Freelance Software Work

Hi All,

I am trying to find freelance software dev work, I find that UpWork and freelancer arent very friendly to newbies - seems very difficult to get a gig.

What other good platforms are out there?

Thanks in advance

 

Sorry to throw salt on your game but Upwork is where it's at.

Yeah, you're a newbie and yes it will be difficult to get a gig. The same will apply in the majority of places.

I used upwork (ODesk at the time) back when I was a freelancer and to get my initial gigs, I had to work for WAY LESS than I was worth.

But it's worth it.

Do your first 2-4 gigs dirt-cheap and do them well. After that point, it will be way easier to get paid what your skills are worth

But there's no shortcut.

 

There are lots of platform from freelancer.Everyone searching low price and good review holder freelancer. Thats why there are very tuft to get self position.While you are applying for work ,somebody take this unethical advantage from newbies, will work but will not pay.After all , if you can get set once,it will be easy for you.

 

Try Fiverr, SEOClerks. As others told you price your services less than what you think others should pay you. Alternatively be a buyer for few days and find out what prices other sellers are offering. I hope I have explained a lot.

 

You should try out the "fiverr". In comparison in this website you will have better chance to get work but man you should have patience. On this freelancing sites it takes time to establish your presence.

 

If you want to earn money online, there is lots of option available like Write And Sell An Ebook,

sell audiobooks with audible, use mechanical turk, Offer gigs On fiverr, Sell professional services On upwork or 99designs, Email marketing.

 

Try to stay away from interviews scheduled timely and keep trying, apply to projects on upwork and freelancer and the people having reputed profiles will start to get down the list resulting in loosing some of the clients.

 

if you go to 'good' plateforms, they all are flooded with people
so many freelancers with high ranking
left newbies with no contract
you have two choices
1. ask for so low money that u get job
2. try to find work offline as well, in your local area using classified websites.

 

So i saw this technique a few days ago. I have not yet tried it so i cannot tell you 100% the result even though i trust the guy who shared it 100%.
1. You go on upwork and check on the jobs being posted by people.
2. Make a list of those you want to tackle
3. Create a video solving those problems (1 solution per video) e.g how to fix wordpress database corrupted.
4. in the beginning and the end of the video let the viewers know that if they want to hire you to do same work for them you are available. Remember even though you are sharing the solution, not everyone is technically conscious. Some people will prefer you do it for them
5. create page or mini sales page with your payment option. Youtube is vast so you are bound to get at least one or two people to hire you for the job, especially i your video gets a lot of views
6. rinse and repeat.

 

You can look into Work N hire. In fact, Facebook groups are also there for freelancing work. You can look into that too.

 

There's also the age old direct message. Just pay attention online to who's out there paying for work. Lots of businesses and entrepreneurs source out work regularly, and if you approach them with a polite request to be put on the list should they need your services, it's usually not an unwelcome message. It helps if you are able to make a connection with them, by walking into their office in person, calling them on the phone, or contacting through social media, forums etc particularly if you're able to score an introduction from a mutual friend.

 

What kind of software development do you do, RDarby?