Where to find customers - info for freelancers - project marketplaces list
I would like to share with our readers a list of websites where freelance web designers, coders, SEO specialists can easily find jobs. This also relates to non-IT professionals as many of these portals are oriented on all kind of projects.
It would be wise to choose 1-2 such project marketplaces you are going to use then pay for a professional business membership there, carefully fill the portfolio and start bidding on the projects. The initial stage is most difficult as when you have no experience, no feedback and no earnings this is displayed in your profile and you have to persuade people to give the project to you. Afterwards it becomes much easier.
So here it goes, the project marketplaces list
- http://www.rentacoder.com/
- http://www.guru.com/
- http://odesk.com/
- http://www.scriptlance.com/
- http://www.getafreelancer.com
- http://www.cgilance.com/
- http://www.elance.com/
- http://contractedwork.com/
- http://programmingbids.com/
- http://www.projectspring.com/
- http://www.smarterwork.com/
- http://www.freelancecenter.com/
- http://www.freelancewebprojects.com/
- http://www.totalfreelance.com/
- http://www.homeworkers.org/
- http://www.gofreelance.com/
- http://www.allfreelancework.com/
- http://www.freelancebbs.com/
- http://www.freelancebank.com/
- http://www.freelance-world.co.uk/
I can add from the personal experience that we have tried guru.com and elance, and have chosen the latter as the first project had come from it. Elance is also a very dynamic and easy to use system.
Hope this helps you to find the projects which are both interesting and well paid. Good luck in your work!
Taras Filatov, project manager, “DesignForWeb”