Freelancing
is a great way of working. You can work from anywhere, choose how much
you want to work and what time you want to work. You don’t have to worry
about waking up early or taking a long holiday. You are your own boss.
As
the freelance culture grew famous during all these years, hundreds of
websites have been launched that provide freelance services. I
researched on the web and found out 5 best freelance websites that are
really very good and are already established as mega sources of
freelancing and outsourcing.
5 Best Freelance Websites (Updated 15th Feb, 2014)
1. Freelancer (Recommended)
It
is the biggest and one of the oldest player out there. After the launch
in year 2003, it has now grown into world’s biggest outsourcing
destination. It has recently acquired the two big giants in the
freelancing marketplace: vWorker and Scriptlance and now become bigger
than ever.
If
you are looking for a place to start than Freelancer is the best place
for you. Its easy to sign up and start earning. I always recommend
newbies and even the professional freelancers who have worked on other
freelance sites to join freelance.
2. oDesk
My
personal favorite. I started my freelance work from this site. It
provide very high quality service and the commissions that they cut for
projects are also small. The most important thing that I love about
oDesk is its support team. It never happened that they were not able to
respond to my queries and problems.
3. Elance
It
is the oldest and one of the most trusted freelance website. It was
launched in the year 1999 and since then it has done a total freelance
transaction of about half a billion dollars. With a large number of
freelancers in different fields like web designing and development,
graphics design, content writing etc and about 50,000 jobs posted every
month, there’s always a huge scope in getting fresh jobs here.
4. People Per Hour
This
website is quiet young with respect to others big boys mentioned above.
Although it was launched in the year 2008 it has gained significant
popularity now. Its a good place for programmers, graphic
designers, content writers and virtual assistants to get good paying
projects.
5. Fiverr
It
is the world’s largest marketplace for small services. The most
interesting part is you can create gigs for as low as $5. It can prove
to be a money making system for you even if you don’t know the coding or
design stuff. Just have a look at the gigs others are creating and see
if you can do that too. If you can do something very usual that people
may be willing to pay $5 for then you can make significant amount of
money here.
Now
you can go and check out which of the following freelance website suits
you the best. There are a lot of other sites also but these are the top
players out there.
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