GetAFreelancer.com is a freelancing website where one can bid for projects of his/her expertise. It’s free to join GetAFreelancer.com. For every project you win and complete, they charge 10% of what you get from the project or $5, whichever is higher. There are two types of membership that this site offers, free and gold membership. Free members can bid for a maximum of 30 projects a month and it is unlimited for Gold members. Also, if you are a Gold member, you need to pay only monthly fees ($12) and no commissions on the completed projects. You can always be a free member at this site and still earn a good amount. If you join them and are satisfied, you can upgrade to gold membership anytime by paying the $12 monthly fees. I recommend this website for those who are searching the Internet for a good and consistent work from home opportunity.
You can get your money using one of the following payment processors:
- PayPal
- E-Gold
- Bank Wire
- Check
- Moneybookers
- Western Union
When I last checked GetAFreelancer, the site had freelance jobs posted in the following categories. The number inside the brackets is the total number of freelance jobs available for a particular category.
| NET (243) Audio Services (30) Copywriting (341) Electronics (22) Graphic Design (349) JavaScript (203) Link Building (219) OsCommerce (94) PHP (821) Ruby/Ruby on Rails (38) Telemarketing (107) Virtual Reality (36) Website Security (55) Accounting/Bookkeeping (29) Banner Design (90) Engineering (51) Data Entry (282) |
Handheld / PDA (32) Joomla (122) Linux (107) Perl/CGI (84) .Project Management (105) Script Installation (147) Training (22) Visual Basic (67) Windows (93) AJAX (250) C/C++ (189) Excel (39) J2EE (36) JSP (27) Logo Design (119) Photography (29) Data Processing (200) |
Proofreading (100) SEO (360) Translation (85) Web Promotion (367) Wireless (32) ASP (179) Cold Fusion (8) Delphi (24) Flash (329) Java (180) Legal Advice (13) Market Research (163) Photoshop (123) Python (35) System Admin. (52) Video Services (76) Website Design (770) XML (169) |
You can see that most jobs are computer programming related jobs. Hence, programmers and webdesigners have more chances to earn through this site. But there are also jobs that anyone with a fair knowledge of the Internet, word processing and spreadsheet software can undertake. Check out the last categories of the first and second columns of the above table. The categories are “Data Entry” and “Data Processing”, one needn’t be very skilled to complete these kind of jobs.
Hence the sign up link to GetAFreelancer.com once again.
