Online Jobs

Upwork

Professional and easy to navigate, Upwork is our favorite source for hiring freelancers or agencies online. Hire highly qualified candidates for any job whether it is a creative, programming, finance or writing role. We have successfully hired freelancers from Upwork for our own projects and will continue to do so.

Truelancer

Truelancer has over five million freelancers who have completed over 75,000 projects. Targeted to help startups grow, Truelancer is growing quickly and has established itself as a real player in the freelance job sector. Top categories for jobs on Truelancer include developers, designers & creatives, bloggers & writers, SEO experts, sales & marketing professionals and mobile app developers.

Fiverr

Fiverr describes itself as a, “Freelance Services Marketplace for The Lean Entrepreneur.” They were built on the idea of a $5 gig. This has allowed them to differentiate themselves from the higher end freelance networks and grow rapidly. The quality on Fiverr is quite good and you can hire top quality freelancers for nearly any project at a bargain price.

Toptal

Toptal is an exclusive freelance network that claims to screen and only accept the top 3% of freelancers within any given field. Huge companies like Airbnb, J.P. Morgan, and Hewlett Packard are examples of companies that have hired freelancers on Toptal. Areas of freelancer expertiese are concentrated around developers, designers & finance experts.

Freelancer

Freelancer is the largest online freelancing marketplace online with over 24 million employers and freelancers spanning 247 countries. It is also a publicly traded company on the Australian securities exchange. Get free quotes by posting your job in under 10 minutes.

Guru

Another great online platform for hiring or listing your own freelance services is Guru. They have amassed a network of over 1.5 million members with over 1 million jobs completed and over $200 millon paid out to freelancers whom Guru fittingly refers to as Gurus.

People Per Hour

Like others on this list, People Per Hour allows you to easily post a job or reach out to freelancers you want to work with. People Per Hour also has some interesting tools at your disposal including a business cost calculator, lots of stats, and a pretty expansive blog.

Online Freelancing Websites

Outsourcing & freelancing are terms whose popularity in the workforce is exploding on both the employer and employee side.

Large corporations are outsourcing more and more tasks, while freelancing for a full time income, and WAY more, is more realistic than ever. Outsourcing and hiring freelancers is also pertinent for entrepreneurs to save time to focus on their businesses core competencies.

As for our list of the best online freelance platforms we have had the most success ourselves hiring on Upwork & Toptal. Hiring with Upwork was a wonderful, easy & successful way to get work done for cheaper than hiring an employee. Toptal is unique in that rather than being an open platform they claim to only show you the top 3% of freelancers for any given field.

Many of these freelancing platforms work in a similar way in that you sign up for an account, post a job, and let the cover letters & responses come in. Screening candidates is simple due to their online portfolios, resumes & reviews.

Any of the online freelance platforms listed above are suitable to get nearly any job done. However, for those tight on cash we recommend Fiverr, whose company was built on offering services for $5.

Quality freelancers can be found on any of the sites listed. Here are some of our tips to make sure you hire the best freelancer at the best price headache free.

• Always read reviews & look at a freelancers past portfolio
• Look at their external website if they have one
• Keep in mind response time for virtual teaming
• Outsourcing to Eastern Europe & Asia is cost effective and high quality if you pick the right freelancer
• Be as clear and concise as possible in your job description
• Always search for freelancers fluent in your native language
• Take advantage of freelancer filtering options like hours billed, response time, and average job success rating to only display the best people to work with