Freelancing
is a great way to work from home. Freelancers do
anything from writing to graphic design to computer
programming. They are often hired by businesses
(small and large) for a particular project. It’s
a win- win situation. The small business owner gets
his website up and running, or his press release
written without having to create a new position
in his company to get the job done.

The Freelancer gets to do what he or she loves
to do from home. The big question is how do the
business owner and freelancer find each other? They
do it through one of the freelance sites below.

On all five of these sites projects are posted
and freelancers bid on how much they would charge
for the work. It is up to the company / person posting
the job to choose which freelancer they would like
to work with.

1 )Guru.com

Guru is the largest freelance site out there. According
to their site they connect over 520,000 freelancers
with over 30,000 businesses and employers. Guru
is organized into several categories and subcategories
from Web and Graphic Design to Programming to Business
Consulting.

2) Elance.com

Elance is the other big player when it comes to
freelance sites that cover a wide variety of freelance
work. Like Guru.com you can find projects from creative
work like graphics and writing to computer programming.

3) Rentacoder.com

This freelance site caters primarily to programmers,
coders, software engineers and IT professionals
in general. You will find projects ranging from
simple html pages to programming jobs that could
last for several months.

4) Allfreelancework.com

In addition to finding projects posted on a variety
of subjects, you will also find an extensive library
of articles of interested to freelancers as well
services and products, a forum and a newsletter.

5) Programmingbids.com

As the name suggest this site focuses mostly on
freelance work for programmers. You will find projects
from web and graphic design to flash to software
development. They even have a new section that will
allow you to sell scripts you have written.

Freelancing is a great way to get started working
from home. You can easily take on a few small projects
while keeping your day job. You can start gaining
experience, add to your résumé and
build a client base. This will make the transition
to working from home exclusively much smoother.
It is also a great way to test the water and see
if you would like to work on projects from home
in the long run.

ABOUT THE
AUTHOR:
 Nell Taliercio is the owner and founder
of www.telecommutingmoms.com
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