21 Sites to Find Freelance Projects and Work at Home Jobs

One of the easiest ways to make money online is to sell services that you provide either by freelancing or finding a full time remote work at home position. However, one of the biggest challenges that freelancers face is finding enough projects to replace their full time income.

Ultimately, activities like blogging and marketing can create enough brand awareness for your business that you don’t have to look for work any more.

But until then, you need a way to find projects or potential long term clients quickly. In this article, I’ll share a list of sites where you can find freelance projects and work at home jobs.

Remote Job Sites

Full or part time work at home jobs can give you the flexibility to work when you want and also to travel the world. A full time position gives you predictable income stability, although your income potential is also limited.

1. LinkedIn Jobs – LinkedIn is a great place to look for potential remote jobs. Their job board is pretty active and since a fee is required to post a job, most of their job postings are from legitimate companies. The downside of LinkedIn is that it’s not easy to filter jobs by remote locations, but you can try searching for jobs and include the term “remote” or “work at home” in your search query.

2. Remote.co – Remote.co also lists various jobs and you can filter by the type of job. Jobs aren’t posted as frequently as other big job boards, so you can probably check this site for opportunities in just a few minutes.

3. WeWorkRemotely.com – We Work Remotely is another popular site to find work at home jobs and features mostly companies in SAAS and technology. The jobs on this site are categorized by job type, so you can quickly jump to the right category.

4. RemoteOK.io – Remote OK mostly features jobs for coders, although you can occasionally find jobs for writing, customer service and other areas.

5. Problogger Jobs Board – The ProBlogger job board is a popular place to look for writing jobs including freelancing and full time work at home positions. The cost to list a job on this site is lower than other job boards, so you should do some research to screen for low paying clients.

6. Growth Hackers Job Board – Growth Hackers is a popular community for marketers, so it’s a good place to look for marketing or SAAS related jobs. Their job board might only have 1-2 new positions a day though, so you can check this site pretty quickly for new opportunities.

7. Indeed.com – Indeed is a job search engine that has the option to filter by remote jobs. You can search by keyword phrase or just browse through all the remote jobs available.

8.Flexjobs.com – Flexjobs compiles work at home jobs from around the web and categorizes them into multiple categories. The service is not free, but it is relatively inexpensive and worth considering if you are serious about finding a remote full time position.

9. Glassdoor – Glassdoor is a good site to research what it’s like to work for other companies and they also have a job search engine where you can search for freelance and remote jobs. You may need to sign up for an account first.

10. Remote Jobs Club – Remote Jobs Club is run by a guy named Simon who looks around for remote jobs and compiles them into one weekly email and it is free to sign up. You’ll find a lot of jobs that are from the sites above, but it’s nice to get them in one convenient weekly email.

11. Angel List Jobs Board – Angel List is a site that is designed to help people find jobs at startups and to help startups find investors. They have a section just for remote jobs, so you can just scroll through that page to see if there is anything interesting.

12. Rat Race Rebellion – This site lists work at home jobs and also has an email list you can sign up for. Their blog also features companies that hire work at home professionals, but the jobs listed don’t seem to be highly targeted. A possible resource if you are looking for positions that don’t require much experience like customer service, but are okay with lower rates.

13. Product Hunt Jobs – Product Hunt is a site that features new and interesting startups. They have a job board and you can click on the “remote only” button to view remote job opportunities. It seems like there are a lot of programming and engineering jobs here.

Freelancing Sites

A lot of freelancers will say that you should never look on freelancing sites for remote work because you’ll find lots of low paying clients on here. It’s free for anyone to post a job on many of these sites, which is why you’ll see a lot of low paying projects. However, high paying clients do occasionally post projects on here as well and if you build your feedback profile, some clients will contact you directly for projects.

14. UpWork – UpWork is the largest freelancing site and was formed when Elance and ODesk merged into one company. If you are looking on freelancing sites for work, then UpWork is probably a site that you want to try simply because they have the highest volume of projects posted.

15. Guru – Guru is similar to Upwork and it’s a site where general freelancers can find project based work.

16. Freelancer – Freelancer.com is another freelancing site. Last time I posted a job here, it seemed like there were a lot of automated applications that came through immediately.

17. Fiverr – Fiverr was created so that people could get simple tasks completed for just $5. The site has since expanded to allow people to charge more than $5 for more complex tasks. The key to making good money on Fiverr is to do tasks that can be done very quickly. For example, some people offer 1-minute long voice acting clips so they can probably make a good hourly rate from their work by completing multiple projects in just an hour.

18. People Per Hour – People Per Hour was originally created for freelancers in the UK, but is open to anyone now. I’ve heard that the site usually has more higher paying clients than other freelancing sites since they were originally targeted to the UK.

19. Toptal – One of the problems with freelancing sites is that it is time consuming and sometimes difficult to find a quality service provider. Toptal attempts to simply this process by screening service providers and only allowing the top 3% to become members. Currently, they only provide developers, designers and finance professionals.

Social Media Job Boards

You can also find freelance project opportunities on social media job boards. Some freelancers supposedly have done well with finding work by being active contributors in groups where their target employers are active, but there are also some groups where employers are allowed to post project opportunities and even full time positions.

20. Cult of Copy job board – The Cult of Copy job board on Facebook is one of the largest Facebook communities for freelancers and employers looking for copywriters. Although many of the jobs will be for copywriting, members sometimes post jobs that are targeted for other types of writers, like bloggers.

21. Julie Stoian’s Create a Laptop Life community – Julie Stoian runs a sizeable community on Facebook and people looking to hire freelancers are allowed to post their project opportunities on Wednesdays. So if you are looking for project based work, check in here every Wednesday.

Other Ways to Find Freelancing Work

While the above places might be worth looking at for short term projects, you should also consider other marketing tactics to find long term work.

• Blogging
• Networking
• Public Speaking
• Sales Outreach

Are there any other sites you use to find freelance projects? Let me know in the comments below.