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If you’re looking for a freelancing job from home to earn that extra cash, you should try Elance. If you have a skill, talent, services to offer, you can make extra money on the side or even turn it into a full-time income.
A huge number of small businesses use Elance to get their work done without the overhead and hassle of traditional hiring. They post projects to the Elance professional network and use Elance’s tools to hire, manage and pay for the work on-demand.
With Elance, you can offer these small businesses your services in a variety of fields. Elance is one of the hubs on the internet for freelancing so you can get yourself on there and start bidding on projects.
Typical categories included:-
- Accounting & Bookkeeping
- Administrative Support
- Audio, Video & Multimedia
- Creative Writing
- Editing & Proofreading
- Graphic Design
- Legal
- Management & Finance
- Sales & Marketing
- Software & Technology
- Training & Development
- Translation
- Web Design
- Web Programming
On Elance, list your [TAG-TEC]work experience[/TAG-TEC],, create a nice portfolio and references and the type of projects and feedback you get after each project.
Be committed and aim to please your clients. Follow their lead and help define their needs. Take pride in your work and do care for your online reputation. Finish the job well within the agreed timeframes.
Create yourself an account at Elance today and start putting your talents to good and profitable use!
Personally, I hate the eLance/guru/getacoder sites. Who the heck wants to bid against people on the other side of the world who make 10% of my income? It’s a losing game!
The smartest way to be successful as a freelancer is to market yourself to LOCAL clients. Most clients want to meet their freelancers face-to-face and work closely with them to solve their business problems. How face-to-face is 12 timezones away??
But clients have a hard time finding local freelancers, because freelancers don’t do a good job marketing themselves. They need to appear on sites like FreelanceLocalTech.com, where technical freelancers are organized by service offered AND location. It’s free, no bidding against foreign competitors, no middleman to take a piece of the job cost. It’s not a project/job site, but a marketing site to reach clients in the community. That’s the way freelancers need to go if they want to create a successful business.
Alfie, great stuff!
There’s no right and wrong really.
If you are a buyer, once you get a good freelancer for a particular service say website design, you should contact him/her off the site in future.
If you are a selling your services, do a good job and word of mouth will spread and you’ll be recommended even without going through Freelancing sites. By the time, you would have your own site setup.
This is if one thinks long term and builds a brand for themselves.
Elance is a great place. Not everyone has the opportunity to market themselves to locals and Elance is a great place to start. The one good thing about Elance is that if there is a problem there is a least some sort of mediation that can be taken.
Great article Fendi. Although I don’t use Elance yet, I have browsed their projects and they really do have a great variety of opportunities.
Thanks a lot for this article