The Easy Way to Make Money Online Isn’t Changing Some Random Business Models
It’s Mastering and Selling One High Income Skill
According to McKinsey’s 2025 State of AI report, 78% of organizations reported using AI in at least one business function in 2024, highlighting how rapidly digital and AI-related skills are becoming critical for high-income roles.
Over the last three years, I have tested many high income skills. Some of them made me lazy but others were complete failures. Today I run a six figure agency using these skills and I work with industry leaders who have cracked the high income game.
One thing I have done by doing all this is Learned That Every High Income Skill Doesn’t Guarantee You a High Income. You Need to Apply That Skill in the Right Way to Make Big Money.
So in this article I Will Break Down My Experience with Every High Income Skill, Share Real Industry Insights, and Help You Choose the Best Skill to Monetize in 2025. And At the End I Will Share My Number One Pick That Is the Most Scalable and It Will Explode In the Next Few Years.
Let’s Dive Deep.
To decide which scale will give you the highest returns, we will rank them by four categories:
- Market Demand
- Ease of Learning
- Earning Potential
- Saturation
Let’s go from high paying to highest paying skill one by one and after each skill, I will tell you how to apply it properly to make big money.
1. Video Editing
The most popular skill of today’s time is video editing. Skill I learned in college 4 years ago when I got a project to make a then I Have also edited videos for my own channel and today in our agency we provide editing services to all small and big clients, so here’s the reality, there is a lot of demand for video editing in the market and clients are willing to pay a lot of money and it will never go out of demand because a lot of people want to become creators and they don’t know video editing so market demand rank is 10/10 now.
Learning video editing is fairly easy. It’s like building blocks. Once you know what things go where, it becomes very easy. In 3 months you can become a beginner level video editor for free. I have been learning video editing on youtube for 4 years. If you want to go to intermediate or advanced level then you can learn from a proper course like ATV. We have personally worked with them so I can definitely recommend it to you. So ease of learning rank is 8/10.
Now let’s talk about money. The truth is a lot of freshers have started doing this at a very beginner level. They charge ₹2000 for one reel. Even at this level you can easily earn 40 to 50,000 by keeping two-three clients and editing reels for the whole month. But that is not where the big money lies. It becomes a high income skill after a certain stage.
The difference in a high income editor is that along with editing skills, he also keeps the needs of his clients in mind, only then he gets more money. Today, the companies we work with, we give them ₹30,000 even ₹50,000 for a reel. I personally know another editor who works with the same company and he earns ₹100,000 as charges. So what is the difference between an editor earning ₹40-50,000 and ₹3 lakh? It is just that he develops a personal editing style, a personal storytelling style as per the need of the client, so that the client stands out in the entire market.
As you can see, my editing style is very different from whatever the whole market is doing. So earnings rank is 8/10.
Now you will ask, the market is very saturated, which is true but how to stand out in it, I will tell you. Don’t tell your potential clients, “I will give it to you by editing it like this.” According to the brand personality of whatever client you are, you can develop a new style for him and give him two initials. Put some hard work in the stage and develop a unique style for them which looks fresh to them and also to the audience. You are not going to get much money by copy-pasting the market.
The trend is going to be a bit mature and simple looking but premium looking edits pay, so make it look premium and you will make more money. So saturation rank is 4/10.
Overall rank is 7.5 out of 10.
2. Graphic Design
If you are finding video editing a bit tough, there is a simpler version than that — Graphic Design, which is equally lucrative. I had learned Graphic Design when I was working with Ranveer. The same designing skills are useful to me today to make truly viral videos.
We also provide graphic design services to a lot of clients and I also work with people who design thumbnails of top creators of India.
So market demand wise, there is a lot of demand and there are two things in it:
- Social media — YouTube thumbnails, reel covers, carousels
- Print — brochures, cards, packaging of products, etc.
We fulfill both these types of demand, so the market demand rank is 9/10.
It is very easy to learn as well. This friend of mine makes full-on tutorials on how she works for top creators. If someone does thumbnails, then go and see them, you will learn everything. Ease of learning rank is 8/10.
Once you learn the basics, you will start getting beginner level earnings. Either you partner up with a social media agency, partner up with a freelancer, or you start making thumbnails etc. for small creators.
But when can you earn a high income from this skill? Most of the money is made where people are not even looking for it. Example: Making a brochure for a brand or making a recipe book for a brand which is going to be printed in lakhs. No one thinks of this but it makes crazy money.
We have charged ₹250,000 to design a PPT which I show to my clients. And a very big YouTuber had just redesigned its logo and there was a lot of controversy in it. Six figures have been spent to make this logo, so earning potential rank is 9/10.
Saturation is also a lot but to stand out you need to appear as a premium designer — that will come when you create a mature-looking, layered design in which a lot of thought process goes in. So the saturation rank is 5/10.
Overall rank is 6.5 out of 10.
3. Script Writing
If you do not want to do this and want to earn more money even easier than this then you should do script writing.
I have just started my career. I used to do script writing and copywriting to write scripts for Big Brain Ko’s viral videos. I have also done scripting for Ranveer. I have also done scripting for my clients and today I also do scripting for my own videos.
I even know people who use script writing and copywriting to do LinkedIn sign.com. Practicing script writing. Check out these videos to learn more. Ease of learning rank is also 10/10.
Now let’s talk about high level earnings. If you want to make money in writing, then you need to specialize. If you practice this skill for everyone, you will get only generic money.
We do the designing and editing with the brand; a writer also works with the brand but that writer has specialized in medical writing — he writes blogs and ad copy for just one client and he earns six figures from that.
We have another client who is in a similar field. We had taken script writing for him too but we could not do that because we did not have the specialization. Later that client told us they hired a specialist writer whom they pay ₹33,000 per read, so the earnings rank is 10/10.
Due to saturation and AI, many beginner level or bad copywriters have come and they are diluting the market. If you want to stand out, then you will have to specialize in a niche like healthcare writing or YouTube scripts. Multi-figure figures for one YouTube script.
Overall rank: 7.5/10.
4. Website Development
Now let’s talk about higher income skills. What is trending these days? Business and Entrepreneurship.
The more businesses come, the more websites will be made for the same businesses. So let’s talk about website development. People think that due to AI, website development has become very easy — which is true — but majority of the people do not know how to make a good website.
They cannot make websites that convert sales. That is the skill that is lacking in the market. So market demand is 10/10.
Ease of learning: the skill is very high income, so you will have to put some hard work in learning it also. These are a few free courses which will teach you website development quickly, but I would recommend that you do not go straight to coding route first — Framer, Shopify, and others. Master the platforms; after that when you get the basics, then learn website development through coding.
Ease of learning rank is 8/10.
Even when you get the basics, you will start getting clients to develop landing pages or Shopify stores. My friend Umar has literally done the same. He started designing Shopify dropshipping stores and now he designs every type of website — from one-page landing pages to full sites.
He charges ₹15,000 to ₹200,000. If you combine that with copywriting, that is, if you write whatever text is there on the landing page, then you can easily charge ₹250,000. Custom-coded websites are even more expensive — ₹500,000 to ₹1 lakh. My friend has signed a multi-lakh deal for a 10-page website.
Earning potential is 10/10, there is no saturation at all. I get thousands of emails for graphic design and video editing and script writing, but till date I have not received an email for website development. If you also email the code, you will stand out easily with the offer of website development.
So the saturation rank is 10/10.
Overall Rank: 9.5/10.
5. 2D and 3D Animation
If you find it a bit boring but still you want to do a higher income skill then you should do 2D and 3D animation — the big brother of video editing — and it also earns a lot of money.
Only people who are doing business seriously are the only ones in demand. For example, some brand that wants to make a brand film or sometimes brands have to send videos to their investors or clients, then this skill comes in demand. Hence the market demand rank is 6/10.
Ease of learning — like I said that this is a higher income skill, it will take some time for you to learn it. Minimum 6 to 12 months of practice you will require. Today I know few people who have taken a course of two weeks, they also know 3D animation for ₹1,000 but they are still slow, so minimum you will have to practice for 6 months to be proficient at this skill.
Ease of learning rank is 5/10.
Now Let’s Talk About Some Money. Get Ready For Some Shocks.
A few minutes 2D animation ad can make you up to ₹200,000. We had made a similar ad 2 years ago — it was for 3 minutes and we charged ₹80,000 — and that is also the rate from 2 years ago.
Recently an Australian brand came to us who wanted to make an animated brand film for 1 and half minutes and we quoted ₹400,000. So earning potential is crazy and the rank is 10/10.
Saturation — there is no saturation in it at all, on the contrary the supply is less than the demand. So even if you just practice the skill for six months and go into the market, you will earn big money.
6. Organic Social Media (Content Strategy)
Now coming to the highest paying skill which is going to explode further in the next few years, in which the most money is hidden — the first one is Organic Social Media.
This is the underlying foundation skill on which my agency is built. People are now understanding the power of organic content. Nowadays, brands and businesses have also started creating reels because they understand how important it is to develop a relationship with the customer by creating content.
When we started 2 years ago, the demand was a little less but a few months in and we are really catching up and we haven’t stopped since. So market demand rank is 10/10.
Ease of learning — if you have even a little creative juice in you and you know how to recognize patterns then it is very easy for you and you will earn a lot of money in this.
Let me tell you how I learned it. When I was working in Ranveer’s company, I had completely learned content creation in general. Then when I started my agency, I took a free YouTube course worth ₹10 lakhs per year package. I didn’t need all these things but because they were claiming all of these, I thought it was a good course.
When I bought this course it had a lot of practical industry level projects as well. From that I learned a lot but one thing that stood out was growth hacking. Because of that I got my first viral video with 3 lakh views on YouTube which means creating content that generates revenue.
We applied the same thing with our clients and it was beneficial for both of us and then as we scaled the agency, we started getting long term clients, then we also had to apply content strategy in it, which I had learned from the same course. So the ease of learning is 8/10.
Earning potential — like I said I have been running this agency for two years and obviously I am getting money that is why I am running it. Our base service charge is ₹40,000 per client and this goes up to 2x-3x for the same service so earning potential rank is also 10/10.
Saturation — literally there is no saturation in this market. Everyone is talking about SEO but no one understands the whole content game. If you take this course and understand the content game, then in just six months you will be one of the top earners in this field.
10/10 rank for saturation because there is literally no competition.
Overall rank 9/10.
7. Paid Digital Marketing (Ads & Growth)
Now let’s talk about the second aspect of digital marketing which is the most scalable skill, meaning the most money will be made in it.
As we talked about, people are understanding the power of organic content but if you want to grow your business, you will have to run paid ads.
The problem is that technically running ads is an easy task, that is why there are very garbage level ads nowadays on Facebook.
If you go on the paid route, the course I took had everything about paid ads and paid digital marketing. If you learn from it, then the ease of learning is 8/10. There they will teach you everything from basic to implementation.
Now let’s talk about money, which you will be crazy to hear.
I was talking with a friend of mine, Ayush Shukla, who is the founder of Finet Media, which is the biggest creator agency in India. Right now, he was telling me that we have a mutual friend who sells the same service for these brands — one of his clients is a shark company, his base fee is ₹250,000 plus % of the spend, which means if that company spends ₹10 lakh per month, then our friend gets ₹1 lakh. So that is ₹250,000 for one client.
So earnings rank is 10/10.
Competition is very high because as I said running ads has become easy now but to stand out you will have to make such creative ads which will keep people stopping.
For example, the brand “The Whole Truth” makes absolutely crazy creative ads. Now the market has become so saturated that you will feel that every two swipes, someone is trying to sell you their product. That is why creating good ads is the necessity.
Another way you can stand out is niche down — like Ayush’s friend, he only provides service to D2C brands. So you should bring that level of expertise in a particular field that whatever the brand may be, it will do the trick to work only with you and that is why he is able to charge clients ₹250,000.
Final Thoughts
Recent insights from Upwork’s Future Workforce Index (2025) show rising demand for freelance creative, technical, and marketing skills — reinforcing the growth in areas like video editing, digital marketing, and content strategy.
Freelancing in 2025 isn’t about chasing trends — it’s about depth over diversity.
Pick one skill, master it, and position yourself as a specialist.
The goal isn’t to do everything — it’s to be known for something valuable.
So start learning, stay consistent, and soon enough, your skill will pay your bills — and more.
I am sure no one has given you this level of insight on all these high-income skills. These are the real, tested experiences from years of freelancing, learning, and scaling in the digital world.