The 18-Year-Old VA Earning $800/Month

How does Harsh Singh make money online?

Harsh Singh is an eighteen-year old student from Pune, India. He is a virtual assistant specializing in print-on-demand businesses.

As he explains in the above video… 

If my client needs to upload some design on a website – e.g. Amazon Merch by Demand, Redbubble or Teespring – I research the best-selling niches. I also do keyword and title research besides any additional research tasks. 

How much money does Harsh Singh make?

As he mentions in the May 2021 video, Harsh works 4-5 hours daily for two clients. The first client pays him $100 per week and the second one $75 per week. On weekends Harsh does small, project-based work. 

These two sources of income combined total approximately $800 per month.

How did Harsh Singh get started?

Harsh started his freelance work back in February 2020 while in secondary school. He did video editing, web scraping and data scraping until March 2020, when he decided to focus on his studies. Then in January 2021 he started freelancing again. ¹

I had 2 to 3 video editing projects when I came across a virtual assistant listing. Since I already had a rating on the freelancing platform, I submitted a sample of my work and the client liked it. 

Harsh worked for 3 weeks for this client and got paid $70 per week. After that he started bidding on VA projects on Upwork and got hired by two new clients.

How does Harsh Singh find clients?

Harsh found his first client on an online marketplace for freelance work. ²

I looked for work on Freelancer, but there was a lot of saturation in the video editing niche. I would stay up to 3 or 4 in the morning, so I could bid on newly uploaded projects. I got my first video editing gig a week later.

Harsh already had a few video editing tasks when he came across a virtual assistant listing. 
Thanks to his previous freelance projects, Harsh’s profile rating on the platform was satisfactory. He submitted a sample of his work and got hired as a virtual assistant. 

For this client he worked 3 weeks and earned $210 in total. Then he started bidding on VA projects listed on Upwork and got two clients in the print-on-demand niche.

What tools / resources does Harsh Singh use?

• TimeTracker – Time Tracking App
  Harsh uses this app to track time when working for clients as a virtual assistant. 
• Upwork and Freelancer.com
  Two freelance job marketplaces where Harsh has found VA gigs.
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