Freelance sites
Yes, I agree that freelance sites are crowded with high competition and low payout rates. It is the first impression you get once you visit a freelance site. But when you start browsing the site, reading the feedbacks and ratings of the service providers you notice that the lowest bids are rare winners. We see that buyers prefer to pay some extra, but be certain the work is done in time and properly.
No doubt it makes sense to join one-two most popular freelance sites and add them to your mix of resources in your hunt of home based job. In this post I will shortly review a well-known freelance website RentACoder (aff. link).
You should not be misguided by the name of the site. You will find many job listings that do not require you to code. For example, open projects for:
- Data Entry,
- Design, Graphics,
- Photography,
- Writing,
- Training,
- Marketing incl. Search Engine Optimization,
- etc.
So, how can this freelance website help you with your attempt to provide a sustainable revenue stream from your home based job?
Registration is free. They handle all the money collecting so you can concentrate on what you’re best at…working. By the time you’ve begun work, the buyer’s money has already been placed into an escrow account, freeing you from the problem of getting ’stiffed’. To pay for this service, Rent a Coder charges you a 15% fee on the profit from work completed and questions. So if you don’t find work…they don’t get paid. Clear and no hidden fees.
Once registered start searching the marketplace. When you find a project you’d like to do, you can bid on it. At the bottom of the list, just enter you bid amount and an optional comment. If you want to just leave a comment only (for example to ask a question), leave the bid amount blank…
If the buyer selects you do your work properly within the stipulated time frame. Submit your work for the buyer approval.
Approved? Get paid and rated. Your account will be credited with the escrow amount minus the fee. All credits accumulate in your account until the credit cutoff date of your choosing arrives (either the middle of the month, the end of the month or both). They then pay you that total on or before the following 7th day. (Note that you can also choose to not be paid, until your account goes above some amount that you specify). You can choose to have payments sent to you via PayPal, snail mail or Western Union. There is a small postage and handling fee charged for snail mail payments.
Project completed? Funds credited to your account? Start a new search of your next project! You will discover that properly done work breeds return customers that tend to ask for your services again and again.
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