One of the main questions, especially at the beginning: Where to get orders?
We talk about working platforms, life hacks and non-standard approaches that really work.
🧾 1. Freelance exchanges — a starting point for beginners
📌 Suitable for: copywriters, designers, programmers, managers
📌 What they give: quick access to orders, simple registration
🔹 TOP platforms:
✅ Advice: don't be afraid to take small orders with good reviews - this works as a reputation.
🤝 2. Thematic Telegram chats and channels
📌 Where to look:
- @remotejobua — Ukrainian remote vacancies
- @freelancehunt — order feed
- @findjob — foreign vacancies
✅ Advantages: orders without commission, direct communication with the customer
⚠️ But be careful with scammers - first an advance or a safe deal.
💼 3. LinkedIn and resume in English
📌 Suitable if you know English at least at the correspondence level.
Create a profile, specify freelance as a format, add a portfolio.
✅ Pros:
- Access to foreign clients
- They often look for those who are ready for a contract + remote work
🌐 4. Own website or portfolio
📌 What to post:
- Services
- Cases (before/after, examples of work)
- Reviews
- Contacts + Telegram/Email
✅ The site increases trust and allows you to get clients not through exchanges, but directly.
- Works in Google search.
📢 5. Niche specific exchanges
🎨 Designer? — 99designs
📜 Copywriter? — Textbroker
👨💻 Programmer? — Toptal
📊 Data and analytics? — We Work Remotely
✅ Advice: look for your “niche” - there is less competition and higher prices.
💬 6. Community and forums
📌 Where to be active:
- Facebook groups: "Freelance Ukraine", "Remote 2025"
- Reddit: /r/freelance
- Discord servers by profession
✅ Often orders “fly out” exactly where you simply comment on posts and help.
📧 7. Cold emails (outreach)
📌 Suitable for: designers, developers, marketers
✅ The gist: you find a business and write about how you can be useful.
Works better than it looks, especially if you adapt it to the client.
🧠 8. Chatbots and search automation
📌 Examples:
- JSearchBot in Telegram — selection of vacancies
- RSS feeds from exchanges (for example, Upwork + Zapier in Telegram)
- Push notifications from job sites
✅ Ideal if you want to save time and be the first.
🚀 9. Word of mouth + regular customers
📌 How to run:
- Done the job - ask for feedback
- He asked: “Do you happen to know anyone who might find this useful?”
- Offer a discount for a repeat order or referral
✅ Repeat clients are 60–70% of a successful freelancer’s income.
📌 Conclusion
Freelancing is not only about skill, but also about ability look for and offer yourself correctlyDon't limit yourself to one platform: try 2-3 channels, optimize the process and don't be shy about talking about yourself.
🚀 The most successful ones don’t sit on exchanges – they build a flow of orders around themselves.
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