Offer your professionalexpertise in an onlinemarketplace

.These days, you can
do more than just sell your old
books via Amazon and your old
Coach handbags via eBay—now
you can sell your professional
capabilities in a marketplace. No
longer are you limited to looking
for a permanent or contract job
on Web 1.0 style job sites like
Monster or CareerBuilder. The
new breed of freelancing and
project-oriented sites let
companies needing help
describe their projects. Then
freelancers and small businesses
offer bids or ideas or proposals
from which those buyers can
choose.
Elance covers everything from
programming and writing to
consulting and design, while
RentACoder focuses on software,
natch. If you’re a graphic
designer, check out options like
Design Outpost or LogoWorks–
you don’t have to find the
customers, they’ll come to you.
Wannabe industry analysts might
sign up for TechDirt’s Insight
Community, a marketplace for
ideas about technology
marketing.