As a freelancer, time is money. Which means if you spend hours every week hunting down new freelance jobs instead of doing billable client work, you’re missing out on revenue.
That’s why I personally recommend
SolidGigs to freelancers of all kinds who need to find freelance jobs fast. The team at SolidGigs (including my good friend Preston Lee) combs through dozens of freelance job boards and sends you
the very best 2% of freelance gigs from around the web every single week—removing the time-consuming work of filtering through dozens of freelance job boards and vetting the opportunities yourself.
On top of just the curated gigs list each week, they’ve also got an enormous resource library with courses, interviews, templates, scripts and other tools all with the focus on helping you land more freelance jobs, negotiate your rates, pitch high profile clients and grow your freelance business. Seriously, this lethal combination of weekly curated gigs and training resources (from top freelancers around the world) is a ridiculous steal for the very low monthly cost.
2. Upwork
Once upon a time, there existed two leading platforms for landing freelance jobs: oDesk and Elance. Eventually, their two kingdoms combined to create one large peaceful marketplace for people to land freelance jobs from clients all over the world. Enter: Upwork. As a result, this freelance jobs site is huge. They have over 12 million freelancers and 5 million clients listing upwards of 3 million freelance jobs each year. Just about every freelancer can find their niche here, but beware: Upwork takes a 20% cut until you build up a regular relationship with a client. It’s very beginner friendly, but be prepared to take lower-priced freelance jobs through sites like Upwork, than you would from the more carefully curated marketplaces that focus on a specific niche.
3.Freelancer
This site has a huge variety of projects, some formatted as hourly and some as contests – the only downside is that they only give 8 free applications before you have to pay the membership fee. The project fee is also a little different – pay between $3-5 or 3-5%, whichever is greater (one of the cheaper commission rates).
4.Servicescape
Launched originally back in the year 2000, ServiceScale is a global marketplace for freelancers with a range of skills and experience—with an emphasis on graphic design, writing, editing, and translating. To date, they’ve had over 259,000 completed projects with more than 79,000 clients that’ve used the platform.
ServiceScape is a great freelance job website for working with startups and SMBs that are already online outsourcing-friendly. So, if you’ve got the skills and experience, ServiceScape is a great place to spend some time and apply to projects that work for you.
5.Contena
Contena tops this section of the best writing freelance jobs because of the sheer volume of well-paid (and high quality) jobs they always have available for writers, editors and content creators of all kinds. What I love most about
Contena, is that they feature a mixture of freelance jobs and full-time remote jobs on their platform. Examples of real freelance jobs currently
featured on their homepage include a $10,000/mo eBook writing gig for a tech publication, a sports writing position, photography-focused content writing jobs, and seriously thousands of more opportunities across many industries doing freelance jobs for trustworthy companies.
6.freelance writing
This source of writing jobs is excellent for freelancers all over the map, from brand spanking new to very experienced. It’s easy to filter for the type of job you want and the experience you have, and it’s totally free.
7.Media Bistro
Media Bistro has a nice little variety of categories, which includes writing and editing. Their curated list features everything from book editing to PR content, so you’re sure to find a few things that fit your niche.
8.99 Design
This site is set up in a bit of a different format than typical freelance sites, but it does work in the design context. Clients publish a contest, and designers submit their work as their application. The client chooses the design they like best, and the designer gets paid. I’m sure you’ve noticed the downside – if you don’t win, you don’t get paid. However, it can be an excellent way to build up your portfolio at the beginning, and if you’ll be doing work anyway, it can be a great resource.
9.Art Wanted
You got art? They want art! If you’re more of a graphic designer or digital illustrator (or even if you’re pretty skilled already on the side), you can put up your masterpieces on Art Wanted. People can browse them by keywords, and there’s always the potential for connecting with clients!
10.Rent A Coder
Pretty self-explanatory – clients that are looking for programmers, developers, and even designers will go to Rent a Coder to. . . well. . .rent a coder. Also, free to sign up!
