Freelancing, especially from Pakistan, is a great way to either do full time. Or to do part time and add to your existing income.
People are earning upwards of 100,000 rupees per month doing this part time. And pretty much sky’s the limit when it comes to freelancers who are doing freelancing from Pakistan full time.
What is Freelancing
What is freelancing? It is to offer your services at a great price.
That sounds simple. It is simple but not easy, especially if you are competing in marketplaces (like Fiverr, Upwork, Freelancer etc).
In this free guide by Momekh, we hope to show you how you can start a successful freelancing career inshAllah.
Resources on Freelancing from Pakistan
In the following playlist, you will find the current resources available on Momekh.com that you can IMMEDIATELY use to get results, God willing.
There are at least 6 profitable ways you can start an online business, especially in Pakistan.
Unfortunately, 99% of the people I meet, don’t know this.
I am blessed to live a project based lifestyle for a majority of my working career. Out of the 6 business models, I have tried them all. These 2 are my favorite.
Let us see which one may suit you and how to quickly go about them:
(If you want the complete 6 ways, I have created a guide for you that you can access for free here)
As you see in the matrix, the two business models are high on profitability and low on initial costs.
The best, most profitable ways of starting an online business are:
Start a services business (from freelancing all the way to high-ticket consulting)
Start a digital education business (selling courses and coaching)
Business model: Services business
Providing a service is the quickest way to start your side business. This is how I started back in 1999.
If you play it right, you can become a premium consultant in your field.
A services business can be anything as it depends on your skillsets. It can be
running Facebook and Google ads for clients
training people on specific tools or departments
become a copywriter on Fiverr (God forbid ;-))
… and the list goes on.
How to start your services business
Make a list of skills you already have (or skills you can learn via courses, books, teachers etc).
And then follow the “Instant Consultant” method.
You just fill in the blanks:
I will help my clients __________ (what will you help them do, achieve, figure out etc? this is the main problem that you’ll be solving)
After clients pay, they will get: _____________ (this is the offer and this is different than the problem you’ll be solving in step 1. see example below to clearly know the difference between these two things)
The above can be applied to any service idea you have.
▶️Related resource >The above template is a short form version of my Instant Consultant worksheet, that you can check out (for free) here.
Thinking about Fiverr etc? I Interviewed a Fiverr freelancer who has 6,000+ clients, and it only confirmed this opinion. Don’t rely on marketplaces and don’t call yourself a freelancer when talking to clients!
How much to charge for your services?
This depends on the size of the problem you’re solving.
I have sold website design for 12,000 rupees. Later I was charging 1.1 million rupees for my digital marketing service. Alhumdulillah.
You get to charge high prices if you are solving bigger problems. It’s that simple. So train yourself to see the bigger picture.
Tools to get started:
I recommend you get a website. This acts as a digital brochure of your services, and also as your content creation hub. You can get a free one from this new service I found carrd.
With this type of business, you are always bound for time.
That’s why this business model works best with the Online Courses model.
Business Model: Online Courses
This is another of my personal favorites.
An online course is where you teach others via video, text or audio.
This is very different than online tuition.
How are online courses different from online tuition
You are taking advantage of the Internet. You are recording your course once and then selling it to many students.
In a tuition, you have to be present for each class. This is a “services business” if you think about it, right? Why? Because you are selling your time.
I recommend that you record a course once, and then promote it using social media.
Here are some of the ways you can finalize your course topic:
List down your skills that people have paid you for. This includes your current job if you are employed. That can be a great source of online course ideas.
What is something that you are always talking about? Your interest in that topic will help you find topics to create a course around.
What questions people ask you on a regular basis? This means people already consider you an authority in that topic.
The above questions are guidelines to get you thinking.
You can check out my Find Your Business course where I show the exact steps you need to take to arrive at your topic. It is at an afforable price right now. Don’t miss this window if you are serious about your work.
For a limited time: I am including the 300 Ideas for an Online Course spreadsheet with every purchase of the Find Your Business course.
Once you have the idea, you need to take this to the market. And for that, we need a simple set of tools.
Tools to get started with online courses
Get your own platform:
If you’re just getting started, I recommend getting at least a one-pager website for your course. You can use carrd for free (paid is only $19/yr).
Hosting your online courses:
I now use Vimeo paid version to host my course videos, but I started by using the unlisted feature on YouTube.
You upload your course videos as “unlisted” on YouTube. You then share those videos with your paying students only.
Get payments:
Keep it simple. Once students sign up on your website, you can share your bank account with them. This also covers the popular mobile wallets like Jazzcash or Easypaisa.
They transfer the money, and then you give them the access to your course.
How to get clients for your services and online course business
I recommend you keep it simple especially in the beginning and especially if you are doing it alone.
You will be posting content regularly related to your topic. This is your publishing schedule (45mins every day).
You will be doing sales (another 30 to 45mins daily). You can follow a simpler version of our famed 554 method (see my sales training videos here)
So in less than 2 hours every day, you can make salary-replacing income!
Math magic
Let us do some of that math magic, shall we?
You price the service at 10,000 rupees, and you price the course at Rs 3,000. Note, these are just random price points given the Pakistani market.
Here’s how the math works:
2 sales of the course per day = Rs 6,000 per day. Rs 180,000 in a month.
2 sales of your services per week = Rs 20,000 per week. Rs 80,000 in a month.
After 30 days, you earn 260,000 rupees. In about 2 hours per day.
If you are a writer, baker, photographer, speaker, coach, teacher, or a salesperson or a team leader… no matter which type of skill you have, you need to know that there are at least SIX different ways YOU can earn money from that skillset, especially online!
Whenever we think of earning money online, we usually end up thinking of:
either doing a job (remotely perhaps),
doing freelancing of some sort or
setting up an e-commerce store.
But we must realize that there are a total of six ways (at least) that you can use to take your idea, your passion, your skill set to the market.
Here is the list, on our Ease of Business Grid:
Screenshot from the video below
As you see in the above grid, we have arranged the six business models according to their ease of starting and their profitability.
For example, the Magazine business model is very low on profitability compared to other business models, and it is very difficult (or expensive) to do. The most desirable business model becomes the Teaching business model: it is slightly more difficult to start than say freelancing or affiliate business models, but it is definitely much more profitable (give the digital nature of the product, and the different demand gaps you can fill in the market).
Watch the Video
Now having said that, here is the detailed breakdown of each of these six business models:
As you see in the above thorough lesson, we can approach the same “idea” in at least six different ways.
Hope this helps you move closer towards your dream of building a profitable and meaningful business inshAllah. Aameen.
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This content will be helpful for you especially if you are based in Pakistan. Starting a freelancing (or a consulting) career is usually the first step towards financial freedom. This video is in Urdu/Hindi.
Here’s what I realized that changed the way I earned money: making websites is a skill, and selling that skill is a skill too!
I learned that skill and saw a vast change in the way I approached my work (this was back when I started freelancing with web development… it was later that I started freelancing as a writer getting paid as much as $150 for a 800 word article etc… but it all started with these basic principles, as I show in the video)
Can it really be this straight forward?
The following video will show you ALL you really need to start your freelancing and/or consulting business. Trust me, you don’t need a fancy office nor do you need that gadget … you just need answers to these questions (worksheet available for free !!).
If you haven’t already, subscribe to the YouTube channel (it’s mostly in Urdu now, and we are inshAllah coming up on 5000 subscribers fast!! Thank you y’all!)
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I remember reading about people who have already done what I wanted to do. Reading about it gave me the confidence that “if they can do it, then I can do it too!” I share my stories with you in the same manner – to show you it is possible, and then to show you how it is possible.
When I was at college, I had a very simple reason to earn money. I wanted to make money so I can spend it. Revolutionary I know.
But there was a challenge, that if you want to earn money in Pakistan, you are told that you have to cheat and lie to do that. That was my biggest fear. I wanted to earn money in an honest, ethical manner. I saw some people following the easiest ways of earning money in Pakistan, but that was based on dodging or downright cheating.
But God is Kind, and I was able to find teachers and entrepreneurs who were doing it right.
It is only God’s Grace that I was able to make money as a student in Pakistan. I was in University between 1999 and 2004, and during that time, I was earning 30,000 rupees per month average. Back then, you could buy one tola of gold for about 6,000 rupees. Compared to today (in 2024), this is equal to earning a million rupees per month, and that as a student! This still sounds ridiculous to me, but you can read about my earning money as a student story on that detailed blog post.
This gave me the confidence that it is possible to earn money in Pakistan, and do it in an honest, ethical manner. So by God’s Grace, this money-making business ideas list is different.
How to Earn Money in Pakistan, the Unusual List
This is not your usual list of earning money in Pakistan.
This is different. And hopefully more useful because I have actually done each of the listed businesses. And none of them as such were “easy”. They are simple, yes. As you will see in this detailed post, many of the businesses you can still start today, many from the comfort of your home… and be ethical and honest and very profitable at the same time. InshAllah.
Some of the business ideas answer the question: how to earn money online in Pakistan? And other business ideas are offline businesses that you can start.
I have tried to be brief and helpful, but these are 15 ways of earning money — and it is packed with actionable ideas for you to start (or improve) your journey of making money in Pakistan.
Note: One can easily make a full-time income doing any of these projects. Some of the ones listed here still contribute to my bottom line one way or the other, by God’s Grace.
The idea behind these offline and online business ideas is not to get rich quick, in fact, it is not even to get rich the way we understand rich to be.
The idea is to creatively start projects, explore different opportunities and see which one might stick, which one suits you and your choice of lifestyle. That’s actually a very high level of freedom one can work towards. InshAllah.
So, in no specific order, here are the 15 projects you can start to make money…
1. Sell Website Design
I have earned money by selling website design to local (Pakistan-based) companies. This is first thing I did, while still at college.
I would just walk into stores and such, and ask if they want a website. Many a times, this approach did not work (I now know why it didn’t work), but sometimes, it did. I made my first website in the year 2000 I think. Never looked back, as they say.
How you can start selling website design (in Pakistan and anywhere else for that matter) will be easier for you if:
you dress up like a bloody CEO – no one wants to give money to this kid in a t-shirt and flip flops. You’ll be a kid even if you are 40 when you go to client meeting wearing a t-shirt and flip flops
if you think you can finish the project in say 7 days, then tell the prospect that you will finish the project in 21 days. Yes, don’t double it to 14, triple it to 21. Then deliver it in less time and you’ll get yourself a very pleased customer. Also you get to say “I/we overdeliver in our services”!
Make sure everyone knows that you are now making websites; your first few customers will definitely come from within your close network of friends, so ensure they all know.
2. Make Money with Freelancing
Nowadays (in 2022), earning money from freelancing in Pakistan is the “in” thing, and a lot of college students from different universities across Pakistan are trying their hand at freelancing. Which is great. But back in the day, I had a large group of friends (Alhumdulillah) and none of them were doing freelancing!
I guess back then being an entrepreneur (or even just a freelancer) was not considered as cool as it considered now – I was considered unemployed, not self-employed! 🙂
In those times (between 1998 to 2002), the biggest marketplace for international freelancing projects for Pakistanis was Elance. It was later merged into Upwork, which is of course now the biggest freelancing marketplace in the world.
Screenshot of my old account
My Experience as a Freelancer from Pakistan
I got a total of 2 projects, totaling a whopping 600 US$ – that was a decent bit of money for a student in Lahore.
Both projects were web applications (back in the day, we’d call them databases or software, surprise, surprise – now they’d be called apps!).
And it seemed to take forever for me to actually start bidding on projects, as I would only stalk other contractors/providers, see their earnings stack up, telling myself one day, I will earn as much.
Turns out I didn’t want the sheer level of commitment and time it takes to open an office, manage a team, and run a business. This was my first experience with knowing the difference between running a business and owning one; I know now that I don’t want to run businesses, I would rather own a business that somewhat doesn’t need me to run (to know more about this owning and running thingy, check this post).
How can you earn money with Freelancing from Pakistan
I will tell you both ways of earning money with freelancing, one method is the online one, and the other one is where I feel the most money can be made!
Online Freelancing from Pakistan
You can sell a lot of different services on Upwork or Fiverr.
There are just tons and tons of different categories to choose from, from accounting, to writing, to graphic designing, to software development and a whole lot more. So whatever your current skill, or whatever skillset you want to develop, you can try your hand there.
PRO TIP: Focus on writing a winning proposal. This means you have to learn selling and you will have to learn copywriting. I am not kidding but this will be the number one difference between you and the others bidding for the same projects – your ability to write clearly and powerfully is a super-power, trust me!
Too many creatives – writers, designers, coders etc – think selling is beneath them; it’s sleazy or something. Well, ever heard of a best-writing author? NO! We only hear of the best-selling authors. I really want to drive this point home for you: learn how to sell ethically, honestly and with your words – because those folks are making all the money with their creative expression.
The Best Type of Freelancing in Pakistan
This type of freelancing is something that you are probably overlooking right now.
I am getting more and more convinced about the best type of freelancing that you should focus on.
That is, while building your profile, make sure you are building your brand as well! Building a personal brand is one of the best long terms strategies you can have.
Freelancing in Local Markets Vs International Market(places)
Way too many students and professionals from Pakistan are now focusing on freelancing on international marketplaces like Fiverr and Upwork. What does that mean? That means there is a lot more competition.
Think about it like this: say you want to get a website made, and you post a project on a site like Upwork or Fiverr. You have immediate access to top talent from across the world! Not just Pakistan, but from countries across the world!
Now imagine if you don’t post your project on Fiverr for your website project, but you ask your friends, or other shopkeepers and store owners for references (like it used to be before online marketplaces).
Now the people bidding on that project are extremely, extremely low. If you are in that group of freelancers, you have a much, much higher chance of getting that project.
That’s why I always encourage people to sell locally! Visit 10 shops or stores, ask them if they need website design services or social media marketing services or graphic design services. Present yourself properly and follow up. You will be absolutely stunned by the response you get.
Please do not write off the local market, because you know what, so many talented freelancers ARE writing off the local market and bidding on international projects. This leaves a lot of room for you to start growing your freelancing business in Pakistan, inshAllah.
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I still do. Hosting is a very tricky business to scale (with like a gazillion dollars per click or something if you dare think of advertising it online!), but I don’t want to scale a business up just because the business demands it. The business serves me, not the other way around. There are creative ways to sell hosting and you can choose a number of them.
I sell hosting on a yearly basis – with no option to sign up on a month by month basis. For that I suggest people use Hostgator (aff link – I am reseller for Hostgator and am happy with their product and customer support, that’s why I recommend them).
I try to filter out customers by charging them 147 US$ per year, but I do give them Google Apps (with support), WordPress installed and customized, along with some other goodies. I do not advertise it, and if you want to start your blog (or your business website), then click here to get in touch with me.
Kemaak was – as are most things with me – an experiment. An experiment in marketing (I called it a brand vacuum when I started it in 2004 or so).
I remember surveying an exact 100 houses (the ol’ fashioned survey, with paper & everything), asking them if they’d buy milk from Kemaak. The business/enterprise, as small as it is, has sustained itself since, Alhumdulillah.
5. Selling Birthday Cakes
Birthday Cakes in Lahore
I have earned money by selling birthday cakes.
Not just any cakes, but only birthday cakes. This was a good enough unique selling proposition to begin with. Can you think of a unique type of cakes to sell? You’ll immediately stand out. And then you use the exceptionally underrated power of the pamphlet to get the word out, and build from there.
Although I have used online, social media and the like to generate sales, the majority of sales come through good ol’ offline networking, follow ups and delivering unique products!
6. I have earned money selling crops.
Planting Maize by hand
Yes, crops. By God’s Grace, I still own this enterprise. I don’t have any land of my own, I lease it out. Agriculture is not as profitable as it used to be. I have met some great people, have seen Pakistan from the inside out so-to-speak and enjoy the break from city life every now and then.
7. I have earned money by constructing telecom towers
This was when I opened my own construction company. I had dreams of eventually building plazas and hotels. NatGeo with its MegaStructure this and MegaBuilding that had me convinced that architecture and civil works is the lifestyle business for me.
At that time, I still hadn’t figured out the difference between a profession and a business (I thinkI have now).
I successfully completed the first tower, made a decent amount of cash (now I hear the industry is not as profitable) and then waited for the next order.
Without kickbacks, no one was willing to give a small player like myself any orders. I still remember a telecom procurement manager on the phone casually telling me to start work on constructing 80 towers – yes, eighty – and he then told me that I’d have to give him 10 percent of the total profit (he even knew how much I’d be making after taking out expenses etc). A business that is dishonest is not a business, it is a fraud. There are no grey areas in pretty much all cases, I’m afraid.
8. Earn Money by Printing Brochures
Proper use of Pamphlets/Brochures is possibly one of most underrated method of generating new business.
I have earned money by printing brochures.
I don’t wish this upon anyone! Printing is a cut-throat business as far as I could tell. Having spent days on end in the Lahore’s famed Royal Park getting the brochure just right, I know pretty much all there is to know about the process of printing (and it helped me design marketing material too). But the margins are too slim and without kickbacks it seemed, no big corporation was willing to give me large enough orders to justify the large amount of time it took.
There is a lot of money in Printing if you can get a big corporate like Nestle on your client list – if you have a contact or if you can get in without being dishonest about it, then this is something you could easily live off of! But please, if you are OK with being dishonest about it, then you really are reading the wrong guy!
9. Earn Money by starting an Ad Magazine
I have earned money by distributing my own Ad Magazine.
What is an Ad Magazine? Literally, a magazine of ads, nothing else. No content (the ads are the content). You charge companies, small businesses in your area etc, for the ad, and then distribute the Ad Magazine in a designated area. The magazine typically needs to be glossy and well-designed for people to actually pick it up and thumb through it.
Me and my friend started this, and by God’s Grace, the magazine was profitable in the first month. We distributed the magazine to more than 10,000 households in DHA, on a motorbike, in Ramzan while fasting… Aah, those were the days! 🙂
My partner was unable to uphold his end of the deal and we amicably dropped the project, but it is still a good idea and if you want to do it, make sure you
have sold enough ads in the first issue to at least cover 60% of your costs – and make no mistake, this selling stuff is not as easy as it looks,
Know the printing process like its the back of your right hand! If you don’t know it, get someone who does. The printers will take you for a ride, count on it!
Make sure you distribute the magazine on a Sunday so people actually do see it; some will call up your advertisers, and they will keep advertising with you. It is a high-risk business no doubt, but something I really enjoyed (I like inks, design, fonts, paper and people 🙂 )
10. Earn Money with Adsense
If you don’t know what is Adsense: You start a blog, and display ads on your blog (or website). You get paid when people click on those ads. Adsense is a ad-serving system owned by Google that shares the revenue with you; they display ads based on the content of your blog, and you get a share in the earnings. Check out Google Adsense website for more info.
This is definitely not something I’d plan my livelihood around, but it is a good supplement to the bottom line. You need two things to start earning from Adsense, (a) a website with traffic, and (b) a website with traffic. 🙂
So yeah, you need insane amounts of traffic to earn a comfortable living.
But if you are in Pakistan, then is 1000 US Dollar per month from Adsense feasible? That’s almost 86,000 rupees and I’d say that’s a very decent income, right? Well, Pat Flynn, the only person writing about making money online that I read regularly, makes more than a 1,000 dollars from his niche site, and most of that money is from Adsense. Check out his Niche site information hub (click here) if you are interested. Again, remember, this is not a get rich quick kind’a thing; you’d need to work quite hard to achieve this in fact, but I’d say its worth it. No? Tell me how it goes 🙂
11. Earn Money with Affiliate Marketing in Pakistan
Earning Money with Clickbank
Affiliate marketing is possibly the quickest way of starting to earn some cash, but again, make no mistake, it is not easy, it’s only simpler.
My experience with affiliate marketing started with Clickbank. Clickbank is a marketplace where people sell digital products (like ebooks and email courses etc). You can sign up there as an affiliate and every time someone buys a product through your link, you get a commission.
I earned enough via Clickbank alone to make a round-trip to Thailand, business class baby! 😀 … I have even written a book on how you can earn you first 1000 US Dollars online through Affiliate Marketing. If you just want a small primer, check out this post and if you really want to start earning your first 1,000 dollars online, thenclick here to download that book for free.
Affiliate Marketing in Pakistan in 2021
As some of you have pointed out, Clickbank does not work in Pakistan anymore. First they stopped affiliate marketers from Pakistan creating accounts there, now you can’t even buy anything from Clickbank if you’re from Pakistan! I had to move all my digital products that I was selling on Clickbank to 2Checkout and other payment gateways!
But I did yet another experiment: I successfully earned a small commission using AliExpress as the marketplace to promote. Now notice how this works:
I bought a camera from AliExpress (don’t buy cameras or phones from international marketplaces, that is one lesson I learnt).
I captured that experience in a vlog-style video on my YouTube channel.
In the description of the video, I placed links to the camera that I have bought. I mentioned in the video as well that there will be “links in the description” if anyone wants to check out the camera or buy something else from AliExpress.
Anyone who went to that link, no matter what they bought, AliExpress tracked that and paid me a commission for that.
Sure, that video only got a couple of hundred views, and of course, the people who clicked on the link was much less than that. But someone – koi Allah ka bandaa – he or she ended up buying a few things from AliExpress. And I was credited for that sale, and earned a small commission!
So you see, that’s why affiliate marketing in Pakistan is relatively easier than starting an online training business for example! A lot of “review channels” on YouTube start their earning journey this way. And you can too! InshAllah
Dropshipping from Pakistan
I have tried multiple times to create an affiliate account with Daraz. I finally succeeded in making one, but there was a big problem. I had to process the order myself, all of it! I had to order the product and then ship it to the customer myself! This is NOT affiliate marketing, although our local marketplaces are calling it affiliate marketing.
This is more like dropshipping, which I do not recommend one starts, and here’s why:
Dropshipping looks like a very “easy” business and a lot of people dream of starting one. To succeed in dropshipping, especially from Pakistan, you need to understand the concept of “the last mile”. You will be sitting on the last mile, meaning that you will be the one getting the client. And that is a very powerful skill to learn! That is Marketing, that is Sales, that is effective communications and influence. That’s powerful stuff.
And to learn that and then apply on a dropshipping business makes little sense, when you have other business models to consider.
Bottom line: you can start dropshipping business in Pakistan to learn about marketing and try out what you are learning, but don’t get your hopes up too much (a lot of YouTubers sell dropshipping as something you start now, and 3 months later buy your first Lamborghini!).
12. Earn Money by Training People
I have earned money by training a class of about 30 call center agents on Spoken English and Selling.
I was directly involved in setting up a call center here in Lahore, and ended up training the employees on spoken English, selling and basic presentation techniques (against popular belief, you are presenting even if it’s from behind a phone!).
A lot of people are earning money by training corporate executives, by delivering workshops on a wide, wide variety of subjects. The money can be quite good and if you like to get in front of people, then this is definitely a fulfilling field to get into.
Fast-forward to today, and this is pretty much all I do. I have discovered that I personally enjoy teaching and training. And like said earlier, this is a great business to start.
Here are some of the ways of earning money being a teacher and a trainer that I am personally using, Alhumdulillah:
I teach people how to convert their passions and ideas into an online business, using the ProHobbyist 5 Week Challenge course (interested in joining? click here to see if admissions are open)
I have membership program where I share step-by-step strategies on growth in life and in work; I call it the Momekh Premium Membership and it is the culmination of all I have learnt and now teach in growing one’s self, and in growing one’s brand. Click here to join the MPM if you want to boost your growth in the coming days!
13. Earn Money by Writing for Print
I have earned money by writing articles for Print Publications.
I first got published in SPIDER magazine (largest circulating IT magazine in Pakistan). My article got a cover story. Then I went on to write quite a few articles for Spider, then some for a few Current Affairs publications, topping it off with a writing/blogging gig for TheHuffPo (before it was sold off – a lot of people now consider The Huffington Post a well-disguised content farm used for SEO purposes, believe it or not).
You obviously have to write to earn from writing, and unfortunately, a lot of bad writers are making good money, whereas a lot of good writers don’t even know they are good enough…
14. Earn Money by Preparing Powerpoint Presentations
I have earned money by preparing presentations for corporations
I remember overcharging like crazy because I just did not want to do it; I don’t exactly like making powerpoint slides. But the government agency who’d hired me was in a fix and they were willing to pay me quite a good amount of money to design about 35 slides. I wanted to tell them that 35 slides is a death trap for the listeners (ask anyone who has to sit through more than 20 and you’d know what I mean). After I was done, they even wanted me to get in touch with them later for future business. I didn’t. Whew!
There is a need for people who can design decent-looking presentations, and this is very much a niche that not many people are filling.
15. Earn Money by Giving Presentations
I have earned money by delivering presentations for corporations.
This was much more fun than just designing presentations. If you are good at presentations, then pretty much all the ad agencies will want you on their team. The client presentation is a very critical step for an ad agency, and if you can deliver, then you will keep getting more work.
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I didn’t add the recently started dairy farming project, nor a few other projects that I am currently working on, related to online earnings. For example, there were a few e commerce business ideas that were started, and nowadays (in 2024), I help entrepreneurs find a business idea that they can make money with.
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On a side note: I know that I was able to find time for these projects (many of them were carried out concurrently) because I do not have a normal job. A 9 to 5 sucks most of your productive time and you are left making plans, and not taking action (a lot of people actually feel guilty for not taking action, but in reality, it is their time-consuming job that is to blame).
Discover the three fundamentals to future-proof yourself in an AI-world, without the confusion and without being left behind.
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Meet Your Instructor
Hey, Mohammad here!
If you are new to my community, first off, salaams! 🙂
I publish the award-winning creative self employment blog JustAddVenture,
I have been self-employed for over a decade, experimenting, surviving and sometimes thriving in various forms of business!
have started offline and online ventures, including dairy farms, marketing firm, design consultancies, freelancing gigs and elearning.
I was a judge at Digithon by Jazz, a prize-based competition for startups
was invited twice, the last time as a digital influencer to the Digital Youth Summit 2018, Peshawar.
as an experiment, I set myself a challenge of earning only from affiliate websites, and then to go on a business-class trip. I by God’s Grace did it in 60% of the time, and then wrote a 70+ page guide called “TheFirst1000Dollars” on how exactly to do it (that is available for free on the blog)
once wrote an article on dairy farming that lead me to creating a digital guide, that sells to this day
helped my wife convert her hobby of cooking into not one but TWO online businesses
have been interviewed in national and international electronic and print media regarding my ventures and addventures,
I am not an expert, nor a guru, nor an internet millionaire. I am just a regular guy with a family who earns his living on the Internet. And I also show people like you how to do it in the best possible way.
My work (and this site) is devoted to sharing ideas, tools and resources that will help you be all you can be and make a positive difference in every area of your life
1. The shocking reality about “making plans” (and how to fix it so your plans get executed God willing)
2. How to Redefine the Pursuit – why we are “told” to chase the wrong things (and don’t worry, we will uncover the simple way to shift that inshAllah)
3. The Rules of Superior Beings – I love this because these tools completely SHIFT the way you look at your work, and you get to ENJOY the day to day, instead of getting BORED by it!
Just enter your contact details and click the button to book your seat for the live masterclass (this is live and there won’t be an recordings available to the public… so take this opportunity and say YES to changing your life, inshAllah, for the better.
There is a very simple yet unknown method to go from where you are, to where you want to go… I hope to share these findings with you, just like I was helped in my journey. Alhumdulillah indeed!
Meet Your Instructor
Hey, Mohammad here!
If you are new to my community, first off, salaams! 🙂
I publish the award-winning creative self employment blog JustAddVenture,
I have been self-employed for over a decade, experimenting, surviving and sometimes thriving in various forms of business!
have started offline and online ventures, including dairy farms, marketing firm, design consultancies, freelancing gigs and elearning… all from my office here in Lahore.
I was a judge at Digithon by Jazz, a prize-based competition for startups
was invited twice, the last time as a digital influencer to the Digital Youth Summit, Peshawar.
was invited twice as a TEDx speaker here in Pakistan, once to share my stories of “entrepreneurship” and once to share my stories of “professional adventures”….
as an experiment, I set myself a challenge of earning only from affiliate websites, and then to go on a business-class trip. I by God’s Grace did it in 60% of the time, and then wrote a 70+ page guide called “TheFirst1000Dollars” on how exactly to do it (that is available for free on the blog)
once wrote an article on dairy farming that lead me to creating a digital guide, that sells to this day
helped my wife convert her hobby of cooking into not one but TWO online businesses
have been interviewed in national and international electronic and print media regarding my ventures and addventures,
I am not an expert, nor a guru, nor an internet millionaire. I am just a regular guy with a family who earns his living on the Internet. And I also show people like you how to do it in the best possible way.
How to Start A 1 Lac/Month Online Teaching, Training or Coaching Business Without Leaving Your House
Free to Attend Live Online
How to build a powerful AND profitable brand online, especially in or from Pakistan?
In this Live Masterclass, we will see the three secrets that, when present in your online business, can mean the difference between success or “another learning experience”.
I am going live this ThursdayinshAllah to SHOW you how you can start an online business from Pakistan, and you don’t even need to know social media or how to make a website!
Fill in the form below and click the big blue button below to register for the Masterclass by Momekh!
Meet Your Instructor
Hey, Mohammad here!
If you are new to my community, first off, salaams! 🙂
I publish the award-winning creative self employment blog JustAddVenture,
I have been self-employed for over a decade, experimenting, surviving and sometimes thriving in various forms of business!
have started offline and online ventures, including dairy farms, marketing firm, design consultancies, freelancing gigs and elearning.
I was a judge at Digithon by Jazz, a prize-based competition for startups
was invited twice, the last time as a digital influencer to the Digital Youth Summit 2018, Peshawar.
as an experiment, I set myself a challenge of earning only from affiliate websites, and then to go on a business-class trip. I by God’s Grace did it in 60% of the time, and then wrote a 70+ page guide called “TheFirst1000Dollars” on how exactly to do it (that is available for free on the blog)
once wrote an article on dairy farming that lead me to creating a digital guide, that sells to this day
helped my wife convert her hobby of cooking into not one but TWO online businesses
have been interviewed in national and international electronic and print media regarding my ventures and addventures,
I am not an expert, nor a guru, nor an internet millionaire. I am just a regular guy with a family who earns his living on the Internet. And I also show people like you how to do it in the best possible way.
A 17 year old student of ICS here in #Pakistan asked this question under one of our YouTube videos:
As you can see, Ali can sense what’s going on:
College degree holders are not getting jobs, so what’s the point of doing a degree if the objective of a degree was to get a job?!?
He knows that he does not know… that’s a great sign of someone who is ready to grow! Learning mindset is important, and being humble is the first step for that.
So I thought I’d make a detailed video on the top 5 ways of #earning #money as a student, especially in Pakistan.
30 to 50 thousand is decent income for a student in 2021, and it was some fine income back in the day as well. Alhumdulillah.
Looking back, being exposed to earning money early, I think I was wasteful and did not have the financial discipline I have now by God’s Grace. As a Muslim, it’s clear from reading the Quran that all things, good and bad, all of them a test of our character… and although I did not “blow” that money away, I know I could have spent it in a much better way. But I digress…
Earning Money as a Student
In the video, you will see details on the following recommended methods of earning money for students (especially in Pakistan). But before that, we need some “mindset adjustment”. Yes, mindset is oversold, but it is still very, very important.
You need to look at yourself as an “economic” product… you are someone who will be treated as such in the market.
So you must always be able to answer the following question: “aap ko aata kya hai?”
What do you know? And as you watch the video, keep updating that answer. This will give you the clarity and therefore the confidence to move ahead and start earning money as a student while still at college, inshAllah.
Earn Money from Your Passion or Hobby
As a student, you can start paying MORE attention to your hobbies, and convert that into:
an online business (like an e-commerce store),
a freelancing career (or a side-hustle),
an online teaching business
These methods are ways of taking your hobby into a business.
You can check out my free training on how to start your online business, especially as a student in Pakistan.
Start a 1 lac per month business online, without leaving your house
In this Masterclass, I Share the Three Secrets to Building a Powerful and Profitable Brand without the Confusion
Action-oriented session for the Pakistani market, available for immediate download (see below)
In this Masterclass, we will see the three secrets that, when present in your online business, can mean the difference between success or “another learning experience”.
Fill in the form below and click the big green button below to register for the Masterclass by Momekh!
Meet Your Instructor
Hey, Mohammad here!
If you are new to my community, first off, salaams! 🙂
I publish the award-winning creative self employment blog JustAddVenture,
I have been self-employed for over a decade, experimenting, surviving and sometimes thriving in various forms of business!
have started offline and online ventures, including dairy farms, marketing firm, design consultancies, freelancing gigs and elearning.
I was a judge at Digithon by Jazz, a prize-based competition for startups
was invited twice, the last time as a digital influencer to the Digital Youth Summit 2018, Peshawar.
as an experiment, I set myself a challenge of earning only from affiliate websites, and then to go on a business-class trip. I by God’s Grace did it in 60% of the time, and then wrote a 70+ page guide called “TheFirst1000Dollars” on how exactly to do it (that is available for free on the blog)
once wrote an article on dairy farming that lead me to creating a digital guide, that sells to this day
helped my wife convert her hobby of cooking into not one but TWO online businesses
have been interviewed in national and international electronic and print media regarding my ventures and addventures,
I am not an expert, nor a guru, nor an internet millionaire. I am just a regular guy with a family who earns his living on the Internet. And I also show people like you how to do it in the best possible way.
