The Freelance Marketplace – outsourcing projects at an affordable cost
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1. Freelancer
Freelancer (formerly GetAFreelancer) is the world's largest outsourcing and crowd sourcing marketplace for small business. There are 2,451,843 employers and freelancers connected globally from over 234 countries and regions. Freelance projects cover fields of software, writing, data entry and design right through to engineering and the sciences, sales and marketing, and accounting and legal services.
2. Joomlancers
Joomlancer is regarded as one of the best places for Joomla experts to get high paid jobs. Projects on Freelancers are mainly related to Joomla and Mambo, mostly customizing Joomla! templates or developing extensions, but you still find other types of projects here like design, translation or something like that. Joomlancer is said to be less competitive compared to other freelance marketplaces, only ten projects are posted daily yet the fee is quite interesting.
3. Elance
Elancer, based in California, has been available on the World Wide Web since 1999. Elancer tends to attract employers with a higher budget because of the 10% upload fee per project. On other sites, they normally offer free uploading. It might be good news for freelancers working in more developed countries like US or Canada as they don't have to compete with freelancers from less developed nations such as India, China and Vietnam.
Generally speaking, Elancer is a good marketplace for employers with big budgets looking for quality freelancers.
4. Odesk
Odesk has an online tracking system, which makes it stand out from the crowd. This system checks employees' work every ten minute so that their work is assured to be under progress. This freelance marketplace is different from other sites, which is a good for employers who prefer to pay per hour rather than by project.
Odesk does not charge membership fees to providers. They charge providers 10% of the project fee paid to them instead. Employers can use Odesk for free. Also, Odesk has an online ticket submission support form, which usually takes around one day to get the ticket request submitted back.
5. Scriptlance
The most noticeable thing about Scriptlance is its free registration and free monthly fees. In general, this is a competitive marketplace with hundreds of projects posted every day and thousands of freelancers bidding. Scriptlance provides some withdrawal options including E-gold. Another good thing is its low commissions, which is only five percent of the project amount (minimal fee $5).
6. Vworker
RentACoder is now renamed as vWorker freelance marketplace which stands for "virtual worker". The reason is that freelancers joining this site are not only coders but also experts from other fields like design, writing, assistants and more. Vworker has had some changes, one of which is the payment method called pay-for-time that lets you do both. This method saves money and helps both buyers and sellers have more flexibility in their work.
The site has changed its domain with the resulting negative impact on the Google page rank of vWorker now (it's now quite low). Some people feel hesitant about vWorker due to this reason. However, if someone has experience with Rentacoder, vWorker is absolutely no different in quality.
7. Guru
Guru is one of the world's largest online marketplaces for freelancers with more than one million registered members and more than 8000 projects posted monthly. This site focuses on three main areas: Technology, Creative Arts and Business but over 220 skill-based service categories. The website was founded long time ago in 1997 and operated in Pittsburgh, Pennsyvania now.
8. Project4hire
Project4hire is free of charge for clients to post projects and for contractors to bid for those projects. Only a small fee is withdrawn from the contractors' projects.
You will find here OsCommerce Programmers, Wordpress developers, vBulletin skin designers, Joomla coders, Drupal programmers and xHTML/CSS coders and more.You can also find translation services and translation jobs. You can find plenty of freelancers in Project4hire.
9. iFreelance
In iFreelancer, registered freelancers have to pay membership fees for the services. The basic membership is $4.69 per month, silver for $6.95 per month and gold for $9 per month. The higher the membership, the more benefits you get. Especially, freelancers don't have to pay a commission on what they earn. This site has got a lot of trust from buyers and freelancers and built a strong relationship between them.
10. BizReef
Bizreef is an Israeli owned Freelance Marketplace launched in October 2007 by MeVideo Ltd. The coolest thing about Bizreef is that it has an Escrow system that guarantees that freelancers will receive order services as well as protection of their rights. The payment is kept in Escrow and just released after freelancers approve their delivered work. You can feel safe with transaction. Plus, Bizreef provides a bunch of projects every day that attracts many freelancers in different parts of the world.
I hope that these sources will give you the best freelance job opportunities worldwide. If you happen to know any good freelance marketplaces, feel free to share with me and other people. For those who are just starting to look for freelance work, I guarantee the reliability of them and suggest you try them. What do you think of them? Leave some comments!
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Thursday, 22 December 2011
This is a good compilation of freelance sites. Definitely worth checking out. Take note, however, that if your project is long-term, it is recommended that you hire someone that can work for you on a regular basis.
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Thursday, 22 December 2011Yeah, Hire a Web Designer!
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Saturday, 21 January 2012
i am waiting for this information thanks a lot my dear friend. keep posting!!!
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Tuesday, 17 July 2012
i think one of the best resource you forgot for php freelancers
phpcodelance http://www.phpcodelance.com/· huyennt likes this comment. -
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Thanks renuo for your comment. Until now I know that great source
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Sunday, 26 August 2012
scriptalnce is being replace by weblance which going to launch in late sept I think
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Monday, 17 September 2012
no doubt you get the finest programmers at phpcodelance.com but i thought rather than going for a freelancer its far better to outsource my project to some firm. And I prefer to choose http://www.outsourcing-partners.com/
They did a fav job for my project.· huyennt likes this comment. -
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Tks Micheal for sharing your experience with us.
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Wednesday, 30 January 2013
In my opinion, if you are hiring a freelancer.. you are taking a big risk for completing your project. The risk good be like:
The programmer is not capable of coding the thing which you require.
The project might take more time than it was promised to you.
The implementation of code may not be of best quality as you opt for some cheap programmer
and etc...
I just asked one question to myself i.e. If i can play safe then why should i risk my project and opt to hire a freelancer?
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Monday, 28 January 2013
Freelance is somebody who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long term.When we talk about freelance jobs then elance.com comes first in our mind.Similar http://worknhire.com/ is also good site for freelance. I have experience in this site. There are so many freelance profiles are made with their developed project. This is good site to get job and freelance portal. You can make your profile in this site and get good work.
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Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Next to elance, freelancer and co. there is a new source for freelancing IT-projects called www.freelancermap.com. Registration, uploading a profile and unlimited applications on the published vacancies are free of costs. Another plus: Neither the freelancer nor the project provider has to pay a commission fee.
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Friday, 15 February 2013
Great list to outsource your projects. Fortunately, I've used about 1/3 of them already
Cheers; Irene· huyennt likes this comment. -
Monday, 18 February 2013
Which source you recommend Joomla users, Irene?
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