Type in any search engine the word "freelance" - and you'll see what incredible popularity purchased this topic lately: huge number of websites offer their services in publishing the book devoted to this activity.
What is - freelancing, and most importantly - what benefits it can bring to you personally? In this article we try to deal with this topic.

Freelancer - translated to English: free lancer, free mercenary, otherwise - what we call "free artist". This is the person who usually works through the Internet, without signing a contract with the employer on long-term cooperation.
Relatively recently, the bulk of the freelancers were programmers, designers, copywriters, translators. Today freelancing involved both professionals and people who do not have special education and experience.

Internet not only provided a set of sites to find the Executive Order, or to respond to an invitation to work remotely, but also combine the many people for whom not only became a freelance part-time but also a certain philosophy of life.
And each of us has a choice - whether to become a freelancer and orders to search a form of income or to become a customer and make a profit through the use of the services of freelancers.
Consider these forms of interaction customers and performers.
Suppose you can not draw, and you need to create a unique architectural style for your product - what else. Just go to any of the specialized freelancing sites, apply, for example, that the need to develop a site or perform the design of a catalog or price list - and soon there will be many willing reporting, how much they take to perform for you similar work.

You consider him as a candidate - for example, learning portfolio, where you can see samples of work freelance discuss details submitted to the technical task - and further the work begins.
Why is beneficial for the customer to work with freelancers?
Let me explain by example. I absolutely can not draw. But for the covers of DVD-ROM drive, which I write down my training courses, I need to make high-quality images that will attract the eye of potential buyers.
In order to create a beautiful and colorful artwork, I resorted to the services of freelancers. And I had to do it after I did my first training course, and I needed the first cover.

I contacted a local advertising agency in which I requested from about 15,000 rubles for the creation of cover design. At that time it was too much money for me. However, I would still be unlikely to put the same amount of money for the cover. But not because I do not have the money, but because I did not find it useful for their wallet to pay 3-4 times for what I will do no worse, and perhaps even better than the ones freelancers.
Advertising agency must pay rent premises in which work, staff salaries and other expenses. Therefore, they have to pull up the price tag on that, in general, is not a difficult job.
At the same time, on the Internet, you can find some of the student painter. Earl, who lives in a small town with small salaries that make you wonder what the cover for a 1-2 thousand rubles.
For him, it will be a substantial addition to the scholarships. A expenses like advertising agency not. In this situation, the benefits to all parties involved are obvious.

Freelancers can be found on special markets on the Internet.
On these sites, there are exchanges of customers who need to solve certain tasks and performers who, for a fee willing to perform these tasks.
Here are some of the most popular sites on this topic:
http://www.weblancer.net

What you need to become a freelancer?
The easiest way to find realize myself as a freelancer, already a professional - enough to create a portfolio to show what you are capable of. But you can try to do freelancing, and not being a specialist narrow profile.
First you need to acquire the necessary knowledge and master the most sought after skills in this area. Most in demand in areas such as freelancing:

design
Nesting sites
programming
Website Design
copywriting
logos
Writing control and course
rewrite text
Website promotion
System administration
engineering jobs
Posting (writing messages in the forums)
Installation and video creation
audio processing
Translation from foreign languages
This is an incomplete list of how you can earn money on the internet with the help of freelancing. Work is actually much more.

Then, register on popular freelancing sites and study the proposal - which ones are more fit your interests and abilities.
If for you, most of these topics did not talk about anything, it does not matter. All of us at one time with start somewhere, even employment. Remember how you pestered the personnel department, where you have been denied due to lack of experience.
Personally, I am in my life has changed a lot of areas of activity, each of which I had to learn lots of new knowledge and complex for me so.
I worked as a salesman youth denim clothing, I inserted the plastic window, I was the designated recipient of equipment service center stores selling electronics and appliances, I was a marketing specialist in the telecommunication company, led the credit department in one of the commercial banks, and also worked as head of the department sales in the wholesale company that sold dairy products and even sell the chicken egg))

And I can say with certainty that being a multi-specialist who knows how to make different methods are much safer and more reliable than be an expert in one thing.
Since Soviet times, many people live by the principle that you need to finish high school or college, get a profession and a lifetime to work in the same enterprise. It really is not safe in today's environment.
We very much depends on many factors, such as the United States. And if today, for example, you have some popular specialties, tomorrow everything can change drastically.
Another crisis came shooting out and you can stay out of work. So once happened to me when I worked in a bank. I thought that working in the financial sector is the most reliable, because the money is there for a long time and will continue to exist. And each person's life will depend heavily on money.

This means that the work associated with money will always be relevant and important. But in 2008 everything in its place. The financial crisis that burst into our lives from distant America, suddenly made ​​the growth of my future career in the financial sector impossible.
But the presence of a large and varied experience behind him allowed me to easily find a job in another field.
That is why I urge you to ensure that the master new for yourself the skills and knowledge to learn new professions.
Even today, you can begin to master any of the above professions to start earning tomorrow in freelance.
Job Freelancer - is:

Work at any time convenient for you.
Possibility to build your schedule as you need, not your employer.
Ability to decide who to work with and who is not.
Creative and non-standard work, which develops thinking and mental abilities.
Over time, you will experience positive feedback from customers, samples of work that you have done, you can submit to your page - freelancing may be an additional source of income, and eventually replace your primary job.
Of course, like almost everything in the world, this system has its pros and cons. By the way, funny research on this topic exists in the internet - apparently written by one of freelancers (authorship of me could not be determined).
What, besides the Internet, you will need a man who decided to try himself as a freelancer (or customer)?
To communicate with customers customers tend to use the program ICQ and Skype: download the latest version, you can absolutely free on their official website.

For cash payments are generally used webmoney (you will need installed on your computer program Webmoney Keeper) and popular in Russia Yandex (to make a purse to complete a simple registration procedure in the system Yandex).
And now I would like to share with you how you can earn using freelancers.
In the classroom, you can freelance mediate - this is a very common form of small business: offer any studio or office, clients are sought, then the orders passed freelancers.
For example, you can open your studio design and engineering. All you need - is to find customers, and then do the job using a freelancer. Suppose someone wants to make repairs in the apartment, and wants to make a pre-design project, in order to understand how they will be combined, or other materials, colors and interior elements.
You, as a representative of the design studio to accept applications, listen to all the wishes of the client and contract. Then, go to any website and served there freelancing application to perform a design project in accordance with the conditions of the customer.

You will be received various offers from which you will select the suitable price and quality performers. They will perform the work that you pass to the customer and get paid for it.
Or here's another example.
Now you can create your own studio designing and creating websites. You can work in the same way as in the previous example.
Discovering local newspaper ads, like "Hand in Hand", I can see how many people offer services for organizing and conducting weddings, photography, repair of offices, apartments, etc. I was wondering how many of these people are using the Internet to promote their services, one of them have their own websites. It appears your website have units.
But this is a vast field of activity. In order to present themselves in a favorable light, you just need to show their work portfolio. And, of course, is very convenient to be able to pre-read them on the site - and only then go to their offices and negotiate.

Make a quotation which describe what you offer and why they need your potential customer. After analyzing the price of manufacturing sites in your city. Start with a low price. First of all you need to accumulate a portfolio. The first 2-3 work at all can be done for free.
Then begin to send this offer on the directory. Submit applications received on the exchange of freelancing, pick performers, and profit sharing in half.
Here are just a few ideas of how you can use freelancing to achieve their goals. I want to again and again to repeat: Use your time to think, do not stay in the search for new solutions. In the words of the French writer Antoine de Rivarol, "in the hands of a talented man, ideas become interest-bearing capital."