My favorite freelancing sites

Although there are hundreds of freelancing sites on the net, some truly stand out. While most of the freelancing sites for writer’s and others offer nothing more than virtual jobs and virtual money, some are even worse and offer real jobs to be sure, but no real money! In short, they take you for a ride. So where can a writer earn some decent freelancing income on the net?

oDesk

A fairly new freelancing site set up in 2007, but it has quickly scaled the popularity charts among both, writers and buyers. The best part about freelancing at oDesk is their guaranteed payment system on hourly jobs. No more worrying over payments due. You can also bid for the non-hourly projects, just verify the buyer’s feedback though. The oDesk forum is also abuzz with good amount of activity all the time and the support staff is also quite quick in responding to any queries you have. So go ahead and make a small fortune for yourself on the oConomy.And you know what? oDesk charges upfront 10% of your total project fees as commission, no hidden costs and no stupid connects to buy as on Elance. After all why should you pay to bid on jobs?

Constant-Content

Although some hold the view that CC is Victorian, which may not be very wrong, still it cannot be denied that Constant Content is one of highest quality freelance writing site around. They have in-house editors who whet your submission thoroughly for minor gramatical errors and they run your article through Copy Scape to detect any plagiarism and to ensure ensure it meets all CC guidelines. Writers get three chances to get their article approved, failing which they are booted out from the site. What makes the CC concept interesting is the rare opportunity writers get to decide the price of their articles themselves, rather than some insensitive chap offering $1.25 (yes there are such people) for a 500 word article! Although CC commission is a high 35%, still the fact is that good quality articles easily sell for $25 to $40, so $35 fees is actually worth it. But writers are well advised to proof-read their writeup many times before submitting their articles, you will not regret it once your article gets approved.

There are some other good freelancing sites out there, but am currently reviewing them so will post my views once I am done with them. C YA!

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