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In this session we're going to be going over 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 ways that you can be using Sketchup to make money
The first way is to get a job in architecture.
That's a traditional job so you would go to school or learn how
to draft, and then find your way into an architecture firm or an interior design
firm, where you can use your skills and Sketchup. So basically in this
particular scenario Sketchup is secondary then it might help you find a
job or get a job in that field if that's what you want to do, but nonetheless it's
a perfectly viable way to get a job using architecture
Number 2 is to essentially become a consultant for architecture and interior design firms
making Sketchup models. So a lot of smaller architecture and interior design
firms don't want to spend the time to do their own 3D models. I can take time and
they want somebody who's really quick at doing that if they ever need to develop
a 3D rendering or something like that. They might do everything by hand.
So finding those firms it's a really great way to get essentially a niche market
and you get to use Sketchup and really hone your skills and you can make money that way
3 Now we're going to start to get into ways to make money in Sketchup
they're a little less traditional.
So 3 is marketing your services on freelance
websites like Upwork and Fiverr. So you would go on there, you'd create a
freelancer account and then you'd start to sell your services. There are a lot of
people who have drawings or they do their own drawings and they want it
refined, or they want to see it in 3D so that's a really great way to find
clients all over the world who are looking for architectural or design services.
Number 4 is to design objects that you can then sell on 3d model
websites, so there are a bunch of gaming websites,
I'll list them in the comments below. I've never done this before but I know it's pretty
lucrative and a lot of people do it, like for games you can put 3D assets on there
and people like them then they pay you for them. Obviously it's tough to
gain a lot of attraction to that but if you're looking for a little bit of
passive income and you just like modeling Sketch up it might be a great option for you.
Number 5 is to do 3D renderings of your models. If you have a
realistic photo rendering plug-in or even if you don't, there's a wide range
of people who are looking for different images for different reasons. Obviously,
it's a slow revenue grower, you're not gonna make a million dollars overnight
probably, but you know if you've already modeled something and you just want to
hit render and then sell that image - you've really not a big problem.
Number 6 is really similar to five, where we were talking about selling your
images on stock photo websites. 6 can be great if you use animations.
You can charge a whole lot more for animations, it's kind of like a bunch of pictures.
And there's, it's pretty niche at this point, so there's a lot of people looking
for different kinds of animations, and Sketchup has that built into it, so you
can do really simple animations or if you have a rendering software that can
render a higher quality image you can do that as well.
And like I said before, this is another passive income stream. You're probably
not going to be a millionaire overnight, but, you know, to make a few hundred bucks
probably isn't a month, isn't that unreasonable.
Number 7 is essentially what I do.
I teach people about Sketchup and I love that aspect of what I do,
I love teaching and I don't make a ton of money from what I do on here the amount
that I make through through YouTube is pretty minimal, but I love it. I love
teaching you guys things and sharing what I know. Because a lot of what I know
I kind of take for granted, I think that "oh, yeah, everybody knows this", but it
turns out no. That's not true. And I think that's part of a thing if
you if you decide to start teaching Sketchup that you need to get over is
just realize that there are people that don't know as much as you
and your if you're just a step ahead of somebody you can really help them, so you
can teach people through YouTube videos like I do, you can teach them through
courses, online courses or physical courses at a school, or something like
that, you can teach them through, I said, courses online like places like
Udemy will let you host a course, so you can make videos like I do and host a
course on Udemy. You can also do like a tutoring, in person for someone. So those
are great ways if you like teaching that you might want to get into that and
that's the last way that I think that you can make money using Sketchup.
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