When I started freelancing from college in 2002 there were numerous freelancing sites like Scriptlance, RentACoder, iFreelance to name a few. Over time many small freelancing sites were acquired and merged to form bigger websites.
In 2018 we have few market leaders and here is a list of top freelancing websites who want to be a freelancer and work from home.
Upwork
Upwork (previously oDesk and Elance) is possibly one of the largest marketplaces for projects. You name any expertise and you will possibly see projects and freelancers related to it. Apart from a wide variety of technology it also has shorter-term projects, longer-term projects, entry-level projects as well as well as expert level high paying projects.
PPH has also adopted Fiverr concept where Freelancers can list what they could offer for an hour that clients can buy and you can also add perks similar to Fiverr.
Guru
Guru is yet another marketplace for finding job and projects. They have a very simple hiring process and so it makes really easy for the clients to hire freelancers. As it is a comparatively small marketplace, you don’t see as many freelancers as compared to upwork / freelancer which makes it less competitive. Apart from that Guru has Work Room feature which makes it really easy to manage all the jobs.
If I remember correctly Freelancer was started as GetAFreelancer and was more commonly known as GAF. They acquired almost all possible freelancing site known to me from those time like ScriptLance, vWorker (Previously RentACoder) to name a few.
It is quite a big marketplace and possibly second best to Upwork because Upwork quotes as having 4+ Million clients on their home page and Freelancer quotes as Millions of small businesses use them.
My experience with Freelancer has been that jobs are posted by clients of clients and not by direct clients.
Fiverr
Fiverr is a different kind of marketplace where freelancers post what they can offer for $5 (five-rr) and clients can search for those and order them.
Don’t worry, you don’t have to offer everything for $5 and you can always have additional perks for increased pricing. Fiverr fees are a lot higher than Upwork / Freelancer.
Unquestionably the biggest social networking site for professionals with jobs being posted daily. There are millions of jobs (Mostly full time but quite a few part-time) jobs are being posted on a daily basis.
If you find position fitting right for your expertise, you can always apply for it.
iWriter
Freelancing site for writers and is possibly one of the biggest marketplaces for writers. You can apply for thousands of writing offers available and is one of the best sites dedicated to writers.
Probably the largest marketplace for logo, web and Graphic design. It is more like a contest based marketplace where you provide a brief of the design you are looking for and you will receive tons of design entries to choose from.
Quite innovative.
Can get many designs to choose from. Freelancer.com has also adopted the similar concept for their web design projects.
TopTal
Toptal has come up with a completely new process of individually screening each and every freelancer before they open up their projects to freelancer which means it will cut off those low-quality low-priced bids.
I did get an invite to join them but then could not schedule a meeting for screening process as I am too overly occupied with my existing clients recently.
DesignHill
Designhill is one of the upcoming marketplace for logo, web design & graphic design contests. The best part is, the option to sign up as a designer is not very intuitive. So there is lot less competition among designers which can mean a less competitive marketplace so people can get paid higher.
As per their website they have over 50,000 happy clients.
HubStaff
All freelancing marketplaces have fees for clients and freelancer but HubStaff has launched it differently. No fee structure. It is completely free for clients and freelancers. Quite an innovative way to launch a new marketplace and as per their blog they have already hit the 7,000+ freelancers mark and growing rapidly.
Broxer
A marketplace much similar to Fiverr but with an Indian focus. They have lowest commission structure of only 2% and it is the buyer that pays all the fees. As per their website feature it mentions and I quote:
Seller will get full amount whereas buyer will pay commission as per payment gateway selection.
So it means you get paid what you have listed your services for unlike Fiverr where you are paid 20% less. Though the site is new, it is gaining much of an attraction for its lesser commission structure and is a must watch freelancing site for 2018.
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