Outsourcing in recent days is a popular profession in Bangladesh. Since it enables working at the home facility and a decent income, the young generation of our country is leaning toward this. Outsourcing could be done in many ways in different marketplaces. If you want to take Freelancing as a profession, then you must have a clear conception of well-established Marketplaces. How to apply to those? What sort of work has more demand? How do they pay? Knowing the answer would make it easier for you to get appropriate jobs.
Upwork
Upwork is the most popular marketplace in Bangladesh for Outsourcing. There are no fees to be paid for opening an account in this marketplace. Though it has become tough to open an account here nowadays, if you could submit/prove all the information and affirmation/proofs; there’s a possibility of getting the approval.
How many types of work are available?
Almost every sort of work concerning IT could be found here. Such as Graphics Design, Digital Marketing, Video Programming, Video Production, Marketing, Data Entry, Research works, AutoCad-based works, and so on.
Job natures
Either you can work based on an hour or a fixed time. If a client hires you then he would pay you per hour. That is why this marketplace has its own software that measures work hours. On the other hand, if you’re working under a fixed deadline, the client would pay you after the job is finished. In my opinion, hour based job is more secure.
When you apply for a job, then apply a few things to keep in mind. For example, how many hours the Client has hired contractors for his job? What is the rating of feedback of previous contractors? Please provide your accurate information during the course of the application. You will increase your chance of getting a job.
How is the Competition?
The marketplace is relatively difficult to get a job. Because there is a lot of competition. But if you write a good cover letter to highlight your work experience, it paves your way to finding work easily.
Method of Payment
This marketplace is a very safe marketplace. From here, the money can be withdrawn in various ways. For example, several MasterCard, and Payoneer cards. You can withdraw money from marketplaces directly to your bank.
FIVERR
Fiverr is another popular marketplace like Upwork. However, this does not work like Upwork works. This marketplace is like a shop. Think Fiverr as a store where it keeps all types of products and the customers or subscribers buy as per their needs; at the same, Fiverr freelancers create their “gig” with detailed information about the work.
What are the opportunities to work?
The marketplace is open to all types of “Gig” (work), such as Web Design, Graphic Design, PowerPoint Presentation, Digital Marketing (SEO, SMM, e-mail marketing), creating landing pages, data entry, etc.
Job natures
All work here is fixed payment work. Clients give you a specific time to finish the work in time. Furthermore, you must mention your stipulated time in your gig.
How is the competition?
Yes, there is competition in this marketplace. However, since no client posts jobs in this marketplace, you have to promote your gig for marketing purposes. If you do well in your gig marketing, this will increase its sales. So, you should choose to promote your gig through social media marketing. For example, you can share it on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
Method of Payment
Money withdrawal is safe from Fiverr. Payoneer MasterCard is one of the easiest money withdrawal systems in Bangladesh.
Freelancer
Among the old marketplace, “Freelancer” is a name of the such marketplace. There are many different kinds of jobs in this marketplace. You will find almost all of the jobs in the IT sector in the Freelancer marketplace. In addition, there are many types of jobs, such as Accounting, here. It is easy to apply here and does not require any fees to open an account. However, the Free Membership plan does not allow anyone to bid more than 8 times in a month.
Nature of Jobs
This huge number of jobs is submitted in this marketplace. So, all kind of IT jobs is available here, and jobs not related to IT are also available.
How is the competition?
There are a lot of jobs in this marketplace, again, there are so many freelancers. So there is competition, and once again there is a good chance of getting jobs for seasoned freelancers. In fact, there was always good competition in getting jobs in all old renowned marketplaces.
Method of Payment
There are several methods to withdraw money for freelancers, such as Payoneer MasterCard, PayPal, or Skrill.
PeoplePerHour
Another popular marketplace in the field of freelancing marketplace is PeoplePerHour. This marketplace is a little easier to get work from another marketplace. In the marketplace, each freelancer has been given a badge ranging from 1-5 levels. As the level increases, you will increase your chances of getting a job. This level can be increased to 3 before getting any job. However, your level increases from level 3 depending on your projects and buyers’ feedback. Before you start working in PeoplePerHour, Star and Endorsement can raise your level up to level 3. Anyone can give you the Endorsement and Star. So you can try to get Endorsements and Stars from others. You can earn “Star” and “Endorsement” by giving “Stars” and “Endorsement” to others.
How many types of work are available?
There are many different types of IT-related jobs here at Upwork, such as graphics design, web design, web development, digital marketing, data entry, etc.
Method of Payment
You can withdraw your money using Payoneer MasterCard.
How is the Competition?
There will always be competition, but competition in this marketplace is lesser than Upwork and Freelancer.
99Designs
99Designs is a different marketplace from other marketplaces. It’s basically a popular marketplace for designers. This is a marketplace for designers who can design, such as web design, logo design, Facebook cover design, WordPress Theme Design, etc. There is no bid system here. The client specifies the information for his/her design as required, designers submit their designs according to specifications. The client pays the remuneration to the designer that he/she asked for at the time of the designer’s bid.
Job Types
Graphic design jobs such as web design, logo design, Facebook cover design, WordPress Theme Design, etc. are available here.
Method of Payment
Designers can withdraw earnings using Payoneer MasterCard and Skrill. So, anyone can work in this marketplace from any part of the earth.
Competition
This is entirely a competitive marketplace and the best design gets paid.
Teespring
Teespring marketplace is an online marketplace concerning t-shirts. The requirements are simple; you have to know about two things: Designing and Marketing. Through this, Freelancers design their products and sell those on their own. In return, they get a certain percentage of the commission. If you could recruit a designer that would be fine as well. To be precise, you could form a team and work too.
This marketplace is very popular in Bangladesh. You can either pay or use this marketing system for free. Then again, if someone is good at paid marketing, that is, can give advertisement on Facebook, then the profit will be accelerated faster. Teespring prints your sold design and delivers it to the customer. So, your main objectives are designing well and marketing it.
Method of Payment
You can withdraw your payment in various methods, such as bank cheques, direct deposits, PayPal, and Payoneer MasterCard.
Competition
Competition is not acceptable here, but good design and marketing skill is key to selling your product.
Microworkers
Outsourcing is now very competitive. So, it is now a little harder to get a job from the big marketplaces. Freelancers now looking for new marketplaces. A marketplace that is easy to find work is Microworkers.
Job Types
This marketplace offers small jobs that are easy to do, such as clicking on advertisements, commenting, signing up on a website, etc. Jobs posted here are small, and so is the rate.
Competition
There is no competition in the marketplace. Each account has a certain amount of work that could be done and get paid. No bid is required here. There is a certain amount of jobs listed and you get the money if you could accomplish a job.
Method of Payment
You need to earn at least $9 + fees (Skrill/ Dwolla – 6.50%, PayPal – 7.50%, Local Funds Transfer via Transpay – 3.00% + $1.00 for Non-USD transfer/$3.00 for USD transfer) to be able to place a withdrawal request. For Payoneer, you need to earn at least $20 + a 5.00% fee. Once you reach the minimum amount of withdrawal, click on the Withdraw tab from the top menu, and then click on the ‘Place a New Withdrawal Request’ link. You can choose a withdrawal method: Paypal, Skrill (Moneybookers) or Local Funds Transfer via Transpay and Payoneer, as well as the amount you only wish to withdraw. For US citizens, a withdrawal via Dwolla is also possible.
Behance
Behance is a popular and familiar marketplace for designers and developers. It is one of the famous Adobe Marketplaces. It is a marketplace where many different kinds of jobs are available in design and development categories, such as web design, logo design, banner design, etc. In addition, programming-related jobs in different languages, like, Python, C, etc. are available.
Toptal
Toptal is an exclusive network of the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts in the world. Almost all kinds of work can be found here. However, there is a lot of work amount to several developers.
Job Types
You can work in this marketplace if you know any programming language, like, PHP, Java, C, C++, Python, etc. If you know just HTML and CSS, you can work here, because there is a lot of work for Front-End Developers. Due to the immense popularity of WordPress, there are huge jobs on WordPress themes and plugin development in this marketplace.
One big difference from other marketplaces than Toptal is that there are opportunities here for financial experts.
Competition
Not everyone can work in this marketplace. Because only experts work here. So if you’re a seasoned programmer, you can work in this marketplace. Here the work rate is much higher.
Pricing and Payment
Toptal’s pricing is flexible for freelancers. It typically invoices its clients twice a month, though there is some flexibility here. Clients have an opportunity to review the charges prior to processing because invoices are generated with Net 10 terms. Toptal accepts all major credit cards, bank accounts, bank wires, and PayPal.
guru
Guru is the number one name in the Freelancer Marketplace. There are many jobs in this marketplace. Freelancers skilled in a variety of categories like marketers, designers, and developers will be able to work here. Competition in this marketplace that other marketplaces is relatively low.
Job Types
Jobs in these categories like web design and development, theme development, software development, digital marketing, article writing, and many others are available here.
Competition
There is a low number of freelancers from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh is low. So, there is a little less competition. Those who do not have jobs can work in this marketplace.
Method of Payment
You can withdraw earnings in several methods, like Direct Deposit (U.S. Bank Accounts Only), PayPal, Payoneer Prepaid MasterCard, and Wire Transfer (Non-U.S. Bank Accounts Only).
GraphicRiver
GraphicRiver is a part of the famous Marketplace, Envato where various designer and developers submit their templates, themes, etc. for sale. At GraphicRiver, you can sell your Photoshop files, icons, logos, fonts, templates, presentations, various templates, etc. If you’re a good designer, then you will be allowed to sell your products. Various designs can be sold here because there is a huge number of buyers in this marketplace.
Competition
Designers from around the world sell their designs here. So, there is so much competition. Despite the competition, you will get a good sale if you submit a good design. And if you promote your design by marketing, you can increase the number of sales.
Method of Payment
Payoneer MasterCard is the most popular and safe withdrawal method in GraphicRiver.
Airtasker
Airtasker is a freelance marketplace where you can find people who can do the task for you. Airtasker has a wide range of tasks where you can also make money by doing these tasks for others. From cleaning, handyman, web development, and many more, Airtasker can help you do it easily. Living outside Australia? No worries, the taskers are not necessary to have to be Australian to join Airtasker.
Earn up to $5,000 Per Month with Airtasker
Every month there are thousands of new tasks being posted on Airtasker. That means there is an unlimited number of opportunities to earn income. You could become a career tasker or simply use Airtasker to find supplemental or extra income during your “down” times. Choose only the tasks you’d like to complete while working for only the people that you want to work with.
Airtasker only supports online payments through our secure program, Airtasker Pay. This safe way to pay lets you use Visa or MasterCard credit/debit cards to pay for your tasks
Airtasker. Get More Done.
SEOClerks
SEOClerks is a popular marketplace for SEO Experts. All types of SEO-related jobs available in the marketplace, like keyword research, on-page optimization, SEO audit report, etc. There are even jobs available for a blog review. There is also a work of writing the article. If you can write well and you can write SEO-friendly articles, then SEOClerks allows you to work in this marketplace. In addition, PDF books and software or plugins can be sold here.
Competition
The marketplace is full of competition. Being an SEO-only marketplace, many SEO experts apply for a job in this marketplace. However, there is a lot of work. So, you can get a job, if you are available to work.
Method of Payment
You can withdraw your earnings by using PayPal, Payoneer, or Pager.
CloudPeeps
Another popular marketplace for Freelancers is CloudPeeps. Here freelancers are called Peeps. The Market is for the marketeers or for business development experts. There are a lot of jobs for marketers. Here, a variety of different companies hire freelancers for their business. The marketplace gives better rates.
Job Types
A variety of jobs are available here, such as SEO marketing, social media marketing, email marketing, video marketing, writing, and so on.
How it works
There are hourly and fixed-type jobs available in this marketplace. Some companies hire their experts in a fixed rate and some hire an hourly rate for their various jobs.
Competition
Most of the marketers working in this marketplace are from the United States, Australia, Canada, etc. They are skilled marketers. So it’s a little difficult to compete with them.
Method of Payment
In this marketplace, you are able to do if you have a PayPal account.
Conclusion
No matter where you work, first you need to know well what you do. Then you’ll get work faster and be able to be a good freelancer. So you are advised to focus on learning. We want to earn as soon as we learn or while getting training; this thinking is incorrect. We get into a lot of trouble in getting a job worth 1,500 US dollars after 16-18 years of study.
But, when we hear of outsourcing, we tend to think to earn 20,000 in the second month; we rush to them when we hear someone offering such an opportunity; but, the things that come easily go easily. But, in the case of freelancing, you do not have to work 16-18 years, work, learn and focus on getting experience in the first year of your career, then earn money, gain experience and try to learn something new. The more you get work, the more increase your earning.
Good luck to you.
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