Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Want To Make Money As A Freelancer

If you are planning to go for a freelancing career, then go through this article, which will give a very basic information and hope will help you.


What is freelancing?
A freelancer is a person who is self-employed and is not necessarily committed to a particular employer for long-term. It is basically, you have to bid for a Project/Assignment, if awarded, complete on time and get paid for this. And again bid for some other project.  

Who can do freelancing?
If you are very strong in your work domain area like Programmer, Designer, Writer, IT professional, Translator, Data Entry, Virtual Assistance etc. There are many more categories of work available.

Where can do it?
Well, here I mentioned few Names of Popular Freelance websites.

1. Elance.com :  It is one of the best websites to look for freelance work of all types.
2. Freelancer.com : It is the largest freelancer following website.
3. Guru.com : It is a good freelancer web site for programmers, Mobile app Developer etc.
4. Odesk.com : This is also very popular Freelance website, Now Elance and Odesk both Merged.
5. Fiverr.com : Sell your services starting at $5, that’s the tagline for this and it is quite accurate.

You have to sign up individually and set up your profile. Make sure complete it 100%. Go through the term and condition, understand well before you move further.

How do I get paid?
They all have different ways for payment. But paypal.com payment method is the best choice always.

What are the pros and cons?
Yes, this is very vital points, you should think many times before you move further. This is always better to start side by side with your day job. Once you build up your income to some extent, then you could plan for take it full time. Here are some pros and cons i mention for your concern.  

PRO's
1.       You can work from your from home.
2.       You are your own BOSS.
3.       You don’t have to worry about nasty office politics.
4.       Will get quality time to spend with your friends and family.
5.       Earning money has limitation.

CON's
1.       Don’t have a stable job means don’t have normal salary.
2.       Always search a new project and bid.
3.       Constantly look for a new Project Provider / Employer.
4.       Earning money may vary from month to month.
5.       As you are your own boss, time management is must.


Hope this piece of information will useful and give you a snap of the freelance career. No doubt you have to keep patient at the initial stages, and it is very difficult to get the first assignment. Because in many cases the Job Provider always look for a experienced freelancer to deal with. And above all be care full for fraud job provider. The very simple tips to identify the fraud People by checking their payment history.

Please do not forget to comment or any suggestion. 

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