Make Money Online: Freelancing

Written on August 14, 2008 by ChiQ

Filed Under: Make Money Online

When I started making money online it wasn’t from blogging at all but rather from Freelancing. You see, blogging takes time and it might take a while before you can start profiting from your site. If you do take the freelancing route, it pays the bills right away.

There are lots of jobs available online for you to take on a per project basis. You only have to look at the right places. Here are my recommendations:

Online Forums

DigitalPoint - Specifically go to the Buy, Sell & Trade Section. You can write articles, design templates, create websites, post to forums, sell links.. and a lot more! On the dp forum, members rely heavily on iTrader ratings (positive and negative feedbacks) therefore, you must make sure that you provide what you promised to deliver or else you get a negative feedback and no one will bother hiring you.

SitePoint & TalkFreelance - Usually the kind of projects you get from these forum will give you a higher rate. Projects aren’t as abundant compared to DP but usually they fall into the bigger project scope.

Recommended Freelance Sites

Rentacoder.com - This freelance site caters primarily to the technical side such as programmers, coders, software engineers and IT professionals in general. Some projects could even last for several months.

Guru.com - This is a very large site with a million of registered users. Businesses who are looking to outsource their work to a global audience with minimal costs rely on this site. Opportunities are categorized on the Main Page of the site so it’s quite easy to look for projects you can take on.

Elance.com - Elance is another site you should definitely check out especially when you want to provide content services. Usually, the projects offered here are for writing articles, ghostwriting and copywriters.

Those sites I have listed above are enough to keep you busy and earn you a steady income. I’d like to share a few tips though from my personal experience:

1. Launch a site where you can showcase your Portfolio
- Ask permission from your clients, first.
2. Take Care of your Reputation
- Recommendation and Feedback Ratings matter
3. Overdeliver if Possible
- You easily get repeat clients this way
4. Do not give your work unless Clients Pay,
50/50 method usually works, they pay you 50% of your total payment, you give them the projects you have worked on. They pay the remaining 50%.
5. Be Honest and Reliable

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Comments (76)

mintspot says:

2008-08-14 06:51:28    


your recommendation is very impressive.
i added to my bookmark.

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ThemeLib.com says:

2008-08-14 09:48:03    


Nice list :)

In my opinion, DP is the best. We can make lots of money with it just by answering questions. Do not spam or you will be banned.

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m.dinesh says:

2008-08-15 04:52:10    


I use dp to use some grunt work daily.

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gladita says:

2008-08-15 06:34:43    


well i haven’t tried any of those so maybe i’m really missing out on a lot of online opportunities. i’ve done some sponsored reviews though. how would you compare those sites with Odesk and FindAFreelancer?

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Ultimate Blogging Experiment says:

2008-08-15 07:33:18    


I find work on digital point all the time. It is one of the best forums I have been on and is easy to make some real cash.

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The Net Fool says:

2008-08-15 08:39:53    


I’m kind of surprised that you left GetAFreelancer.com off of your list. I have been using them for years and they are one of the best websites for hiring an experienced “whatever” on the fly for an affordable rate :)

Great post though, I’m going to have to check out those other websites.

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Nick Throlson says:

2008-08-15 05:58:07    


getafreelancer.com is a great site cause digitalpoint lots of scams a great post easy way to make some extra cash as freelancer

Taylor Blue says:

2008-08-15 06:00:31    


I also say getafreelancer.com is a great one..that’s where i started out and I worked there for a year on jobs. I found them the best. :)

Pangeran says:

2008-08-15 07:16:10    


I like to do freelancing…
Hmm…
DP forum…
Even not yet joining…
Better try this out. :-)

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bm says:

2008-08-16 12:44:29    


I’ve reading a lot of good comments for GetAFreelancer.com, I think that’s one of the best in freelancing jobs

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wiehanne says:

2008-08-16 02:33:01    


Joined Elance and Guru before. But it seems to be hardly no work for basic account (free). Most of the clients prefer the higher level account (whatever the name is) which you need to pay.

wiehanne says:

2008-08-16 02:33:17    


Joined Elance and Guru before. But it seems to be hardly no design work for basic account (free). Most of the clients prefer the higher level account (whatever the name is) which you need to pay.

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moserw says:

2008-08-16 07:29:55    


Good idea and also many thanks for sharing about such sites. Will definitely check them out though I am not much of a programer or designer myself.

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suree says:

2008-08-16 07:05:31    


i am already a member in digital point forums…..

will see the rest, how are they be useful for me and let u know ;)
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AZ Blogging says:

2008-08-17 04:51:38    


Wow, this is a very good list. I feel happy having this list from someone with experience like you.
Thanks

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Paul U says:

2008-08-17 09:15:03    


Right now, I’m been doing some freelance work.

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kerja sambilan says:

2008-08-19 01:53:29    


i’ve used some services from DP..makes my job easier and now i’m thinking by offering some service to them..maybe directory submitting..i can see a lot of people look for this type of service..

thanks for the idea…cheers!!

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Corey Freeman says:

2008-08-21 12:20:58    


I use a lot of forum marketplaces to find some pretty good paying work. (Of course then I spend the money on books..) I agree that I actually make a lot of my money through freelancing, not blog advertising.

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Dilson Decano says:

2008-08-21 08:06:56    


my favorite is DP because i am making money there.

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Blog Tips for Beginners says:

2008-08-22 12:19:40    


I wish I’m possessed with the skills I could MMO by freelancing. I guess I’m more of a user than a provider, you know the one paying it instead of getting paid.

Yan

C. Victor Hennis says:

2008-08-22 01:01:58    


I never have much of a response from users on either DP or TalkFreelance, but I get a lot of attention from the Sitepoint ones.

Not sure why.

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2008-08-22 01:03:13    


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Norhafidz says:

2008-08-23 03:31:24    


agree, blogging does take time for you to earn some money :)..experience it myself

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Gossip says:

2008-09-01 10:50:27    


I like to do freelancing… I like your post!

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Otooo says:

2008-09-03 12:13:25    


I haven’t tried much bu IMO freelancing pays too little

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Abdul - 3arn.Net says:

2008-09-04 08:48:14    


Blogging does take time to earn some money, but you need to to know the right thing to do for that!

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iPod Touch says:

2008-09-08 05:44:07    


I am going to start using DP to make money. I know the rate won’t be that good but it’ll be an experience and hopefully I can move on from there to bigger and better things.

John

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2008-09-11 04:16:03    


I also had a nice experience as a buyer on Scriplance.com this week. But I found really hard to hire the graphic designers with the Web 2.0 experience. Andy ideas?

earnbankus says:

2008-09-22 09:03:45    


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suree says:

2008-09-30 02:51:54    


hmm its really a great post for new bloggers like mewho wanna dol something good,
i have seen ditalpoint forums so useful, thanks for this informative post

wiehanne says:

2008-10-31 06:04:24    


Oh don’t forget about getafreelancer.com. It’s quite useful too.

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