We recommend starting with one of the major “freelance” Websites, which offer
several advantages over the open contract market or local body shops:
• Registration eliminates some low-end resources
• Feedback systems create positive work incentives and make picking
resources easier
• Managed conversations and relationships through a third party add
security if desired
• Global resources will respond to your posting(s) allowing you to review
them at your convenience
• Much more competitive pricing than in most local markets
• Security of payments
There are dozens of “freelance” websites out there, but there are two that pretty
much own the space, and we have used both and can recommend them. These
are Elance and Guru.com.
Those sites feature many more than just programming resources. For coders
exclusively, we recommend two more sites, Scriptlance and Rentacoder.
a wide variety of freelancers in technical and other areas. All fees are paid by the
vendors, so as a client, the whole experience is free.
A large percentage of the programming resources you will find on Elance are
“offshore,” i.e. in India or elsewhere. While we strongly discourage using offshore
resources for work like ghostwriting, we encourage you to work with foreign
programming resources if their skills are a true match, there is no language
barrier, and you are especially focused on keeping costs down.
A newer and in many ways better version of Elance, Guru.com
sides, has several systems in place to make fraud less likely, and seems to
attract a higher caliber of vendor as well as higher budget and higher quality
projects.
© Copyright 2006 by Michael Rasmussen and Jason Tarasi - All Rights Reserved.
www.ResellRightsBlowout.com
