"Essential Websites for Digital Nomads to Bookmark"
Tags: remotework, officework, devops, career
Published: 2023-07-20 09:11:22

The coronavirus outbreak has undoubtedly accelerated the adoption and acceptance of remote work. Nowadays, remote work and the lifestyle of digital nomads and freelancers are gradually accepted by society and become a new and normal way of life.

This flexible and free way of working, no fixed office, no need for nine to five o'clock working hours, just a computer, a quiet corner, can work anywhere in the world. 

The concept of freelancing and working from anywhere has undoubtedly exploded the heated discussion in society, if you also want to become one of the freelancers, then these websites you better focus on!

Today, I will focus on introducing several comprehensive freelance online platforms, you can choose the right one for yourself, give yourself more choice, but also a little more freedom!

## 01 Masutaa

Official website: https://masutaa.com/

Masutaa is a multi-dimensional mutual assistance form of network community, it hopes to provide consulting and technical services in a free and collaborative way based on a strong Internet talent pool, and create a strong related communication community, through professional consulting capabilities, standardized service processes and high-quality talents to establish a professional and reliable service model.


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Masutaa provides transparency into project progress and requirements, giving users the flexibility to choose the right project. At the same time, as an interactive platform, it provides a relaxed and free environment for users to share experiences and exchange ideas.

Recently, the Masutaa Mini Program has been successfully developed and officially launched, becoming an important bridge to connect a large number of users. After years of practice and optimization, Masutaa has developed a unique workflow methodology. In it, each project is equipped with a dedicated project manager, which allows developers to focus more on code writing, greatly improving development efficiency and interface docking efficiency.



## 02 ZBJ

Website link: https://hangzhou.zbj.com/

If the freelancer platform is a part-time platform or a freelancer platform, the first thing that comes to my mind is definitely the famous ZBJ.com.


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The operation strategy of this website has changed from focusing on buyers to now focusing on sellers. Every skill holder can open a shop on it and then operate the store. On the store, you can show your personal abilities and show cases well. For example, if you are a designer, you can put some of your personal works on it, so that skill seekers can see your work more intuitively. And the number of previous collaborations and what others have said about you.

In general, first of all, you have to open your own store, try to dress yourself up as fancy, and then people will find you if they want to serve, and you can see that there are companies and individuals inside. If you are a company, there will be enterprise certification, ranking higher, and then ranking you by comprehensive indicators such as trading volume and reviews.

## 03 Freeman

Website link: http://www.freemancn.com/

Freelancers is a platform for freelancers and slash youth, whose philosophy is to work without going to work, share skills, share talent. Because Freeman is a platform for full-time remote work (no part-time) for mature skill freelancers, the platform only has an official website, an official account and a Zhihu account.


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The fields covered include: copywriting, design, photography, dubbing, video, operations, programming, and it is a comprehensive platform without compromise.

Open this platform and you will find that it is designed very minimalist and self-explanatory. It is also relatively simple and convenient to use, which is more in line with my usage habits, and the content is more and not cluttered.

### There are three pieces that can be introduced:

- **Task library section**, after opening, you can find the task that suits you in it.
- **The Learning Skills section**, which has recommended skills improvement courses for freelancers. This is a cooperation with Litchi Micro Class or NetEase Cloud Classroom, both paid and free.
- **The freelance small insurance sector** is a service for freelancers to pay social security and provident fund, freelancers need to pay their own social security can be said to be a market pain point with huge demand, this function can effectively help this group.


Of course, freelancers can also pay social security by themselves, and a video will be released later to talk about the specific operation steps. But if there is a platform that can be more convenient and faster, of course, it is better, but I have looked at this section, it has not been opened for the time being, or look forward to it.

In addition, similar websites in China also have a pinwer, time wealth network, spirit pigeon, night god hunter, but the use experience is mixed, interested friends can try it, experienced friends can also share their own experience and lessons learned.

After reading the domestic one, I will introduce you to several foreign websites, to say freelancer platform, foreign countries are more mature than domestic, if your English is good enough, your skills can be served across borders, please be sure to pay attention to these platforms. Today, I will introduce you to two platforms that I am familiar with and more representative.


## 04 fiverr

Website: https://www.fiverr.com

Fiverr is a more interesting part-time platform than other websites. The upgrade feature allows freelancers to have a fun and challenging experience at work as if they were upgrading tasks in a game.


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When you enter the platform as a newcomer, your pricing will not be too high, the services you can provide are limited, and as the number of orders increases, maintaining a good review for a certain period of time, your level will increase.

As the level increases, your service pricing and categories will also increase, it will be easier to be recommended to the homepage by the platform, and the platform will also provide various rich promotions for excellent freelancers.

On this platform you can publish skills such as image design, image manipulation, video production, copywriting translation, music production, etc., as long as you have a skill!

## 05 upwork

Website: https://www.joogx.com/tag/75

Upwork is the world's largest, best, and most standardized comprehensive human resources outsourcing service platform. Like Fiverr, Upwork gives any freelancer a stage to use their skills, and as the world's largest freelancer platform, the world's largest demand will naturally be concentrated here.


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The biggest advantage of UPOWORK is that freelancers on the platform can take the initiative to inquire about customer needs and orders, and customers choose suitable freelancers through the bidding mechanism, which also increases the initiative of freelancers, rather than waiting for customers to come to the door like other platforms.

At the same time, due to the large number of freelancers on the platform and the relatively fierce competition, this is a challenging platform for those who are confident in their skills and services. In other words, constantly honing your skills will keep freelancers ahead of the competition.

## 06 Write at the end

Here I would like to say a few points to note when using foreign platforms:

First of all, the gig market abroad is relatively mature!

Simple graphic editing, video editing and other related services will not make freelancers obtain excess income. As a customer, it is possible to find a large number of very high quality and very cheap works on the platform.

So we also have to calm down and don't always think about making big news. However, no excess returns do not mean that there is no way to make money from these simple jobs. For example, when we open Fiverr, we can find some simple cutout services, which are generally not high in price around 5 to 10 knives. And some cutout work does not even need to download PS, some websites can be completed online, the completion time will not exceed 10 minutes, everyone think if you spend ten minutes can earn 5 knives to 10 knives, isn't it also very good.

Through poor information, using less time to complete more small projects is also an idea of making money.


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**In addition**, under the premise of ensuring the quality of the work, everyone must patiently and carefully modify their profile!

Show your most confident work, project experience, and a stunning cover can really make you stand out from the crowd of competitors in this colorful platform.

**Finally**, service is really important! It's really important!

Foreign people really value this, humanized service no matter how intimate it is, comfortable service will make a large number of unfamiliar customers into your loyal customers, and bring you new unfamiliar customers, what a virtuous circle.

In future articles, I will also explain in detail the service productization and product servitization of freelancers, just dig a big hole here!

Even if there are a large number of freelancers on foreign websites, Chinese people still have great potential and advantages in terms of work efficiency, quality and cost. We all have huge opportunities in the global gig economy. So we need to constantly enrich and equip ourselves to make our skills more proficient.

About the introduction of the freelance comprehensive platform, I will say so much today, see you next time.