Freelance Career Question #2: Which are the Best Freelance Sites?

Comparing a newbie into the Freelance world to a person who has just endeavored into space travel would be too dramatic, but it wouldn't be too wrong. Once a person leaves their day jobs and begin the journey of freelance, they come across many planets and organisms, some friendly and some not so friendly. If you consider Freelance to be a space journey, consider Freelance sites to be your friendly planets. Now that you know that the Freelance sites are your friendly planets, where do you find them, and more importantly, do they really exist? Well, this blog post tries to answer both your questions. Here are some of the best Freelance Sites around.

Freelancer: Previously known as getafreelancer, this is site has been around for quite a long time. According to the site itself it is

owned by Ignition Networks Pty. Limited, trading as Freelancer.com (ACN 134 845 748), with license from its wholly owned subsidiary, Plendo Sweden AB. Freelancer.com was started in February 2004 and is today one of the top online freelance marketplaces in the world.

Freelancer has progressed quite well in its six years of existence. It has made several changes to the site, and it recently made a complete graphic overhaul, that really adds some taste to the site. However, other than the cosmetic aspect of it, GAF, as the community still regards it as, is one of the better websites that offer freelance work.

All you have to do is to make a profile on the site, and then fill in all the details that are related to your professional life. Make sure that you make the profile an exhaustive read, or else you will end up just being on the site and not making any money out of joining the website.

Remember that GAF itself rarely offers any jobs. It is simply a common ground for the freelancer to interact with people who wish to offer freelance projects to the freelancers.

Once you have made your profile, you can browse through all the projects that are on offer and you can bid on them.

Freelancer is an integral part of the freelance web, and making a profile on the site will surely help you in expanding your freelance career. As the name itself suggests, freelancer is the site that is used by the world over to get a freelancer.

Scriptlance: Scriptlance is another website that is quite popular amongst the freelance community. The website follows the same program as Freelancer does. As Scriptlance and Freelancer are Bid for Work sites, the working of the sites is basically the same.

Here is a list of the other freelancing websites:

www.guru.com
www.odesk.com
www.limeexchange.com.