10 Best Sites To Start Your Freelancing Career

by: Mr. Ven 10

Freelancing is one of the best method of making money from Internet. Because its purely depends on your skill set and your work experience. You are not dependent on any one, you know your strengths and limits. There are many freelancing web sites where you could start your career. But choosing the right one is more important because you should receive your hard earned money.

Internet has many fraudulent web sites which doesn’t pays you money for the work done. So beware of such scams and take few time to do proper research before joining.

To frankly tell, i tried freelancing and quieted (because i don’t have more time). Now taken blogging as my online career. But i have seen many bloggers referring to trusted freelancing web sites. As per my knowledge, i am sharing here the list of freelancing sites which helps you to get aware of various options or alternatives.

If you are freshly starting your freelance career then you should spend some time to read these articles:

• How To Start Money Making As Freelancer ?
• Steps For Making Money Using Freelance
• How To Increase Freelancer Income ?

Okay, lets see the list of freelancing sites:

Odesk – I have personally tried odesk and i felt its one of the best freelancing site. In fact, Odesk was my first sign up. Also, long back i have written Review on Odesk which may help you to understand more about them. To mention, one of my friend earned good money from Odesk working as a freelancer (software developer).

Elance which has more than 150K successful freelance professionals. And so far they have paid more than $281 millions to professionals who had delivered great results. They are featured in Wall Street Journal about Freelancers Work and other famous sites.

Vworker, previously named as RentaCoder.com which has 140K+ employers and 290K+ virtual employees (freelancers). Looks they are paying more than $150+ for quality projects. Check their homepage and they have featured on many of the famous journals/magazines too.

Guru another famous freelancing site which has more than 250K freelancers. They are listing the freelancers by geographic location and you may get noticed even based on your geographic location too. They post 8000 job opportunity monthly on their site.

Freelancer.com has more than 1650K+ freelancers and they have paid $5901K+ money for completing 720K+ jobs as of today. They have freelancers register from more than 200 countries and they claim its one of the oldest freelancing website especially for small businesses. Started in year 2004 and you could find more information in their about page.

FreelanceIndia is one of the fastest growing freelancing website in India. You Know India is very much famous for talented freelancers especially on software development (now-a-days costlier employees too). Not only from India, looks they are hiring in many of the major countries in the world.

Few more Freelancing sites:

• People Per Hour
• Script Lance
• Go Freelance
• iFreelance

Starting a freelance career is a good decision and you could definitely make decent money provided you have the ability to complete the assigned work. More important, you should manage your time effectively if you already engaged in a day job. Otherwise, don’t try freelancing.

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