Work from home - Freelancing

We all would like to make some extra income by working online and doing some part time jobs that do not require any investment. It would be convenient for many people to work from home and earn more than what they make with their 9 to 5 job. There are various frauds happening online where people invest money and do not get the deal they were looking for, hence we have to be careful while chosing such opportunities. There are various websites where you can sit at home taking up some freelance jobs execute it at your own convenience. 

Freelancers are hired by lots of small and large enterprises who want to improve their business without taking on the burden of hiring permanent employees.  If you are a programmer, designer, SEO expert, writer, broadcasting expert, data entry operator, administrator or holding any other skill, you can find out freelance jobs from the best freelance websites.

 Listed below are some of the freelance websites that are reliable and those which ensure a steady flow of income :-

Elance

Elance Founded in USA in 1998 and is one of the largest and best freelance websites that offers both free as well as paid membership plans. It does charge freelancers to get listed on the site.

ODesk

• ODesk is the best freelance website for newcomers that does not charge membership fees. It offers a wide range of job categories with hourly and fixed rate jobs. Hourly jobs offer guaranteed pay and the service charges are 10% of project amount from freelancers.

Guru

• Guru was founded in USA; started in 2000 and offers free as well as premium membership. It offers wealth of money making opportunities for all kinds of specialization.

RentACoder

• RentACoder was founded in USA; started in 2001. It is a Software Development freelance website that has 20,000 registered buyers and 2,00,000 coders. In RentACoder, buyer requires to put entire project fees in an escrow account which do not get released until the entire project is completed; gives assurance to coder for their due payments. It charges 15% fee of project amount.

Freelancer

• Freelancer is one of the reputed and reliable money making site for freelancers which offers free and paid registration plans. It charge high commission of $5 or 10% of winning bid and 3% from gold members

ScriptLance

• ScriptLance was founded in Canada; started in 2001 and offers free registration with service to businesses finding freelance designers and programmers. It has over 100 projects are posted each day. Charges lowest fees, with no project recurring and project posting fees.

PeoplePerHour

• Founded in USA; started in 2008, it offers free and paid membership plans.
• Bidding number of projects and commission fees for freelancers depend on a membership plan.

Fiverr

• This is a popular freelance website for people who can contribute strange and hard to sell services
• Largest marketplace worldwide for small and simple jobs (gigs) that start at $5
• Offer each freelance service that anyone can imagine
• Offer some creativity as well as weirdest gigs
• Super easy to use; becomes super addictive for employers and freelancers
• Offers 3 different levels of freelancers

mTurk

• mTurk is one of the most reputed websites for outsourcing. Its developed by Amazon and stands for Amazon Mechanical Turk - offers “Human Intelligence Task”.  It helps to locate workers who can do certain task more efficiently than computers and offers free membership to both buyers and workers. It is a good platform for freelance workers who can use to supplement low wages with minimal mental efforts.