Now a days trends have change from office to work from home. Everyone started talking about the merits and demerits of working from home. All have their own reasons to support their thoughts but the facts is that trends also change mind of some people who are passionate about their own ventures or want to earn more money in their life.
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Work from home give comfort and also the chance to live with your family but the main advantage is time. People can save their time of travelling and also expenses. Extra time can be utilised by working part time to earn extra income. But in this the main problem is Opportunities. So, today we are going to discuss the solution for this big problem.
What is freelancing?
When an individual or group of individuals that have talent and common interest are ready to work for an individual who can pay them for her work, the process is known as freelancing and the individuals are known as freelancer. Freelancing can be done as a part time or full time at your own place with suitable time.
A freelancer work for themself instead on any organization. Client only pay for their work. Freelancer charge per hour or per project to the client and work freely without any contract.
Let's discuss it with an example -
Suppose I am blogger, so i have passion for writing and also have some decent knowledge and experience. One day you need an article but you have no experience of writing a decent article. Now, what option you have, you have to hire some for your work who is able to write. So, you contact me and i create that article and you will pay me per hour or for complete article, this depend on mutual understanding.
Even though some big players are present in freelancing earning in crores there are opportunity for new people who have talent and ability to work efficiently. Some big companies are now started hiring freelancers for their work instead of employees to save their expenses and increase quality of work.
Lots of freelancing work are available but to get you have to build your profile strong and find work for your domain. A large community is already involved in freelancing with increasing number day by day.
Popular freelancing topics to work
In freelancing there is no limit of work or domain, you can get job in any domain according to your interests. Some popular topics that are easy and available are
- Digital marketing
- Content writing
- Search engine optimization
- Link building
- Website development
- Application development
- Designing
Top freelancing websites to get job
We have discussed freelancing a lot but in freelancing the real challenge is to find clients. For new freelancer, it's not possible to invest on marketing to get clients.
There are some websites that help to find jobs. You have to register on that and check available projects and bid on that. These website take small commissions when you get client. You can connect to client directly using these websites. These websites are secure and easy to use.
List of freelancing websites
- Fiverr
- Dribble
- Upwork
- Toptal
- Simplyhired
- Behance
- Peopleperhour