Use your skills to make money online as a freelancer

Hello there, I know that you must have been looking for ways to make money online. I want to use this opportunity to tell you that once you are done reading this, you would have found a solution to the question “How can I make money online”.

Who is a freelancer

A freelancer is an individual that works on his own and for himself. According to Wikipedia, A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is somebody who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long term.

How can I be a freelancer

This question is a personal one. You ask yourself “Do I have skills that I can use to render service to others who need it”, after you realise what skills you possess, you look for how and where to make use of them to make money on the internet.

Personally, I have made my research on freelancing sites and have found many of them. I have chosen www.freelancer.com for the following reasons:

• It is a user friendly freelancing website.
• It requires no registration fee.
• It includes a wide variety of job skills (more on that below).
• Varieties of currencies supported for transactions
• Withdrawal methods that are allowed all around the world.
• 24/7 live chat support system.

Live chat by the side

What is freelancer.com

Freelancer.com is a secured online marketplace that is created for freelancers to use to make money using their skills. Freelancer.com is the largest outsourcing marketplace with over 3.6 million registered users all over the globe, and have paid over $131 million in total to users as at 7th of June, 2012.

Statistics

Freelancer has been in existence since  February 2004 and they have decided to help people make money by connecting different people from different continents all over the globe. Some more features have also been added to freelancer which includes Freemarket.com and Tycoontalk.com.

Freemarket.com is a platform where people can buy and sell. Therefore this gives users an edge to place items that they want to sell, these items are submitted for approval and once approved, the items are placed where they can be sold for them by freemarket.com.

Tycoontalk.com is a forum that has been set up for users to be able to come together and share ideas and more ways to make money online.

 Is freelancer.com a scam

 To answer this common question that everyone who wants to make money online ask, I will
 use myself  as a living witness to the authenticity of freelancer.com. Towards the end of this

Freelancer.com rating on scamadviser.com

page, you will see a picture of my transaction history since I started making money on freelancer.com. If you still have doubt about this, I will refer you to online scam alert sites to check the authenticity. One of such sites is http://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/, here you would see the ratings and risk rate of using freelancer.com. You can also use http://domaintyper.com/PageRankCheck to check for the search engine rankings of freelancer.com. After seeing all these, I will leave you to decide for yourself if freelancer.com is legit or a scam.

How much does it cost to join freelancer.com

It is absolutely FREE to join, all it takes is registration.

Who can join freelancer.com

Absolutely anyone can join www.freelancer.com from anywhere in the globe. You can Join here. 

How to make money on freelancer

1. Bidding on project, successfully completing and getting paid. 
2. Participating in any freelancer.com contest you are capable of. 
3. Selling your products on freemarket.com.
4. As an affiliate

With all these, I can tell you that this is a four in one package that freelancer has given to people all around the world.

What are the skills that freelancer.com support

Freelancer.com supports a wide variety of skills which gives opportunity to virtually everybody to participate in the program. Some of the major categories of skills supported are:

• Website, IT and Software
• Mobile phones and computing
• Writing and content
• Design, Media and Architecture
• Data entry and Admin
• Engineering and Science
• Product Sourcing and Manufacturing
•  Sales and Marketing
• Business, Accounting, Human Resources and Legal

You can check freelancer to see more categories and sub-categories of types of projects to be done.

Easy steps to make money

1. Click on this link to join
2. Confirm your email address
3. Login and select your skills
4. Start Bidding and start making money
5. Sell products
6. Participate in contests

How can I be successful on freelancer.com

After registration on freelancer.com, you select all your skills and subscribe for project and contest notifications, and monthly newsletters. This would ensure that you receive notifications of new projects and contests as soon as they are posted online so that you can start bidding as soon as possible. Freelancer.com has also given different user levels, you can check out the user levels to see the one you really need. Depending on your user level, you can follow employers in order to be informed on each project they post.

You can also send people to freelancer.com to make money for you. This is where the aspect of affiliate comes in. You can invite friends to freelancer.com using your affiliate URL that you will find in the affiliate area after you login. You get 90% of the commission that freelancer.com collect from them. I have tried this and it worked for me.

Can I be cheated by an employer

Milestone page

One of the reasons why I love using freelancer.com is that they would always act as a middle man. Their secure method of transaction between employers and freelancers is one of their good features. Freelancer.com would advise you to use a milestone payment method; this method allows freelancer.com to totally secure the transaction between both of you. This is how it works; you ask the employer for a milestone payment, once payment is made, the money is debited from the employer’s account but you are not credited, you send files to the employer, and then the employer releases payment when satisfied with your work. If the employer is not satisfied with the job, a dispute has to be filed and agreed by both of you, before the money can be returned so don’t be scared that they might withdraw the money after getting what they want.

My Personal Testimony about freelancer.com

Up till this point, you must have been wondering who the person that is telling you about freelancer is. My name is Johnson Ayomide Michael, a programmer by profession. I studied computer science and just graduated from Babcock University in Nigeria. As I said earlier, freelancer allows anyone from anywhere in the globe to participate. This is the reason why I could take part in this even as a Nigerian.  

I am one of many Nigerians that would like to change the mentalities of people about Nigeria. I want Nigerians to know that even in the hard economic days, you can be your own BOSS just by sitting at home and making money using your computer, internet and your skills. Freelancer.com is one of those sites that have given me the opportunity to achieve this.

I joined freelancer.com June 2010 and started bidding on projects, as at then, I was in my second year in the university. It was looking frustrating at first when I kept bidding and no one seem to even respond to my bids, but I kept pressing on and I told myself not to give up. 

My success story on freelancer.com started when I got a first response on a project that 
was worth $55 which was my first income on the 26 of July 2010. And after getting good reviews from my employer, other employers who needed services I could render began to trust me better. I continued to get more and more projects from different employers. I made over a thousand dollars ($1000) in my third year in school, listen, I am sure I made this little because I was using freelancer.com as a part-time job while I was in school so you can make more if you put more effort because there are projects for $750 and above. The highest I have done is a project worth $450. The most interesting thing is that I could work for people that are not in my continent and get paid even without much stress. I majorly worked for people in the United States of America.

Now, the most interesting part of this is the withdrawal aspect. As a Nigerian, I am restricted from some payment sites like paypal.com which is one of freelancer.com payment option. I decided to order for a freelancer MasterCard, made by payoneer.com. My card was delivered to me through DHL which was one of the delivery options available. Up until this point, my friends were scared for me if this was a scam, but on receiving the card, they were a little bit confident but still waiting for me to withdraw the money before they finally believe.

I made my first withdrawal of a Hundred thousand naira which was about $665, I bought all I needed for myself and spent the rest with my friends. This was what made them believe in making money online on freelancer.com.  I kept working and before I graduated from school, I made over two thousand dollars ($2000), meaning freelancer.com has helped me to use what I have to get what I need at the age of 19.

Not to bore you too much with stories, below are screen shots that show my transaction history both on freelancer.com and payoneer.com. You can also go to freelancer.com and search me up to confirm all that I have written here. My username is: jeal4real

Payment proof

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Payoneer.com transaction history