Hiring Good Freelancers

On the internet there are quite a few websites where you can hire Freelancers. Just type in “hire freelancers” and a whole bunch of web addresses will pop up. The first four or five addresses that pop up are very popular choices amongst most marketers. I personally recommend these sites.

Let’s look at Elance first - a very popular well-known freelance website. Here you can search through a number of different freelancers’ portfolios. What you’re checking for is their feedback. People with high feedback, majority positive and may be, a few negatives are less likely to do a bad job than others might do.

You can also post a bid request and have freelancers bid for your job. You will get a variety of prices and freelancers to choose from, but, mildly saying, don’t automatically choose the lowest price. Lower priced freelancers are sometimes cheap because they’re less experienced. But having said that it’s not always the case. Many times they will be cheap because they are new to the site and they need to build a reputation.

Other really well-known sites to hire freelancers are – not in any typical order are PeoplePerHour.com, odesk.com, Freelancer.com and Rent-a-coder.com.

With all the mentioned, as with Elance, search profiles of many freelancers – check their feedback good and bad – then decide who to use for your typical tasks that need to be done.

As with Rent-a-coder, another very popular freelancing site amongst marketers. They are very popular for being a place to find programmers, but they don’t only have programmers available.
Here you can also find writers and graphics designers and sometimes people who will do tasks like site submissions and other small tasks.

Another good way to find a decent freelancer is to ask for referrals from friends and acquaintances you’ve met while networking in your typical field.

I haven’t mentioned Forums – another great place to find good freelancers. Hiring people/freelancers through forums has the benefit of being a place where you can look around to see a person’s reputation/profile before you hire them. You can search within the forum for their name to see if any positive or negative remarks have been made about them.

And why not post on a forum and ask for recommendations. You’ll certainly get a number of recommendations, as well as a few private messages from freelancers who want to work for you.

Doing a thorough search for a well-known outsourcing company – checking freelancers’ profiles, reputation and feedback – you stand a chance of hiring a good Freelancer.