If you're trying to make money online and you're trying to break past that crucial first milestone of making your first hundred pounds and you should find this article really helpful.

How I made my first hundred pounds of online business I am going to tell you in seven steps. Making money online is something that can make big changes to your lifestyle and it's something that I personally think is achievable for a lot of people who put in the time and effort however it's not easy and there's a lot of conflicting information out there on the subject and it can get very confusing and overwhelming if you're a beginner.

so just really quickly firstly I want to give you few steps to make your first hundred pounds online with online freelancing .

I own a website called standout CV.com which is currently one of the UK's biggest CV advised websites and its main purpose is to help people learn the jobs they want by teaching them how to write a good CV it's had over five million visitors since I started in 2014 and it generates income through selling advertising space of businesses and also by selling CV writing services to personal customers have some other smaller websites and online projects but standard CV .com is by far and away my biggest source of income.

Around 2012-2013 when I discovered online freelancing I started doing online freelancing work on the side of my full-time job and what I was doing was charging people to rewrite their CVS.

In recent years is that a lot of freelance marketplace websites have popped up which are full with businesses and people who are looking and willing to pay for services so essentially what these websites do is they connect sellers like you with the people that want to buy your services so this has made things a lot easier places like

1.        1.   People per hour

2.   Fiverr.com

 are incredibly popular with small business owners who are looking for freelance services , platform has make it really straightforward for someone like you to set up a profile quite quickly and start selling your services straight away.

If you compare that to something like selling products on Amazon.com or starting a blog those things can work really really well but they will have setup cost and they will have running costs and that's not really good if you're a beginner because  you might not have the money to spend in the first place.

Starting a blog or a YouTube channel they're both very valid ways of making money online but they can take months or even years before you start to turn a profit I can tell you that from personal experience because I've actually done both of those things myself I'm afraid is that it teaches you online business within a risk free environment now that might sound a bit strange but what I mean by that is when you are offering freelance services on these platforms it's almost like you're running your own mini business.

 let's move through the seven steps you need to follow to make that first hundred pounds and start moving towards making a regular income online.

 Step number one is really easy and that is just to sign up to a freelance website now there are quite a few out there but the two I would recommend are people per hour or pph. It's a really good platform it has lots of active buyers and it's really easy to use it's a U k-based site but both sellers and buyers on the platform come from all over the world so it doesn't matter where you're based anybody can sign up to be a seller on the platform. Then there's Fiverr which is a U.S site but again the buyers and the sellers come from all over the world so you can sign up from anywhere doesn't matter where you're based I know there are a lot of freelancers on there making a good income there.

 Obviously look to sell those as a service however if you don't currently have any skills that you can sell that's fine it just means you'll have to learn one now obviously that's going to take you a bit of time but in my opinion learning a skill that you can charge people money for is in very very good use of your time now obviously some things will take longer to learn than others and if you're looking to get started quickly then I would recommend starting with a basic skill. Services you see being sold on PPH and on Fiverr can all be learned for free right here on YouTube I've learned everything that I know about building websites running on my businesses from even reading articles or watching YouTube videos. Have a look at some YouTube videos practice a few different things try some things out you know see what you enjoy see.

     what you pick up easily. The perfect thing the first time around as I said when I first started I           did  freelance CV writing which is essentially writing other people's CVS for them now I used         to work in recruitment at the time so I had a basic idea of what a good CV should look like but   I   didn't really know the process of rewriting someone's CV or the consultation process that was       involved so I essentially pick something that I sort of knew but I still had to learn a few new           skills which involved just reading a few blogs online which videos to kind of merge those two         things and become good at delivering their service then picked the type of service you're               going to deliver is to create a profile on whichever platform you've chosen now the features of       these profiles differ slightly between people per hour and five they allow you to add free things       that is a photograph a text description of yourself and a portfolio section where you can                 upload examples of your work.

   Next  Step  is to create adverts within the platforms so we've been either of these platforms         you  can create adverts for a specific service so you're going to deliver for a particular price           on PPH they are called offers and on Fiverr they're called gigs so for example if you're offering     writing services you might have one advert that offers a 500 word article and you might have         another add further offers a 1,000 word blog post and so on and so on and really just want to         try  and make as many of these as possible and cover a wide range of services within your           niche because once you've created them these adverts just sit there forever on the platform         and when by a search for those services your adverts can appear people can visit them and         they can order them so it's good to have as many as possible so that you can passively                 generate orders and the idea when write something needs to be really specific about what             you're offering and again focus on explaining how the service will benefit

a potential buyer and I'm actually thinking about creating some more templates for writing adverts on these platforms.

Next Step  is to bid on jobs that are being posted by buyers so what this means is that buyers go on to the platform and they post a job for a specific request for a job that they need doing so basically when you're doing this you just search the platform for job requests in your niche by using

different keywords that relate to that niche and you write proposal to the buyer and try to persuade them to hire you for the job.

I was eventually able to increase my rates to 100 pounds per cv so you've just got to be really determined and persistent in the early stages keep plugging away keep writing proposals it will be tough but once you start getting those few jobs in

you start getting a few bits of feedback on the profile I promise you it gets much easier from that point onward.

Last step  is to simply repeat and find that process so it's really just about repeating the steps until you make those first 10 sales until you make that first hundred pounds because once you break past that barrier that's a great confidence booster and you'll have learned so much about online business and from there you want a really good platform to move forwards and start working towards the next big milestone.