If you have some design skills, then you can make money selling your designs.

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Graphic designers can have a tough time finding gratifying work on freelance sites. Too often, you end up working for pennies and compromising the integrity of your brand. Thankfully, freelance sites are not the only way to go about growing a design business.

Not everything you design will be loved by your clients. Instead of letting those unused designs go to waste, cash in on them by selling your files on marketplace design sites.

Graphic Leftovers is a website where graphic designers can sell logos, icons, illustrations and more. Or there’sThemeForest is a popular marketplace for designers who have web design templates to sell.

Before you sell any of your work on the web, of course, it’s vital to double-check the files you’re selling are not under the rights of any of your current or past clients.

You can create an attractive portfolio of your graphic design works and send the link to various people looking for logo and poster design works. Besides, you can start bidding on various freelancing sites and take part in various design competitions in 99 designs and DesignCrowd.

There are two variants: you can find clients, that will hire you to make some designs. Or you can create your own designs and sell it.

You can find clients for freelance work on Upwork or Freelancer. Fiverr is also good, you can choose a particular specific type of work and offer it there.

There is also nice site for designers-beginners, that is called 99designs. The principle of work is a bit different - you choose an order, do the work and the the client choose the best variant from different designers and pays for it.

The other option is selling your designs on stocks. The biggest and the most popular stock is Shutterstock. Here’re some more stocks:

Getty Images

Dreamstime

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