So you have your degrees in your bag, and waiting for the dream job to walk to you (which is’nt coming btw), you have loads of knowledge but unfortunately no one wants to hire you because they tell you have inadequate experience !! (how can they expect experience out of new born graduate). F*** them start your own company, or even get your own work, no body will offer you job willingly in this recession time so wake up and get your own job, Freelancing is your answer to all your prayers.
Now your thinking, Freelance? it has no guarantees of my weekly payments, does it even have potential to fulfill the luxuries i have dreamed of from when i was a kid? (JOB isnt going to f***ing fulfill it either), What will i tell my neighbor when he asks me my office? Don’t think so much, better use the energy on thinking what will i do if i don’t get a job? Something is better than nothing ain’t it. Freelancing has evolved over time, and it has more opportunities for you than putting yourself in the corner and writing blogs (like me !!). And as a matter of fact, thousands are earning a very high weekly income or even have started there own company (haven’t you heard of entrepreneurship !!).
7 Reasons Why You Should Start Freelancing
- You want money !! and who doesn’t ??
- You think you have necessary talents to tolerate and handle the weird ideas which your clients are going to give you
- You think client is always right (this is also true for JOB – Just Of your BOSS)
- You think you can evolve with the technology around you
- You wan’t to get some experience in your resume for those suckers in job interview
- You have a computer with keyboard and mouse with a >dialup connection rotting
- And last but not the least your parents are thinking for selling you on ebay to recover the money spend on educating you
Now if your convinced you do need to do some freelancing, then lets start with the sites where you can start your royalty free freelancing career.
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Top 10 Freelance Sites
Elance – Find job. Deliver great work. Get paid for results.
Elance is one of the largest freelancing site in the internet, many biggies post projects here, the freelancers and provider companies bids on the projects and client selects from wide range of choices. There are close to 1,00,000 experts (or freelancers) in elance !! and more than 20k jobs are posted each month. This is definitely one of the best place for all wannabe freelancing newbies. There are both free and paid plans. I recommend you start with free basic account and then move on to the real battle with premium account.
Guru – Find freelancers for hire. get your projects done.
Guru is another biggest freelancing site, with more than 1,00,000+ freelancers, Guru boasts of patent pending rating system which provides proper rating. It also boasts of escrow integration which is obviously an added + for both providors and jobposters. This site also has both free and premium membership based on categories of work which you’re willing to do. This is also one of the place you must try.
ODesk – Guaranteed work. Guaranteed Payment.
This site has one of the best user friendly system i’ve ever seen. It has both hourly and fixed rate jobs, hourly jobs are guaranteed pays, and time are logged via its own odesk team software which have multiplatform support. The average of feedback of last 30 days don’t even fall beyond 4stars. There are no membership fees !! you only have to pay 10% of your final payment. This is definitely the site for new comers. This is a must try.
FreelanceSwitch – Envato’s own job board.
Most of us are familiar with Envato by their top design and development blogs. FreelanceSwitch is a new site, but nevertheless its one of the most favored site by the job posters. If you have the top notch knowledge to compete with the some of best developers and designers in the world it here. The place is guaranteed to give you good payments for your hardwork.
RentACoder – How software gets done.
Rent a coder is basically software development freelancing site. It has Escrow support. You can find some good projects here. It boasts of pool of more than 2,00,000+ coders, rentacoder chanrges 15% fee of final payment. Its one of the oldest freelance bidding sites.
GetAFreelancer – Online freelance jobs.
GAF has both paid and nonpaid plans, Its an Australian company with over 1,00,000 verified users.
GetACoder – Quick & Easy Outsourcing jobs
Most providors of this site are from India, so you should not expect high payments (war between indian developers and designers have already lowered the rates here). A good site for a startup newbie.
99Designs – Leading markerplace for logo design and more…
This one is mainly a design freelancing site, with a unique idea, where contests with winning amount are posted and freelancers show their designs and the winner takes it all. This is a little risky for new freelancers but if you have that potential you can earn some good money and also win some contests.
Another great freelancing website to lookout for. This is a very good site for starters. Jobs are regular but this is fully membership based site, membership starts at $4.69/month.
CrowdSpring – Global marketplace for creative services
The average projects gets 85 to choose from!! Buyers set price, gets ridiculous amounts of selection, chooses one from it and pays the winner.
So you have gone through the above list of top 10 sites, its still time, go get yourself dressed for the challenge and jump on … what are you waiting for ??
Subhadeep
Guys i’d also like to know your views on the matter
and please retweet
Webtech Solutions
This is a great advice. We are going to follow.
Luigi Fulk
I simply wanted to add a comment here to say thanks for you very nice ideas. Blogs are troublesome to run and time consuming therefore I appreciate when I see well written material. Your time isn’t going to waste with your posts. Thanks so much and carry on You’ll defintely reach your goals! have a great day!
Vijay
Now days I use to earn a lot with 3G’s. They are nothing but
http://www.getafreelancer.com
http://www.greatlance.com
http://www.Guru.com
This 3 master’s are great at there way.
Getafreelancer will show you specific small and number of jobs.
Greatlance.com works are more secured and worthwhile to bid. They value your time.
Guru is for big players with big projects.
guru
Greatlance has excellent support team.
http://www.greatlance.com/supportexperts.aspx
Zach
Getafreelancer.com is now just Freelancer.com. It’s by far the biggest and best. Lots of projects to bid on.
sriram
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Babli
Thnx… Nice , I hope it will work for me too
BrightRitchil
Guys what abt Odesk??
Su
Ok….. Let’s face it ! Although http://www.freelancer.com charges higher fees, I must say they are the best. got 4 jobs so far. Where no luck with Odesk,Elancer etc…….
Rohan
Awesome Post….I really like it and elance.com is awesome one
Jason Hussey
Working as a freelancer is so much better than being employed.
I do all my work from home on http://www.iAmAnArtist.com as they seem to have the fairest payment.
As a flash programmer you can also earn money by developing flash games and publishing those on various networks.
manik
we train people seo to collect freelancing sites.to us odesk is best.
Niladri
The post is really great but I completely disagree on the majority of those 7 points (reason for becoming a freelancer).
I am in freelancing industry for more than 5 months now on scriptlance, freelancer, guru, odesk, elance, getacoder. BUT i am doing freelancing only to learn new things and be a free guy, be my own boss, etc. Apart from that, I do have a HUGE potential to get job not just because I am fluent in English and my field, but also because I am a regular topper in my school, college and other academics, etc.
Overall, I love freelancing more than doing Job and becoming someone else’s servant. I just want to be independent and earn the money now and establish something on my own in future by sacrificing this money, who knows, maybe a new company?
Freelancing also brings me enough free time for my family and I do not have to carry the burden of stress and tension always with me (which would have happenend if I was in a job). I am a happy man now
Thanks
Catherine - Freelance Writer
Thanks Subhadeep for the great list. Recently found another freelancing website while surfing the internet for freelancing projects – http://www.outsourcemyproject.com/
Going to try it.
chris
I found my last freelance projects on http://creativejob.net
kk
Hey guys,
This is KK,
I had been struggling to get even a single project from Elance, I am not sure what is going wrong even though I am bidding low. I am desparetly looking for some freelancing.
Please let me know some authentic ( not face or not scam) which helps in getting online or freelancing job. Because whatever site I login and search in google it is almost scam.
Thnaks
kk
Carol
First: Learn to spell simple words like “want”.
There is no “wan’t”
Prakash
“And last but not the least your parents are thinking for selling you on ebay to recover the money spend on educating you”
Err?? What does this mean? Freelancers are trash???
Lousy points you got there mate! I completely disagree with most of them… Freelancing is MORE FUN than doing job and you do not have to worry about someone else’s company, you know your Job!
Get the points right.
fahim
which are the best freelance sites for Sales & marketing. For projects like SEO, Social network marketing, Lead generation
I got here some like elance, freelancer, odesk, guru
Anyone can refer any other
Crafts
I’m very new in freelancing world. I am looking for some good site for work. I want thank to author who post great resource here for me.
Sam
Thanks a lot … i’m starting freelance . Anyone can suggest on which is the best site to get started with.
Thanks a lot admin.
Jeff
@crafts there is a great site for Freelancers http://ProjectTakers.com Its today’s alternative way to work. Employers post jobs they need done and Freelancers bid to take the projects to the next level. There is also a way to BeSocial on their site.
Aiki
I also recommend http://www-elance.com as the no.1 source for freelance.
Fake Accent
You guys are silly. If you want to get a project, spend some time reading the proposal and make a custom response. Don’t just cut and paste things like “Hi sir pls let us take your project.”
If somebody is going to pay you up to 20,000 RS (400USD) – spend 3 minutes on each post and actually talk properly before the lazy guy in American who wants you to do his work gets even lazier and deletes your post.
sudip roy
no freelancer is best
rimi@MAKE_MONEY_ONLINE
I think ODESK & FREELANCERS are the best. In odesk you get free test.
And in freelancers, here is a lot of opportunities. Thanks.
laxmann
Elance.com is best site forever….. Best…