Make Money Freelancing and Working Online

For many the prospect of freelancing – working from home as an independent service provider – is very appealing, and these days there are many options out there. As a freelancer working online from home there are many different services you can sell to buyers all over the world – some of the more common ones are writing, translation, administration and IT, but thousands of different services in different fields are bought online every day.

The biggest freelancing and “work from home” sites are listed below:
www.odesk.com
www.elance.com
www.freelancer.com
www.kanajobs.com
www.scriptlance.com (mostly software and technical apps)
www.ifreelance.com
www.guru.com
www.rentacoder.com (mostly software apps)
www.constant-content.com (article writing)

Between these sites there are over 1 million online jobs advertised from employers looking for all nature of writing, administration and IT/Technical skills. The companies listed above make their money by making a charge on the work provider for using the service from the payments received.

Other sites from which you may generate an income from writing:
www.suite101.com
www.xomba.com

Both split their advertising revenue with contributors.
www.blogit.com - charges a registration from subscribers ($12.95 per month), which is divided between the site owners and the other writers who are read by the subscriber.)
www.online-writing-jobs.com (USA jobs only). Pulls all the ads from Craigslist and breaks them down into geographical areas and types of work (so you don’t have to). There is no charge to provider as the ads link directly back to Craigslist and the provider deals directly with the job advertiser. The site obtains its revenue from advertising.

More jobs (not all necessarily done from home) can be found at:
www.jobbankusa.com (USA)
www.redgoldfish.co.uk (UK + a few overseas)