Next step suggestion

OK so you have a few choices here, which could honestly do all of at once if you wanted.

> create products -- you can design, so make things many people would want. Once you've made them one time, they can be bought and downloaded again and again for $0 cost to you. JV with affiliates/partners to increase your reach & # of leads. Eg. toons, eg. common but nice icons or buttons, eg. pretty site headers that are mostly premade but you customize like Marshall Wayne. I've seen this myself...there's a critical mass of content required (ie. don't expect anyone to buy outright) but when you reach it, you get an ongoing passive income stream because they buy the pack they want--and then buy more because "I might need that." PLR types are always collecting. I do this myself with royalty free stock music.

> increase your rates by niching down. Pick a field you work in and become known just for that. The designer who purely works on metal album covers will get paid more to do that than a generalist trying to break into the niche.

> increase your capacity by hiring other designers. It's got a PITA factor, as you become a project manager and freelancers are notoriously unreliable, but if you can find some reliable & talented designers you know exactly how to manage them. You get the jobs, assign them, scope them out, give strategic direction, and manage the talent. And if the client wants YOU, it's bigger bucks, baby.

> open a new, unrelated (likely products-based, but not image-related) business that is pretty easy to manage and doesn't eat up a lot of your time. It doesn't have to pay a lot more yet because your basic needs are already being met. Eg. Amazon dropshipping.


Basically you either have to expand your current channel or develop new ones.

Think about flow of water through a pipe. You can increase the water flow, and sooner or later you're going to exceed the capacity of the pipe. You can also add more pipes and even if there's just a trickle of water going through, it's still a new and additional trickle.

Agreed with previous poster, (develop a product) (the market is wide open when creating graphic design products, ) but is a graphic design product really what people want?

Probably not, sure you could make a few thousand dollars here and there, but the biggest market is not in design but in a comprehensive solution to the bigger problem that so many marketers have these days.

Wow!!! it is really good that you are working in the G.Design & W.Design. I am sure this two niche has a good demand. I am not sure in which freelancing site you are using now. Here I would like to suggest you to use the Upwork & Fiverr. Both of these site is good. Thanks

Most designers change time against money. I would to try to get away from that because it is quite risky (the business depends on you, your health and time) and limits your ability to scale. The solution to that can be the creation of digital products, e.g. templates, creating an udemy course on designing, building a membership site or creating an ebook for newbie designers. There are many opportunities. Good luck!

Begin leveraging your skills and experience.

As Jason said, create products around what you do, because that's what you're an expert at. Use video tutorials for common things that marketers need (i.e. a video on how to create banners without using photoshop), and give that away in exchange for an opt in to grow your list.

As an upsell to the products you create, maybe put out a group coaching product that is more in the mid-dollar-range. That would be less time consuming for you than one on one coaching, but would allow you a way to make bigger money that is nearly hands-off.