Whats Your Go-to Website For Freelance Work?

You can find quality outsourcers right here on the WF, but elance is another good option. To be honest, there's a number of websites you can find good outsourcers. Find one that you are comfortable with - make sure you ask a lot of questions & see previous work from all applicants.

I use oDesk occasionally and it's always worked out fine. I'm always a little nervous about finding and managing the person remotely, but no complaints so far. I imagine most are not too different.

Yes, Freelancer is also a good option.

I might be a good option

Hi there,

We use guru.com almost daily. When we find a good freelancer - and by good I mean dependable and reliable we stick with them. The problem is, good and reliable freelancers don't remain freelancers for long. They are usually snapped up by some company and then we lose them.

It's imperative you do a few things with freelance sites:

1. Use their escrow option - don't pay in advance and set realistic metrics for the freelancer to achieve
2. Beware the brokers - many of the bids you will receive will be middle men. You can spot them easily enough - they'll be the ones who post a complete 10 page CV of their accomplishments but never address your project specifically. Delete these on sight. They are complete time-wasters.
3. Put a question in your project description that must be answered in the bid. This will tell you whether they actually read your project description or just read the title and decided to bid.
4. Always be ready to drop a freelancer like a hot potato at the first gut feeling they're not the one. This is tough. You might be two weeks into a project and you feel the freelancer just doesn't get you. Run. Don't try to fix it.

Hopefully, you'll find a gem. We've found several. We are close to tears when they can't work for us any more but then we go through the frog-kissing again.

All the best,

Sasha.

I've get the best jobs from guru.com. You do have to pay small fee in order to access them.

I use WF as well as odesk.com and guru.com, just make sure you qualify the right people and check their credentials, number of similar jobs they have done and ratings.

Hi there,

One check I forgot to mention is don't hire a freelancer with no feedback and no money earned. Then, look at their feedback not so much for the feedback but for the types of projects they've worked on.

If they have 5 stars and your project is an iOS app and all of their feedback is for building WP plugins, you might have some difficulty down the line.

We usually ask for examples of similar apps they've worked on with screenshots, etc where applicable.

All the best,

Sasha.

Elance. It might not be the best, but I've gotten quite a few good and easy gigs there.

fiverr for graphics logos and small petty stuff,

But I love, absolutly love ELANCE for the other stuff, Its awesome. :-)

There are many websites for outsources.Some good sites are Odesk, Elance , Fiverr etc.