Quote: (09-10-2013 06:03 PM)Teedub Wrote:
Judging by most experienced people in the freelancing world, I'd skip Elance/Guru/Odesk altogether. Takes longer and takes more effort, but the reward is so much higher it's worth the effort. However, it relies on your confidence that you are a top class wordsmith.
If you have the confidence for that, absolutely!
You can start doing pro-bono work for non profit organizations to build up a portfolio. They will be happy to hire you without any credentials and it looks good on your resume if you worked for some org already. You will get better pay and dont have to worry about some asshole destroying your elance rep with a bad review. This is what Carol Tice calls the "underbelly" of freelancing, its how people got jobs before elance and others came on the scene and its where the good jobs are. Old school phone calls to companies and so on.
Elance et al are cool because you can get 10-20 bucks an hour right from the start and sometimes there are good gigs there too (99% is shit though so you have to sift through that).
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Question: how does one get paid for freelancing online?
I closed my bank account a while back Sad
Without a bank account how do you get paid AT ALL?