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Using Guru.com

Not so long ago, promoting yourself as a freelance meant spending many hours and hundreds - or even thousands - of dollars on promotion. But thanks to the Internet, that is no longer the case. The advent of a whole world of services marketplaces and job matching sites has transformed the freelance market. Now you can post your resume with a few selected sites, and get exposure to tens of thousands of companies.

One of the first and most professional of the services marketplaces is Guru.com.

 

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With over half a million gig connections, Guru.com is the one site every freelance professional must be registered with. Whatever your specialization, you can be sure that this site has a wealth of projects in your field.

Quite simply, setting up a profile on Guru.com is the fastest way to accelerate your freelance career. Guru.com allows you to:

• search through a database of new, quality projects
• set up a gig list to track hot gigs
• reach a huge base of companies needing freelance help

Because Guru.com offers such a great range of projects, it’s easy to find gigs which exactly match your skills and experience.

The simplest way to do this is to create a Saved Search which defines which type of projects you are interested in. You can ask for the latest search details
to be sent to you every week, so you know when a new project in your field becomes available.

If you have several areas of interest, you can set up a Saved Search for each. By timing these to arrive on different days, you can ensure a steady supply of new project leads:

 

To see the wealth of freelance projects awaiting you on Guru.com today, just click on the link below, then enter your skill in the ‘Find Projects’ box.

Ready to get freelance work? Just click through and spend five minutes registering your guru profile free of charge. Select ‘Enter as a Freelance’ on the home page, then click on ‘Sign up Now’...