GetAFreelancer

GetAFreelancer.com is a listing service. How it works is that you sign up to be a writer and then clients post jobs they need filled and you bid on the job. It sounds great in theory. In reality, not so great! The problem that I have found with this site is that it is worldwide. This is not good for the American writer. The jobs go to bids that are incredibly low.

I have read ads where the client is saying that they want somebody to work 8 hours a day 5 days a week every week in and out and must be available at the whim of the client, oh and the maximum bid for this job is $250 a month. I kid you not. And to make it more wild, there were bids on this!

I read another one where the client insisted on perfection, everything had to be perfect or you would continue rewriting it until it is. No problem really, considering we should all do our best work. The problem comes with the description of the job. This particular client wanted five 1,000 word articles a day and was willing to pay up to $1 an article, and again there were several bids.

After doing some snooping around I have discovered that a lot of the writers are from India and I know $1 goes a lot further there than here. So, basically this is not a site for American writers, there is no possible way any self-respecting American writer that I know would work for that kind of pay. It's ridiculous to even expect anybody to work for peanuts. Some of the clients even specify that want American writers but don't seem to realize that they are only going to get substandard writers for that kind of money.

My advice, don't waste your time on this site. You will get 10-20 emails each day with the new jobs posted, and you will get discouraged and start questioning your sanity if you take this site seriously at all. If you are going to put out that much effort you should write for AC, at least you'll get page view revenue on top of your $1 per article.