Before start, let's have a look into freelancer, freelancing & freelance marketplace. According to wikipedia,
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A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer.
Fields where freelancing is especially common include journalism and other forms of writing, copywriting, computer programming and graphic design, consulting, and many other professional and creative services.
Freelance marketplaces (or outsourcing marketplaces) are websites that match buyers and sellers of internet-provided services. Buyers and sellers of these services each setup profiles on the marketplace website. Seller profiles provide a description of the range of services offered, sample materials, rates, and details about the provider. Buyer profiles include descriptions and specifications of the work sought. Buyers and sellers are able to rate each other and provide positive and negative references/feedback.
At first browse different freelance marketplaces and try to understand their system, rules and project types. Then choose 2 or 3 sites and place your bids. Once you win a project, continue with that freelancing site and focus on improving your ranking and rating on that site.
Freelance marketplaces or sites are almost similar to each other. But everyone has their own features. In my experience, once you will feel comfort in a freelancing site and will get good amount of projects then you will not able to get projects from different freelancing site. So at the very beginning of your freelancing career browse as many sites as you can and then focus on one site.
Popular Freelancing Marketplaces:http://www.RentACoder.com (RAC)
http://www.GetAFreelancer.com (GAF)
http://www.GetACoder.com (GAC)
http://www.oDesk.comhttp://www.scriptlance.comhttp://www.joomlancers.comhttp://www.elance.comand more...
How to withdraw money:There are different ways to withdraw money from a freelancing sites. Each has several advantages & disadvantages. Important payment methods are:
- Paypal
- Payoneer Debit Mastercard
- Moneybookers
- Western Union
- Bank to Bank Wire Transfer
- Snail Mail Check
