Comments on: 5 Things to Know Before Becoming an ELance Provider

By: Bhanita

Bhanita — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:46:46 +0000

How can i get a excel based job?

By: leonardo

leonardo — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:32:59 +0000

Hi. Can you tell me if translation jobs are posted on Elance too?

By: EES

EES — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:00:19 +0000

Thank you for this article. I signed-up with Elance just so I can have a part time job to earn more income. It wasn’t easy at first to win a bid against very talented competitors across the globe. But it is not that difficult either if you will follow the advise from this article and other similar articles. There is a saying, “You reap what you sow”. Patience and perseverance does payoff and it doesn’t take that long if you do your home work and do your job right. Just keep bidding on projects you know you can and will finish and before you know it, you have repeat clients and a steady stream of income. I am now making more than my regular job. Hopefully soon, I can be a fulltime freelancer running a business from home and so I can spend more time with my family.

By: Michael Mangalam

Michael Mangalam — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:05:34 +0000

If you are looking to hire business consultant types, check out ParetoCentral.com, which is the “Global marketplace to
find consultants”. It works similar to craigslist, except that each listing gets global exposure. At the same time,
consultants tend to be from US.
- Michael

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:47:38 +0000

Thank you for this article. I have considered ELance off and on, and this is exactly the kind of honest, detailed information I have looked for.

By: Jobsfor10$

Jobsfor10$ — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:54:11 +0000

In today’s very dynamic and ever changing labor market, there is more than just the conventional 9 to 5 job. There are a lot of options to work at home, doing exactly what you like, at your own price. Some of these solutions are: Jobsfor$10, Elance, Odesk and others. I have tried them all, and I chose jobsfor10$. The main advantages that Jobsfor10$ provides, by comparison to the other similar options, are:
– you can find very specific services (example: 70 High Backlinks from sites with PR6-8, 35,000 Traffic Visitors To Your Website, submit your site to 230 Plus Search Engines, 2 ebook cover design, upload, install, and configure any script for your website, write a best 300 word above article on any subject , etc)
- The prices are low ($5 – $10 – $20)
- The work and payment are 100% guaranteed
- There is no negotiation, as the prices are fixed
- The signup process is very lean and easy
- The website has a very smart services ranking service, that allows the customer to make the best informed choice

By: rudy

rudy — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:13:16 +0000

Also, look at the complexity of Elance’s contract? Anyone ever bother to read it? It is written so much in favor of the employer. For example the freelancer has to warranty their work? What for a $500 product development job to design a new widget? You want me to assume product liability?? Then it becomes confusing when you try to get them to sign your contract stating the opposite, which contract is in force.

By: rudy

rudy — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:10:43 +0000

My experience is the RFP’s employers write are dreadful. The leave so many holes and questions for providers. A true professional provider ends up give the employer free consulting advice just by asking questions to put together a quote and a well written quote itself gives these lazy employees free advice as to what the issues to consider are in completing a job.

If I ever wrote RFP’s like these employers do at my corporate job in mech. engineering, I’d have my _ss handed to me on a platter because it being undefined opens so many opportunities for the consultant not to do the job properly. The onus should be on the employer to write good RFPs and not suck free project advice and make the employee do all the work in defining the project.

By: Melba

Melba — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:10:27 +0000

One thing I noticed reading this thread is that almost all of these posts are lacking proper grammar, punctuation, capitalization, etc. Also, most posts are not very creative with the use of vernacular. I don’t even have a huge track record of writing for business since I am a former database administrator (although I have written text for proposals, presentations, training materials, etc.). However, after reading all of these posts, I think I could be incrediby successful on E-Lance.

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:10:35 +0000

@Elizabeth. You’re missing quite a few capitalizations and punctuations. It’s just a thought.