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Introduction

Welcome to my list!

For approximately 25 years I worked in digital marketing as a freelancer, as a digital marketing agency web designer and developer, as a copywriter and copy editor, logo designer, SEO go-to guy, and eventually as a project manager.

 

There were times, in-between agency jobs, where I struggled to pay the rent and put food on the table; but through a great deal of persistence and creativity, I made it to the point where I had a repeatable, sustainable routine.

 

Just as I had to learn to apply the structure and methods I’d learned from working at digital marketing agencies to how I worked with (and screened) potential freelance clients…I had to also learn how to apply those same structures and methods to how found freelance work.

 

That meant putting together a list of freelancer job sites, honing and saving a list of specific types of resumes for specific types of positions, never counting on just one job application to land a job and learning time management that worked for me. Office politics was a part of job- hunting, but not as large as it would be once you landed the actual position.

 

In this very detailed list, you’ll find a “super” list of freelancer job sites I’d put together and went through daily when seeking work. Some sites might be gone as many businesses come and go like the wind or merge with other larger businesses, and many are still around today.

This list has been checked and updated but isn’t perfect. Use it as you can, and you’ll find some great new sites.

Good luck in your freelancing career and I hope you find a fulfilling, enjoyable position using my “Super Freelance Jobs List.” If you use it, and it helps you, let me know.

 

NOTES:

 

Due to the fact that this list is copied and pasted from a Word document the formatting can seem a bit janky.

If you’d like a more visually appealing version please visit this link.

Freelance Job Sites to Check Daily

 

 AIGA

All Freelance Writing Jobs

 Amazon

Amazon Mechanical Turk

Angel List Authentic Jobs Behance BlackRemoteShe

CareerBuilder Remote Jobs Career Vault

Remote Job Listings

Codeable Contena – Writing

Content Writing Jobs

Coroloft

 

Creative Group, The       

 

 Dice Dots, The

Dribbble Jobs Dynamite Jobs ED2010

Envato Forums Escape the City Find RFP

Flex Jobs

 

F reelance Writing Freelanced

Freelance Writing Gigs

 

Gigster GitHub Jobs

GitHub Remote Jobs List

Go Daddy Marketplace Government Jobs

 

 Google Remote Freelance Jobs

 Grow Remote Gun.io

Guru Hired Hubstaff Idealist

Indeed Remote Jobs

Indeed Freelance Remote Jobs Jobs. Meta Filer

Jobs. WordPress .net

 

Jobspresso Journalism Jobs Krop

Lara Jobs

 

LinkedIn Remote Jobs    

 

 LiveOps Call Center Jobs

 Market List: For Freelance Writers

 Media Bistro

Freelance Remote Jobs

 Mashable Modern Tribe

Morning Coffee Newsletter – Writing Jobs

 NexRep Call Center Jobs

 OET Jobs

OneCraigs- Craigslist Aggregate

 

Onsite Outsourcely Poynter – Writing

Pro Blogger Remote Freelance

 

 Product Hunt PRSA Jobs Search Reddit for Hire

Reddit Guide to Freelancing Online Successfully

 Remote CO – Writing Revision Path

Scalable Path

 

Search Tempest-

 

Craigslist Aggregate

 SEO Clerks Skip the Drive

Smashing Magazine Society for

Professional Journalists

Solid Gigs – Writing

Speedlancer

 

 Stack Overflow Remote Jobs

 Telecommuter Jobs The Muse

Toptal

Twitter Remote Job Search

Twitter Work from Home Job Search VIP Kids-Teach English Remotely We Work Remotely

Where to Pitch: For Copywriters Who Pays Writers:

Rates & Publications

WP Hired Working Nomads

Working Not Working    

Writers Write

 

Jobs                                                         

 

 

Y Combinator

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching English Online Sites

 

 ALO7

Boxfish Cambly

 

 Cafe Talk Digino DadaABC

 

 English First

  Engoo First Future Gogo Kid iTalki Learn Light Magic Ears

Open English Pal Fish

 

 

Tutoring Sites

 Chegg Cllub Z

eTutor World Preply

Skooli

 

 Preply Say ABC Skima Talk

Tutoring Go Verbal Planet Verbling

VIP Kid Whales English Zebra English

 

 

 The Princeton Review Tutor Eye

Tutor Me Wyzant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Virtual Assistant Job Sites

 

 

 Belay Solutions Boldly VA Jobs

Equity VA Jobs Fancy Hands VA Jobs Flex Jobs

Hibryon VA Jobs

 

 Life Bushido VA Jobs Okay Relax VA Jobs REI Virtual Assistant Jobs Smith AI VA Jobs  

Time Etcetera VA Jobs

 

 Virtual Gal Friday VA Jobs  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Micro Job Sites

 

 

 Amazon Turk Appen

Click Worker Cloud Workers Constant Content Crowd Tap Earnably

Fancy Hands Feature Points Ferpection Fiverr

Gain GGTU

Go Transcript

 

Grab Points Grind a Buck Hello Ping Pong Humanatic Inbox Dollars

 

      Instant Gift Cards    IntelliZoomPanel IRazoo  

Just Ask            Keen Workers Life Points Lion Bridge Literably Maven

Micro Workers Neevo

Part Time Clicks Prize Rebel Prolific

Remote Tasks Rev Respondents Scribie

SimplrFlex

 

 Spare 5 Speech Pad Study Pool Survey Time Swag Bucks Test IO Tester Work Testing Time Toluna Transcribe Me Try My UI

20 | 20

 

U Test User Feel

User Testing Validately Verblio

Way with Words Y Sense

 

 Zeerk

 

 

Freelance Forums

 

 

 AbsoluteWrite for Writers Freelance Forum

Freelance UK

 

 Lance Base Talk Freelance Warrior Forum

 

 

 

Find RFPs

 

 

 BidNet DelTek

Find RFPs Government Bids RFP Database

 

 RFP Gurus

RFP School Watch RFP Zone

Utilities RFP

 

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs):

 

 

Question: Whoa! What is all this? I just need any remote job I can get as soon as possible!

Answer: No problem. Go to Indeed, create an account, and make sure you state you want “remote” for your location. Apply for at least 30 positions daily, create daily alerts for each different type of job or job title you could apply for and reasonably perform. For example, if I’m a experienced WordPress website developer I would create alerts for job titles that are “WordPress,” “WordPress Developer,” “WordPress Website Designer,” and so on. In the space where you are asked to enter your location I would enter “remote.” I would make each alert daily. I would have response email templates and different copies of my resume ready to send off and save these emails as drafts in my email account.

Apply for at least 30 every day. Don’t’ stop until you get several offers. Then go to Cambly and apply to teach English online, same with iTalki and other similar websites. While you do this, when you have time, start looking at the other categories and links. Once you have a solid offer, take a break, and then decide if you want to continue

looking in your spare time for something better.

Question: How many jobs should I apply for daily?

Answer: When I was in-between agency jobs and needed work quickly, I would apply for about 30 per day. Once I had a solid offer on the table, accepted it, and was given a start date, and only after that, would I stop applying. Sometimes I continued applying for

jobs even after I’d accepted a new job, because you never know what that new job’s work culture (or lack thereof) will be like. Many times employers would misrepresent requirements or expectations whether intentionally or not, or expectations would change dramatically once I’d taken the job. So sometimes it makes sense to keep your options open.

Question: How do you keep track of who you apply for, what you position you applied

for, who you spoke with, their contact information, and what you were told and when to check back with them?

Answer: I usually used an Excel or Google Sheets spreadsheet or even a Word document or Google Docs document as long as I could create multiple cells or boxes to put down contact information (email and phone of more than one person, preferably), what I was

told and by whom, dates, and job title and description and links to research the company. A quick, easy way could be to open a free account at KanbanFlow.com or Trello and create color-coded columns and detail who you contacted, what company, for what position, a section for concerns, pay, what you were told, when to check back, and so on. I’d also recommend keeping a folder for job applicant emails sent and what resumes you send to whom. The main thing is that you know which resume you are sending off to which jobs, if you are using multiple different resumes, and who you received positive responses from and know who to reply back to and don’t get them mixed up.

Question: How long should I wait?

Answer: You should never wait. It always was and always will be a numbers game. The

more jobs you apply for, the more likely you are to actually get one. Remember, we’re          7

always either entering into a recession or coming out of one, or we have a global

 

pandemic, or something else. Plus, agencies and companies prefer to hire those they already know, are family members or friends of friends or related some other way. This is just life. You can’t beat that, but you can even the odds by not taking a job seriously until you have a solid offer on the table and even then not until you’re hired. I would recommend, however, allowing a company 2 business weeks to respond back to you unless they are a college, university, government agency, or nonprofit, which can often take months to respond back to you and then require multiple screening interviews and tests even after that.

Question: Should I take tests?

Answer: It really depends on how connected you feel to the particular job, how good a test taker you are, and how badly (and soon) you need to find work. When I was freelancing I didn’t take tests, because they were time-consuming and I found I could easily apply for ten more jobs (at least) in the time it took to take the tests companies anonymously wanted taken. You’ll find some sites, like Indeed, seem to run on tests; while others like Dynamite Jobs, at last check, did not require them. And again, when I worked for a certain college (and my wife in HR) we would see often how tests would be used as a screening tool not only to qualify some prospects but also disqualify others who might not “fit in with company culture.” So I’d only take tests if the job in question looks like a fantastic fit for you on every level. Most government agencies will require tests,

and pay can be quite good with very good benefits, but again, this process can be extremely tedious and time-consuming.

Question: Should I lie to get a job?

Answer: I can’t tell you to lie, but I can tell you that when I worked for marketing and advertising agencies as a staff member or as a outside freelancer, we would often have people in very senior positions who had no idea what they were doing. They got their jobs because they were related to someone, were attractive to someone doing the hiring, knew the right people, or were great at interviewing. I worked at a college where the Academic Dean was required to have a Master’s degree as part of the job. He did not

have one but was hired, anyway, because he was a great interviewer and personally knew others in senior positions. He never held any job for more than one year but somehow was always able to get senior-level positions making $75,000 or more annually. I believe it’s perfectly fine to give yourself credit for work done and to learn by others’ examples.

Question: How many jobs should I list in my resume?

Answer: Never go back more than 10-11 years. And all resumes should be no more than one page. Do not include photos of yourself and if you have distinctive, ethnic name that could be used against you, use initials if you can, such as D.M Mathabane. Employers can and do discriminate based on age, gender, race, and ethnicity and it’s naïve to think they don’t do this. Why give them the chance if you can avoid it?

Question: Should my resume show a photo or have different colors?

Answer: No. And the reason for that is that many agencies and HR staffing firms use scraping / scanning programs to specifically look for key words and terms to see if they

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match identically to job requirements. So…the closer your resume matches or mirrors identically the job, the greater the likelihood you’ll get interviewed and also many firms don’t want to see photographs as they can be accused of bias. So don’t use photos if possible, and if you can, keep everything as professional and serious in tone as possible. As far as format, use PDF.

Question: Should I apply to staffing firms?

Answer: Sure, but be aware, again, it’s a numbers game and to take this even further, most staffing firms want to hire exact mirror duplicates of whatever the job position lists. They are notorious for listing ridiculously long requirements for web designer positions, for example, when all designers and developers know they don’t need to use all tools mentioned in the job requirements to be good at their jobs. And most HR staffers have no idea what tools you need to do the job, or what your skills sets should be. Many copy previous job descriptions directly from Monster or Careerbuilder. I used to work with web designers who had no idea what SEO or Google Analytics were and didn’t care and had no ability to code basic HTML and were making very good wages. They would tell

the staffing agency person whatever they thought the person wanted to hear and then wait

until they spoke directly with whom they would be working with on a daily basis. That approach doesn’t always work but sometimes it does. The takeaway is to realize that HR staffing people often copy and paste job ads and often have no idea what they’re hiring for. I used to get contacted by HR staffing agencies weekly just through LinkedIn, and found that if I asked one question about the job, I’d never hear from them again. So know who you could be dealing with.

Question: Should I take a part-time job?

Answer: Much of this depends on what you can or can’t accept financially, but often (especially at colleges, established nonprofits, and government agencies) part-time and grant-funded jobs are jobs many simply don’t want since hours and pay are limited and you’re not likely to get any health benefits. That being said, it’s also a reason why sometimes these jobs may be available. You have to weigh the pros against the cons.

Question: I need a job immediately and can’t wait. What should I do?

Answer: If you’re not having much luck freelancing and applying for 30 jobs per day,

the easiest and quickest answer is to apply at a day labor location nearest to you. The pay is very low, the work can be brutal, but you’d get paid at the end of the day. Most of

these locations open before dawn, so you’d want to arrive two hours before they open so you can get a spot closest to the front door. Bring enough for two meals, and be prepared for hard physical work, but you’ll earn some money right away. Another solution is to offer to help locals with computer repair, and so on. Applying to be a substitute teacher can also bring in money quickly but the process of actually applying can take months.

 

NOTES:

 

 

Whether you are a copywriter, freelance editor, logo designer, website designer, UX/UI designer, programmer, photographer, please keep in mind that none of these links are “only” for one type of freelancer.

For example, AIGA and Indeed have job listings for copywriters and designers alike.

It’s up to you to set up daily alerts, upload a resume (and different versions of a resume where possible), cover letters, and take deliberate action to ensure you can apply for more jobs, more often.

When I was between agency jobs, I would typically apply for 30-40 jobs per day and keep track of dates, employers, and positions and position descriptions with contact information in a Word or Excel spreadsheet. After a month I’d delete it. Typically, I wouldn’t waste time taking tests

unless I felt they were quick; same with applying through larger corporate portals. Governments

jobs, while very stable and more profitable long-term usually promoted from within unless it was a part-time or temporary contract position fewer people would want. I was able to land three part-time positions at two different colleges during one period of time that there was little competition for since nobody wanted part-time or grant-funded jobs.

Remember that most (if not all) employers taking applications are being deluged with resumes (especially in a post COVID-19 economy), so they’re looking specifically for exact responses and resumes that mirror whatever it is you’re applying for. In most cases tools listed or

approaches cited for very technical positions are irrelevant and are there to weed out applicants.

Most HR staff don’t know how to solve their own company’s’ problems and are looking for someone to come in and take over without any training.

And of course when responding to RFPs I would always try to encourage the soliciting organization to respond back with a personal video conference call a few days off. This would give me an edge others who responded anonymously wouldn’t get, let me find out if they were

assigning the RFP already to a known “of record” agency but couldn’t say so publicly (you’d dig

around at the point and try to get a feel for how many people have responded thus far, etcetera), and also provide the opportunity to try to learn about specific pain points and what their known short-term and long-term goals are. Then, if you do decide to respond to the RFP you’d make a special note to paraphrase your conversation and summarize the call content with comparisons how you’ve done exactly what was described already for previous clients.

Nonprofit volunteer sites, believe it or not, can also good ways to find work. How do you use nonprofit volunteer sites to find paying work? Well, it’s a “long game,” but it can be done by going to websites such as CatchaFire and Taproot Volunteer.org and many others (and Googling other similar sites), creating a profile, adding testimonials and references, and simply offering to help nonprofit organizations in limited capacities at first with a consulting call.

 

You can explain how you screen and onboard potential new clients but remember that the first call should always be on your terms and serve as the introductory conversation where they are shown an agenda and you find out if they are a good fit for you in terms of temperament and organization –and answering their questions as honestly as possible so you legitimately help them.

 

If they decide they want to work with you outside of the volunteer site, make sure to deactivate your account while working with them and keeping clear boundaries. If you are a new freelancer without experience, these sites are great places to start, but bear in mind, again, they will ask for more than you’d think, add requirements half-way through a project, and expect it all for free.

 

Question: Your list and insights have been very valuable to me. What can I do to thank you for your decades of experience and for providing this invaluable resource?

 

Answer: Thank you kindly. You can show your appreciate in two ways: Acting on the insights listed herein, not just reading them and going about your daily life as before. Next, offer to help others similarly struggles. We change the world one person at a time with human kindness.

Finally, you can go to LinkedIn or Facebook or Twitter, and submit a positive review or remark or recommendation where possible.

 

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