I Am Looking for the Power of Outsourcing

[Bruha]

I now have a system in place to produce adsense sites around my keyword research.

I am looking for help though in outsourcing site creation, content, social bookmarking, etc.

If anyone is currently outsourcing this work and can recommend to me some people who help them out in building their sites please let me know.

Thanks.

[Lucid]

You will find people to do this for you in freelance sites such as elance.com, getafreelancer.com and odesk.com

[markshields]

Outsourcing from what I can see is becoming the next big thing and those sites mentioned above are all very good however I did have one instance when a company wanted $19 per hour for a Virtual Assistant and I did consider that expensive what about anyone else think?

[yourwebgurus]

Originally Posted by Bruha

I now have a system in place to produce adsense sites around my keyword research.

I am looking for help though in outsourcing site creation, content, social bookmarking, etc.

If anyone is currently outsourcing this work and can recommend to me some people who help them out in building their sites please let me know.

Thanks.

It's challenging to identify the right people for any of these projects. There are a lot of great people out there but there are a lot of knuckleheads who can't get work done on it, communicate properly, etc. Anyway I have used getafreelancer for a bunch of work, mostly links, with some good and some bad experience. Always look at the ratings on the provider on these sites, and REPEAT yourself about 2-3X and have the person repeat back to you on a private message what they will be doing, or you may end up with someone saying they didn't think you wanted XYZ. Craigslist though may be a better alternative, or the local college. I have recently been looking moreso at finding a local person who wants to gain resume experience but will work hard. That's probably the better alternative honestly.

[Lucid]

Can't agree more: communication is very important.

Ratings are not always a good measure. I for example have got a bad rating from one difficult client. So take a good look at all ratings, not an average since one bad rating can ruin a provider's overall rating.

Craigslist is a good place to post projects as well. I've found many projects there myself. The bonus, for me, was not having to pay a freelance site's fee. I forgot to mention rentacoder.com earlier, that one charges up to 15% of the fee.

Speaking as a service provider, eLance is good, it has lots of projects, especially in my field. Rentacoder has less projects but I do get invitations once in a while when I don't get any from other sites. Their search feature is slow however. oDesk I've just recently joined and looks good for both providers and buyers. Lots of projects there for SEO and link building.

As for price, you will find a whole range on all these sites. The question is, what is the value YOU place on the job. If $19 per hour is too high, specify in your project description the range you expect to pay so you don't waste a provider's time.

While there are many who will hire the lowest priced provider, I've won many projects knowing I was the highest (or near highest) bidder. This was done by proving my worth. After all, you get what you pay for.

Remember that these providers have overhead and must pay these freelance sites a fee for each job won. And they take all the risk.