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Freelancing
is a growing profession for youngsters, especially in the situation when the
whole world is facing lock down and everyone has been stuck in his/her home,
the reason of the popularity is simple, you are self-employed, you have to take
projects from freelance marketplaces, done the job and get paid of your own
choice and become a successful freelancer. I won’t say that making money is extremely easy. If you know a skill
and ten you grow on a marketplace, you will be extremely busy.
Here, I will
not only give you a list of the most popular and the suitable freelance
marketplaces for beginners but I will also give you a brief overview of them.
Popular freelance websites for
beginners 2021
Following
are the websites, where you need to sign up, offer your services, the order of
the site is according to their popularity.
UpWork is
the most popular marketplace in the freelancing world and by far the best
freelance marketplace. In the beginning of this century, there were two most
popular freelance marketplaces i:e; Elance and Odesk. Later on, these both
websites merged to form a big platform called UpWork. Many freelancers have
over one million dollar sales on this single platform. If you are in
sub-continent or in the jungles of costa Rica or on the mountains of mount
Everest, you can find a freelancer around where you live. The quality of
projects is better than the all other freelance marketplaces and the chance of
fake projects are negligible.
As a freelancer, your grades are just like
your points in a video game. Higher profile earnings, your level, client’s
feedbacks are the factors which can increase your chance to win a project on
UpWork. Many people think that you should start selling at UpWork when you grow
up as a freelancer but you can also sell on UpWork as a beginner.
There is
another very popular website named “Fiverr”. Fiverr was very less known in the
past but now it become very popular and most of the beginners choose Fiverr to
start their career as a freelancer. Fiverr is the non-traditional freelance
marketplace and unlike others where projects are posted and the freelancers bid
on the projects and ten the project awarded according to the client’s will.
Fiverr is like an E-commerce website where services of different freelancers
are available just like the products, Client search in Fiverr and choose the
best freelancer for his/her project. Freelancers upload their “Gigs” for
purchase in various categories. They order a Gig from the service provider and
after they job done, they release the money to the freelancer. If you are
beginner and don’t want to take big projects. I personally prefer you to choose
Fiverr to start with.
The oldest,
the marketplace which works like UpWork, client’s post the project, a
freelancer bid on it, get awarded the project, get the job done and get paid.
Unlike UpWork, you can also start as beginner, the project on it are relatively
low price. If you want to work on a traditional marketplace. This is an ideal
website for you.
This
freelance marketplace is not for everyone, not many seasoned pros out there
too. TopTal has a unique way of heir the qualified freelancer. They only select
the top 3% freelancers by a video interview. They want to maintain the high
quality on their portal because they want quality over quantity and not want to
let their standard down. If you believe on your skill, you can choose TopTal.
This
freelancer marketplace works on the hourly basis and employers and freelancers
decided their payment per hour. The freelancers choose number of hours to get
the job done. People per hour has its unique model that gained popularity even
when the Odesk was also in the business. It is too focused on hourly bill
tracking.
As the name
shows, the Guru of all. In this marketplace, projects are posted ranging from
small projects and to very big projects. It is leveled place for beginners as
well as for seasoned freelancers and for companies. Many profiles have over one
million dollar earnings from this single platform.
Above are
the 6 most popular websites have been used by employers and freelancers, as a
beginner you can start from any of the above sites. So, which would you choose?
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