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How to Enlist a Global Work Force of Freelancers
A new generation of online service marketplaces is giving small companies more opportunities than ever to find specialized expertise and affordable labor. Main Street businesses can shop a virtual international bazaar of freelancers to recruit computer programmers in Russia, graphic designers in San Francisco or data analysts in India.
“This is one more step in the path to leveling the playing field between small and large businesses,” said Thomas W. Malone, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of “The Future of Work” (Harvard Business School Press, 2004). “A small-business person in a company of one can look to the world like a very large company and have access to all kinds of services — and that’s largely because of this kind of model.”
These online marketplaces are fueled by several trends. The recession and recent wave of downsizing have forced many corporations to eliminate in-house services and use independent contractors instead. Buyouts and layoffs have pushed many skilled professionals into the freelance marketplace.
Meanwhile, technological advances make remote work and virtual teams more feasible. Business processes are allowing companies to mix and match services with more ease than ever. An array of freelance marketplaces are making services tradable online, much as eBay and Craigslist made goods tradable a decade ago. These sites include general freelance marketplaces (Guru, Elance, ITMatchOnline, oDesk) and others offering specialties like software (Rent A Coder), personal assistants (virtualassistants.com), graphics (99designs), or creative services (CrowdSpring). Read more…
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Online resources to find freelance, project and contract work
There are some great resources out there and they all differ as far as benefits to you and how much you can make as a freelancer. There are pros and cons for each. To make it easier to read this article, I will be substituting the word freelancer for any work that is freelance, project, consulting, etc.
ITMatchOnline.com - World’s leading outsourcing portal dealing in contact details. You can save 30-50% by posting your projects on projects@itmatchonline.com. Over 30,000 service providers available in various categories. Post your projects at free of cost. Offer great opportunity to get projects to service provider and freelancer.
Craigslist - The one that most people are awarer of is Craigslist.com. With Chicago being a major city, there are always new opportunities being posted. While Craigslist varies greatly from your traditional freelance and project work site, I’ve found it very useful in find opportunities. I’m actually speaking with a startup Pet site Yeepet.com this Monday to help them get started with selling online advertising on their site. They’re based in San Francisco, but they posted their opportunity nationwide and it found its way to the Chicago jobs section. I suggest you browse the various categories that interest you.
