Are you planning to start a freelance career? Are you looking for the best freelance website to do it with? Well, then look no more because you have come to the right place. In this article, we are going to talk about the 7 best freelance websites you can make money with. One of the most important steps to make for your freelance career successful is finding the right platform. It doesn’t matter how hardworking you are if you end up with the wrong freelance platform, then you will not succeed. Hence read through this post to be able to choose the best freelance site for your career.
Now lets go straight into it. Below are the 7 best freelance websites you can work with.
1. Upwork.
Upwork is probably the best freelance website on the internet. It is by far the biggest freelance platform by market share. In addition to that, it is the largest by the number of active freelancers and clients. Additionally, if you measure it in terms of freelance jobs posted, Upwork is still the largest freelance platform available.
However, for everything that has a positive side has a negative side. For Upwork, work, the negative side is the level of competition. Like we have mentioned above, Upwork is the most popular freelance platform. Hence almost every freelancer in the world is on Upwork looking for freelance jobs. This large number of freelancers leads to a very stiff competition for the jobs available.
2. Fiverr.
Fiverr, just like Upwork is very popular. It is also very big. Actually one of the world’s largest freelance platforms. However, Fiverr fundamentally differs with other freelance sites such as Upwork because it is gig-based. What we mean by gig-based is that freelancers post offers on the Fiverr marketplace and the clients buy the offers. The freelancer posts the gig, then the client buys the gig. The service is posted and the clients buy the service.
This is different from other freelance sites like Upwork whereby its clients who post a freelance job order. You know, a client goes to Upwork and posts an order of something they need done for them. Then the freelancers send proposals/bids to the client. The client chooses the freelancer of his/her choice. Hence the client posts an order for a service and the freelancers apply to deliver the service.
3. Toptal.
Toptal differentiates itself from other freelance websites by targeting only the best freelancers. Hence the name top-tal (top-talent). They claim that only the top 3% of freelancers are accepted on the platform. They claim that not everyone can make it to their platform. By the way unlike other freelance platforms, with Toptal you have to be approved. If you want to join Toptal you have to apply for a manual approval which involves personal online interview.
Yes when you apply, they will schedule an interview for you. When the time for interview comes, they will make a video call to you and interview you. One thing that they need from you is to be good in English. People who are poor in English rarely make it to Toptal. So now you know that your chances of getting accepted on Toptal are minimal.
This is unlike other freelance platforms whereby you can just join by creating an account. With other freelance platforms, you do not need an interview.
4. Freelancer.
Freelancer is another major platform for you to launch your freelance career. However, you need to note that freelancer has its challenges. As per my own experience with Freelancer, it seems like its not a very well regulated platform. In the sense that the freelance jobs posted on Freelancer are not manually reviewed and monitored by humans regularly. This might sound as a simple thing for those who are not familiar with it but it is a serious issue.
The thing is a lot of jobs are posted on Freelancer regularly. I mean a lot of jobs. Any client can post a job and the job goes public immediately. The client can re-post the same job again so as to appear as if it is new. Moreover, these jobs do not pass through a manual review before they go live. This level of freedom that Freelancer gives its clients has led to people abusing its platform. I have had experience of not-so-good jobs on Freelancer. Some people even post jobs trying to take advantage of the freelancers like to market to them. Hence you need to be careful when dealing with Freelancer.
5. PeoplePerHour.
PeoplePerHour is a great platform for freelancing. They have good user experience. Unlike freelancer, they manually review jobs posted on their platform for new clients. Hence this maintains a good quality of freelance jobs on their platform. PeoplePerHour also has good commission rates for their jobs. What this means is that PeoplePerHour does not cut too much money as their service commission from the freelance jobs.
However, when it comes to PeoplePerHour, the number of jobs posted on their platform is not as big as platforms like Upwork. Thus the number of jobs to apply for on PeoplePerHour is lower than other platforms like Upwork. Hence your chances of getting a job are lower due to the high competition and few jobs.
6. Guru.
Guru is also another great freelance site that you can launch your freelance career on. They have been in business for years and have a well established freelance platform. Guru prides itself for providing very low rates as compared to other freelance sites. They charge as low as 9% commission rates on the freelance jobs. This is compared to other freelance platforms that charge even as much as 20% commission rates.
They have multiple payment models for the freelancers. These payment models include, hourly rates, fixed rates and task-based payment models. However, when we look at the bad side of Guru, they have less work available. They do not have as many jobs posted regularly as other platforms like Upwork. Hence your chances of getting work on Guru is lower.
7. We Work Remotely.
We Work Remotely is a great freelance platform to launch your career. The great thing about We Work Remotely is that they specialize on remote jobs for highly skilled professionals. And you know what that means. Highly skilled means higher pay. Normally, a highly skilled job pays higher than amateur jobs. With them, there is no bidding. You as a freelancer, you do not have to send proposals or bids for clients to hire you. They hire you directly from posted jobs. It is focused on tech marketing and design jobs.
In addition to all that it is trusted by big brands like google and amazon. On the other hand, when we look at its bad side, the issue is the number of jobs. They too do not have as much work posted as other platforms like Upwork.
Conclusion.
Now you know the 7 best freelance websites that you can use to launch your freelance career. From us at MillionFormula, we wish you all the best in your freelance career.
