Top 5 Sites to Market yourself
A Freelancers Dream: Top Five Sites to Market Yourself!
What a technological world we live in! There are so many opportunities in today’s market to reach a magnitude of new business. As a beginning freelancer one of the first things you should consider is how to advertise your services. Using the Internet and the following web sites you can create a reputation, a track record of your services, and word of mouth to hundreds of thousands of clients. Let’s take a closer look a few of the bigger freelance sites and what they have to offer.
1) Guru: http://www.guru.com
Being one of the most popular sites, you can find guru ads everywhere you go online and in most of the more popular PC magazines. Upon entering this site you will immediately notice its multitude of subject matter. The site is laid out beautifully, easily navigated through and provides services for the client or the freelancer. With this site you can search through projects posted by clients needing your services, create a customized profile that markets your business and see your competition! Setup is free and as simple as filling out a profile questionnaire. Guru uses their SafePay Escrow or Invoicing to ensure secure payments and collect feedback statistics. Guru has quite a variety of great things to offer!
2) Elance: http://elance.com
This site is set up much like an auction site and allows you as the freelancer to “bid” on the projects you are interested in. The site’s layout is relatively easy to navigate through and they offer any type of business category you can think of. The use of an online rating system, much like Ebay’s, allows buyers and sellers to comment on each other and provide useful feedback. Let the competition begin!
3) All Freelance: http://allfreelancework.com
Although this site is not laid out as well as some others, it also offers a host of services for the client and the freelancer. Registration is easy, allows photos and other documents to be uploaded into your profile and is fully customizable. They offer chat rooms, forums, related articles, and the ability to create your own portfolio.
4) Ework Exchange: http://eworkexchange.com
As part of the registration process for this site you are able to create virtual online resume within your skills profile. Searching for projects is very easy and the use of a “private profile number” allows for communication with privacy. You will receive no direct contact with anyone until you have accepted the project.
5) Ifreelance: http://www.ifreelance.com
This site like the others offers a host of categories for the client or the freelancer. Its layout is superb, very pleasing to the eye and quite well organized. Their use of a rating scale is a great word of mouth option and they provide real time updates on users currently online and a complete profile including messages and account status. They offer a “featured service provider” section on the front page and posted online testimonials. This site is sure to provide the client or the freelancer with superb service.
The services offered on these web sites are sure to get your business up and running flawlessly. A continued relationship is sure to be created, implemented and maintained with the use of the endless amount of tools and services offered. Good Luck!
Freelancing is my life. It's what I know, it's what I'm good at, and I can't imagine doing anything else. You can call me "Freddie the Freelancer"… because I'd prefer not to use my real name for reasons that I'll tell you about in a moment.
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Your link for ework exchange is incorrect. I’m also not sure if it is still in operation as a Google search shows the link to be ework.com and it now seems to be a company called ZeroChaos.