Now that you’ve created a website, filled it up with samples, decided on your prices, and gotten glowing testimonials…where and how do you find customers?

Well, the internet marketing websites that were mentioned previously are a good place to start.

Again, they are:

The Warrior Forum

Sitepoint

Digitalpoint Forum

Webmaster World

Ablakeforum

People on those websites are always looking to outsource, either because they don’t have skills in some areas, or they don’t have the time or desire to do some tasks.

Web designers or code writers may need website content.

Writers need graphic designers to help them create logos or headers or banners, or they need web designers to create websites for them.

A lot of internet marketers need experienced programmers and code writers to help them design products or create or fix a website.

Probably the most popular reason for needing a ghostWRITER if you’re an internet marketer is time. It takes a lot of time to put togther a 40 page ebook or 4 pages of website content, or even to write 5 articles.

And the best place to find internet marketers is on an internet marketing forum.

Before you advertise your services on these forums, it is very important to read the terms of service and make sure that you advertise them in the right area of the forum.

You don’t want to advertise services in an area where members go to chat, unless this is allowed.

It’s also really helpful to become part of the community, to post regularly, to answer other people’s posts, and to let people get to know you.

People generally prefer to do business with someone that they feel that they know something about.

That level of comfort and familiarity don’t happen overnight. So if you check in to a few of your favorite forums a couple of times a day and take the time to interact, you will be helping yourself a great deal.

This doesn’t mean that you can’t get clients immediately; it just means that you will get more clients over time if you take time to participate in the community.

There are also a lot of well known freelancers forums on the internet. For some of them, you have to pay a small fee to join and bid on projects, but many freelancers make their living off these sites, so it can be well worth it.

www.elance.com is a well known freelancer’s website.

As you can see, there are numerous categories of freelancers who can sell their services on their site.

Freelancers can - and should! - post a portfolio, and clients can leave testimonials about the quality of the work.

Many business people go to use sites like this because it allows them to hire people for projects whenever they need them, rather than hire someone full time when they may not need the services that frequently.

www.guru.com is another popular service. As you can see, they also have a wide variety of types of freelance work available.

You may have noticed the escrow payment option in the upper right hand corner. This is a good way to protect both customer and freelancer - it basically means that the money is held by the site (securely) until the work has been done. It is then passed to the freelance.

For coders (programmers), rentacoder.com is a popular place to find work.

Here are some more popular freelance sites:

www.freelancewritinggigs.com

www.freelancewriting.com

www.online-writing-jobs.com

www.scriptlance.com

www.ifreelance.com

www.sologig.com

www.getafreelancer.com

www.journalismjobs.com

www.mediabistro.com