I am sure you have found that most "Work-at-Home" schemes are just designed to separate you from your money. All you have to do, according to them, is send money, and you will receive books, CD’s, subscriptions, etc. that will earn you easy and instant income. In reality, the only people who profit from these ideas are the people selling the schemes.
However, there are many real and viable opportunities for providing Web-Based labor on a freelance or contract basis out of your home. The trick is to match up with a buyer that needs your service in an environment that is fair to both you and the buyer.
Freelance & Project (Contract) Websites & Services
Listed below are Web Sites that put buyers and sellers of contract labor together. Note: I have not vetted these sites. However, each of these has been recommended by others.
- Authentic Jobs - Freelance and contract opportunities for web and creative professionals
- CloudCrowd - Users are paid per task to complete small tasks that couldn't be completed by a computer
- Craigslist - The world's largest classifieds site allows for a massive range of freedom in posting for and finding talent
- ELance - One of the oldest freelance sites on the web, ELance has a wide variety of options but primarily centers around contract, fixed-price work
- Freelancer - A large outsourcing site for skilled work projects such as Data Entry, Telemarketing, Market Research, Copywriting, Programming, Webdesign, and Graphic Design
- Guru - A top platform for technology, creative arts, and business freelancers
- Mechanical Turk - A site for low sophistication largely menial/repetitive labor -- Their HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks) are essentially machine-like processes that software can't yet do efficiently/effectively, but humans can
- oDesk - oDesk takes an by-the-hour contracting approach rather than fixed-project pricing.
- PeoplePerHour.com - A marketplace for freelance professionals across all disciples
- Rentacoder - A marketplace for freelance programmers and to some extent graphic designers, writers, and translators
- ScriptLance.com - Contract work for programmers, designers, and writers
- Textbroker - A marketplace for unique and exclusive written articles created to specifications and fixed rates
Caution: As with anything important, be careful. Search the web for reviews and comments about the services, read the guidelines posted by the services (and their competitors), and start with small projects to test the water.
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