Top 7 Marketplaces to Start Your Freelancing Career

The COVID-19 has forced the world to go into lockdown.

In just a few months, the world around us has changed at an unimaginable pace. Such drastic changes were first seen when mankind at large was exposed to global crises such as World War II and Spanish flu during the last century. To date, the outbreak of COVID-19 has intensified globally and has exceeded the danger level by a large proportion.

All other industries, their businesses, and the rest of the world are facing this threat and are looking for ways to strengthen, emerge and hope for more opportunities for a brighter and hopeful future, once the epidemic is over.

The Coronavirus pandemic has posed many tough challenges to the world, which the whole world is making every effort to deal with.

Social distancing plays an important role to get rid of this pandemic. Keeping this social distancing in mind, many industries have asked their employees to work remotely. Big tech gents like Facebook and Google have even said that they can continue this process throughout the year.

On the other hand, many small businesses and industries facing the challenges of COVID-19 have decided to curb the hiring of new employees this year along with reducing their employees. As a result, it can be very difficult for fresh graduates to get a job. But if you are really skilled and have the courage to do something, then freelancing can prove to be very effective for you.

If there are any of you who do not know what freelancing is, then I would like to tell them very briefly that freelancing is a way in which you earn money by working from your comfort of home. In this task you have to sell your services, ie something you are good at (such as content writing, web development, graphic designing, voice-over artists, audio/video editing, etc.). Now for this, you have to figure out yourself in which field you are good and which service you can provide to people. If not, learn something and develop your skills. Nothing is wrong in learning something new!

Now the next step comes where to list or sell these services?

So dear readers, my blog today is based on this topic. Please stay till the end because in this blog I am going to introduce a new and very amazing platform in which not only the competition is less, you will get more clients and higher amount projects too. And this platform can prove to be very good for your work from home career.

So I am listing the top 7 Websites or marketplaces that will help you Kickstart your work from home career in 2020. Some of you might be familiar with these platforms. #7 is the newest and hottest product in the market. It's becoming too popular and is going to dominate all the other platforms soon.

1. Upwork

Thousands of work from home job listings available from different categories.

Those who want to do freelancing will be aware of this platform. It is a global freelancing platform that connects businesses and freelancers to work together.

No doubt, this is a very good and quite popular platform. On this platform, you will get different categories of projects and you can get a lot of money by successfully delivering those projects. But for each sale, Upwork charges you 20% of your project as a commission, which is a big amount.

Overview:

Total Registered Freelancers	12 Million
Total Registered Clients	5 Million
Jobs Posted/year	3 Million
Projects Worth (annually)	US $1 Billion

Since it is an old and quite popular platform, everyone wants to start with this platform, due to which the competition in this platform is very high. As a result, the chances of getting projects are reduced. Also, your Upwork profile must have a good rating to get projects.

Therefore, I will not recommend this platform for new people.

2. Freelancer.com

This platform is similar to Upwork but this time you place a bid for each job posted. Once selected, you will get paid a good amount for doing their project.

I think every person is familiar with this marketplace. If you have ever tried to take a project on this platform, then you will definitely know which level of competition is in this marketplace.

Founded in 2009, it is an Australian digital marketplace where potential clients post jobs and freelancers bids on those projects to complete.

It has more than 21 million users which makes it a highly competitive marketplace as compared to all the other marketplaces.

In my opinion, joining and starting from this platform could be a total waste of time for the starters. Again, I won't recommend this platform.

3. Fiverr

Fiverr is the platform where you can sell your services from as low as $5 up to $500.

This is another freelancing platform where you can sell your gigs (called services) for $ 5.

On this platform, you create gigs. For example, I will design a logo for your business for $5.

Founded in 2010, Fiverr connects businesses and freelancers to work together remotely.

You can explore the marketplace in various categories such as:

• Graphics & Design
• Digital marketing
• Writing & Translation
• Video & Animation
• Music & Audio
• Programming & Tech
• Business
• Lifestyle

Overview:

Total Registered Freelancers	Over 830,000
Total Registered Clients	5.5 Million

Though it is a good platform you can give it a try but again I'd say that it also has very high competition.

This platform could be the best fit for the businesses as they can get services at a very minimal cost because people here are offering services starting from $5. But this amount may not be sufficient for the freelancers. So it depends on you to try or not.

4. PeoplePerHour

This platform makes use of the escrow system making it easier for freelancers to ensure they will get paid for their work.

Founded in 2007, PeoplePerHour is another marketplace for businesses & freelancers/individual professionals.

In this platform, freelancers charge for the services based on the number of hours which provides flexibility to work.

I think this platform will be best suited for you if you are an experienced freelancer.

The platform has over 1 million businesses & freelancers. It has paid over  £ 135 million to freelancers.

According to me not recommended but you can have a try to check this platform.

5. Guru.com

It is another online job posting website with different categories such as web, IT, Software, Design, etc.

Founded in 1998, Guru.com could be a good platform to hire freelancers to get work done.

It has over 3 million people connected with this platform. As you can see there is a large traffic in this platform making highly competitive, you have to struggle and compete with other freelancers to get the project. You can find freelance projects in various domains like:

• Programming & development
• Writing & Translation
• Design & Art
• Administrative & Secretarial
• Sales & Marketing
• Business & Finance
• Engineering & Architecture
• Legal, etc.

As the competition is very high, getting your dream project could be tough.

I won't recommend to completely rely on this platform but you can start with.

6. 99Designs.com

This is a freelance website but for those who are in the creative industry. This includes designing book covers, logos, app designs, etc.

If you are having good hands-on designing and looking to start your work from home career as a designer then this platform could be best for you.

99Designs is the largest marketplace of designers. This platform hosts the contests for small businesses where freelance designers can try their hands-on by applying to the contests.

There are some contests that are open, which means that you can see what other designers are creating, by this you get an idea to make revisions on your projects. Here you can submit multiple revisions and this is a good part of this platform.

Of course, there is a competition but there are also a lot of bad designers. So it would be easy to catch the client's eye on your work if you are really good at it.

I would recommend this platform for good designers only.

7. Market Presso

Now, let me introduce the most awaiting marketplace to kickstart your work from home career.

Image Source: Google

Unlike all the marketplaces mentioned above, MarketPresso is the world's 1st and only tool that lets you build your own marketplace.

Didn't Understood? Don't worry. Read the complete article because I am going to give you every detail you need to know to start your career as a freelancer.

Founded in Feb 2020, MarketPresso is the newest marketplace which is gaining lots of popularity throughout the world.

As it is newest in the market, you can have an idea of having a negligible competition as compared to all the other platforms available on the internet. Hence there is a win-win situation for you to get the projects. Using this platform, making money from home is very easy.

Using this tool, you can build your own marketplace and this process doesn't need any experience. It is quite easy to set up your marketplace using the MarketPresso tool. You'll be provided with a simple customizable theme to set up your marketplace. Then you have to list all the products/services you provide and set the prices for them. That's it. Isn't it cool!

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Whether you are a freelancer(content writer, graphic designer, web developer, voice-over artist, etc.), a private company, small to the medium entrepreneur, or a product owner, MarketPresso is the best fit for you.

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I am listing the products or services that you can sell in this marketplace.

PHYSICAL PRODUCTS	GRAPHIC DESIGNING	VIDEO MARKETING
ONLINE MARKETING	COPYWRITING	AUDIO EDITING
CONSULTATION	CHATBOTS	TRANSLATIONS
LANDING PAGE/FUNNEL   BUILDING	DIGITAL PRODUCTS	VIDEO CREATION
CONTENT WRITING	VOICE OVER	CONCEPT BUILDING
WEB DEVELOPMENT	GAMING	STOCK COLLECTION
SEO	DIGITAL MARKETING          SERVICES	E-BOOKS

MarketPresso is a paid tool. Now as it is a paid tool why should you use it?

Makes sense! Now let me tell you the things why you should buy this tool and how this tool plays an important role to kick start your work from home career.

You should buy MarketPresso because:

• No Competition
• 30 Days Money Back Guarantee(which is a big deal)
• Simple customizable design to personalize your marketplace.
• For the services you sell, you can offer your price based on the number of hours/days/words, the size of the script, etc.
• In Upwork and Fiverr, you have to share 20% of the project cost as a commission, no matter that you are a newbie or an experienced.
• In MarketPresso, after your purchase, you will not be charged any extra fee until you get an order above $5000.
• In addition, the commission you share with this software is only 1%, which is much lower than other marketplaces. Isn't it a great deal!

So, I highly recommend this amazing product as MarketPresso is the world's first and only marketplace builder tool that gives you more clients, higher-sum projects, your authority, and kills the competition with a simple intuitive setup.

So, these were my top picks of the digital marketplace which can help you to kickstart your work from home career.

You know what 75% of the engineers are going to work from home post-COVID-19. So you can see that future of the jobs is going to be work from home.

And in the event of this pandemic, these platforms (especially the last one) can prove to be very effective in starting your freelancing career.

Comparison of Marketpresso with Upwork/Fiverr etc.

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