A freelancer is a self-employed person who offers services, often working on several jobs for multiple clients at one time.
Freelancing means to work as an independent company rather than be employed by someone else. A freelance job is one where a person works for themselves. While freelancers do take on contract work for companies and organizations. Freelancers are ultimately self-employed. They work on a contract. Freelancers are not considered as “employees” by the companies they work for, but rather they are considered as “contractors.”.
Terms of FREELANCING .?
Contract work: Jobs where you are working to fulfill a short-term or part time contract.
Independent contractor: This is the IRS classification of a freelancer
1099: They are paid using a tax form called a “1099-MISC” as opposed to your typical, full-time W2. Sometimes “1099” is used to refer to a freelancer.
Contract consultant: This term refers to a consultant coming in under a 1099 contract for a short period of time.
Contract-to-hire: Sometimes freelancers are interested in full-time employment. 1st they do a sort of “test period” for a freelancer before they are hired full time.
Where to do freelancing???
There are many websites in the INTERNET. They provide opportunities for new freelancers. Some of them are :
1. Upwork
Upwork is an American freelancing platform where enterprises and individuals connect in order to conduct business. In 2015, the Elancer-oDesk merger was re branded as Upwork and the company's full name is now Upwork Global Inc. Upwork is currently based in Santa Clara andSan francisci, California. Though it serves clients around the world.
Upwork has over eighteen million registered freelancers and five million registered clients. Three million jobs worth over $1 USD are posted annually, making Upwork the largest freelancer marketplace in the world.
2. Fiverr
Fiverr is an Israeli online marketplace for freelancing service . The company provides a platform for freelancers to offer services to customers worldwide.The website was launched in early 2010 and by 2012 was hosting over 1.3 million Gigs.The website transaction volume has grown 600% since 2011.
3. Toptal
Toptal is new in this field ... Their screening process is pretty intense – only accepting the top 3% of developers – so it’s not as easy to get up and running on a project as with some of the other sites listed here..
There are many site .. BUT some of the are :
Guru
5.People per hour
6. iFreelance
7. 99deigns