The Best & Worst Freelancing Platforms (Ranked)

0:00 So when I started freelancing I tried over 12 freelancing platforms out of which many did not work for me many worked for me over the years I learned a lot there were many pay scams and all sorts of things so in today's video I will be telling you 10 to 12 good freelancing platforms we will be categorizing them that these can be considered good in this category for a beginner you can choose after watching this video that which platform will be good for me you will get a clarity and you will know that brother can we use also at the end of the video I will be telling you my strategy if I had to do it then how would I do it so or

0:58 that for long term project award now the biggest problem with this thing is that when I started then they used to give you some free connections every month that brother you take these many connections but At present, it is not like that at all. You have to pay and you have to buy more connections. Plus the connections have become expensive. They were cheap at that time and now they have become more expensive. The next thing is that there are many freelancers. There is a lot of competition. The second thing is that if you guys place any order, money will be deducted on every order, which means you will have to pay on the sale as well. The second thing is that you have to pay for the connections as well. Now the work has thought that it will take money from here as well. So now this is the scene with the work. Friends, if I have to praise the platform in proj, then

1:44 in proj, I will tell you that brother, many big people come here for their projects, so you will get a very good exposure. If you are new and you do not understand, then now it is a very supportive platform. You can charge for early rates, which as a freelancer sometimes will not be good for you, sometimes it will be good. So the thing about early rates There are many platforms that do not offer this but Awork goes extra and offers those things and your screen recording is traced properly, it is for my experience when I started on Awork then I did not get any orders but recently when I grew up, I closed a client of R for $10 for my order and I have worked with them for many hours, so I have earned a lot of money, so yes Awork

2:31 can be a good starting option for beginners but yes I have already given awards and marks, now let's move on to the second platform, the second platform is again one of my favorite platforms, another platform that I adore the most is fiber, what is the problem with this f now friends, what is the problem with this f is that it is not everyone's cup of tea, I will be very brutally honest and I will tell you that there are some platforms in which you have to try a little bit, in f you cannot try your hands and feet, you will have to wait a little, fiber requires a lot of patience What happened now is that you created your gig and uploaded it, you analysed whose impressions are going well, you optimised your gig accordingly, did everything, but even after that sometimes things don't work for you, so what can you do, so this is something that happens with fiber all the time, now

3:17 if I talk about marks, so I would give a little biased answer, I am trying not to give no, I would give at out of 10 for beginners because it takes a lot of patience, but once you get on the roll after that there is no looking back, you will get a lot of support from the platform itself and after that you will also get to see very good results, alright, so the category award is best for quick jobs, and for one-time projects, it is very good, for long term projects, I already suggested that now the work is much better, so according to me, I have given awards to them for this category, now let's list something Pros and cons Alright, so first of all we will talk about the cons which are the initial reviews and the charges that you require in the initial are very low, that means if you have got an order of even $5, then from that also he will take 20%, if you have

4:03 got a tip also, your client has given you a tip, from that also he will deduct %, that means a lot of money is deducted by the broker, so firstly this is a big con, the second thing that I personally feel that these things should be stopped, brother, money should not be deducted on the tip, if you are deducting on the rest of the sales then that is fine, apart from this, the initial exposure and initial reviews become very difficult to get and you can also face a little problem in pricing because there is a lot of competition, a lot of people are selling at lower prices, so I think you will suffer initially, so these are the cons of this platform, now I will talk about the pros, so in the pros, this is that on a very large level, buyers are searched every day, every day so many people People come and place their orders here and you get a lot of buyer exposure here,

4:50 which is not available on every freelancing platform. The second good thing about f is that it helps you set up packages, plus you can also give custom offers. Custom offer means that if your packages are of $10-20, then you can make a custom one of $50 and send it to someone if he needs more work. So, in this way, very few platforms offer packages. AWAK has also tried to adopt it, but the bidding system is more popular here. There is no money here. So this was all about f. I will give it 8 out of 10. It is a good platform obviously you should at least try it. Now let's move on to the third one. Now freelancer.com, when I started working on this initially, I got a lot of scams and I

6:00 had to pay fees every time and a lot of money in it. There is also a subscription model. If you subscribe, then your cost becomes less. But if you do n't subscribe, then you will have to pay Rs. 10 every time. So many people prefer the subscription model and many people don't. According to me, there shouldn't be both. If you charge once, twice or thrice, there should be only a small amount. Like, if you are charging Rs. 5 or Rs. 2 on the entire amount, then it makes some sense. I mean, the entire amount in the sense that there should be a fixed amount. That we will deduct this much on $300. So that makes some sense. You keep deducting every time. You keep deducting Rs. 10 on every order. So, that makes a lot of sense. If I get an order of $2000, then you have to charge Rs. 10 on that too. So, doing something like this is a bit excessive. So,

6:46 once in a while, there should be a fixed amount every month. That we will deduct this much on this amount. And not after that. Not after that. Meaning, if you are earning above this, then all the money is yours. If so, something should be done to these people in this way, but they don't do it, everyone is sitting to earn money, friends, in this world, that's why it happens, all of them are thieves, the bidding process of Alright Work is comparatively easy, but there is a slight complexity of freelancer, plus the profile making scene is also not as user friendly as it is now, so this is a very big difference which will come in, the biggest positive point of this for freelancer is that there are long term projects as well as short term projects plus in the variety, there is a lot of variety in every category, even if you are

7:33 from engineering background and you want some freelance project, then you will get something for that also on Freelancer, meaning you will get to see it, there is so much variety of categories, you will get to see it there, so this is something which is very good, also there are contests, also there are contests where you can win You can do this and you will get money so I don't like contests that much but still there is a feature so I thought of sharing it with you guys so now when it comes to giving marks for this then from my side I will give it 6 marks out of 10 as a beginner you may face some difficulties in this because the bidding process is a bit complicated so 6 out of 10 a good platform a you can give it a try ok so category award is best for the contest

8:19 thing so anything related to contest platform we can give it such award best for that and now let's move on to the fourth one so the award that we will give to top tail is best for professionals so it will be best for all the professionals for beginners we will give it 3 out of 10 because it is not that suitable for beginners if you are in top tier and you have good skills then you can go top tail is not that supportive for beginners I won't suggest now Let's talk about the pros, so the pro is that high quality top tier freelancers are available there, but this is a pro for the buyer and it will be the same pro for us as well because we are talking about top tier and good people, so you can understand the pricing as well, you get good there, right now its client base, right now

9:06 its client base is very exclusive, you will get to see buyers from more than 500 companies, so as I said earlier that you will get a lot of money, so here money wise you are not going to have any problem, but the same thing is that it is not that friendly for beginners, now let's talk about the cons, so the biggest one is that its UI is not that good, it is not beginner friendly and you will not understand how to proceed well, that is, how to win on it, now like when I make videos about f, I tell you that friend, this is how you should do it, these are the things now and People make comments about it because there are a lot of user-oriented things in it and the platform has been designed keeping the user in mind. All the things have been done keeping the user in mind, so the platforms are comparatively easy and are more successful or you can say more

9:51 famous because of this one thing, so here Top Tal comes very far behind, that's why I have given it only three marks. Now let's move on to the next platform, right? So the next platform is people on it. I will give it seven out of 10. My application was rejected in it. It takes time, brother, they will look at you a bit, analyze you, after that they will approve you. Very professional people go to this one. In this also, people of Europe get comparatively a little more benefit. It may take time for you to get noticed. It is not that good on this platform. I am not telling you a little astrologer type. So it may take time for you to get noticed. Therefore, it is not that good platform either, but still giving it seven out of 10 because it has a good base, the follower base means that the Clients come, the base is good, the bidding range is good, you will get good projects,

10:38 you will get to see the mid-range projects there, the payment option is quite flexible for the clients as well as for them, there is a con for freelancers as well, which I have already written in this, brother, the category of jobs is quite limited, you will not get to see that many jobs, as I told you, on Freelancer, you will get something in every category, no matter what you are, you will get something or the other, but it is not like that in this, there are limited job categories where you can get some projects, so this is the scene of People Parar, now let 's head on to the next one, the next platform is Guru, I have just started with Guru, I had signed up on Guru about four and a half years ago and I did not get a single project, so according to me, I will give it only five marks out of 10, it is beginner friendly, there is not that much problem,

11:24 but it is a decent platform, the fees are the lowest among all. The big thing is that the fees are low but there is limited opportunity, so if you want to try it, you can do it, but according to me, in terms of comparative work and fee, there are less jobs on this and there are many competitors as well, so it is not that great, its user interface is very number one because we have just insulted it before, its user interface is comparatively easy, its fees are less than all the other competitors, you get a lot of variety in payment options, you are talking about working, you can take weekly, you can take monthly, you can take as you wish, you can take payment as you wish, but you will take the payment only when you get the order, so here there is a little problem in taking the order, but it is not that much of a problem, so let's give 62 marks out of 10, it is a good

12:11 platform alright, so the next platform is 99 designs, everyone knows my channel is a lot about designers, so it is a very good platform for designers, I will list the projects First of all, the biggest pro is that 99designs is a huge advantage for the designer community. Secondly, it is contest based, so even if you don't win, you still get visibility. Even if someone likes your work, you get that visibility. Plus, there are good paying projects there. You will get content and other such things. I don't like them that much, but still, this is a good platform. So category award is obviously going to be the best for the designers. And I will give it marks of 8.8. It is good, but the problem is that it is of no use for non-designers.

12:57 And sometimes, only good designers keep winning. And you may have to struggle a bit. Actually, I should reduce its marks because it is a good platform. Everything is good. But for beginners, we are giving from the perspective of beginners. So, let's reduce the marks. I had given 8.6.62 marks. Let's do it, the next platform is about which you probably have not heard, its name is True Lancer again, everything is very similar to Guru, personally I do not like it at all, there are a lot of fake opportunities, so I will give it only two marks out of 10 and this platform is not that good, a lot of people try it but you can also try it, if you find it to be a scam scene and you feel that nothing is happening here, then leave it, it is not such a good platform, a

13:43 lot of people do not even talk about it and according to me they should not even talk, so that kind of platform is I will give it to out of 10 and the worst for any freelancer award is given to True Lancer, okay so now let's move on to the next platform, the name of the next platform is Flex Jobs, as it is telling that we will get a lot of job opportunities here, so let's talk about the pros, first of all, the first pro is that Flexible remote jobs are available. The second thing is that the job postings are very legal.

14:29 Why do people do paid membership? So a lot of paid membership means you will have to take paid membership if you have to assess the listings. So there is a problem there and there is less opportunity for freelance as I told earlier, so this will be for us because you do not have to do everything. So best for remote jobs. If you want to do remote jobs, then it will be best for you. This award category is best for remote jobs and I would give it 7 out of 10 because it is better. That means after taking paid membership, it is good for big beginners. But then the same thing is that beginners will have so much money. Then what is the point friends, I am poor. So yes I will give it six one more marks. We will deduct it. Now let's move on to the next platform. I am listing this last platform. I will tell you a little

15:15 more but this is the last platform that I am going to. Explain a little about it, then I will list them, they are not that good platforms but you can still try, so this is the last platform which I would recommend you to consider, the name of the platform is Contra again the best platform, the OG platform, the Gad platform, it is such an amazing platform, right friends, why try it, first of all there is no fee, yes you heard me right, there is no fee for freelancers, brother, I will not take Rs from you, understand, above all it is a new platform, so there is not much competition, but not that much compared to other platforms, you get good buyers, you get everything good, if you want me to do a Contra challenge of 30 days, then make sure to hit the target of 1000 comments, so the day we get

16:02 1000 comments on this video, I will do a 30-day Contra challenge in which I will create my account from scratch, I will document everything one by one and we will use UI They must be doing that thing for the design, so a total new experience for me, as well for that thing, so let's do it, so make a thousand comments on this video if you want me to do that right now before listing the rest of the few platforms, I will give it marks, I will give it 99.5 out of 10, there is always scope of improvement, so I am deducting some marks for it, but still a very good platform, I would suggest you to go and check it out, I personally love it, and I mean the interface, etc. also, everything else. No other platform has sponsored this video, in fact no platform has sponsored it, ideally they should have done it, but they haven't,

16:47 so this was a total raw honest opinion video from my side, now let me talk about few more platforms after that we will discuss about the strategy that you can follow and will help you get good results, who knows why my English is speaking so much in this video But okay, yes, we have given a category award as best for freelancers, okay, don't forget that. So the other platform that you can try is service cape, okay, you can try this as well. Apart from this, there is a platform called Task Rabbit which you can try. Apart from this, there is one more platform for designers called Design Crowd, again a good platform that you can try. After this, there is a separate platform called Solid Gigs. So, this is not that good either, but still you can try. So, these were from my side. I will give six marks to all of them together.

17:36 According to me, you can go and try all the platforms. But again, the same thing is that because there is not that much competition in them, there are not that many buyers either, but still you can get good opportunities. I always say that if something has worked for someone else, it will work for you or not, we don't know, so just try. So, it is possible that something may work for you which has not worked for anyone else. So, try it, but Don't cry is the motto of your life, keep that in mind and move forward. Now coming to the strategy, friends, the most important thing I will say at this time is that it is necessary to try everywhere but fix two or three platforms where you ultimately want to work only here. So like if I pick from these, I will choose F, I will choose Contra. These are going to be my top three picks

18:21 where I will go and create my complete profile and setup it. By heart, I will try to give my best and after that, I will follow the process that should be followed. For contra bidding, our work scene is our scene of making gigs. So, I will do all those things. On contra, there is a need of portfolio, so I will do all those things, my previous work which needs to be uploaded, and after that, we will move forward by following whatever process is there. We cannot do anything on F, so I can do something on two platforms. I will do it there and move ahead, this will be my strategy that brother take at least two or three platforms where you will be giving your best and where you feel that you will have more chances of getting results, so whatever suits you according to your convenience, first go and visit all these websites a little bit, I have told you that this is the fee, it is like this, it is like that, I have

19:09 tried this, I have given that, you have to go and try, from your end, in which website do you get the vibe, what do you think will be right for you, try it a little, after exploring for a few days, and then switch to three platforms, brother, now we want to work with these only in our life ahead and then try to grow beyond that by putting our good work there I have to try it so this was the pro trip not a pro trip this was the pro tip from my side if you are watching till now drop a yellow heart and yellow star in the comments section below I will see you in the next video until then do like share comment subscribe I will see you next Tuesday 4 PM by