1.

Writing
I never set out to become a writer, I just sort of accidentally fell ass-backward into
becoming one. Finding LMM was the best and luckiest thing that ever happened to
me.

Every other writing job I got is a direct result of LMM.

When I decided to leave New York City for New Orleans, I needed to save money for
the move. I made profiles for the freelancing sites Upwork and Guru.

These sites have gotten me a ton of work on both sites because I had such a vast
portfolio, the dozens of articles I had written for LMM.

Other jobs have come to me because potential clients contacted Andrew and he
vouched for me.

As you heard, after five years, I was able to quit working a 9-5 job and write full time.
If you aren’t lucky enough to find your own LMM, take Thomas’s suggestion and
“create the capital of a different kind.”

Contact blogs and publications focused on the subject you want to write about and
offer to write for free.

Or make low ball bids on freelancing sites. These things will allow you to build up a
portfolio and in the case of freelancing sites, get good feedback from your clients.

This body of work, even if it wasn’t paid or well-paid, can be the foundation you base
a career on. You can really make a lot of extra money and it can also turn into one of
the best business ideas for freelancers.

2. Social Media Person

 Most businesses recognize the power of social media these days, but that doesn’t
mean they know how to utilize it. If you do and can convince them that harnessing
that power can make them extra money, they will pay you money to do it.
There are plenty of these kinds of positions available on freelancing sites, but you’re
up against a lot of competition.

I think you will have better odds pitching yourself and your skills in the area of social
media to small, local businesses in your city.

3. Virtual Assistant
People only have so many hours in the day, and they have to assign value to their
time.

Is it cheaper to pay someone else to do things like return emails, schedule

appointments, invoice customers, dispute charges on their credit cards or to do it
themselves?

If their time is valued at $100 an hour and they can pay a virtual assistant $20 an hour
to do them, then the choice is obvious.

It makes sense to outsource those tasks. You can find these kinds of jobs on
freelancing sites.

You and your employer don’t have to be in the same place. Some VA’s never even
talk to their boss on the phone; everything is done via email or texting.

4. Real World Assistant

Real world assistants do all the same kind of tasks a virtual assistant does, but you are
working in the same place.
You can find these jobs in all of the traditional job finding places but if you are aware
of some entrepreneurial people in your city and you can somehow wrangle a meeting,
pitch yourself as their assistant.

This is a good strategy particularly if the person is involved in an industry you are
interested in.

You can use your time as their assistant to learn what they know and if you’re lucky,
develop a mentoring relationship with that person.