Anyone who is looking for ways to make money online should strongly consider freelance work. Those who perform freelance work are not generally referred to as employees, but rather as freelancers. The reason being that they are not hired as full or part-time employees by a business. Rather, they are hired on a project by project basis. This is a great situation for both the business and the freelancer. The business is able to have vital projects completed while avoiding the expense of hiring an employee, and the freelancer is able to earn a second income while keeping their full-time job.
So how do these individuals come across one another? In other words, how does the freelancer know that the business has a project which needs completion, and how does the business owner know where to find the individual to complete their project? The answer for both parties is provided visiting a freelance website. On a freelance website, the business owner specifies what project needs to be completed, within what amount of time, and for how much. Thereafter, freelancers bid on the project, providing a cost of completion, as well as an estimated time of completion. One a freelancer’s bid is accepted, the freelancer is notified, and the money for the project is placed into escrow.
Below I have listed five popular sites which connect business owners with freelancers.
1. We will start with the largest freelance website which can be found at Guru.com. This website makes the claim that they have over one million active freelancers. Guru.com is actually very well organized so that both business owners and freelancers can find exactly what they are looking for almost immediately. Projects can be found across the board from Legal, to Programming, to Website Design, to Telemarketing, etc.
2. Elance.com. Elance.com is the other big player when it comes to freelance sites which cover a wide variety of freelance work. Similar to Guru.com, freelancers can find projects from creative work like website coding, customer service, SEO to software development.
3. For all of you programmers, IT professionals, software engineers, and coders, Rentacoder.com was put together just for you. At Rentacoder, you will most likely find businesses who are trying to complete an array of projects spanning from the uncomplicated html page, to a more complex job which could last for the better part of a year.
4. One of the freelance websites which is unlike the rest is Allfreelancework.com. Not only is this a website on which you will find new project, you will also find a lot of valuable information. There is a fairly complete dossier of literature on the subject of freelance. This is in addition to a forum, newsletter, products, and services.
5. As you may have gathered from its name, Programmingbids.com serves its namesake. This website caters primarily to programmers. With that being said, you can also expect to find projects slightly outside of the realm of programming. These projects include, graphic and website design, as well as, flash and software development. What is really neat is that this website provides programmers with an area to sell scripts which they have developed.
Freelancing is a great way to make money online. You can easily take on a few small projects while keeping your day job. In the meantime, you can build your client base. Freelancing makes the transition from a traditional 9 to 5, to making online money full-time, much smoother. It is also a nice way to see what type of project are out there, gain some credibility, and see how you do making money at home.
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on Feb 5th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
It’s interesting to find how challenging the content side is for some
on Feb 7th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Odesk.com is a good site as well. All the sites are worth looking into as part of an overall plan. Always remember to keep options open and look at as many solutions as possible!
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