Dependable Freelancers

Hi!

I suggest having a full time, part time or monthly retainer arrangement when hiring offshore assistants.

Then, I recommend going to firms with a proven track record of dependability and proficiency in offering business consultancy and leased office staffing & management services.

Hope this helps.

Yes the freelancer re not much experienced, those who re experience increase their rates. few are lazy and waste the time of employers. always look people who have good reviews and feed backs. then decide bout them. I m also free lancer and working freelancer.com.

Freelancing takes a pretty time to think about how to choose right people for the wor to be outsourced.

Often freelancers are found on GAF, elance, odesk but if you want to search them CL is a good place too.

Sometime freelancers are found to be useful in times where they are use for Article Writing, Link Building, & manual SEO but when it comes to programming, software development, just choose only those with a good review

As a freelancer myself, the advice I would give to you,
is to make sure that you understand who you're hiring.
Web developers and designers ARE NOT the same, and
a web designer is not necessarily a graphic designer,
though he/she could be.

None of these are programmers, but the developer is the
most likely to be able to multi-function in this capacity to
a degree.

For instance, if you hire an individual to do your web
development, you must understand that the finished
product may be high on the functionality spectrum,
but low to midrange on the eye-candy factor.

However, a web designer can churn out gorgeous websites
which don't necessarily meet usability standards, or have
the degree of functionality that you're looking for.

The programmer is a different beast all together. He rights
software for you. So if, for instance, you need a mortgage
calculator built into an Ajax framework, the programmer is
your guy.

Who you hire really depends on what you need, and your
safest bet (usually) is to hire a team, or have several people
that you outsource to. Some individuals can wear all of these
hats (I can wear multiple hats but do not, and never will again),
but it's not good. One or more areas usually suffer at the expense
of the other.

If you don't mind using pre-generated themes, then hire the
developer. He/she can wear multiple hats, and is most likely
to be able to handle all of your functionality requirements from
squeeze pages, to complete websites.

Be watchful for contractors who over promise on delivery dates.
Creativity block, and burnout occurs very often with freelancers.
If you have short deadlines, and are working with a super-budget
contractor, count on a rapid burnout time.

Look for developers/designers/programmers who under promise, and
over deliver, and then treat them like gold. Keep solid, but realistic
deadlines, and watch for burnout. Pay a premium.

@BeauJustin

Yes, I already have one full time designer, and 3 full time programmers, plus some various part-time support including data entry, writing and some specific niche tasks. I know all about giving the right task to the right person.

What I normally do is give a new person a survey, and ask them to rate which task they do better; something like this:
1. Would you be better at slicing PSDs, or adding new fields to a database table?
2. Would you be better at coding validated html and css, or troubleshooting a PHP function?
3. Are you more knowledgeable in Javascript or PHP?

I give them several questions like this (with no wrong answer) and then I get an idea of what they feel they do best. Even within the subset of programmers, that can be broken down much deeper, and if you don't ask, you may be missing hidden strengths!

Just wanted to follow up and say that I used Odesk, and have been pleased with my experience. I don't know that a newbie to freelancing would easily find the right worker for the job, but with my experience I was able to weed through a few and get some dependable folk.

Well in outsourcing, there's always a pros and cons. You need to be careful and look for a reputable company, ask for samples and client references so you can decide. Business won't grow if you haven't trusted the company that you're working with.

Freelancers are those employees who are working from home. This staff doesn't have any employers who will manage and check the quality of their work unlike staffs who are working in a firm, you are assured that they have undergone proper training and dedicated working for your project only.

I got my Full time VA from Find a real, online job! | Home.
My advice is: If you are looking for a VA, you be able to clarify the things that you need before you finally hiring them. Like your work loads, etc. You should set your expectations. Start for a trial to check if they are worth hiring. You should also give them a decent salary so you can keep them for long.

What kind of service you are looking for? I also have a freelance team doing seo projects, ecommerce projects, and data entry projects. We are really looking for good and long term clients. Please PM me back with job details so that we can work on that.

If you have enough work to take on a full time emplyee then you have more stable help.

They still can be outsourced.

A top place to find them is at online jobs.ph

Ewen

Freelancers are not always that bad. The difficulty is in finding dependable ones,