!rant

What are the chances of working as a freelancer using these freelancing web pages and making enough money to cover my expenses (ex: 800$/month).

I am a web developer.

You need to sell yourself and make yourself valuable. Work will then comes to you.

@benline but how ?

@adoniskrasniqi show your skills off, build landing pages and drive traffic with target ads.

Word of mouth, doing charity work which leads to paid work.

If I'm really low on work, I find a website that needs a bit of a polish and hard sell for them to allow me to show what I can do for them.

Provide value, provide value, provide value, then take what you have earned.

Hope that helps you.

@benline thanks a lot , ot really did helped me!

@adoniskrasniqi most welcome :D.

I remember back in the day before they had these laws surrounding cold emails, I would look up a city business directory online, click through to available websites, write an email to the available email address, introducing myself, complementing them on 1 thing I liked about their website, then proceeded to tell them 1 thing on their website I could fix for them.

Every email was original, and I did it for 10 to 14 hours a day. Eventually, replies (good and bad) trickled in and I started to sell and created a waterfall sales effect. I later wrote a lead generation application to follow up with the people that ignored me and weren't bounces.

You can't do this these days, at least not where I am anyways due to legislation, but there are other ways similar to this.

The best thing I ever did though, was stay away from the freelance / contest sites. I wouldn't know how to sell, I wouldn't have learned how to manage my time and I wouldn't have learned enough about communication skills.

@darkcode wow thank you, i will try this out !