Wednesday Remote Job Positings & Tips with #Learnwithbren.

As the world becomes more connected through the internet, employers are increasingly relying on remote employees and freelancers to bring knowledge & skills to their companies.

Freelance platforms exist to help connect freelance workers with potential gigs. Check for all-in-one general freelance work and specialized niches. So if you're a freelancer, side-gigger, independent contractor, consultant, coach, here are 70 platforms to search and secure jobs:

What are your skills and interests? What are your strengths and qualifications ? What type of work environments would you prefer? What other work values are important to you? What are your short- term and long-term goals? It is time to reflect on these important species!

1. Indeed. com
2. Toptal
3. Upwork
4. Gigster
5. FlexJobs
6. LinkedIn ProFinder
7. Fiverr
8. Freelancer. com
9. MediaBistro
10. Contently
11. Amazon Mechanical Turk
12. AngelList
13. Skyword
14. Hireable
15. Sologig

16. PeoplePerHour
17.Textbroker
18. ProBlogger
19. Guru
20. Constant Content. com
21. Writer Access. com
22. Twitter
23. iWriter
24. Scripted
25. Contently
26. Crowdspring
27. Business Talent Group (BTG) 
28. Compose. ly
29. Truelancer. com
30. Textbroker

Freelance Websites for Creatives

21. 99designs
22.Behance
23. Design Crowd
24. Design Hill
25. Crew. co
26. Dribbble
27. Dice
28. Evanto Studio
29. Toogit. com
30. ClearVoice

Freelance Websites for Developers

31. Codeable
32. Hacker Rank
33. CodementorX
34. Rent A Coder
35. Gun. io
36. Topcoder
37. Lemon. io
38. Supersourcing. com
39. Starkflow
40. FreeeUp

Websites for Business Experts

41. HourlyNerd
42. Cloud Peeps
43. MMO Freelance
44. Consultingheads
45. Talmix
46. LinkedIn ProFinder
47. Simply Hired
48. Aquent
49. Crowded
50. Nexxt
51. Thumbtack
52. WorkBetterNow. com
53. Upstack
54. BizSugar Advisor Directory

For Virtual Assistants

55. ClickWorker
56. SkipTheDrive
57. WAHM. com
58. VA Networking
59. WeWorkRemotely
60. Assistant Match
61. Zirtual
62. Remotive
63. Working Nomads
64. Fancy Hands
65. Remote. co
66. Serveteam. co
67. WoodBows
68. Getmagic
69. Premiumhelp. co
70. Virtalent

Freelancing Tips:

Define your goals for freelancing

Know your goals for starting your freelance business.
So if you start freelancing part time or on the side, you give yourself time to create the crucial relationships you’d need to make a full-time living freelancing.

Choose which skills you’ll start freelancing with

Whether you’re set to become a freelancer full time or on the side, your business will be built around the unique skills you have to offer. Those skills are your greatest asset.

Do a skills assessment and write your top 10.

Identifying the different skills you’ve built over the years that other people may not have and want to pay YOU to use.

Start with a simple spreadsheet. In the first column, start listing each individual skill you can think of.

It’ll be easiest to start with all of the skills that you’ve already been paid to leverage. It doesn’t matter if the job was full time or part time, as long as you were being paid.
If an employer was willing to pay you to do that work, chances are that you’re pretty good at it!

Narrow down your list of skills

Once you have a list of all the skills you’ve been paid to use, taught yourself, now we can start to narrow down that list. First, prioritize (deprioritize when necessary) the list by which skills you WANT to get paid for the most.

You can create a new column in your spreadsheet and rank them in order, starting with number one. It’s good to be aspirational here. If it were up to you (and it is), what would you want to be paid to do each and every day? Next, you want to do a little bit of research.

Think about your last several jobs, volunteer experience, internship, school projects, social media campaigns and community work: what were you doing?

E.g. customer service, graphic design, workshop facilitation, digital marketing, photography, writing.

If those roles required creativity or use of a specific software, it’s even more likely that someone would be willing to pay YOU rather than take the time to learn that skill themselves.

Some common software would be Adobe Photoshop, Figma, Sketch, MS PowerPoint & Excel, etc.

Start freelancing with skills outside your job description

When you’re thinking about your previous jobs, don’t limit yourself to the job description or main responsibilities. In most jobs, people find themselves doing things that weren’t originally in their job description.

E.g, if you were responsible for running a company’s social media accounts, you probably picked up some writing skills too.
So instead of only thinking about your social media skills, you may also be suited for copywriting or marketing work. Add every specific skill to the list.

Start freelancing using your self-taught skills

Your skills aren’t limited to just what you’ve been paid to do. Go beyond the things you’ve already gotten paid for to things you’ve taught yourself, or even your subskill.

Know Your Competitive Advantage

When it comes to freelancing, having competition is a good thing to make you keep upskilling.
Look through sites like Upwork, Upwork, Glassdoor, LinkedIn or Fiverr and search for freelancers using the top five skills you’ve identified.

Define your target clients

Once you’ve identified the skills that will be the most profitable and enjoyable for you, it’s time to think about who is going to pay you to use them.

Do an empathy map in your freelancing career to help you better understand your customers.

Your goal is find a specific, significant challenge that people are ALREADY facing and then become an expert at helping them overcome that challenge. And as long as there are people wanting to solve that problem, there will be a lucrative demand for your services.

Have a e-portfolio

Your portfolio and testimonials are two of the most important tools you’ll have for getting online writing jobs. Create a few samples for the kind of writing work you want to do, then use them to land more work. Always ask your clients for a testimonial!

You’re going to have to pitch a lot, no matter which freelance platforms you use. Set a goal to send project bids or proposals.

Freelancing doesn't end on online marketplaces. You can also transition into owning your own small business if you can/want.

Good luck in your career!