Thursday 19 April 2018

Freelancing Online



The quest for online jobs


This post intends to help people find relevant online jobs based on their skills and experiences. Online jobs are sought when goings become tough due to the need to earn extra income to meet up the financial obligations or in the event of a job loss. Many are not lucky enough to find a subsequent job immediately when they are fired by their company. It’s not easy to find a job when you lose your job in these times due to the economic slowdown. Most of the industrial sectors are not really doing well except for some service-oriented organizations.

The next thing many would look for is starting a business as an alternative. But starting a business has its own problems in the current choppy economy. Again the cash flows in the current economic crisis are uneven and hence your business will take much longer time to meet up with its break-even. Sometimes the situation will force you to land up taking bank loans which may turn out to be a disaster if the business does not perform to its desired levels. Apart from the above, business requires more time to stabilize depending on its nature and due to the not normal economic conditions. More time means more finance required to withstand. 

At these times looking for an online job alternative is the best way to stay away from the financial struggles put forwarded by the loss of the job. There are plenty of online jobs that are available without spending a single penny but difficult to see them unless somebody guides you till there. This blog post intends to help those commoners to find a temporary or alternative job.

A brief on online job sites are given below to help online job seekers to handpick the relevant and suitable jobs based on their skill sets. Suggested is that you join more than one site to earn more. Just signing up with one or two sites won’t suffice as you may not find enough job works to meet up with the money required for your weekly/monthly financial obligations.

The online job sites are categorized according to how they will suit your requirement.

Probable jobs that you could find in these job sites are as follows

  • ·        Data entry work
  • ·        Social media posting
  • ·        Website login and registration
  • ·        App testing
  • ·        Copywriting
  • ·        Article writing
  • ·        Content writing
  • ·        e-book writing
  • ·        Seo and Social Media Marketing
  • ·        Logo and branding
  • ·        Brochures, banner making
  • ·        Small software projects
  • ·        Website designing
  • ·        Video shooting and editing
  • ·        Photography
  • ·        Health and wellness
  • ·        Reiki and Holistic healing
  • ·        Spirituality


Unskilled Jobs require only computer and social media knowledge

Anyone can join this site and start working almost in no time. You can find lots of simple jobs listed there out of which you can choose the relevant ones and start moving. Ensure you will read through the job description, nature and requirement for the job. If you don’t qualify to meet up with the requirements then better leave it. For eg:  to do some jobs you need to have an iPhone. For some, you may need a twitter account with 300 followers. For some jobs, you need to have a blog site etc.

The payouts are not really of that high but you can keep collecting the small amount and sum it up to a good amount by end of the day, week or month.

Rapidworkers seems to be slightly better in terms of pay-outs compared to Microworkers and the work listed there are also vast

Provides a joining bonus of $1. Here, in this case, only premium account fetches more relevant and highly paid jobs.  Referral income possible by referring a friend. A $ 0.50 bonus will be credited to your account once your friends account balance reaches $20.00.

Similar to microwrokers and rapidworkers. They provide a joining bonus of $1.00.

Amazon Mturk (mechanical turk) is a marketplace for works similar to the above.  Mostly simple tasks that don’t require much of an effort but human intelligence. Payments for the jobs looks similar to Microworkers and Rapidworkers

Skilled Works require some specific or multiple skills


You may find better-paid opportunities in these jobs sites but most of them require a skill or two.

Hiresine is a content marketplace that offers a variety of jobs that spans from simple typing jobs, presentation making, excel sheet preparation, graphic designing and many more.  Hiresine connects the skilled freelancers to organizations or individuals who are looking for their small projects done.The payment looks decent.

Fiverr has a vast section of jobs that you can choose from, these are not simple jobs but works as small projects. You can earn better too here. There are jobs for skills such as Content writing, graphic designing, resume writing, business plan, presentation making to Reiki healing etc.

Freelance jobs of multiple nature include data entry, graphic designing, making banners, small projects for web development, app development etc.

Guru.com provides jobs ranging from mobile app development to simple data entry jobs. There are many It related technical jobs available. Most of them are small projects with a decent payout.

Copify is all about content whether its web content, article writing to e-mail writing services. Good platform for those with good writing skills. You can find some leading logos as your job providers here.

Another content writing job providers for those with writing skills. There are jobs like article writing, blog posts, kindle books, Amazon reviews, cover letters and more.

A bit different from all others in terms of job works. They have jobs spanning from simple labour works such as moving furniture, resume writing and many other skilled jobs as well. This site works only for Australian job aspirants.

Paid Surveys

Let’s look into some of the paid surveys that can compensate along with the above skilled and unskilled online job works.

Listed down, some of the leading survey sites that have some credibility. They generally operate inviting you to certain surveys which you are eligible based on the details mentioned during your registration. It's not necessary that one particular site would offer too many surveys daily. Suggested is that you join multiple nos of survey sites so that your chance to appear for more surveys will be more. 


There could be other survey sites as well but their legitimacy is still a big question. There are online sites like https://www.surveypolice.com that will help you to check the legitimacy of the survey sites before you sign-up and start working on the surveys. The same is applicable to the site addresses given above so that you won’t waste your time.

While wishing you good luck in your hunt for making money online, a humble suggestion to you is that join multiple job sites to ensure a decent earning. Use the comment columns below to mention your experience with each of the online job sites mentioned above. 

Freelancing Online

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