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One of the world’s largest freelance marketplaces, Upwork has more than 12 million freelancers and more than 5 million clients. The sheer numbers alone make Upwork a challenge to work with, as clients and freelancers need to spend more time finding a match.

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Freelancer.com allows clients to post projects and find freelancers from a selection of bids. While its population of more than 16 million users provides opportunities for getting work done, Freelancer’s myriad fees can make it quite difficult to navigate, especially for first-time users. Checkout this review of Freelancer site for details.

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With 1.5 million members worldwide, Guru.com caters to IT, sales and marketing, and related freelance workers. Guru.com has a weaker search function and generally fewer options for getting projects done, partly due to its smaller population.

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Fiverr works with a low entry price of $5 for freelance work, ranging from design to social media. The advantage of Fiverr is that you can try freelancers with very low risk until you find the exact skill level you need for your projects.

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PeoplePerHour gives you access to thousands of freelancers in various fields. In addition to its bidding process, it allows job posters to select from hourly gigs that freelancers set up and can start at short notice.

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Problogger runs a popular job board for freelance work. While Problogger focuses on writing work, it also includes other blog-related activities, making it a good one-stop shop for quality blog professionals.

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Scripted gives businesses access to writers who specialize in blog and social media content. Scripted makes it easy to select a writer for a task but offers some challenges if you want anything outside their streamlined workflow.

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Writer Access is a content creation platform that gives businesses access to more than 15,000 freelance writers. Since the platform screens candidates and works with only U.S.-based writers, it provides advantages for clients who require U.S. English writing.

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Textbroker gives you access to writers across 15 languages as well as the option to buy articles from writers. Some of Textbroker’s clients identify turn-around time as an area of improvement.

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Contently helps brands create content, from a pool of more than 100,000 professional freelancers. With Contently, clients select from a curated set of writers, which raises the bar in terms of quality.

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Writers.ph is a freelance writing service that focuses on writers based in the Phillipines. The site consistently gets good reviews due to the native level of English as well as high education level of the freelancers.

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99designs lets you run design contests according to your design needs and you then pick the winning design. The site brings you the possibility of evaluating a high number of options, with the advantage being that you encounter a variety of creative options for your work.

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Behance hosts designers’ portfolios and other design showcases. Since the quality of samples across Behance is generally high, clients can reach out to a freelancer with confidence that the freelancer can deliver top-notch work.

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Design Crowd allows you to run competitions for designs ranging from corporate logos to web and print design. With anywhere from 25 to 100+ design submissions per competition, you are assured a range of options.

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Designhill is a crowdsourcing app for design, allowing you to get many submissions for your design briefs. With a $99 entry point, Designhill connects you with many design options, but you need to offer higher amounts to attract the most skilled designers.

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Crew connects you with a vetted designer or developer for your projects. Crew’s main advantage is that it handles most of the project management and freelancer selection for you, based on its data-based recommendations.

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Dribbble is a site that showcases designers’ work, ranging from graphic design and packaging to web and 3D design. Dribbble is great for researching the skills of designers for the work you need, and for $299, you can post a job to their job board.

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Toptal connects businesses with top freelance developers who have passed a grueling selection process. Since it only admits 3% of applicants, Toptal’s community is capable of delivering stellar work at the highest level for your projects.

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Gigster is a website that allows users to get tech projects built on demand. Gigster combines a pool of 700+ top freelancers with a scientific approach to quality and efficiency for their clients.

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Codeable is a platform with more than 275 skilled WordPress developers available to handle your WordPress development and other WordPress work. You can count on Codeable’s strict guidelines and workflow to deliver quality work, with little stress or delay.

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Hacker Rank is a community of over 2 million developers solving tough coding challenges to showcase or improve their skills. You can post jobs to find freelancers or run contests in order to get advanced technical input from the developers.

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CodementorX is an invite-only network of world-class software and app developers available for hire, built on top of Codementor’s community for developer mentorship. You can hire top developers for your projects, as CodementorX developers go through a 9 layer matching and vetting process that helps ensure the quality of the developer and their work.

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Rent A Coder connects clients with skilled freelance developers for any kind of development work. While navigating the platform can be challenging at first, Rent A Coder can significantly lower your overall development costs.

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Gun.io connects you with verified freelance developers who are assessed on their actual, publicly available committed code. This ensures that your projects will be worked on by developers with a high level of technical proficiency.

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Topcoder crowdsources development, design and problem-solving. You can run a challenge on the site and pick from a variety of solutions to determine the winner.

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HourlyNerd (now known as Catalant) connects businesses with more than 25,000 business experts for project-based consulting. With about 10% of the Fortune 1000 as clients, Catalant’s experiences with business needs of all kinds helps give clients top results.

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CloudPeeps helps businesses get work done by matching them with handpicked expert freelancers for various business needs. The careful curation that goes into selecting talent and additional matching for each task helps raise the quality of business results.

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MMO Freelance gives businesses access to top consultants who have worked at prestigious consulting firms like Bain, McKinsey and BCG. The platform’s 48-hour match process allows you to match with a consultant and get moving rapidly.

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Consultingheads allows businesses to staff projects with part-time or full-time consultants. The platform selects candidates with top qualifications and consulting experience to deliver great outcomes for clients.

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Talmix brings together more than 25,000 management and business consultants who can help on business projects. Working with their hand-picked, well-experienced consultants can put your business at a strategic advantage.

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Zirtual gives you access to a virtual assistant for a fraction of what an in-office assistant would cost. For busy executives and business people, Zirtual ends up saving you lots of time and starts at an affordable $398 a month.

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Worldwide 101 connects you with virtual assistants handling sophisticated tasks. The platform takes on only virtual assistants with a minimum of seven years of assisting experience, which makes it a fit for businesses with highly demanding workflows.

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Fancy Hands is a team of U.S.-based virtual assistants that gets your work done quickly. It comes with a range of price points, allowing you to start small, then ramp up as your work requirements grow.

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Time etc connects you with a U.S.-based virtual assistant at a fraction of the cost of an executive assistant. The platform allows you to create a long-term collaboration with an assistant who gets better and better at your business as you execute together.

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Task Bullet’s virtual assistants perform work for you at high efficiency, allowing you to get things done at a lower cost. The platform uses a bucket system that lets you know how much tasks will cost in advance so that you are never out of budget.

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Red Butler is an executive virtual assistant and administrative support service that helps business professionals, entrepreneurs, startup teams and executives get more done in less time.

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