30 Sites Every Freelancer Should Visit and Utilize

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30 Sites Every Freelancer Should Visit and Utilize

Posted June 4, 2009 in Tools/Resources

Freelancers are constantly searching for new resources. Sometimes these resources come in the form of browser plugins and other times as online tools to help us become more productive. There are countless tools, plugins, blogs, social networking sites and other resources out there that can be beneficial to freelancers.

You probably already know of a lot of these resources, but some of the quality ones may be hiding from you. Below you will find 30 sites (blogs, forums, and job boards) that I regularly use. Although there are more that I subscribe to, these are some that just can’t be missed.

Useful Blogs For Freelancers

FreelanceFolder – Jon C. Phillips, an amazing web designer is the founder of Freelancer Folder. It was later bought by Mason Hipp who is the current owner. Under Mason’s watch freelance folder has grown to be one of the top blogs in this particular niche. With 13,000 plus subscribers, Freelance Folder is definitely a blog you want to add to your feed reader (most of you already have –)
FreelanceSwitch — Freelance Switch is a part of the envato network. If you are looking for advice on freelancing, this is one blog that you want to add to your feed reader as soon as possible.
Freelance-Zone – Freelance-Zone has been around since 2002 serving the needs of freelancers. A site that has survived until now is certainly worth freelancer’s attention.
43Folders — This blog has been around since 2004. Merlin Mann, the owner and writer talks about finding time and ways to do your best creative work. This is certainly one of the best blogs a freelancer can subscribe to.
WakeUpLater — The joy of freelancing is working when you want, where you want. Wake Up Later will help you gain some insight in that field. You can find freelancing advice, free stuff for freelancers and other tips and tricks.
Problogger – Everyone that is active in the blogosphere knows Darren Rowse. One of the first person who became a full time blogger, inspiring many others. If you are looking for some advice on how to become a full time blogger or an effective freelancer, Problogger offers some of the best tips that are out there.
SmashingMagazine – If you are pursuing your freelance career in designing, Smashing Magazine is your source for inspiration and ideas. This blog features designs and lists that are simply too amazing to be ignored. If you are a designer and have yet to check this blog out, trust me, you are missing on something really good.
TheSimpleDollar – Sure, it’s a finance blog. But thesimpledollar shares some of the tips that applies to us not just as individuals but as freelancers as well. Get your finances on track and subscribe to thesimpledollar.
Noupe – One of the fastest growing blogs and very popular among designers, Noupe offers insight and articles that cater to designers and web-developers.
MenWithPens – One of the best blogs for writers and freelancers. Men With Pens ranks no.2 among best blogs for writers. If you are a writer and plan on boosting your freelancing career in writing, these men have got all the advice that will help you become a top writer and an effective freelancer.

Forums For Freelancers

TalkFreelance – One of the popular forums among freelancers that has many segments allowing freelancers to discuss different aspects of freelancing.
FreelanceLounge – Another useful forum for freelancers to discuss freelancing topics and participate in discussions related to their field.
Freelance UK Forum – Pretty popular forum. Although this is a UK forum, since most freelance work happens over the web, location doesn’t really matter. This forum has topics on a wide variety of freelance topics. Go ahead and participate.
eLanceTalk – A forum for freelancers that is mostly dedicated to design, SEO and hosting along with other freelancing topics.
FreelanceSwitch Forum – A very popular forum among designers and web developers but also caters to other freelancing topics. This forum as you can imagine is a part of FreelanceSwitch.
FreelanceFolder Forum – A forum mostly utilized by the FreelanceFolder community. It’s simple, basic and has only 3 topics related to freelancing which I think covers almost everything.
FreelanceWriting Forum — Part of Freelancewriting and mostly focuses on the writers community and topics related to freelance writers.
WhyDoWork – A very popular forum with over 38,000 members. The forum is basically for people who work from home and most freelancers do just that. A great resource and community to be a part of.
LogoPond – A very active forum that mainly focuses on designers.
WritersForum – If you are a writer and want to get into freelancing, this forum will certainly cater to your need for discussion and answers to any questions you might have.

Job Boards For Freelancers

Guru – One of the world’s largest online marketplace for freelance talent.
Elance – Outsourcing to freelancers.
GetAFreelancer – For freelance programmers and designers.
AllFreelanceWork – Jobs for freelancers and contract workers.
iFreelance – Find or post freelance jobs.
Sologig – Get connected with freelance, consulting, and contract jobs.
NoAgenciesPlease – A fee free direct recruitment service for new media freelancers.
GoFreelance – This site provides you with thousands of freelance gigs to choose from.
FreelanceJobSearch – The name says it all, a place for you to search freelance jobs.
GetaCoder – A freelance job site for programmers, coder, web developers, etc.

There are numerous other great resources for freelancers and this is not an extensive list at all. Please share some of the resources you know of (blogs, forums, job boards, articles) that might help a fellow freelancer out.

About the author: Ritu is a freelance writer who has been involved in social media for several years. At the moment he is working on a variety of projects, but is always open to new ideas. Contact him at email(at)ritubpant(dot)com or follow @ritubpant on twitter.

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119 Comments

Selene M. Bowlby
June 4th, 2009 at 10:26 am

This is an excellent list, Ritu! I frequent many of the sites here, but you’ve pointed out quite a few that I have not heard of, so thank you!
Simon
June 4th, 2009 at 10:28 am

A nice list to add to my bookmarks there, Thanks!

Simon
creeFr
June 4th, 2009 at 10:32 am

A few additional communities and blogs can also be found at http://freelancercrowd.com/links/communities.html
Michael Rivers
June 4th, 2009 at 10:52 am

What great information!! I’ve book marked the sites I want to go back to. Thanks!!
Veera
June 4th, 2009 at 11:21 am

Thanks for the resources.

Problogger is the first blog I came to know when I started my blogging. This post surely helps me to know more related resources.
Travis
June 4th, 2009 at 11:32 am

You guys forgot about Werkadoo!

http://www.werkadoo.com/default.aspx
Mandi Leman, Blellow CEO
June 4th, 2009 at 12:10 pm

Excellent list! Don’t forget Blellow! We launched in April at SxSW and have a wonderful community of creative and tech freelancers and entrepreneurs! Blellow is a social network (forum), blog, and has jobs and projects boards to boot. :) http://www.blellow.com
Anne
June 4th, 2009 at 12:17 pm

Great list. The Freelance Zone’s RSS feed however, is a dud. Pity, I was going to subscribe to their blog.
Ritu
June 4th, 2009 at 12:25 pm

@Anne : I have sent Joe Wallace (editor of Freelance Zone) an email in regards to the RSS feed. Meanwhile, if you want here is the link to grab the feed while they take care of the issue http://freelance-zone.com/feed/rss/ .

Thanks!
WebDev
June 4th, 2009 at 1:16 pm

Great list! I didn’t knew your site, however it is fascinating. What I’d like to put on the job board list is the good ol’ RentACoder.com It’s one of the oldest job board out there, I think.

Ps: You just got another RSS subscriber :P
theCount
June 4th, 2009 at 1:21 pm

Nice list of resources for freelancers, although you guys forgot two important sites:

Behance: http://www.behance.net

and

oDesk: http://www.odesk.com

good list going in my bookmarks!
Ramon Fincken
June 4th, 2009 at 1:41 pm

Nice list ! Missing http://www.linkedin.com though :)
James Chartrand - Men with Pens
June 4th, 2009 at 2:20 pm

Woot! Thanks for the mention, Ritu, and thanks for pointing out a couple of sites that I should check out!
Anne
June 4th, 2009 at 2:49 pm

Thanks Ritu :) I found their Feed Burner Feed in their left hand side-bar in the meantime.
Ritu
June 4th, 2009 at 4:03 pm

Thanks for all the comments and for sharing sites and tools that you use.

@James @ Anne You are very welcome!
Ryan Bickett
June 4th, 2009 at 4:38 pm

Great list of sites. Some I have, many I don’t and will be adding to my bookmarks. Thanks for taking the time to pull together and share these resources!
Alex C.
June 4th, 2009 at 6:07 pm

Whoa! Some very cool websites there! Really useful resource,
thanks for sharing!

Regards!
Todd S
June 4th, 2009 at 7:21 pm

Great list, thanks! I’m going to check out the Job Boards for sure, always nice to have new ones in my arsenal.
Gabe Diaz
June 4th, 2009 at 9:33 pm

Great list, I follow many of these but have found some new ones. Thanks!
Mike Smith
June 4th, 2009 at 9:51 pm

nice list. A couple of the forums I hadn’t known about. Subscribed to all of the blogs already :)
JR
June 4th, 2009 at 10:11 pm

http://www.leadurls.com aggregates a bunch of the better job boards + distinguishes between full time jobs and freelance gigs.
Ranjith
June 4th, 2009 at 11:07 pm

Very Use full for freelance writers, here is related
Dimitris
June 5th, 2009 at 1:46 am

This is a great list. I always wanted to find a list like this.Thanks
Priyanka
June 5th, 2009 at 4:23 am

A good list! will take a look at some of them
fysalali
June 5th, 2009 at 5:59 am

Great list, I follow many of these but have found some new ones. Thanks!
http://www.vip4arab.com
Meryl K. Evans
June 5th, 2009 at 9:13 am

WebWorkerDaily.com (disclaimer: I write for ‘em)
Susan Johnston
June 5th, 2009 at 9:44 am

For general freelance info:
http://www.freelancedom.com/

Specifically for freelance writers:
http://editorunleashed.com/
http://freelancesuccess.com/
Catherine
June 5th, 2009 at 10:20 am

Love this information. Thank you for taking the time to put it together.

I thought it was so important, I included a post about your information — you can read it here . . .
http://www.pronfwriter.com/2009/06/if-youre-a-freelancer-youve-got-to-know-this.html
Cyndi Papia
June 5th, 2009 at 11:48 am

Again, another fabulous list. I thoroughly enjoy reading your blog, wish I was 1/3 the blogger you are!
Chris Green
June 5th, 2009 at 5:34 pm

What about Designers Talk, they have a great section for freelancers.

http://www.designerstalk.com/forums/
Ray
June 6th, 2009 at 1:43 am

WebAppers is a great source of free web resources for freelancer as well.

http://www.webappers.com
Nikhil
June 6th, 2009 at 4:20 pm

Nice list…
Luke
June 6th, 2009 at 10:03 pm

Great list thank you. Lots of new resources for me in there
Colin Wright
June 7th, 2009 at 12:56 am

Wow, very complete and solid list. Several I hadn’t heard of on there.
Joe
June 8th, 2009 at 12:03 am

Thanks for the list, definitely worth bookmarking some of those.

Joe
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PhaoLoo
June 10th, 2009 at 9:54 pm

Really great and informative sites for me. Some I’ve visited before, some are new to me.
Juan Medín Piñeiro
June 12th, 2009 at 8:56 am

Excellent! Thanks for sharing. I’ve added them to my bookmarks to read and filter them later.
Pam at BeCheap.ca
June 12th, 2009 at 8:00 pm

I’m bookmarking this for tomorrow’s morning cuppa. I know some of those sites, so I bet the others will be good’uns too!
Vu Tran
June 16th, 2009 at 3:40 am

Great links! I’m subscribed to most of the freelancing blogs. Not so much on the freelance forums though.
KatUS
June 17th, 2009 at 3:46 pm

I saw an ad of LimeExchange.com running on freelance folder, u missed that? I have been using it for a while, looks good to me.
Alisa Rogers
June 26th, 2009 at 7:38 am

I have read your blog and links, they are really nice and I appreciate it, your efforts are marvelous and outstanding. you have a great resource of freelancers.
Ruth
June 30th, 2009 at 10:38 am

That’s a fantastic list Ritu! I’d just like to add that http://www.peopleperhour.com is an excellent freelancing marketplace.
Shveta JAin
July 13th, 2009 at 1:12 am

I think , in the list http://www.ezdia.com is missing

eZdia allows you to create your own knowledge library from the community you build of trusted experts and recommended sources. Search, Learn, Create, and Teach with the eZdia Platform. eZdia will change the way you interact and gain knowledge. …
Sapna
July 13th, 2009 at 7:10 am

Nice and really beneficial post for freelancers, I think you can also include mturk.com in your freelancer site list.
Shveta JAin
July 20th, 2009 at 10:49 am

I know one more website. Really good one to keep your knowledge at one place .

http://www.ezdia.com
personal finance blog
August 14th, 2009 at 2:00 am

I just bookmarked yours’ 20 must read blogs,now I bookmarked this post.
Vivek
August 18th, 2009 at 4:52 am

Great List :)

ConsultGenie.com is another site you can add to your list.

ConsultGenie is an online marketplace where enterprises from all industries and of all sizes can find and hire qualified, tested and rated consultants and temporary staff (Providers). If you’re looking for a Provider just search and select on this portal.

For some interesting articles go to :http://consultgenie.wordpress.com
Ventsislav Tomev
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:28 pm

Wow great list. You can also try http://www.freelance-jobs-now.com for a lot of freelance projects from various freelance sites.

Happy bidding!
Matt
October 29th, 2009 at 8:30 am

Thank you, I´ve searched for a list of such sites. Fo me as a german freelancer it´s very important to get informations from international sources.
Ankit
November 10th, 2009 at 5:15 am

Another freelancing site is eZdia which asks you to post your resume and you have employers seeking you for their projects. You get the job based on your skills. If you meet the requirements you will certainly get jobs on eZdia .
It allows employers to communicate with potential employers via a chat. A skype plugin has also been added to felicitate communication. Thus You can say , eZdia has brought in a change in freelancing never seen before.
blue2x
November 17th, 2009 at 12:48 am

great post, my fav would be this site, freelanceswitch and logopond. how about craigslist?
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March 8th, 2010 at 7:19 pm

Thank you very much for this collection. Really helpfull stuff.
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June 18th, 2010 at 1:50 pm

you can also check resources are http://rapidop.com
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August 13th, 2010 at 11:24 am

I would like to recommend another site for freelances.
http://www.ITeezy.com
It allows you to post your services at fixed rate and offers bunch of other tools.
Bit different approach then bidding on stuff but it works just as well.
Zahra Brown
October 6th, 2010 at 5:28 pm

Thank you for this excellent list. I love how open and sharing the freelance community is.

The FreelanceUK website provides some great information. It answered all my questions and informed me of things I had not even considered.
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USB Festplatten
November 12th, 2010 at 4:34 pm

Nice collection and very helpful. I hope to read more of this in the Future.

Greetz from Germany,
Festplatten
Hire Web Developers
November 25th, 2010 at 2:26 am

Great collections, its really helpful to freelancer and get more information about your blogs, thanks for your sharing.
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December 12th, 2010 at 7:49 am

Thanks for the list, I read some these blogs, but there are so much more that I didn’t know about
Joachim Gold
May 20th, 2011 at 4:51 pm

The list with the job boards is particularly useful for me, thanks!
Beeworkers Team
July 28th, 2011 at 10:58 am

We would like to add http://www.beeworkers.com. A brand new international marketplace specialized for small and easy-to-do works … owned, developed and maintained by freelancers. We hope to take a place one day in your “Job Boards” list. :) Thank you !
Omar Hafeez
December 28th, 2011 at 6:04 am

Thanks Ritu I’m a newbie in Freelancing so it is a great help for me.
Sanjo
January 13th, 2012 at 7:40 am

Most of the freelance site pay later upon completion. But gig sites pays upfront and amount is fixed. There are some sites that offer flexible price ranges. Users are free to set a price for their service.
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March 10th, 2012 at 7:24 am

That is a great point to bring up. Thanks for the post.
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March 19th, 2012 at 5:46 am

Hey! Great list.. I love the way you categorized the sites.. But i think you should add http://www.peopleperhour.com to the list of Job Boards for Freelancers..
Juanchi
March 23rd, 2012 at 12:43 am

Thank you for your information, It was very very useful to me!
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March 28th, 2012 at 4:59 am

Hey! You missed one.. http://www.peopleperhour.com! Thanks for the great list..
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I have bookmarked your page! Thanks! And yeah where is odesk?? And also staff.com, you should check them out!
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August 3rd, 2012 at 7:31 am

Great Information for freelancers…
There are also some clones of Fiverr which freelancers can use to make money.
But need to be careful as some of them dont pay properly or delay the payments.

One site which I have seen really good and which allows the buyers to pay the sellers directly before the job is done is http://WWW.ZEERK.COM.
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