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Why and How to outsource contract work to freelancers

by interloper on Mar 7, 2010

Have you ever hired freelancers? I have and continue to. The current economic mess forced many people including myself to find qualified help but at a lower cost. I had previously hired third party services but on relatively larger projects requiring formal documentation, signing of agreements, lawyers and accountants involved and the works. But I had not ventured the way of freelance work for small projects requiring competent help but only for a few hours to a few days. In early 2009, I started looking for highly skilled help for a very small project. I wasn't sure if anyone with that kind of skill level would be willing to work on such a small project. But then I thought, what do I have to loose so I finally placed my requirements at an online marketplace for freelance work. To my surprise, quite a few people bid on the project and the job got done at a lower than anticapated cost. Emboldened, I started farming out more work, even stuff that I normally do...Read More >>



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