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What workedA freelancer in Khulna, in a Prothom Alo report · Started in 2020

He could not finish a 5-dollar first job; he now earns a thousand dollars a month

A computer bought in 2020 with a 30,000-taka microfinance loan, a first Fiverr job of 5 dollars he could not complete, and about 1,000 dollars a month now - plus his father's 3 lakh taka loan repaid.

This 25-year-old in the Daulatpur area of Khulna did not at first believe that online income was real. In 2020 he took a 30,000-taka microfinance loan and bought a computer with it. His very first Fiverr job, worth 5 US dollars, he failed to complete. He kept at it, regular digital marketing work started coming in, and the report puts his income at about 1,000 dollars a month. He has repaid the loan on the computer and also cleared a 3 lakh taka loan his father owed. How long it took before the income became steady is not stated.

Lessons

  1. 1.Failing the first small order is survivable, but it shows the skill has to be real before you take client money
  2. 2.The whole capital was a 30,000-taka loan for equipment; the exposure was the repayment, not stock or premises

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