Taming the Online Job Marketplace

Online-marketplace-articleAt first glance, the online job marketplace doesn’t appear to be a very lucrative choice for freelancers. Many of these services — which operate as either job boards or bidding sites — require constant vigilance and constant competition for low-paying writing opportunities. While the sites may require some effort, they do work:

If the convenience, user-friendliness and affordable access isn’t enough to draw in the hungry freelancer, the volume of opportunities should be. Elance-oDesk alone paid out $750 million to freelancers in 2013, demonstrating the vastness of the cyber workspace.

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