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Want to Work From Home? Try These Top Freelancing Websites

By: Janey Davies on December 29, 2012 @ 2:19 am

With the economy in supposed free-fall and jobs becoming harder than ever to find, people of a working age are looking for other areas in which to earn money. One popular way is to work from home, but many websites that offer money for working are little more than scams to part you with your hard earned cash to join some scheme. However, a new breed of site is cropping up with a new type of business owner in the mix. Here are small and large corporations that want a fast and reliable turnaround of work, without the hassle of hiring temps. And what better way than to turn to the internet. So if you fancy a spot of admin, or research, or using your knowledge on Brazilian art forms at last, here’s your chance. Check out these websites where you definitely will not be charged up front, and the jobs are actual real life ones where you will get paid for them.

CloudCrowd – www.cloudcrowd.com

Earn money while you complete tasks online. Work where you want, when you want. Work today, get paid the next business day. CloudCrowd is where work gets done. They bring together companies that need work done with people who want to work and get paid. When a company gives them a project, they break it down into a smaller set of tasks that you complete using their Facebook work application. You select the tasks you’d like to work on, and are typically paid the same business day via PayPal for each approved task.

Tongal – www.tongal.com

Tongal offers creative people the unique opportunity to work with brands and companies that need new and original video content, which means you can get paid to do what you love. Most Tongal projects are broken down into multiple phases, for example, Ideation, Production and Distribution. That means writers, directors, actors, and animators can all focus on what they do best. To make it even better, everyone can also get paid to promote winning videos, predict awarded spots and discover new talent. Such companies as Mattel, Allstate insurance, and Benjamin Moore paints hire Tongal to create online videos. Typical projects range from $15,000 to $20,000.

Freelancer – www.freelancer.com

Add your skills into the global labour pool of expert workers on demand. With jobs from Graphic Design through to Data Entry, Programming, Copywriting through to Market Research and Sales. The average job is under $200. This site mainly connects small business clients with labor in developing countries. Jobs include everything from creating websites to writing articles. The average job is about $200. Have the surety of being paid on-time with our trusted milestone system for payments. For the first time you can even work at home and tap into a global pool of employers across a huge range of industries.

LiveOps – www.liveops.com

Fancy taking calls from home as a living? As a LiveOps independent agent, you can benefit from a highly flexible and rewarding opportunity. LiveOps operates a virtual call center with a community of over 20,000 sales and customer service professionals. As an independent contractor providing services to LiveOps’ clients, you are your own boss. Being your own boss means having the freedom and flexibility to set your own schedule and work on your own terms. You choose where to work, when to work, and which clients you would like to service. For some people, being your own boss means having a corporation or LLC. Rates for services can vary from 25¢ per minute of talk time to a base rate pay with a bonus for commission.

uTest – www.utest.com

uTest offers a range of testing types for the web, desktop and mobile apps. Choose which type of testing services you need and we’ll show you a bit more about the process, turnaround time and how engagements with uTest work. Microsoft, Google, Intuit, and Groupon are just a few of the companies that have turned to this software testing service for help finding bugs. More than 20,000 testers in 160 countries sign on to work whenever they want, day or night. The company says top testers can make thousands of dollars per month.

Maven Research – www.mavenresearch.com

Everybody Knows Something…And many are willing to pay to learn. Becoming a Maven allows you to profit from your knowledge by speaking with a vast community of professionals who pay generously for timely insights. Maven empowers professionals to quickly find, connect with, and compensate knowledgeable individuals who can provide such insights. We foster a culture of privacy, security, and control for all participants by including tools that allow you to manage interactions according to your own personal requirements. Start profiting from what you know. You can also earn referral commissions for inviting other Mavens to join… as they get paid, so will you.

oDesk – www.odesk.com

Simply create your profile and log on. Search for jobs and when you find one you like get hired for it. Automatically log time as you work. oDesk will guarantee your payment. Here, hundreds of thousands of professionals, which include web developers, software programmers, graphic designers, writers, customer service reps, and virtual assistants, offer services on oDesk. Each month, companies post about $65 million worth of jobs on the site, and the average job size is about $4,000, with an hourly rate of $8.64.

Amazon Mechanical Turk – www.mturk.com

If you think you can do any of the following: Select the correct spelling for certain search terms; Is a website suitable for a general audience?; Find an item number for the product in an image; Rate the search results for particular keywords; State whether two products the same; Choose the appropriate category for products; Categorize the tone of an article; Translate a paragraph from English to French, then sign up to this service. It enables businesses to complete ‘Human Intelligence Tasks’ (HITS) within days and using many online workers, rather than weeks and hiring temps. Pay starts from $.01 and upwards.

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