Freelancing or Pay per Project
Freelancing is a non exclusive engagement, by definition a freelancer is not an employee but is like a free agent, an independent contractor who provides a specific service to a client or clients. It can be long term or short term, part time or full time, fix or hourly rate contract.
There are things to consider if you are thinking of starting your home based business. Your choices will depend on your skills and interests, whichever fits best for you. If capital is an issue, there are those with low start up cost, like Freelancing. It is one of the lowest cost and the easiest.
The more experience you have the more in demand your services will be. You can offer your services to the highest bidder, isn’t that nice.. turning the table. Some employers who are working with talented freelancers would want to control where and when to do the project. This could lead into a problem depending on the location both of the freelancer and of the employer. There are certain tax rules that apply.
oDesk
There are multiple freelancing websites like oDesk.com and eLance.com where you can bid on completing a project provided by employers. It is very competitive, more and more talented individuals joined freelancing due to the ease in working from home. By the way odesk and eLance merged couple of months ago and is now eLance-oDesk.
This is the only workplace I had experienced with. They pay the freelancers every weekend. So this is the screenshot. When you decide to check it out just go to their website odesk.com and click that button and create your Freelancer profile, or you can read more about oDesk in my related post.
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These are the most common categories to choose from
1. Web Development
- Web Programming
- Web Design
- Ecommerce
- Website Project Management
- Web Programming
- UI Design
- Website Project Management
- Website QA
2. Design & Multimedia
- Graphic Design
- Logo Design
- 3D Modeling & CAD
- Video Production
- Illustration
- Animation
- Print Design
- Engineering & Technical Design
- Voice Talent
- Presentations
- Audio Production
3. Software Development
- Mobile Apps
- Desktop Applications
- Scripts & Utilities
- Game Development
- Software Plug-ins
- Application Interface Design
- Software Project Management
- Software QA
- VOIP
4. Writing & Translation
- Blog & Article Writing
- Translation
- Website Content
- Creative Writing
- Technical Writing
- Copywriting
5. Administrative Support
- Data Entry
- Personal Assistant
- Web Research
- Transcription
- Email Response Handling
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