This post is going to be an inside look at the REAL truth behind six figure freelancing.

You’ll need to read the whole post to understand the exact numbers that exclude passive revenue from online courses, or revenue from mentoring other freelancers. We want to see direct to client…design, copy, and tech.

This way, you can see how it might relate to your business.

I teach all this in my Digital Gangsta program, and more. Without a doubt, if you want to make $5k and beyond, freelance marketing, design, and copy are the way to go. You can make a decent living as a freelance admin VA or EA, but the big money is in the marketing.

Here is my “at a glance” revenue numbers for 2016. This means, TOTAL money coming in for everything.

This is combined monies from client work and mentoring. So if we take OUT monies received from mentorship and passive revenue, THEN…we’ll have an accurate picture of true client and freelancer work.

$37,533.00 is all revenue from anything related to Create Your Laptop Life® from June 2016 onward. Prior to June 2016, I earned an additional $32,000.00 from passive revenue on my own school courses. There was an additional $6000 in consulting only.

$159,930.00 is the number we’re working with for actual client/freelancer work.

Since it’s only December, we can just divide that evenly by 11. It’s about $14,539.00 a month.

So what type of pricing are we looking at?

Over and over, we’re getting responses that our services are priced SUPER reasonably. There is no reason to suggest we can’t bump up these prices in the new year.

1. One sales funnel $5k

2. Two Facebook Ad clients $2k

3. One website $4k

4. An additional 40 hours of PM work, digital media, tech help, etc.

Or…

1. 2 websites $10k

2. 4 Facebook clients $4k

Or…

1. Three Sales Funnel Build Outs $14k

Or…

10 Facebook Ad Clients $10k

4 Sales Pages $4k

What skills do you need?

If you don’t have all those skills, you’ll need to subcontract out work to VAs who can do it. You may also need to sub work out if you get too many clients! Or…better yet, learn them. That’s what I want to help you do!

Expenses

If you are running your business as a sole proprietor, you’ll need to take your revenue, subtract your subcontractors, tools, home office, insurance, etc…and the REST is yours.

If you are running as an LLC, you’re a bit more removed from the business. This means that you want to track your revenue, your expenses (including your payroll to yourself) to see if your business entity is in the black each month.

That’s how my expenses are tracked (after April 2016 when I went from sole prop to LLC).

Here’s a closer look at July, and what it takes to run a business like this…

The payroll? That’s my paycheck. I take slightly less than $4k a month for my salary. As you can see, with subcontractors and payroll taxes and all expenses, this business is in the black an additional $7740.00.

As my income grew, so did my expenses. This is something you must become comfortable with…spending money to make it.

As you can see in May, I took an additional $3000 in distributions to chunk out my salary. The business was still in the black.

What does it all mean?

It means that with the right skills and the right mentor, there’s no reason why you can’t easily make $10,000 a month as a freelance designer and marketer.

PLEASE….if you are shopping around for a coaching or VA mentorship program, understand the numbers they tout. If they talk about six figure VA results, be sure it’s six figures of CLIENT work only, and not the monies received from teaching others how to make money.

I can say, with confidence…that I offer the BEST program for mentorship in this field. You will get a tremendous amount of skills, support, and training.

But most of all…I've done it myself.

I AM doing it.

…even when you take out all the revenue from mentorship and passive revenue.

And…

When you get to the point in your freelance career when you want to ADD passive revenue, you can learn that from me too.

If you haven’t talked to me yet about joining the program, what are ya waiting for? 🙂

To your success,

Julie