If you are even thinking about using Elance, Rent-a-Coder, Freelancer.com or any other online freelancing site, get ready for some Brain Damage! These sites are terrible for both the clients and the freelancers and here are just some reasons why:
For Clients:
- What if I don’t know exactly what I want? Too bad! These sites want a piece of the transaction so they control your freedom to work directly with the client to help define the project to meet your business goals!
- Who is actually doing the development? Because you cannot work with the freelancers directly, you may THINK you are working with a qualified freelancer but they just hand the project and a programing book off to a high school student!
- These prices are too good to be true! They are! The freelancers are forced into a competitive bidding process so early in the project that is so heavily weighted against them that they are forced to underbid poorly defined projects. In fact, these projects are typically a miserable experience for the freelancers and you are likely to get crap back!
- Why can’t I find top-notch professionals? On these sites, the freelances are incented to do quick and dirty jobs to meet hard deadlines. Scope can and should change as you learn more about the project. It is nearly impossible to do Agile or intelligent development in this way!
For Freelancers:
$99.00 Per Month Private Label Social Network
See our new network here as an example!
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- We manage SEO, Promote
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It is not necessary to spend thousands of dollars re-creating the wheel: to create your own social network is now free on Ning.com;
The Realtown Seal of Approval: After beating this drum for so many years, I gladly herald the new Realtown Seal of approval: now is the beginning of the standardization of Internet products and services, with standards of quality, fair pricing, and good service. I suggest you look for this when you do business with any Internet vendor.
photo credit: David Boyle in DC
There are reasons why I had the outrageous gall to re-start my online marketing company without capital: I had done it all before to the tune of millions, didn’t need a physical location, was selling a service with very little hard costs other than our time, and had re-created RISMedia.com (Real Estate Magazine’s website) as a Wordpress blog, with links to me and advertising to get leads from Realtors, who spend alot online.
Everything went well at first: we did over $1000,000.00 in the first 18 months and it looked like were back for sure. Our overhead had risen with our growth to $45,000.00 per month. Then this economy hit, and this article is about what happened to our merchant account when that happened.
Be sure to read this article: 1rst page Organic results: North Brunswick Real Estate, to learn about how a Realtor can definately achieve rankings for city, state, real estate and other competitive key word searches by way of a properly optimized, well sydicated blog: Scott ranks for many searches with his http://homesofnj.com/, here just a few examples:
At Social Media Systems, we deal a lot with various online projects that cover an entire range of requirements.
As online marketers, this puts us in a 3rd party vendor relation as many times we promote a site that we have not originally created. In many of these instances, we discover helpful, bright, and supportive design/hosting personnel. In other instances, we discover companies that have painful ways of destroying the relationship… by holding the mutual client hostage with their own information.
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