THE BEST FREELANCER SITES FOR BRANDING

Using freelancer sites is a great way to work with independent contractors mainly because of the variety of freelancers available and the payment security which these platforms offer through escrow systems. We decided to rank the best freelancer sites for copywriting and branding services, describing briefly their strengths and weaknesses.

1. Elance (closing in 2015)
Strengths: higher quality of freelancers’ service, clients with higher budgets, user-friendly website, prompt help center support, great blog, only 8.75% project fee, bank withdrawal option.
Weaknesses: complex registration, expensive credits.

2. Freelancer.com
Strengths: biggest and most popular freelancer site.
Weaknesses: high percentage of low cost projects and freelancers, complex and slow site navigation (although recently improved), project fee charged in advance, no option for attachments in job proposals, 10% project fee.

3. Upwork
Strengths: relatively high amount of projects/freelancers, easy registration.
Weaknesses: funds transfer lasts 6 days, frequent website technical difficulties.

4. PeoplePerHour
Strengths: useful features such as Hourlies. 
Weaknesses: lower amount of projects/freelancers.

5. Guru
Strengths: user-friendly website.
Weaknesses: low amount of projects/freelancers.

Bonus website: Airtasker
Strengths: option to browse project per categories, user-friendly. 
Weaknesses: website mostly focused on handyman tasks (e.g. home cleaning).