--- title: 'How to Earn Money Freelancing in 2026 Even If You Have No Skills' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=5EOOnX1-Pfg' video_id: '5EOOnX1-Pfg' date: 2026-07-17 duration_sec: 697 channel: 'Дмитрий Варфоломеев | Веб-дизайн' --- # How to Earn Money Freelancing in 2026 Even If You Have No Skills > Source: [How to Earn Money Freelancing in 2026 Even If You Have No Skills](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5EOOnX1-Pfg) ## Summary This video provides a comprehensive guide to freelancing, emphasizing that anyone can start earning money online regardless of experience, location, or equipment. The creator shares practical strategies for beginners, including low-barrier entry tasks, tools like Figma and ChatGPT, and tips for finding clients. The core message is that freelancing offers unlimited earning potential and rapid career growth, but requires initiative and continuous learning. ### Key Points - **Freelancing is for everyone** [00:02] — You can freelance even if you're from a small town, a student, have little experience, or lack a powerful computer. - **Unlimited earning potential** [00:31] — Unlike hired labor, freelancing has no earnings ceiling. You can start small but reach average Moscow salary within a year, even from a province. - **Soft skills matter most** [01:12] — Freelancing rewards soft skills and offers fast career advancement. You can earn without hard skills like reading, drawing, or coding. - **Work from anywhere** [01:52] — You can work from home, coffee shops, coworking spaces, or even a hookah bar. The creator's editor is from Armenia, never met in person, yet earned over 1 million rubles. - **Low-barrier entry tasks** [03:01] — Examples: posting reviews on Yandex Maps (1000 rubles), writing store reviews (70 rubles), data entry from scans to Excel (500 rubles). These require no experience and take 2-4 hours for 1000 rubles. - **Designing marketplace cards** [04:38] — Use ChatGPT to generate text and visuals for product cards, then refine in Figma. More competition but higher pay. Requires basic familiarity with GPT and Figma. - **YouTube thumbnail design** [06:02] — Similar complexity to marketplace cards. Average starting price 1000 rubles per thumbnail. Advantage: repeat clients. - **Web design as a sweet spot** [06:18] — Higher entry threshold than cards/thumbnails but lower than IT. One project can earn 30-40k rubles per month. Initially takes a month, later a week per project. - **Step-by-step learning path** [07:25] — 1) Learn Figma (via creator's video). 2) Learn Tilda (two videos available). 3) Take free beginner course (link in description). 4) Improve visual acuity by following designers on Pinterest, Behance, Dribbble, and Madeeldлда. - **Where to find clients** [09:24] — Start with friends and acquaintances for small projects. Then use freelance exchanges (e.g., proru). Creator's initial orders were 5-10k rubles, but after calls closed at 75k+. - **Word of mouth and repeat clients** [10:34] — After enough orders, clients return and recommend you. Some relationships last years, like the creator's editor. - **Just start** [10:47] — The most important thing is to begin, even if unprepared. Don't overthink or watch endless tutorials. Practice, make mistakes, and grow. ### Conclusion Freelancing is accessible to anyone willing to start, regardless of background. The key is to take action, learn through practice, and leverage tools like ChatGPT and Figma to build skills and attract clients. ## Transcript more freelancing than anyone you know, even if you're from a small town, even if you're still a student, and even if you have little experience and don't have a super-powerful computer. Today, you'll learn about the different ways to earn money as a freelancer, stand out from the competition, and how to get started quickly so freelance money in just a week. Let's start with the question: why is freelancing the ideal way to earn money? This correction is ideal, but not the simplest. Unlike hired labor, freelancing has virtually no ceiling on earnings. Yes, you start with pennies, but in six months or closer to a year you can reach the average Moscow salary. Moreover, the vast majority of freelancers are not located in Moscow, but in some backwater like Saransk, where the salary is already much higher than average and approaches, well, something unrealistic. But in fact, you’ve only been in the profession for a year, and everything is still ahead of you. But you need to accept that you are in charge here, and not being controlled. So if you just sit there and wait for a zero on your card, and complete disappointment in your eyes from the fact that here, as a freelancer, you have to work, just like in any other job . Oh, surprisingly, yes, you say. So freelancing is the job that best rewards soft skills and offers the fastest and highest-paying career advancement. You can earn money on Freeland without any hard skills at all. You may not know how to read, draw, write, design a website, or layout it. You can still make money as a freelancer. But about this, about everything in order. As I already said, you can earn a Moscow salary simply by living there in the provinces, general, in principle, it is not necessary to work for Russia or even work is enough to simply have a card on which you can receive money. One of the most banal examples is that you are now observing everything with your own eyes. The editing of this and all my other videos was done by a person who is not from Russia at all. He is from Armenia, and we have never seen each other in person and [laughter] have not touched each other. But this in no way prevents us from working together for way prevents us from working together for over a year now. And I alone, I alone paid him more than 1 million rubles during this time. And yes, I make money freelancing, I pay earn even more money freelancing. You can also work from home, you can rent a separate office or a coworking space, that's how I do it. You can work in a coffee shop, in a library, or even in a hookah bar. In general, it is you who creates the comfort of your work atmosphere. With Freelance you do everything yourself you. something that would charge you up. You create an atmosphere around you that you want to return to and after which you don’t think that you’re just going to some job. Your work turns into a hobby thanks to this atmosphere. But to do this, at the very first stages you need to decide 's start with what would be ideal for you if you have free if you have free time, but absolutely no experience in anything. take a look at what the freelance exchange offers us. Category. We selected the texts and that's it Posting a review on Yandex Maps costs 1,000 rubles. It costs 70 rubles to write a review about the store's work, but they will most likely give you more. Transfer data from scans to Excel. That is, for 500 rubles. You just manually carry out the work that other guys don't want to do . And yes, and please note that there are very few responses here. As a rule, the work here is varied, and you need to spend from 2 to 4 hours there to earn 1,000 rubles in order to move something from somewhere to somewhere. And here's the advantage of this niche: you can earn your very first money as a freelancer without any experience whatsoever. Even though it was a small amount of money, you got your first commercial experience working with a client. For example, what would I do if I had apply for as many similar vacancies as possible and immediately money, I would offer you my additional services to help with other similar tasks. I would also suggest that other colleagues in their field solve such problems on a large scale. Thus, in one month of work I would have secured myself a stable word of mouth and would have paid for a room in a dorm there myself without asking my parents for money. Well, if you're a big shot with a wife, kids, and a mortgage, then yeah, these little things wo n't really make a difference in your home. Well, it’s understandable; by this time you should already understand that without experience, the pay will always be appropriate. The next thing you can try as a freelancer is designing cards for marketplaces. There is more competition here, but also more money. What experience might you need here? This is the first work with GPT chat. Simply describe the client's product and card. First, he will generate everything for you in text , and then he will show you a visual of what it might be. If, for example, you didn't like the style that GP created for you, then give him some visual examples of what card should look like in general. After that, you take this Figma as you go. You study, as it were, all the functionality. And after you've achieved something there, you can send it all back to the GPT chat. He'll analyze you, give you comments on what could be improved, and then bam, he'll give you your corrected version, which you can either use to work on, or also add the new details he told you about. The marketplace niche is extremely relevant right now , but to achieve a profitable income, you need to work with a large number of clients. And your stamp cards for clients as quickly as possible. And since it’s still work, well, some kind of work, but creative, it will exhaust her quite a lot. About the same in terms of complexity and cost is the design of covers and previews for YouTube. The advantage of this niche is that you don't have to constantly look for a working for a long time, and with the same guys, but still, calculate how many of these previews you need to make per month , if the average cost of one preview is, well, 1,000 rubles at the start. And so, based on the above-mentioned nuances, I still chose web design. Yes, the threshold for a move here is higher than for cards and covers on YouTube, but not as high as in the same IT, although the money there is more or less the same. In order to earn the same 30-40,000 rubles there. per month, you only need to do one project. Yes, it would seem that for your very first projects you would need a month of such intensive work simply due to inexperience. Then, later on, you will spend about 1 week on such projects, and all this at a leisurely pace. And you can also, uh, do additional projects at the same time, like I did. You can watch on YouTube, where I show how I work with real clients, how much time I spend on it all and what processes I touch on during my work. You can work with websites in the same way as with cards via GPT chat, but it's a little more complicated, since there are more blocks, more information, and everything needs to be properly structured and done, properly structured and done, you know, in a single design system. Let me now tell you step by step what you need to start learning in order to start earning money in any of the professions listed above. delve deeper into the tools themselves, which I have already talked about. To do this, you need to study Figma. Figma, you can do this using my video on YouTube. Here it is, right on your screens. And there, all the training takes place directly using the website as an example. You also need to learn how to work in Tilda. What is it, what is it for , what tasks does it perform in general? I recorded two videos. This is the simplest possible training from the first launch to your first website created. Secondly, I have a free course for beginners, and you can take it right after watching this where you, together with me, create your first design websites, which you can immediately add to your portfolio. There will also be homework that I will check, and a chat with other students. This means you also find yourself in a group of like- minded people who will help you and give you advice at any time. As I said above, the course is absolutely free. Almost 5,000 people have already completed it. Just register and learn. The link will be in the description below this video. Third. I strongly recommend that you constantly improve your visual acuity. To do designers. Some show their work, others talk about how to fix certain blocks, refine certain designs, and will throw out their own ideas and share their thoughts. When you watch guys like these, you will absorb their experience. Browse through various design collections. This is Pinterest, this is Behand or DrFile. And speaking of the website, be sure to check out Madeeldлда. There is almost every website there, and it is something extremely juicy and interesting. Being observant gives you an understanding of how and why it is best to implement each element on the site. Besides upgrading yourself and your skills, the only thing better than all this is practice. Let me tell you now where most freelance clients hang out. Your first clients may be your friends and acquaintances. And for a small amount of money, you can implement a project for them, experience what it’s like to person, and what pitfalls are hidden in the process of working with a person. And it's precisely by going through these nuances and pitfalls that you understand your superpower and begin to use it effectively with future clients . You know where the weaknesses of other designers, other freelancers are, and where your superpower is. And this is exactly what you convey during your communication with the client. The be one of your first, but also remain a permanent one, is a freelance exchange. For my videos, specifically those where I show use a freelance exchange. In my case, it's a proru. Yes, almost all the orders I respond to are initially 5,000-10,000 rubles. But after the call, I close them at 75, there are 118 and other amounts that will be in the new you've been trading on the exchanges for a sufficient amount of time and have closed a sufficient number of orders, your word of mouth starts to work . That is, clients come back to you, recommend you, and with some you can work for several years, like I do as my editor on YouTube. The most important thing in freelancing is to just get started. And it's better to start as unprepared as possible and have the very first negative experience, everything, to pack up like, I don't know, a started. Simply because you are afraid of being Everything I told you in this video will be enough for you to get started. Don't get caught up in endless YouTube video viewing. Don't spend months thinking about how you should even start. The most important thing here is to do it. Just immerse yourself in practice, make mistakes, learn from mistakes, and simply become more experienced. So the sooner you start, the faster you will grow. And don't forget that my free course for beginners is under this video. And I will be happy to become your mentor for the And I will be happy to become your mentor for the next week. See you.