As easy as it sounds, people are making thousands of dollars nowadays using Excel.
I know. It's kind of crazy.
There are tons of online jobs hiring now where Microsoft Excel is
the main skill required.
But there's also lots of other ways that you can make money with Excel.
So in this video, I want to show you where to go
and either learn or perfect your Microsoft Excel skills.
And you can do that for free.
And then where to apply or how to go about making hundreds
or potentially even thousands of dollars every month by using Excel.
So let's dove in.
So first and foremost, let's talk
about where to go and learn or perfect your Microsoft Excel skills.
Probably majority of you, if not every single one of you,
has used Excel at least once in your life.
Nowadays, people learn Microsoft Excel skills in their secondary school,
sometimes between fifth and seventh grade.
At least.
This is the case where I live.
But in case you haven't studied enough or you don't feel super comfortable
with Excel, or maybe you want to become this
Excel ninja and you want to be super advanced
and know your power pivot and your macros and your VBA.
Then there are some places where you can go
and learn or perfecting your excel skills for free.
So let me go ahead and share my screen and show you three of these places
that you can go and check out right now.
Probably the most intuitive one is Microsoft's website.
Their support website is offering lots of Excel video training.
As you can see, you have quick start an intro to Excel.
What are rows and columns, cells, formatting formulas, examples
of how to build charts and pivot tables, how to share and coauthor.
So you've got here a very good starting point.
You can go ahead and watch these videos, binge watch them all at once,
and you're going to get a very good foundation on how to use Excel.
Now, the next place you can go and check out is IDC's on IDC's dot org.
You also have a lot of Excel courses
and you've got lots of them offered for free.
So as you can see, you've got analyzing data with Excel,
Excel for every one foundational course, data analytics and visualization, Excel
for beginners, data analysts, data analytics, Excel
for everybody, data management Data Analysis Foundation calls
lots and lots and lots of advanced Excel training.
If you want to get deeper into data analysis
and then last but not least, the third place where you can go
and perfect your Excel skills is Udemy.
There are obviously paid courses on Udemy, but also tons of free ones.
You can see here one that is called Useful Excel for Beginners,
and this one has an incredible rating from almost 50,000 people
It is completely for free, nine and a half hours, 89 lectures.
There is tons of others you can see here from zero to
working professional in one hour Excel for accountants ten Excel features.
Every analyst should know quick start to Excel tutorials.
So lots of very good content that you can go ahead and check out for free now.
Obviously YouTube is another great one.
If you have a specific question or a certain feature from Excel
that you would like to learn more about, I'm sure you can go ahead and search it in
YouTube and there will be a video that explains to you how to use that feature.
All right.
So you have learned already the skills you need regarding Microsoft Excel.
So let's see, how can you monetize them?
How can you make money online by using these Excel skills?
Well, example, number one that I have for you today is to offer
your services as a contractor or a freelancer.
And you can do that nowadays directly on platforms like Fiverr
or Upwork or freelancer dot com, or you can do that
with your network, with your friends and family, or by using social media.
I won't go into all the examples in all the details,
but I do want to show you Upwork and Fiverr as examples.
So I'm going to go ahead and share my screen
and we are going to take a look at what kind of freelance jobs
you can do with Excel when you go to Upwork dot com,
what do you need to do is obviously go ahead and search for jobs,
don't go in search for talent or projects.
That's not what you're looking for.
And then when you get to a view that looks like this,
then you can search for Microsoft Excel as a skill.
You will be able to type it here at Microsoft Excel.
But even better, if you click on one of the tags
at the bottom ad of any job that has it.
So once you've done that, you'll see that today
there are over 5000
jobs open right now looking for Microsoft Excel skills.
They are all the way from entry level to expert and quite well diversified.
So even if you're just a beginner, you can definitely find some jobs
that you can do with Microsoft.
Excel, or if you are this Excel ninja that is super advanced
for sure, you will find some very good opportunities.
Let's take a look at a couple and see how much can you make?
So you see here, somebody says, looking for Excel VBA guru
looking to offer upwards of $20 an hour typing and re
typing of documents or document conversion of course data entry.
This one looks a little bit untrustworthy.
Typing document simple data entry.
Job conversion, quick data entry.
Simple typing and read typing.
Let's see intermediate.
What can we find?
Bookkeeper or accounting clerk. $20 an hour.
We run different businesses in the events and marketing industry
headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, looking for somebody
to join the team to record transactions such as income and outgoings,
posting them to various accounts within the accounting software
process, daily payments, performing daily banking activities, another job
that says need an Excel or sheet expert in chart complex data.
This one doesn't have hourly rate offering quick data entry.
$150 entry level 401 key new business analysts. $65.
Configuration of data management analysts. $65.
Tax computation product Leicester in our online
store data systems analyst business analyst.
Entry Level six Look at expert level machine
learning data analysis and algorithm data typing.
Lead Scoring Expert, Administrative Assistant and QuickBooks
Chartered Accountant.
$70 data visualizations $60
another data visualization $60 dashboard creation
$20 bookkeeper needed $50 though as you can see
there are lots and lots and lots of opportunities on Upwork
where you can go and offer your Excel skills
and make probably between 20 and $60 an hour Say go get some examples.
We've got somebody from the U.K.
who charges $27.5 an hour
and he's made over $200,000 on Upwork and he says he is the Excel expert,
somebody from the United States charging $75 an hour
and he's made over 30 key with Excel.
There is somebody specialized in VBA who charges $60 an hour
and he's made over 100 grand on Upwork.
Then there's somebody charging $18 an hour.
$10 an hour, $20 an hour, $75
an hour, $20.25, about $25.
So as you can see, probably between 15, 20
and $67 an hour, depending on your level of expertize
you could be charging on Upwork if you really are good at Excel.
Let's take a look at Fiverr and see what other ideas we can get
and what other freelancers are offering when it comes to Excel skills.
3795 people are offering services related to Excel.
And as you can see, somebody saying, I will do anything with Excel and macros,
VBA as fast as possible, charging around $10 to build customized Excel, VBA macros,
also $10 I will do Microsoft Excel Formula
Automation Macros in VBA for 25.
I will create an Excel macro with Excel VBA, 495
close to $200 Excel formulas $40.
Automate your Excel work with formatting Python scripts.
So as you can see, you can get very, very sophisticated as well.
I'll do anything you need.
$15, I'll automate your Excel 95.
I will do any Microsoft Excel formulas $50.
And you can see this person has got 999 different reviews, which means
they're probably done thousands of jobs and they're charging about $50 for a job.
Definitely lots of opportunity
if you're going to offer your services as a freelancer on one of these platforms
Another very good way for you to make money leveraging your Microsoft
Excel skills would be to build templates that you then sell.
And there are platforms where you can do that
and we're going to check out a couple of them.
But basically the reason why you would do this is because people, individuals
or small businesses use Excel to keep themselves organized.
You would be surprised how many small businesses are still on paper.
So even getting them off of papers documents and into Excel
will be a huge change to their business operations.
And you can build templates of invoices you can build templates of reports,
you can build charts, you can build budget templates.
I mean, the list goes on and on, lots and lots of things that you can build
as templates in Excel and then go ahead and sell them.
And the beautiful thing about this one is that you only need
to create them once and then you sell them again.
And again, which turns them into passive income.
So let's take a look at a couple ideas where you can go and sell your templates.
Obviously, one of my favorites is Etsy
dot com is a place that I personally use both to sell
and to buy lots of templates in my private life or in my business.
Go ahead.
And create yourself an account on Etsy and you can start selling.
The process is super easy.
Probably going to take you maximum 30 minutes to get yourself
all set up, upload your templates and start selling them.
It's really, really intuitive, really simple.
And you can get started right now today if you have the templates already built.
So once you have them, you can upload them and start
selling them on Etsy just for you to see a couple of examples.
I've gone ahead and simply typed Excel.
So you see Excel Template, Excel Budget, Budget Template Planner,
Habit Tracker, Excel Spreadsheet Project Management, Budget Tracker, lots
and lots and lots of different categories, all in one ultimate bookkeeping tool
for probably $25 annual budget
spreadsheet, probably about $26
monthly budget spreadsheet, probably ten, $11.
Human Resources Dashboard.
This one looks very sophisticated and it costs much more monthly
budget spreadsheet
My Wealth Dashboard, Multi-Year All-In-One Ultimate Bookkeeping Tool.
I think that's the same one as the first one.
We got through to do list organizer monthly budget, a bunch of different
formats bookkeeping tracker, debt, snowball
accelerator, lots of great ideas.
You can obviously put your own spin to them.
You can use your own color scheme,
you can use your own design and make them target a specific niche.
Maybe somebody with a hair salon, or maybe somebody
who wants to track something for school Tons of ideas.
I know you're creative.
You're going to come up with something very, very good.
Another one that you can check out
is Envato Elements, and Envato is a huge marketplace.
They have video live and Graphic River and a bunch of different ones,
but they obviously also sell Excel templates.
And if you go ahead and simply type Excel template, you'll see
you have invoice templates and various designs to them
and lots of different things that you can produce and sell on.
Envato, if you build an Excel template.
Now, as I said,
you won't be charging hundreds of dollars for a one single template,
but you can charge ten, 15, 20, $30 depending on how sophisticated
and how advanced it is and how useful it can be for people.
And once you've sold ten, 15, 20 of those you can of already
make a few hundred bucks a month simply by uploading
and selling templates on Envato or on Etsy.
Obviously another very good way for you to monetize your Microsoft
Excel skills and start making money with them right now very, very quickly.
It would be to go and apply for either part time or full time jobs
where Microsoft Excel is one of the main skills that are required.
And you can do that on platforms like LinkedIn jobs or indeed or simply
go ahead and apply to jobs on specific companies websites.
And I've spoken about many, many, many of them here on this channel.
So I will not give you the same examples again,
but if you want me to talk about seven jobs that you can do with Microsoft Excel,
then make sure that you stick around until next week because I will be sharing
seven examples of jobs that you can do by leveraging your Microsoft Excel skills.
In the meantime, I suggest you go ahead and watch this video where I share
lots of very good ways to make money by using Canva.
Thank you so, so much for watching.
I hope this video is helpful and I'll see you next time by