\"\">How to make money as a freelancer in web development using <a href=\"https:\/\/1.envato.market\/dokDBW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Envato Elements<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Just like with designing, there are thousands of assets available for web developers that will save you time and help build your professional profile. If you&#8217;re a WordPress developer or designer, this is going to be your best friend.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular items on Envato Elements for web developers are the WordPress theme, plugin, and widget templates. Just like with designers, these assets will pay for themselves over and over again because you can use these templates over, and over again. Plus, they&#8217;re 100% customizable.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Envato_Elements_takes_the_guesswork_out_of_design\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/1.envato.market\/dokDBW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Envato Elements<\/a> takes the guesswork out of design<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>If you&#8217;re like me, there may be times when you don&#8217;t feel inspired and nothing comes to mind when you&#8217;re trying to complete a project. Not only that, but it&#8217;s also an inconvenience when you&#8217;re dealing with clients because if they don&#8217;t like the first draft of your design, they may not want anything else on top of it.<\/p>\n<p>With Envato Elements, this is no longer an issue when you&#8217;re figuring out how to make money as a freelancer. The issues plaguing freelance designers today are no longer as difficult as they once were. You can download some stock footage, some vector illustrations, some website templates, some logo\/text mockups, and voila! You have more than enough content to complete all of your current projects.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s better is that these assets will pay for themselves over and over again and you can use them on every project you do from here on out.<\/p>\n<p>Envato Elements saves you hours and hours of work<\/p>\n<p>Imagine having a totally different image in every project you work on? It&#8217;s a little difficult to achieve. Even if you download some vector illustrations, do you really want to try and recreate a mockup in Photoshop each time? Some of them take hours upon hours to create, only to be copied over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>With Envato Elements, you have an endless supply of stock assets to use in your projects. All of the assets are professional and source files are provided. What&#8217;s even better is that the assets are royalty-free, meaning you can use them as many times as you want without having to worry about paying any additional licensing fees.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_much_have_I_made_using_Envato_Elements\"><\/span>How much have I made using Envato Elements?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve personally licensed 303 creative assets from Envato since I signed up with them in March of 2020. I did not sell 303 graphic designs from Envato as I&#8217;ve used a lot of the assets from Envato on my own personal projects, but I know that I&#8217;ve sold over 100 graphics using these assets.<\/p>\n<p>The main focus of my primary business is offering website design and I offer graphic design as an a-la-carte service. It&#8217;s NOT my main source of revenue, just a side gig. My graphic designs start at $99 and so far, I&#8217;ve paid for 2 years of using Envato Elements at $198\/year. <strong>That means that I&#8217;ve generated a minimum gross revenue of $9,900 and only paid $396, in just 2 years as a side hustle! <\/strong>That&#8217;s $9,504 in profit!<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_make_money_as_a_freelancer_summary\"><\/span>How to make money as a freelancer summary<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a creative person, I highly encourage you to sign up for Envato Elements. <a href=\"https:\/\/1.envato.market\/dokDBW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You can signup here<\/a>. If you&#8217;re not a creative person, Envato Elements will still be your best friend. If you&#8217;re an entrepreneur looking to up your game with professional designs, you should definitely check out Envato Elements.<\/p>\n<p>Learning how to make money as a freelancer is easy but putting in the work is hard. If you need help learning how to make money as a freelancer, designer, or developer, drop me a message in the comments below, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marioflawless.com\/work-with-mario\/\">let&#8217;s work together one-on-one to set up your sales funnel<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, I&#8217;m going to show you how to make money as a freelancer using Envato Elements. 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