Freelancer.com Is Another Site To Find Freelance Work
If you have made the decision to work from home, the hardest part of building your business is getting your first client.
You may have worked in a specific industry for many years, and have now decided to apply those skills as a freelance. Maybe you are looking for a completely new career, using skills that you know you have – but are yet to be proven.
Well, the good news is that we all start in the same position. Unless you have hundreds of contacts already in place, finding that first job can feel impossible.
Outsourcing marketplaces are designed to put businesses that require services in touch with the freelancers that can offer them.
One of the biggest is Freelancer.com, a brand that has been in the industry for many years. Why is it, then, that Freelancer.com is only now gaining real traction as a place for freelancers and clients to gather? What makes this site different to competing marketplaces such as People Per Hour and Elance? You can read more about these alternative marketplaces in the articles Launching A Business From Elance and People Per Hour: An Online Marketplace.
Read on to find out.
The Growth Of Freelancer.com
In some form, Freelancer.com has been operating since 2004. The remit of the site has always remained the same:
- Allow businesses to list projects in a range of different categories
- Allow freelancers to bid on these projects, submitting proposals and quotes directly to potential clients
- Process payments and invoices on behalf of freelancers, taking a small percentage of each payment received
Of course, if you have spent any time researching different outsourcing sites or reading our articles, you’ll know that this framework is not unusual.
What makes Freelancer.com so unique is the unusual way in which it has grown.
Since 2004, it has been a constant goal of Freelancer.com to buy up competing websites that offer similar functionality. Most recently, Freelancer.com purchased vWorker (formerly RentACoder.com), bringing 2.5 million users and 1.3 million projects to the business.
However, this growth strategy has an impact on the type of work that is available through the site.
Freelance Internationally Without Leaving Home
Many of the buyouts completed by Freelancer.com have involved local outsourcing websites around the world. Until just a few years ago, Freelancer.co.uk was an independent website for UK projects and UK freelancers.
The web address and community was then purchased by Freelancer.com and merged with its existing operations.
The consequence of this is that Freelancer.com is one of the most popular freelancing sites in the world, used by clients and freelancers from hundreds of countries. The amount of work available for a freelancer is astonishing – but the quality of these leads varies significantly.
With clients from different economies, it can be fairly time-consuming to find work that pays fairly for your time. Equally, with so many freelancers working from parts of Asia, it is not unusual to be significantly undercut when you bid based on price.
Of course, you are under no obligation to work for less money than you feel you are worth! It is just worth being aware that, in the case of Freelancer.com, the sheer quantity of projects available from all around the world can make it tough to find the right job for you.
But, providing you invest some time to find those projects that are really worth your while, you could stand apart not on price, but on the quality of work you can deliver.
Freelancer.com is an another way to build your experience, win your first few pieces of work, and make contact with your first clients. So why wait? Register now and start creating your Freelancer.com profile.
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