Freelance for beginners: where to look and what are the pitfalls. Freelance for beginners: where to look and what are the pitfalls Freelance narrow specialization projects

The word freelance means "free spear" and in the Middle Ages meant a knight, ready to fight for hire on any belligerent side. In the twentieth century, this word (freelance or freelancing) began to denote the regular professional performance of certain jobs by an employee without enrolling in the staff of any company and without creating his own company. And in the 21st century, with the development of the Internet, freelancing received two main types:

"remote work" using the Internet (distance jobs, remote jobs, online jobs);
"Physical", offline performing irregular tasks - finding which (and for customers - finding outsourcing performers of which) also in the vast majority of cases now occurs on the Web.

By definition, remote freelancing from the point of view of the legislation is not related to labor legislation - but is work on the basis of a civil law contract ("customer" / "performer") or on the basis of an oral agreement, which can include all kinds of electronic correspondence and registration on the site.

In this regard, a freelancer cannot apply for social protection, legislatively inherent in "regular" workers, as well as for any other state protection of his labor rights. He will be protected by law only if he has entered into a full-fledged contract with the seal of the customer and the signature of his authorized representative. True, in this case, the terms of the contract may contain the possibility of attributing violations to the freelancer himself, which, according to the texts of other contracts, quite legally gives the customer the right not to fulfill his obligations to the contractor - so you need to be careful even with a completely "dignified noble" contract conclusion.

From the point of view of taxation, in cases of official documentary registration of the work performed by him, it is most effective for a freelancer to remain an individual (in this case, the customer, employer pays the state income tax for him). Alternatively, you can register for free as a sole proprietor on the simplified taxation and reporting system (but then the latter should be submitted to the freelancer himself).

However, at the moment, the lower the cost of work, the more likely it is that freelance work is ordered and paid for outside the legal workflow and cash flows of the customer, even when signing contracts with signatures - they, for example, can be drawn up in the form of an agreement or a receipt of two individuals (company employee -customer and freelancer-performer).

In any case, lawyers strongly advise freelancers, if possible, to find out the name of the client company. And, if we are talking about a Ukrainian company, check information about them on the portal of the former State Register (in the future - the register of the Ministry of Justice) or a similar register in other countries. Suspicious in this case may be such moments: the date of registration of the company a few days or weeks before attempts to hire freelancers, registration at this address of a long series of companies, a suspicious registration address (type of city object) for a given profile of the customer's activity.

Types of cheating freelancers

What in recent times was called a rude jargon "scam" - was and remains, more often than not, attempts to deceive beginner freelancers. The most active and widespread in the 1990s-2000s were schemes for cheating free workers, the markers of which were the following facts in the customers' proposals:

The customer asks the contractor transfer money first for training or materials necessary for work; sometimes in the form of sending an SMS message (expensive, about which there may be no warnings) - almost certainly the customer disappears after that;
Surprisingly offered simple mechanical work like sorting letters or photos, mailing letters, typing or collecting pens. And in real life, the pens are completely made by a conveyor belt (you should work hard to find a video of the allegedly "manual" process proposed to you). For a long time, no need for mass typing has "existed in nature." Letters and photos are sorted and sent by secretaries or other employees with broader responsibilities. And even illegal spam activity has a high degree of "bots" automation;

An activity is proposed that does not make economic sense, but is based on some alleged mistakes, punctures various complex systems ("magic wallets" that return more than they should, and the like);
Offered pyramidal a scheme associated with the involvement in the activities of the largest possible number of acquaintances and friends of the performer (and often - again, economically meaningless);
Performers are recruited without specifying the profile, industry in the ad the activity to be performed and / or requirements for the contractor;
Quite normal small remote work is offered, but in extra urgent mode, literally with a period of several hours - the freelancer, due to haste, loses vigilance and sends the finished work result, without controlling who he does it to; then usually does not receive payment for the work. How is it "treated": in such urgent cases, calmly demand an advance payment by transfer to a card - for the customer it is more or less safe, since the bank card account serves as an identification way to find the contractor in case of something;
Proposed earnings for clicks on advertisements on Internet portals - click bots will allegedly be generously paid by agencies that receive money for clicks from those interested in increasing this type of traffic. It is possible for a lone freelancer to make money in this way - but a pittance, since the main web ad systems will calculate massive clicks from one computer pretty quickly. As a result, without a "live" prepayment, it may turn out that your fee for clicks, if it goes to an electronic wallet, cannot be cashed out promptly due to a too small amount.

There are a lot of such schemes - and, in principle, for a domestic freelancer in the case of remote work, alas, by default, it is worth initially suspecting any potential customer of dishonesty, being tense and ready for losses. And only after carefully making sure of the transparency of the work scheme and its payment, you can agree to the task.

Of course, offline work performers who personally contact with the customer are somewhat calmer - but actively looking for tricks or demanding an advance payment is also necessary here.

Where to look for freelance work

As with looking for a permanent job, freelancers can find jobs in two ways:

search for customer ads;
the offer of information about theirqualifications (resume, portfolio) - which is sought by customers.

Naturally, the first method usually gives a faster effect - but it would be strategically wrong to omit the second method. Before we talk about specialized sites for freelancers, we note that to inform potential customers about themselves, performers should not hesitate to actively use:

social networks (especially the LinkedIn network created specifically for business contacts) - both your personal accounts and the groups in which you are registered or that you yourself have created. If you don't want to mix personal with work, just create a separate group (community) in all social networks about yourself as an executor of certain tasks, fill it with a content portfolio, invite potential customers to it;
blogging platforms and forum accounts - if your activity has a visual or textual component, feel free to publish posts on your personal blogs with visible fruits of your labors (you can put a single meta tag to them so that a potential customer can easily “weed out” your portfolio from other blog posts). Note that in addition to the well-known livejournal.com, there are “professional” blogs on portals for freelancers and on websites for specialists in your profession - for the purpose of self-promotion, they should not be neglected either;
free classifieds platforms (olx.ua and any others), sites of free classifieds newspapers that have survived to this day (aviso.ua and the like) - they all contain sections on work, including one-time.
resume with offers of one-time jobs (especially remote IT jobs) is appropriate to place on the "standard" employee / employer search portals (rabota.ua and many others);
personal site- if you have one.

In addition, by becoming a freelancer, do not be lazy to create, store and replenish e-mail list all your "good" customers, in any case do not lose their contacts after paying for the work. After all, from time to time it is appropriate to make a mailing list offering your services to the maximum number of potential consumers.

The most effective way to find customers is to use freelance portals, through which most freelance performers and customers who want to get a one-time outsourcing task execution find each other. More often than not, current portals have both free economy features and paid premium options to promote themselves as a task performer. For Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, in this capacity, it is worth mentioning, first of all, powerful, well-structured multidisciplinary portals:

fl.ru (formerly free-lance.ru);
freelancehunt.com (mainly IT, design, articles);
freelancerbay.com (mainly IT, design, marketing);
globalfreelance.ua (academic tasks in exact and humanitarian disciplines).

Finally, we note that in addition to these "omnivorous" portals, there are specialized freelance exchanges for designers, photographers, programmers, copywriters and other workers - as well as web aggregators that collect freelance ads from several exchanges at once. One of the most complete up-to-date catalogs of such portals was created and is being updated on his website kadrof.ru by Sergey Antropov, the author of the book “I am a freelancer”, which is very useful in this context. And you can see dozens of links to online freelance exchanges collected by this tireless popularizer.

9 myths about freelancing

Myth 1. Freelancing \u003d free time all the time

Reality. Of course, it’s technically easier for a freelancer to shrug off work, spend weekdays playing computer games or drinking, than a hired new employee. But only here, if you don't work, you don't make money. The main thing is not to forget that the concept of “working” for a freelancer includes spending half of the time and energy on finding a job, on making a portfolio and other forms of self-promotion and self-promotion, on negotiations, correspondence and meetings with customers, on regular execution of test unpaid or low-paid tasks.

That is why most freelancers who became wealthy along the way, initially worked much more than 40 hours a week for many years - that is, significantly more than the norm for employees hired by companies.

Freelancing for a beginner who wants to feed himself entirely with one freelance is a more time-consuming way than traditional hired labor in a company.

Myth 2. Freelancing \u003d no more bosses, no more hierarchical stress

Reality. Do you know who you, as a freelancer, will be all those customers who will give you money for your work? All these people are your new bosses, nothing else.

Instead of one or two bosses, a freelancer gets dozens of them; and all of these are the closest leaders, and all of them have any nuance of your work in sight. All these temporary bosses will communicate with you in different ways - so do not "get used to", do not "get used to", do not learn flaws and oddities. All of them can approach in different ways, say, to the "ok" button in a distant nested service on the site, the design of which you were not going to think about. All of them will one day send 14 emails to your dumping offer at the same time - with a note in each one that they are expecting a response only until the evening.

A business owner can be his own boss. But a freelancer who has no other income remains an employee. Moreover, not ordinary, but similar to a puppet, to which a thousand threads are pre-tied (customers in the entire subsequent history of a freelance career). They just pull these threads not at the same time, but for each one in turn. And a freelancer is also such a puppet who is terribly bad if not pulled, whereas in companies it is often the opposite.

However, customers "pull" many freelancers at the same time. And how sorry you will be to miss an order and lose customer confidence if you are physically unable to fulfill several orders at the same time, and you are not mature enough to hire subordinates, open and expand a normal business.

Myth 3. Freelancing \u003d no more red tape and corporate bureaucracy

Reality. For a few dollars, you may be able to work without a contract. But if we are talking about orders really feeding a person, the entire administrativia will lie with the freelancer: reading, and even drawing up contracts, registrations, taxes, accompanying documents.

Plus, again, your self-promotion, building your personal brand, as we have already hinted, will regularly require a lot of documentary and partly bureaucratic work: compile different types of portfolios and resumes, find where to send them, send them, enter into correspondence.

And all this more than once every five years when changing jobs - but monthly, weekly, regularly and inevitably. Wouldn't you like to hire someone to handle all of these self-marketing files, websites and emails for you? If you already want to - admit that you have stopped dreaming of being a freelancer, but still matured to the desire to establish a small stationary business with your own staff, at least with one secretary.

Myth 4. Freelancing is the best way out for a non-contact, uncommunicative person who wants to be a "lone wolf" in life

Reality.Clients want to connect with freelancers. And freelancers have more of this communication than many employees hired by companies.

There is no life in which a freelancer sits in a fortress of solitude and all the time silently swallows the streams of work flowing to him. We repeat that this kind of life exists in some positions in large companies, but not in freelancers.

Myth 5. A freelancer can work from home even in his underwear: I will save on business clothes

Reality. The only reason a loner who works from home in movies, books and comics often ends up in underwear is that he is often so busy with work that he does not have time to get dressed and wash the dishes in the morning, and neither does himself.

But seriously, the very first meeting with a customer forces a freelancer to approach his own dress code more strictly than if it was a normal working day for an employee of a large company. And such meetings will be frequent.

In addition, for many people an important component of the dream of becoming a freelancer (this time we will mention a really positive, not a mythical factor) is the ability to work remotely using the Internet with temporary residence in other countries with beautiful nature and architecture. But does it make sense to travel far and rent housing in such a place in order to sit in it or walk in an unassuming form? On the contrary, most likely, in a beautiful place you will dress up especially beautifully every morning - in order to sit down with special pleasure to work with a laptop on a terrace above the sea, mountains or in a park of a medieval town. Will there be savings on business dress? Is not a fact.

Myth 6. Freelancing is ideal for people who quickly get bored of any job.

Reality. If you find it difficult to keep the desire to work in companies, you have no strength to cope with the feelings of "tired, oh, this melancholy again" - then it will be even more difficult for you to cope with exactly the same feelings in freelancing. And these feelings will appear there too: they comprehend all people.

For people who are very prone to melancholy, external discipline - in the form of bosses or, conversely, in the form of responsibility for their own business and its staff - serves as an "angel on the shoulder" whose gaze you feel and cannot completely relax.

If there is no over-the-shoulder glance, then in a freelance life with weak willpower there is a much greater chance of degrading than in someone else's company or in your own business.

Myth 7. Favorite business + freelancing \u003d not work, but pleasure that brings money

Reality. Children think about representatives of many professions in the same way - about football players or actresses, for example - that instead of work they "get sheer pleasure, and even big money." Adults, on the other hand, know what exhausting long-term training, far from playing pleasure, occupies the entire childhood and youth of a professional football player or acrobat.

So it is with any other job. Few things are fun, repeating themselves for the thousandth time. Few favorite things, put on a daily basis, come easily, without sweat. Freelance, not freelance - it does not matter - the pleasure of work will regularly be replaced by the opposite attitude towards it. There is no other life.

Myth 8. All you need to make money is a website

Reality. Too many new freelancers have emerged who think their site will be a money-printing machine - like “this blog” or “this service”. Like, collect reprints on the site, copy service interfaces - and keep your pocket wider!

In fact, you can only monetize a site that people find, consider unique and interesting. And so that it doesn't become outdated, the freelancer needs to work on content and a lot of software and design aspects, and along the way to comprehend all the technical innovations and gadgets - every day, stubbornly, selflessly. And for a loner who wants to feed himself only on a website, there will be a huge, non-falling shaft of work.

Myth 9. A freelancer takes all the income from an order.

Reality.Freelancers buy from their earnings (and for their time, which, according to the proverb, is also calculated in money), absolutely everything for their workplace. And absolutely everything for its social background. And in many companies, employees are relieved of this.

For example, freelance programmers are forced to buy and comprehend a lot of new equipment and software in order not to miss the adaptation of the code they create to the realities of the Web and applications. And these new items, as you all know, appear approximately monthly. So without a purchase plan for upgrades, you can quickly become outdated and lose even past loyal customers.

That is, the freelancer needs to pre-schedule a more or less accurate plan for such expenses. And where is the business plan written, isn't it time to think about your own business at the same time instead of hiring it as a freelancer?

Summary

Don't get me wrong: I don't mean to say that working for yourself is worse than for someone else. The decision to work for yourself can be the most correct and amazing choice in your life - on a par with the choice of faith and your spouse.

Just remember that not only freelancers work for themselves, but also business owners: project founders with a calculated plan, mission and, of course, with a small creative team. Calculate: maybe such a choice in your case will be personally attractive and even more pleasant than freelancing.

Experienced professionals and employers often find customers or contractors based on recommendations. Whereas freelancing for beginners is easiest to implement through online exchanges.

The largest exchanges for remote work

The leading freelance sites on the Internet mainly cover the categories of software development tasks, the creation and promotion of web resources, and the generation of user-generated content. Among them:

Pchel.net - the best free freelance site with a simple user-friendly interface. Freelancers and employers can use all the functionality of the freelance exchange without the obligatory purchase of additional services. Bee.net contains an impressive freelance database - the exchange was created in 2007 under the name Freelancerbay. In 2018, the site was completely redesigned. New sections were added: job search in the office and ratings of IT companies. The developers continue to develop the freelance exchange and regularly add new functionality to Pchel.net.
Weblancer.net - the largest international freelance site in Russia. The service has been operating since 2003 and offers search for orders and specialists in 13 categories. For performers, it provides the opportunity to receive orders for free within two months from the date of registration. Next, you need to purchase a tariff plan (service package), the cost of which depends on the selected category. Three formats of cooperation are available: projects (one-time assignment), vacancies (permanent cooperation), contests (the opportunity to submit your work on a competitive basis). All settlements on the exchange are carried out through the Webmoney payment system.
Freelance.Ru - the exchange was established on the basis of Intellectual Internet Technologies LLC. Provides collaboration in 23 categories in three formats - projects, freelance jobs and contests. Free use for freelancers is possible with a limit of up to 3 applications per day. For full-fledged work, it offers three types of tariff plan. For the customer, the services are completely free. Collaborates with various payment systems.
FL.ru - was founded by V. Voropaev and A. Mazhirin in 2005. It covers 20 areas of work for performers from 211 countries. Provides three formats of cooperation: services (offered by performers), contests and vacancies.

Freelance narrow specialization projects

Competing with projects that have already occupied a significant market share, many services found it necessary to narrow or, on the contrary, expand the list of areas of activity. This allowed the emergence of highly specialized services for copywriters (Advego, Etxt.ru, Textsale), photographers (Wedlife.ru, Photovideoayavka.rf), lawyers (Pravoved.ru, 9111.ru). The most attractive web services for beginners today are:

PROFI.RU - was established in 2006 and covered more than 500 types of services, a large part of which is provided in person (instructors, cosmetologists, doctors, builders, artists).
Freelance Is a relatively young freelance exchange founded in 2012. The site offers 10 categories for cooperation, but the bulk of the tasks is focused on IT specialists (web developers, programmers). For all users, the project services are provided on a prepaid subscription. Internal payments are made in their own currency - loans (ruble equivalent).
1Clancer.ru - a resource for remote search for programmers and 1C specialists. Offers to find partners for one-time projects and permanent cooperation.
Devhuman.com - a web resource that allows you to assemble a team to implement a startup. Represents six main categories of tasks for creating and promoting sites.

Freelance sites in Ukraine

Initially, the main stream of freelancers and customers from Ukraine worked exclusively on Russian exchanges. However, in recent years, the opposite trend has been observed. This is due to the emergence and development of convenient sites with suitable conditions for cooperation for representatives of both countries. Among the best Ukrainian exchanges:

Freelancehunt.com - the leading freelance site in Ukraine. It was founded in 2005. Offers cooperation in 11 directions and two main formats: projects and competitions. Using the service is absolutely free. Allows you to join teams, set the cost in hryvnia or rubles.
Freelance.ua - the site began its work in 2009. Offers 21 categories of orders with price setting in UAH, USD and EUR. To get unlimited access to filing applications, the contractor must pay for a professional account.
Kabanchik.ua - service for ordering services in various directions (courier delivery, solving household problems and performing repairs, caring for animals, tutoring). The project began its work in 2012 and today covers the entire territory of Ukraine, as well as many cities in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
Free-lance.ua - a service for searching remote vacancies and employees via the Internet. Offers 27 categories of services in the form of projects, competitions and permanent vacancies.

When working on freelance exchanges, remember that this is an opportunity to try yourself both as a task performer and as a customer for your startup or company. You can form teams, connect with colleagues and learn from experience, reaching a whole new level of realizing your own potential.

In almost every popular business, marketing or IT publication, there are regular publications about remote work and the growing share of freelancers in many companies.
More and more people are working remotely, if not full-time, then at least occasionally. Companies, in turn, are increasingly hiring freelancers or temporarily hiring freelancers to fill skill and competency gaps that are not available on a full-time team.

In short, if you are attracted by the prospects of working in a remote format, now is the time to try yourself in this business in practice. And freelance exchanges will help you with this - special sites where you can find offers for remote work.

Almost all freelance exchanges that were created 5 years ago and more were focused exclusively on all CIS countries. But in the last three years, platforms have begun to appear that are clearly positioned as platforms for performers from Ukraine. For example, an online service ordering services. In this article, we'll look at both.

Freelancehunt.com

In the past three years, the popularity of this exchange among Ukrainian freelancers has been growing, and in July 2016 the service's turnover amounted to almost 2 million hryvnia. This and some other statistics, according to official information from the administration, you can take a look below:

Plus Freelancehunt in the relative ease of work - from registration to sending the first applications, it will take a freelancer no more than half an hour, and even then taking into account the time spent on filling out the portfolio. You can find many active projects in a variety of categories, such as online marketing and SEO promotion:

Every day, thousands of projects open on the site in the field of design, programming, word processing, SEO and marketing, mobile development and many others.

The site has cooperation through a secure transaction - the site guarantees both parties to the project the safety of their funds. For the duration of the task, the customer's money is reserved on the service, which excludes fraud. The contractor receives all the earned funds if he fulfilled the terms of the technical assignment and handed over the work within the agreed period. If the freelancer does not fulfill his obligations, the customer gets his money back.

Freelance.ua

Freelance exchange focused on customers and performers from Ukraine, which has a minimalistic interface and convenient division of orders for one-time projects, constant cooperation and even offers for work in the office.

Sorting projects by specialization allows you to manage the output of orders depending on the niche in which the specialist is looking for work. For example, if you check the "Promotion (SEO, SMM)" item in the left side menu, we will get a list of projects that belong to this category:

By a similar principle, the search for performers is implemented, with the output of their rating, the average cost of work and other information useful to the customer:

Considering that we are talking about an exchange focused on Ukraine, the number of both orders and performers is quite large here. True, this figure is most likely due to the fact that inactive projects are also shown in the search:

In addition, the customer can indicate the date until which the search for a contractor for his project will be relevant, which simplifies the assessment by the freelancer himself.

Weblancer.net

One of the very first sites of this kind, which began operating back in 2003. Well suited for beginners, since there are not many projects available here, but they have moderate requirements for performers.

Freelance jobs and orders are broken down into a relatively small number of categories, making it easy to find, even if this is your first time visiting this site.

The catalog of performers and the portfolio of works are placed in different sections, which allows you to make a choice based on certain criteria, or simply by visual assessment, for example, if you are looking for a web designer.

The customer can create his first project even without registration, the data for the account will need to be specified at the last stage of filling out the form. If something is not clear, you can watch a video that shows step by step the process of placing an order without registration.

By the way, freelancers can take advantage of such an interesting opportunity as internal advertising on the Weblancer.net pages, which helps in the "pumping" of the profile.

Exchange statistics at the time of this writing:

As you can see, there are more than enough vacancies. But it should be borne in mind that much depends on the specialization - almost half of all open orders belong to the "Web programming / sites" section.

Freelance.ru

A large platform with many advanced options for both employers and freelancers. For example, the catalog of performers has been worked out at a really high level - in addition to the usual reviews and a portfolio of completed works, there are statuses that characterize the level of a specialist, the identifier of his online presence, the ability to leave comments on individual works and other interesting features:

A freelancer can actively promote himself using a whole range of internal advertising services, there is a division by account type, which determines the amount of available opportunities:

And the “safe transaction” service, although it requires payment of a 5% commission, guarantees both the contractor and the customer a refund in the event that one of the parties to the transaction behaves in bad faith.

In addition to standard projects, vacancies are separately presented that provide for long-term cooperation or remote work:

The employer can create a familiar project card, and in some cases use the shop of finished works. This is true for niches such as web design and printing, photography, architecture, texts, etc.

In general, Freelance.ru is one of the largest and most versatile freelance exchanges in the Russian and Ukrainian markets. But a beginner will definitely have to spend some time to understand all the available possibilities.

FL.ru

Direct competitor of the previous service from our list. If you take the scale of the CIS, these two freelance exchanges are in direct competition for the status of the largest player in this market. According to official information from the creators of FL.ru, more than a million performers are already registered on the service, who provide services in a variety of areas - from law to web development.

The work feed is updated almost in real time, and the secure transaction service provides additional payment guarantees, which avoids most of the problems typical for freelance work.

PRO-accounts with extended functionality are available for both customers and performers. Given their relatively low cost, it is possible to return the money spent almost from the first completed project:

The best performers and popular services can be found already on the main page of the project. This is especially useful for professionals who have experience and skills in different areas, such as graphic design, layout and programming, or knowledge of the English language:

Thus, you can not be scattered about promoting your services in several directions at once, but concentrate your efforts on the most profitable niches.

FL.ru leaves a pleasant impression, but it is worth noting that in relation to this site the same statement will be true as to the previous exchange from our list - you will need to spend some time to figure out what's what and how everything works.

Kabanchik.ua

This is not quite a freelance exchange in its classical sense. Before us is a full-fledged marketplace for ordering services of almost any kind, most of which are related to certain online work.

Here you can easily find both a person who will take care of the cleaning of your apartment, as well as a text translator or designer to create a website layout. The collaboration algorithm is pretty simple:

The customer leaves the task with a description of the necessary nuances.
Contractors leave their applications, one of which is confirmed by the customer.
The selected worker completes the task.
The customer accepts it and gives his assessment.

The artist's profile looks simple and concise:

There is a separate section for digital workers:

And division by city, which simplifies the search for an artist. Need help with the move or deliver pizza from your favorite cafe? No problem:

In general, if you are ready to take on any job, just to earn more money, - "Pig" will be exactly the platform that you should pay attention to in the first place.

The high popularity of the service is evidenced, first of all, by the monthly turnover of more than three million hryvnia, which became known from the interview of its creators to the online edition Ain.ua.

No less eloquent confirmation of the excellent development prospects of Kabanchik.ua was the purchase by its owners of Prom.ua - the deal became known in February 2015.

Kwork.ru

The creators of this exchange use the striking slogan "Freelance of a new generation", and, I must say, it is quite justified. The approach on which this service is based is rather unusual - it is based on the principle of a fixed cost for all services. Regardless of the subject and nature of the work, its cost for the customer is exactly 500 rubles.

On the one hand, this may seem unprofitable, since some services are much more expensive. But Kwork is focused specifically on one-time work, and if you work quickly, those same 500 rubles can be earned in just half an hour. In addition, such a convenient thing as additional options is implemented here:

That is, by analogy with an online store, you can make additional sales at the expense of satisfied customers with your services. For example, in "Kwork" on the topic of writing an article as an additional service, offer its optimization for keywords and publication.

When the customer chooses a service and replenishes the balance, the order is instantly sent to the seller, from whose side a deadline is specified in advance. Then, when the task is completed and confirmed by the seller, the performer is automatically paid.

Select clients carefully

Unlike working in an office, freelancing has its own specifics. Working remotely, instead of one permanent employer, you will deal with dozens of customers. Moreover, the experience of cooperation with far from each of them will be positive.

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