This is the start of a new series, I was going to hold off on releasing it, but I figured with the success of the first MonkeyBlogger series on Networking With Digital Point, I’d go ahead and start this one now.

In this series we’re going to be talking about freelancers, and where to find work, how to land a job, how to gain repeat clients, how to deal with clients, and how to create smooth work-flows when you have numerous jobs.

In this part one, we’ll cover where to find work.

We’re going to go over 3 websites you can use to find work, and the pros and cons of each.

Digital Point

Now, I know I’ve talked about Digital Point before, and I know that a lot of people are going to give me a hard time about bringing them up again, but they do provide a great place to find freelancing work. Let’s start off with a few pros and cons of this freelance work resource.

Link: http://forums.digitalpoint.com

Pros

• Free to use
• Provides you with a resource for any kind of freelance work
• Fairly easy to gain a good reputation

Cons

• Requires you to make 25 posts before you can access the Services Section
• You must be a member for 7 days before your allowed to access the section
• You will most likely be scammed a time or two (I’ve been scammed 5 times or more)
• People are cheap and you won’t get paid too great

All in all, it’s a good place to get your freelancing started, but eventually, you’ll want to move on and find some better work.

Get a Freelancer

Get a freelancer is a directory of freelancing jobs in every category you could think of, from writing to data entry, to graphic design, heck, even video editing services.

Link: http://getafreelancer.com

Pros

• Huge directory
• Any kind of work you can imagine
• Most jobs pay well
• It’s free to sign up

Cons

• Costs to find freelancers
• Hard to get jobs when you don’t have much experience
• Jobs get so many bids, that it’s hard to always get the job

All in all, Get a Freelancer is a great site for freelancing work, highly recommended by me.

Freelance Switch

This site is well designed, has some great work, and it’s pretty cheap to use.

Link: http://jobs.freelanceswitch.com/

Pros

• You can find a lot of long term work here
• Jobs are usually very well paying
• There’s less of a chance you will be scammed than at any other freelancing site

Cons

• Costs money per month to join as a freelancer
• Most people will want strong portfolios, which as a new freelancer you will most likely not have

For the most part Freelance Switch is a great resource for freelance work, although it has a few things about it.

So this will conclude the first part in this series, where we talked about where to find work. In part two, we’ll cover “How to Land the job” and I think you’ll enjoy it, so Subscribe to the full RSS Feed and keep updated.

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