Sep 15 2008
Hiring Freelancers
More and more people are making a living by completed freelance work found on the internet. Some of these people are aspiring writers, some are from all over the world, some are agoraphobic and need income, really they can be anyone. You however, can benefit from using freelancers.You can hire freelance workers to do just about anything. Content writing, CSS web design, photoshop, populating forums, creating backlinks for your website, translation, telemarketing, graphic design, and much more. If you have any project coming up that does not require hiring a full time employee you should consider hiring a freelancer.
Now you can find freelancers from across the world. There are websites out there that allow you to post a job and freelancers will “bid” for the job. They will post their portfolios and quote you a price. This usually gives you a list of no fewer than five people to choose from to complete your project. If, however, you do not like the quality of applicants you can deny them all and post again. All this is done at little cost to you. Overall, however, you will save a large sum of money. There are people who will write a hundred pages of quality content for only $50. Others will design websites for a couple hundred dollars compared to the thousands of dollars it normally costs. If you are on a tight budget, this is the way to go.
A few of the websites I have used include:
Most of these websites take care of the tax stuff for you. They send out W-9 to all their freelancers at the end of the year so you do not even have to place these people on the payroll, they’re on someone else’s payroll. It’s basically the legal way to pay someone under the table.
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thats is so true…companies now prefer freelancers. It cuts their cost by almost 50% as compared to hiring full time employees. Freelancers dont need monthly salary, just per project basis/ per content submitted , employers dont need to make space in their office, freelancers use their own resources - electricity etc.
I used to work in an SEO company in Los Angeles and i was looking at hiring freelancers back then but my employer found an alternative. They hired people from another country like India which costs even more less than freelancers here in the US. They just communicate via IM and pay them over paypal. Personally i think that would work if youre really concerned about your expenses but the quality of work is so much different. Not that im saying people from Asia delivers poor quality, NOT AT ALL … but its just different when, lets say youre writing for an audience here in US but the writer has never even been to the US. Its a different culture, background, lingo all together.