Many freelancers get a lot of their work from specialized freelancing job sites, such as Elance, Guru, oDesk etc. They can create a profile there, list their skills, take specialty tests and showcase their work so far.
The clients come and hire these freelancers, pay for the jobs and then provide the feedback, which later will help the professional score more jobs and earn more.
So you’ll probably ask yourself: why bother with my own freelancing portfolio, when I have all these nice features provided there?
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