Elance.com is a site that allows you to put up for bid projects you need done, like programming work, website development, graphic designs, writing sales copy for your site. You can specify how much your willing to pay and the timeframes you need to work with and any other important information about what you need done. Once you've filled in all your project info and submit it, Elance announces it to a huge list of prospective contractors who will begin placing bids to win the project. When I recently put some website needs up on Elance, I had ten bidders within two hours. Some of them had even put together mock ups based on the description I outlined. I ended up awarding the project to a design team in Argentina.
Elance facilitates the process of selecting a bid and setting up all project terms, including handling payments. You can view comments and recommendations of all the companies bidding before you select one. You can even ask questions of them before you decide. And Elance set up a project workspace for me and the contractor to share files, track changes and send messages back and forth. So within a week, I had gone through a few iterations and finally came up with an initial site design. Most importantly, the site will end up costing me about 20% of what I would pay locally,without comprimising on quality. Not good for the local economy - but I do my share of supporting local businesses so I dont feel too guilty about this.
Elance can be used for personal or business projects - almost anything - I even know some people that outsource parts of their 9-5 jobs to virtual assistants in India named Jonathan.
So if you are looking for web design work, coding projects, internet research or any other virtual work - to leverage time and to be done without having to break the bank, check out Elance.com.
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