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In this video, we're going to go over the top freelance websites that I recommend.

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So in the last video, we went over the getting started with freelancing, right.

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We went overkeen on the foundations of how you can get started actually as a contractor, as a freelancer

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and what your actual job would entail where you're essentially working with various clients on a one

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to one basis.

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Right.

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And you're helping them either build out a website from scratch or maybe update an existing website.

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Right.

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Get a brand new website design.

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And so you're essentially working as a company yourself.

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But you're not really representing yourself as a company.

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You're presenting yourself as a individual contractor.

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Right.

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So we're going to go over in this particular lesson here, the various sites that I recommend for you

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to get started, some of the pros and cons of each and what I recommend you get started with right out

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of the gate.

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So let's go ahead and jump in here.

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So the first site that I recommend here is Upworthy.

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So dot com is probably the biggest and one of the top in the marketplace.

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And so the great thing about freelancing on uptalk is that there is a screening process they have fixed

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in hourly contracts and then they have many projects with various skills as far as the size of each

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and the length.

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And then they have an hourly contract protection, which is great because what this essentially does

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is it protects you, the freelancer, as you know, let's say somebody hires you to do 10 hours of work,

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but for whatever reason, the amount of work that they wanted you to get done or the quality or whatever

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may be right wasn't up to par with what they were expecting, regardless of what the output was.

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You're still getting paid for those 10 hours.

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And so that's very important there because you're getting paid for the time you put in and not for the

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actual output.

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Because, you know, maybe you didn't have enough information or whatever that may be, but it's really

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good for the freelancer and it helps protect you guys as far as the hours you put in.

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And then the cons here is that it's challenging to get your first project.

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The thing that you're going to have to realize with this and really just getting started in the beginning

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as a whole is that you're going to need to have very low rates in the very beginning.

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You're going to just need to bid on projects that are kind of very inexpensive, you know, work that

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may be, you know, where down the road you would charge thousands for.

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You may need to charge hundreds because, again, you don't have, you know, your background, you

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don't have the experience.

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And so you may need to take on some projects, you know, at a very low dollar amount just to get your

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ratings up, get that experience up.

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And then as you increase your experience and your ratings, you can also increase your hourly rate.

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And so another con here is that there are a lot of competitors with low rates.

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Depending on what area of the world you live in.

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There's a lot of people all over the world that can charge, you know, less than you.

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But again, keep in mind here that as you get more experience, you're going to be able to raise your

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rates.

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And oftentimes, you know, having the lowest cost doesn't equal obviously the best quality.

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So you've got to make sure that you're positioning itself correctly.

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And then you're able to understand that if somebody is maybe bidding or has a lower price than you,

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it doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to be, you know, better.

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So keep that in mind.

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And then another con here is that the job score goes down automatically if you don't work on the platform

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for a while.

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So this is something just like out of your control.

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If you're on up work and you're not active on there, you're not working on various jobs and you just

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kind of stay stagnant for a while, then you unfortunately lose out on some of your score ranking there

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because you're just not losing the platform, which just how the algorithm works.

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So the second website here is freelancer dot com, I would say this is probably number two in the marketplace

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here and then they have some of the pros here.

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They have a screening process as well.

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They have a process where you can get verified as a actual verified freelancer.

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I think you go and you fill out some information, you submit some documents.

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And it really gets you to have some sort of badge on there so that you can, you know, set yourself

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apart from the rest of the competition out there that may not be, quote unquote, verified.

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So they have fixed an hourly contracts as well, many projects with various scale, various sizes.

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And then they have a preferred freelancer program as well, where I think this is where you need to

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pay like a monthly or a one time fee.

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I was not sure how this works because they had changed a couple of times.

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But it's putting you essentially into a category where it's differentiating yourself from the competition

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from like just being a, you know, regular freelancer.

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And you get to have a lot of different perks and just being, you know, a standard freelancer on the

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platform.

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And then some of the cons here challenge you to get your first project right, because you don't have

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any experience to show.

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You don't have any reviews, even though, you know, you may have some experience as far as like the

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portfolio projects on here.

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And you can put those on your profile, which is great.

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You want to have those, but you just won't have the reviews and whatnot from people.

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And that's, you know, sometimes a big deal depending on who you're looking to tackle as far as the

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kind of job.

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And that's sometimes is a big deal, depending on what kind of job you're looking to tackle.

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But like I mentioned previously, if you're just starting out, you don't have any experience.

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I would go after the low hanging fruit, the low ticket type of jobs where you can, you know, just

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get some experience and get some reviews.

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And then there's a lot of competitors with low rates.

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But we went over this.

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Right?

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Just because somebody has a lower rate doesn't mean that it's going to be obviously better.

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And, you know, a lot of companies out there and clients are actually looking for higher prices because

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they want higher quality work.

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Because for some clients.

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A lower price may automatically trigger to them that, hey, low quality.

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So keep that in mind.

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Just because somebody has a lower price than you doesn't necessarily mean that their quality is going

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to be there.

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So keep that in mind and then must constantly be on top of new jobs as well.

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So you've got to be constantly looking for new work on the platform, you know, as are updated.

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But overall, a great platform as well.

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And then finally here, freelancing on fiber.

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This is also a great platform as well, because you can, you know, easily get started here.

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Very simple to get started.

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They have fixed gig and project contracts.

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They have fiber pro for top talent.

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This is something new that they just rolled out, I think a couple of years ago.

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I think it was where you go through the screening process, you submit some of your work, and then

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they actually put you into a special category, a special kind of platform on their website that shows

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all of the, you know, five or top talent fiber pro.

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And you get a charge typically a lot more and you get, you know, higher tier type of work coming your

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way because you pass a screening process and you're like the top, top elite type of freelancers.

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But it's something that if you're just starting out, obviously you want to work and strive towards.

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But the platform here, fiber is just great.

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It's just a great way for you to get started to build out portfolio testimonials.

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Right, because the projects are very, very low cost.

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So the cons here and this one here can be a con or a pro depending on how you look at it.

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So projects start at five dollars.

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This is great because you can immediately get somebody, you know, some feedback as far as then you

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can immediately be able to get somebody a website or something.

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You can immediately start getting work by somebody who's maybe looking for a landing page or some sort

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of web design work or whatever that may be for very low cost so that you can get, you know, a lot

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of experience, a lot of testimonials right out of the gate.

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But then also, obviously, the con here is that, you know, it's five dollars, right?

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And so people could be surprised.

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A lot of times people ask for a lot for five dollars.

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That's why the projects like how the five year, you know, it starts out with projects starting at

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five dollars.

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So I would say, you know, twenty dollars.

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Thirty dollars, if you're just starting out, you know, isn't too bad for building a website, especially

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if you already have like a template.

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So keep that in mind.

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A lot of times when you're working on these freelance websites, you're not going to need to be creating

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anything from scratch.

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A lot of times you can be using WordPress and you can be using just templates.

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Where you could just change around different things because you're not only learning in this course

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HTML, right, that you've gone through and you've learned, you know, success, Jake, query all these

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different things to be able to build a website from scratch.

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But you're also learning how to use WordPress, right, with the bonus lecture and section in this course.

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So I understand that it may seem like there's a lot of work that goes into building these websites,

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but it really isn't.

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OK, so that's one thing to keep in mind here.

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And then orders can be placed without any communication.

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Now, this is a, you know, somewhat of a red flag here, depending on how, again, you look at this,

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because what can happen is that you can go out there and have a particular job and have it, whether

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it's a gig and somebody, let's say, you know, one hundred dollars for you to build the website.

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Somebody goes on there, they buy and they check out.

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And then now you're on the hook for this website to deliver to them right within a certain time frame.

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Now, if for whatever reason, they're expecting 10 times what they're what they paid for or what their

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budget is or whatever that may be, or you just can't do the project if the actual project gets cancelled,

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there's actually a negative type of strike you get on your account.

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So if for whatever reason you have to cancel the order, that's actually a negative on your end.

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So keep that in mind right when you're setting your projects and whatnot.

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And then the projects are also set on a per project basis.

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So oftentimes it's hard to do negotiations, you know, back and forth with people because you have

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your set prices.

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And so you can also have, hey, contact me or each individual project, which increases the length

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of time I for myself, I love forever because I can just go in there.

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I know what I want.

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Somebody has it as a gig and I can just go in there and buy it without having to go back and forth.

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So ultimately, all three of these are great platforms to get started on.

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They all have their pros and cons, but they're great for just getting started with freelancing.

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So that's going to be here for this one.

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And we'll see you on the next one.