What are the best sites to find freelance work?

I usually recommend these

odesk.com

scriptlance.com

guru.com

warmarks.com

rentacoder.com

rentaghostwriter.com

ifreelance.com

getafreelancer.com

yourmaninindia.com

elance.com

Cool thanks Matt, I actually haven't heard of a couple of those. I'll have to check them out.

Trust me you might want to work on odesk.com it is one of the best as far as I can tell. Not only is payment guaranteed on hourly job but the interface is quite user friendly. Trust me if you are really looking for some good and nice quality job offers then your one stop is odesk.

there is one called ondemandpros.com check it out

Great list guys, I was in need of the exact same thing. I use fiverr but sometimes you run out of options over there. I am going to check out oDesk and see how that works out.

Great post!

Albert

If you're having trouble getting paying jobs at those sites, it could also have something to do with your portfolio. How strong are your samples? Have you been published anywhere prestigious or well-known online? This doesn't matter quite so much for Fiverr and vWorker, but Elance has some stiff writing competition.

Aside from the sites listed in other replies, I'd throw some content sites into the mix. These will pay you decently well while helping you get your articles published on multiple sites, and some will also pay you in passive income.

Break Studios pays $8 per article, your work will show up on sites like Break.com and Made Manual.

Demand Studios pays $5-30,depending on which of their properties you write for. Livestrong.com pays $25 but eHow only pays $15.

Associated Content will pay you $10 per article for a set # per month (I sell them 9 at that rate), and they continue to earn passive income. Beyond your guaranteed sales at $10 each, you can also submit other articles for upfront payments ranging from $2-10 plus passive income.

Textbroker will pay you a few dollars per article, based on length and writing quality. Normal rates are something like $4.50 for a 350-word article.

Constant Content allows you to set your own prices for your work, based on length, quality and rights you're willing to sell on the article. Articles frequently sell here for $25 and up, especially if you're giving away full rights. The site takes 35% of your selling price, so many writers price accordingly.

There are also a ton of places you can write purely for passive income while you're inbetween clients. A few of these include HubPages, InfoBarrel, Squidoo, Bukisa and Xomba.

If you want to make decent money, there are only 3 websites:

Elance
Guru
Warrior Forum

If you want to make a reasonable amount of money:

Digital Point
Wicked Fire
NamesPros

Websites which are not going to serve much/any purpose to most/all people:

V7
Black Hat
Freelancer
Scriptlance
Rentacoder
Getacoder
LimeXchange
etc

The third group is of no use to those who are aware of the first two groups. Stick to the first group if you target $1 per 100 words or more, although ********** does have some work at $2 or so per 100 words as well.

The third group of websites is ideal for $1-2 per 500 words and rarely above $3 per 500 words. So hardly any point going there.

I don't agree with Odesk.

Guru and Elance are easier to work with. Also, Odesk doesn't pay much. Rate wise, it comes in the same league as freelancer.com, if not worse!

You can't expect to earn $4 per 500 words at Odesk with a moderately established reputation, at least not too often!

At Elance you may be able to manage even $8 or $12 per 500 words.

At Guru you will be able to manage $4+ per 500 words with many projects where the rate goes to $1 per 100 words or even a few times it as well.

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