Freelance Site Links
A couple of links to freelance sites, money transfer services and other resources which can be very helpful in your freelance business.
It’s not just a random list of the freelance sites found all over the web – all the sites are reviewed and if they don’t provide quality job opportunities, they are removed immediately. For each approved site, there were a few ones that were rejected because of the unsatisfactory quality level of the services.
- Free Freelance Sites
- Paid Freelance Sites
- Money Transfer and Withdrawal
- Freelance Portfolio Sites
- Freelance Site Owners
Free Freelance Sites
Because of the lack of paid subscription, they are the best place for people starting their freelancing career. The term “free” might be a bit misleading, but it relates to this lack of the subscription fee (deducted from your account even if no projects are won and money earned).
Services from this group take their fee when the project is awarded – so in case of a bad luck (not winning the bidding phase) we aren’t charged with any costs. It is very important for the freelancers with a little or no experience, as there’s no risk of losing their money invested in the costly subscription.
Recommended sites:
Established services, with a long online presence, trustworthy and proved to do a good job. Finding the work with their assistance is safe.
Large and attractive freelance board. It offers the highest number of projects with over 1000 of them posted every day.
- > read Freelancer review
One of the largest and well known freelance service boards with the many of projects posted daily – much more than 150.
- > read ScriptLance review
The third of the most important freelance boards. Recommended for more experienced freelancers. Many projects and useful features.
- > read vWorker review
Other sites:
Services with noticeably smaller number of offers posted, without any huge success so far but looking promising. Some day they can grow and become very attractive freelance markets.
- Joomlancers: Marketplace for Joomla Mambo freelancers.
- GetACoder: Not only for the programmers.
- PHP-Freelancers: Website with projects mainly for programmers.
- Project4Hire: Growing number of projects.
- BidFreelancers
- OutsourceToday: Growing – more and more projects.
- CGILance: Reasonable number of projects.
- OSCFeelancers: OSCommerce projects.
- EUFreelancer: Freelancer’s sister site for the European market.
- FreelanceWebMarket: Recently launched and growing.
- HireACoder: Recently launched and growing.
- FreelanceQuotes: Very limited number of projects.
- DesignQuote: Very limited number of projects.
- ProZ: Marketplace for freelance translators. Lots of projects.
- WriterLance: Marketplace for freelance writers, copywriters and proofreaders.
- TranslatorsBase: Marketplace for freelance translators. Many projects.
- TranslatorPlanet: Marketplace for freelance translators.
- TranslatorsCafe: Marketplace for freelance translators.
- GlobTra: Marketplace for freelance translators.
Exotic sites:
Services either just starting or (despite the longer online presence) not grown yet. Taking the job offers that can be found there might be risky. But some of these sites can join the top ones someday…
Paid Freelance Sites
Some explanation – “paid” services are not recommended for the beginners. Setting up the account there means that you have to invest some serious money (this can be even as high as over $700) and in case of resigning, the money is not refunded. It is important to estimate your strengths and abilities before making the decision.
Freelancers making their first steps don’t know this market they’re just entering, nor the problems they can face. First contact with freelancing is better to be made without the obsolete (on this stage) costs and investments – so the “free” pages available without the paid subscriptions seem to be the better place to start.
Recommended sites:
The biggest and the most attractive paid freelance auction site. Over 100,000 projects posted annually (over 270 projects posted daily).
- > read Elance review
Large, attractive and professional site with lots of projects.
- > read oDesk review
Another large and attractive service with lots of projects.
- > read Guru review
Other sites:
Money Transfer and Withdrawal
The most popular ways of withdrawing and transferring your earned money.
The most popular money transfer service. Not available for a few countries.
Alternative money transfer service. Available worldwide. Low fees and quick transfers.
Another money transfer service. Available worldwide. Low fees and quick transfers.
Freelance Portfolio Sites
If you do not have your own dedicated portfolio site yet, there are a few sites which offer you the possibility of presenting your work to potential clients or employers.
Recommended sites:
Creative professionals’ Network with multimedia portfolios to showcase their work.
Other sites:
Freelance Site Owners
If you are the owner of the freelance auction site or other site related to freelancing and you’d like it to be added to this page, please contact us.
Our editor will review your site and after approval it will be added to the appropriate category.
The lists of services are constantly updated. Every month many new freelance markets are launched while others disappear.
Websites which don’t offer quality services or don’t have any new projects posted will be removed from the list.
