Do you feel that you are ready to leave work, independently control your day, fight for a client and work only on interesting tasks? It's time to try your hand at freelancing. This is not easy at all, and more often than not, more difficult than the office routine. In order not to be disappointed in the choice of the format of work, arrange a test drive for yourself - on holidays or on weekends. We have collected sites where you will find tasks to your liking.

For those who have been in the subject for a long time // The largest and most visited

Weblancer.net- a large exchange for remote work. After registration, be sure to fill out the portfolio - it will help you get more orders.

Freelance.ru is one of the largest freelance exchanges. It was originally a forum.

FL.ru- an exchange for freelancers of various specializations. To effectively promote your services, you need to buy a PRO account.

Freelancehunt.com- a labor exchange for programmers, designers, copywriters, and other specialists.

FreelanceJob.ru- positioned as an exchange for professional freelancers with a good portfolio.

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1clancer.ru- remote work for 1C specialists. Lots of assignments with good budgets.

Devhuman.com- service for developers, startups and IT companies. You can quickly assemble a team of any specialists to carry out any IT project.

Modber.ru- another exchange for 1C developers.

Freelansim.ru- an exchange for developers with a lot of interesting tasks and projects. We are sure that the Khabrovites are well acquainted with her.

FreelanceWebmarket- overseas site for developers.

Toptal- a closed area, to get started, you need to pass a selection consisting of four stages: checking the level of English proficiency, an online coding test, a technical interview with a screen display and a test project. After that, the freelancer signs a contract and becomes one of the developers of Toptal, who looks for projects for him and tries to load it with work. It is the exchange, not the client, that pays the developers to work on projects.

Play With Fonts // For Designers & Illustrators

Illustrators.ru- work for illustrators, new projects almost every day.

99designs- to receive each order, a competition is held, where participants send their solutions to the problem (an example of a logo or a site layout). The winner is chosen by the customer. The winner receives a predetermined fee, transfers the rights to the project to the client and becomes the priority executor of subsequent orders of this employer.

Crowd Spring- a tremendous platform for designers and illustrators. Works on the principle of the service above.

Coroflot- there is a list of vacancies and projects for designers to apply for. Coroflot does not charge a commission from any of the parties, but it does not give any guarantees either.

Krop- a lot of tasks for web designers.

DesignCrowd- freelancers offer the client a quote, after which the client chooses the contractor and pays for the services. Then work on the project starts.

LogoMyWay- orders for logo creators. To receive an order, you need to win a competition.

Shutterstock.com- exchange of images, illustrations.

Istockphoto.com- exchange of images, illustrations. There are entrance exams on the photo stock. You need to provide three photos and pass a theoretical test.

Anything different // Platforms with different types of tasks and useful services

Programmer Meet Designer- the site helps designers and programmers find each other to work together on projects.

Workzilla- orders are very different: from video editing to the creation of one-page sites. The customer forms the task, the performers respond and name their terms and price, after which the customer chooses the performer.

Hello dear readers and guests.

For those who have not yet worked with exchanges and do not know where to start, I advise you to read my previous article, in which I talk in more detail about.

Freelance exchanges and sites by category

Best freelance exchanges

Here are collected the most popular sites among freelancers and customers, where you can find tasks in all possible:

• fl.ru is the # 1 freelance exchange in Russia and the CIS. More suitable for professionals with a good portfolio and experience, it is difficult for beginners to break through there. For full-fledged work, you need to pay your account monthly.
• weblancer.net is, in my opinion, the second most popular site for freelancers and offers their services. At the moment, there are more than 3 thousand open orders.
• work-zilla.com is an exchange for beginners, you can find thousands of different simple tasks and try your hand at freelancing. Read on.
• freelancejob.ru - remote work for professional freelancers with a good portfolio.
• kwork.ru - the site allows you to offer and sell your services at a single price of 500 rubles.

Exchanges for copywriters and rewriters

If you can write and can type on the keyboard, then on these exchanges you can easily find tasks for writing texts, selling articles, translations, etc.

• etxt.ru is a popular remote work exchange for copywriters, rewriters and translators. Ordering and selling articles on any topic. See detailed.
• text.ru is a large service for copywriters and rewriters. There is also an article store and various scripts for checking texts. Read on.
• textsale.ru is a site for the sale of texts, there is a rating of popular topics for which you can write articles and sell them at competitive prices.
• advego.ru - content exchange № 1. Many different tasks for authors of texts, there is a store for buying and selling articles.
• copylancer.ru is a rewriting and copywriting exchange with low prices for articles.
• turbotext.ru is a relatively young project, orders for copywriting, rewriting, naming and other microtasks. Look.
• qcomment.ru is a service with micro-tasks, you can earn money by writing comments.
• textbroker.ru is a bureau of professional copywriters, here you can sell texts from 100 rubles per 1000 characters.
• contentmonster.ru is a very popular exchange with a lot of orders. To become a performer, you need to pass the Russian language test. Also on the site you can study several copywriting courses for free. Look.
• smart-copywriting.com - on this exchange there are 16 types of specialization, orders for articles, poems, naming, resumes, etc.
• miratext.ru is a simple and very convenient copywriting exchange. The main types of orders are copywriting, rewriting of texts, articles in a foreign language.
• snipercontent.ru is a website that brings together webmasters and copywriters.
• fll.ru is a service for posting assignments and searching for remote work in the field of writing texts.
• neotext.ru - content exchange and article store.

Websites for 1C-specialists and programmers

I didn't find many specialized sites for IT specialists and programmers. Further, when we consider these professions in more detail, I will give many more examples of various forums and portals where you can find good remote work for programmers.

• 1clancer.ru- an exchange for programmers and 1C specialists from all CIS countries.
• devhuman.com- a service for IT professionals, programmers, startups and other professionals, allowing you to quickly create a team for your project.
• modber.ru- another site for 1C professionals.

Freelance exchanges for beginners are a great way to make your first money remotely. We tell you about the best sites for making money.

The ideal freelancing process looks like this: choose an exchange, apply for several interesting projects, complete the task and get money. In fact, everything is much more complicated, because you still need to find a good order, and then make sure that the client chooses yours from dozens of applications. But first, you need to find that freelance exchange for beginners where you can get a well-paid and exciting job. We talk about the best sites, how to make money on freelancing, common mistakes and give tips to help you get your first orders.

The best freelance exchanges for beginners

Freelance exchanges are not considered the main source of income for trained specialists, but large platforms are an excellent option for beginners who still need to figure out how the market works, how to communicate with customers and what kind of work they can find in different areas.

Weblancer

An excellent Russian-language freelance exchange for beginners and experienced professionals, where you can find work in various fields: web design, photo processing, printing, website promotion, and so on. To start working on the Weblancer exchange, you will need to register, after which you will be credited with 30 universal orders; if you need more, you will have to pay for the tariff plan. Moreover, the more specializations you choose, the more you will have to pay for using the exchange.

Conclusion

General knowledge about the work of freelance exchanges will be enough to get comfortable in a new field, but in order to get big profits, you will have to create a selling portfolio, learn a lot about finding and attracting clients, engage in a commercial offer and develop a personal brand. You can learn about all the features of freelancing and how to make a lot of money on the course.

entrance

First, you need to let know in as many ways as possible that you are looking for orders: talk to friends, relatives, former colleagues, customers of former colleagues, publish on social networks, specialized websites. I submitted more than twenty applications on these sites before even one worked. It will take you a couple of weeks.

Difficulties

Brute force

One of the gags, oddly enough, is the excessive number of orders taken. At the beginning, there won't be such a problem, but then it is quite possible. For me, 4 orders that I am working on in parallel is the limit. Even so, I try, for example, to deal with two orders on one day, and two more on the other.

The difficulty here is that if you work on one order for less than two hours in a row, time is wasted inefficiently. Until you enter the task and achieve a good pace, it will take half an hour. Hence the number of 4 orders, cyborgs can take more. :)

Grade

Get ready for the fact that at first you will incorrectly estimate the amount of time, and therefore the money, required to complete the order. For a more accurate assessment, it is useful to divide the task into subtasks, each of which will take no more than a day to complete. And even in this case, it is worth multiplying the resulting number by X, unaccounted features will most likely surface, you will have to spend additional time on debugging and fixing bugs, etc. The very communication with the customer takes time.

Action

Unlike a regular job, where you are paid a fixed salary, where you can slowly swing in the morning, read LiveJournal, drink coffee, start work, a freelancer will receive only for a real result. A great time for me - five hours out of eight spent only to fulfill orders (minus snacks, communication, reading mail, ICQ, Skype, etc.).

If some kind of sausage begins, mental throwing - all this must be postponed for the evening, when with a pure heart you can shake off to your heart's content. :)

Yes, you also need to rest, just do not lie to yourself that I will read the news a little more and then work, there is still a carriage time. Tell me I'm resting and rest. :)

If you work hard on weekdays, you should not work on weekends either, it is better to spend this time actively - to go rollerblading there, and other skates ...

It can be difficult to quickly switch between projects; it happens that you delay the start of work on a somehow unpleasant task. Everyone decides this in their own way, a great incentive is the need to regularly receive money. When there is no money, it helps a lot to work, unless a really cool sausage begins. But then see above.

It is also dangerous to be lazy. It is better to spend time, to do everything conscientiously, not to leave a single crooked piece that can be done in a reasonable time. Otherwise, it will work only for the sake of money. :)))

Money

I work only with foreign freelance sites (does not mean that I call for this), from the possibilities of transferring money to myself, I found two options - MoneyBookers (European analogue of PayPal), from where money is withdrawn to a bank card or account, and SWIFT-transfer to a bank check. In the end, it all comes down to the transfer, since MoneyBookers has too small a quarterly limit on the amount of money withdrawn to the card. Accordingly, you need an account in dollars or euros - in the currency that is used to withdraw money.

It is also very important to determine how much you want to earn per day, taking into account average market prices and your qualifications. And feel free to name the desired figure when evaluating the order. In the beginning, this part caused the greatest awkwardness, they say, I do such simple things, it is somehow embarrassing to take money for it ... The dwindling income convinced me of the opposite, especially since for other people our craft looks completely different.