What Types of Freelance Jobs are there?

This is a report of the types of freelance jobs available on oDesk, since I’ve done different types of freelance jobs on oDesk for over two years now. If you know what types of freelance jobs you would like to do, you will probably find one or two or more of these types of freelance jobs on oDesk as oDesk offers a wide variety of categories.

oDesk has freelance jobs for writers, freelance jobs for graphic designers, freelance jobs for web designers and freelance jobs for stay at home moms.

You just need a computer and Internet and you can apply for a wide variety of different types of freelance jobs on oDesk. There are many freelance jobs posted to oDesk each and every day, so you can do a lot of browsing and decide which freelance job suits you the most. You can even apply for more than one job at a time, since many people do apply for the jobs, and you may not get every job you apply for.

Increase your chances of getting a freelance job on oDesk by applying for more than one at a time. You don’t want to wait to see if you will be accepted for one job, while people are applying for other jobs that you are also capable of doing. You may not get hired for the only one you applied for, and in the meantime may have missed out on another job you were capable of doing.

The main categories on oDesk are:

Writing and Translation;
Sales and Marketing;
Administrative Support;
(come on, you can do these!)
Customer Service;
Business Services;
Design and Multimedia;
Web Development;
Software Development;
Networking and Information Systems;

I’m just going to mention a few of the sub categories in each main category, to give you an idea of the different types of freelance jobs available on oDesk

Writing and Translation freelance jobs
Blog and Article Writing;
Website Content;
Copywriting;
Creative Writing;
Translation

Sales and Marketing freelance jobs
Telemarketing and Telesales;
Sales and Lead Generation;
Market Research and Surveys

Administrative Support freelance jobs
Data Entry;
Web Research

Customer Service freelance jobs
Technical Support;
Phone support

Business Services freelance jobs
Bookkeeping;
Project Management

Design and Multimedia freelance jobs
Graphic Design;
Logo Design;
Print Design

Web Development freelance jobs
Web Design;
Web Programming

Software Development freelance jobs
Desktop Applications;
Mobile Apps

Networking and Information Systems freelance jobs
Network Administration;
Server Administration

You will notice from just this list that there are many different types of freelance jobs one can apply for, and all of these are on oDesk.

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