Online marketplace

What is a marketplace?

Online websites where buyers come to find skilled people or freelancers to do their job. Again, those who are freelancers, they enter these sites to find work. Among the many freelancers, the buyer chooses the right one for his job. These sites are called marketplaces. Marketplaces act as a link between buyers and freelancers. Buyers basically pay for these marketplaces. That payment is credited to Freelancers' Marketplace account. Later, those dollars can be raised in different ways. These marketplaces have different types of ratings based on the work of freelancers. By looking at these, buyers can choose the right freelancer for their job.

There are many marketplaces online. There are different features, different types of marketplaces. I will try to briefly introduce some of the notable marketplaces. Future episodes will be tuned in detail.

Upwork:

Upwork is the name of a popular marketplace among the people of Bangladesh. Web address: upwork.com. Here buyers tune jobs with different jobs. Freelancers interested in the job bid to get that job. After seeing these bids, the buyers select the right person for their job.

Here buyers work in two ways. One is the fixed rate, the other is the hourly rate.

3 tips for success at Upwork:

- Properly sorted profiles

- Giving tests on various skills.

- Cover letter for bidding

More marketplace names like Upwork: Freelancer.com, Guru.com

Fiber:

Buyers at Upwork tune in more than freelancers for work. And in Fiber, the opposite happens.

Freelancers tune in to Fiber by offering their service, called Gig. These gigs sell for ড 5- 200. Marketplace link: fiverr.com

But you have to make a gig before the fiber and the clients will buy it. There are basically all kinds of jobs available in fiber. You can work here by learning to work in any one sector.

Those who are new to the marketplace at once can easily get a job from Fiber.

3 tips for success in fiber:

- You don't have to bid on fiber so newcomers don't have to worry about bidding.

- It is especially important to pay attention to the gig. If you can make a gig with a good key word, you can earn a lot of dollars.

- If Gig can be promoted on social media or any other way, then it starts selling in a few days and sells well.

People Per Hour:

It is an online marketplace based in the United Kingdom. Here the buyer can easily offer for the job. Anyone who works again will be able to sell his skills. You can buy work from here and sell it in this marketplace again. There are opportunities to do fixed and hourly jobs in this marketplace. Link to this marketplace: peopleperhour.com

3 Tips for Success in People Per Hour:

- There is a lot of work available in this marketplace.

- The features of this marketplace are very simple. You don't have to use any other software to work hourly.

- Appropriate remuneration is available for work and acceptance of work and many more.

99 designs:

Suitable marketplace for those who know graphics design. Only graphic designers can work on this site. Business card design, logo design, website design, button design etc. are available in this marketplace. Here you have to earn income by winning the competition related to design work. Link to this marketplace: 99designs.com

Design related competitions are held in this marketplace. If any buyer needs any design work, they come to this marketplace and organize a competition. Various freelancers participate in these competitions. The competition continues till the specified day, on the last day the buyer, whose work has been beautiful, is declared the winner. The winner is then paid the declared amount. There is no problem in bidding in this marketplace. Winning a logo contest usually ranges from 300 to ১২ 1,200.

99 Design Success Tips:

- Everyone new and old can participate in the competitions, and there is always a chance to win.

- A contestant can submit as many designs as he wishes.

- There is an opportunity to increase the design concept as the designs of other competitors are also seen.

Invato:

Invato has many websites. Graphicriver (graphicriver.net) is for graphic designers, themeforest.net is for web designers. Graphic designers can sell their designs such as: logos, visiting cards and all kinds of design related products here and if you are a web developer you can sell HTML templates, CSS, WordPress themes. If you can design creatively, a lot of income is possible in theme forest and graphicriver. If it is not a good design, Khimforest authorities will not apply the design. If a design is applied, the more times it is sold for life, the more income there will be. That is a design lifelong income.

Here are 3 tips to succeed in Invato:

- It is better not to copy while working, it is more likely that the design will be applied.

- If the design is creative, it doesn't take long to get sold.

- Good results can be obtained by using other SEO processes including social media marketing to increase design sales.

Microworker:

All the small works are available in this market place. It is much easier to work in this marketplace for those who are new at once. Forum Posting, Sign Up, Facebook Like-Vote, Twitter Tweet-Retweet, Click-Search, Bookmark, Yahoo Anser are all available at Microworker. You don't have to bid for work. The tasks are very small and can be done in 5 to 30 minutes. There are as many marketplaces as there are easiest to work in this marketplace. Link to this marketplace: microworkers.com

Here are 3 tips to succeed at Microworker:

- You can do it yourself, only apply for such jobs.

- Try to get good feedback from the buyer with timely work delivery at the beginning.

- Read the job description well then apply for the job.

Clickbank:

This is an affiliate marketplace. By becoming a member here, you can put the link of various product promotions on your own site and if the product is sold by entering the main website through that link, the freelancers will get a certain commission from the sale. Click Bank's products are digital products. In other words, different types of ebooks, tutorial CDs, software CDs, etc., digital products of different organizations are available here. Clickbank is a marketplace. There, different companies come up with different offers related to their products. Freelancers affiliate with those offers. The more products or services can be sold, the more commission will be credited. Link to this site: clickbank.com

Here are 3 tips to succeed at Click Bank:

- Sales will be higher if you know SEO and digital marketing well.

- If you set the target client and plan the marketing accordingly, you will get more sales.

- In the beginning, if you work with less competition, you can get good sales.

Amazon:

Amazon is the largest store selling products online. Amazon is also the largest sector in terms of affiliation. There are more shipping products among the products here. All the products used in daily work from small to big are available on Amazon. All of those products can be affiliate for sale.

Site link: affiliate-program.amazon.com

It is better not to open an account on Amazon for affiliation without knowing how to do it well. Because if you can't sell the product within 90 days, the account may be suspended. By creating your own website for affiliation, you have to promote that website online.

Here are 3 tips to succeed on Amazon:

- Must know the process of bringing the website to the first position of Google search (SEO).

- Make a habit of blogging.

- Must have good skills in digital marketing.

Affiliate is the biggest source of online income. However, there is no opportunity to work without acquiring the right skills.

There are many more types of marketplaces. There are some marketplaces where graphic designers can make good money by designing and selling T-shirts, mugs and other gift products. Links to a few such websites are: teespring.com, zazzle.com. Again there are some marketplaces, where websites can be sold. In this case, only sites that earn money through websites (revenue from AdSense, revenue from affiliations or any other way) can be sold. The higher the revenue, the higher the sales. Notable among such sites are: flippa.com, empireflippers.com

In this episode I discussed some of the famous marketplaces. Later, each marketplace will be discussed in detail in separate episodes.

The letter was first published on Thursday in the "Job Search" page of the daily Jugantar.

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