It was with an angel investor in Elance, serial entrepreneur Rakesh Mathur, that he started Webaroo.
Managers can look to services like Odesk and eLance to contract out virtually any task.
CreateSpace offers these services, but for these steps he decided to hire freelancers from eLance.com.
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You can find them all online nowadays through sites like Elance and Craigslist.
Does that make it a kind of elance, where producers have to bid against each other?
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That type of work could not be migrated to an eLance or to any public platform.
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Another site, ELance, has even more freelancers and a lot of lower-paying jobs.
My colleague Eric Mack, over at crowdsourcing.org, took a look recently at the distribution of jobs on Elance.
Unlike more established technical work networks like Freelancer, eLance and ODesk, these are location-aware systems.
To look for other opportunities around the country visit Elance, Guru, Freelance, Craigslist and Odesk.
Other companies, for instance eWork and eLance, concentrate on specific projects: service jobs such as data entry, translation or programming.
However, Elance attracts a good number of professionals with specialized skills in niches such as writing speeches and developing websites.
You can place a bid on Elance or search on oDesk or Guru to find that competent person.
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Sites like eLance, TaskRabbit, Fiverr, 99designs and 3to30.com are virtual employment offices offering gigs you can pick up and put down as needed.
HelloBrain and its rival upstarts in this international tech bazaar, such as Ants.com and ELance, specialize in the techie's version of the one-night stand.
Findings released by Elance, the freelance marketplace, yesterday, showed that 70% of respondents were happier working as a freelancer than as a permanent employee.
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More detailed rating systems and independent certification could help. eLance already gets buyers to evaluate sellers in several categories, such as timeliness and responsiveness.
One model that intrigues me, as a way to make freelancing more accessible, is the one used by Elance, an online talent marketplace.
Sites like Elance, Adtriboo, and ODesk offer work up to bids from the freelance pool and, by and large, global competition drives price down.
Elance and oDesk take steps to verify freelancers' identity, provide tracking tools to measure time worked and post freelancers' skills-test ratings, client reviews and work history.
One thing Elance has found is that, as the site has matured, companies are increasingly willing to pay higher wages for the best workers, according to Rosati.
And for many it is still represented by sites like eLance, that create global markets for a range of tasks like web design, graphic design and coding.
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Online platforms like Elance, ODesk, Guru and many more provide a marketplace for freelance providers and those who need them, to find each other, work together, and pay securely.
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GigWalk, Freelancer, TaskRabbit, eLance, Odesk: Contract work systems that help people post their skills and project managers look for skilled people for project work.
In 1998 he started Elance, an online contracting site that connects freelancers with employers (he still has a stake in that unlisted entity but is no longer active in it).
The most in-demand skill set in the freelance marketplace is creative and technical talent, comprising 80% of the advertised projects on the site according to the Elance 2012 employment report.
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Guru, Elance and Odesk all have large freelance databases with many contractors actively bidding on projects. 99 designs is also a great site to consider for logo and web design.
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The number of mobile development jobs offered on Elance.com, a freelancer website, doubled between the first quarters of last year and this year, twice as fast as growth on the site as a whole.
There are contractors (that surveys like MBOPartners cover), casual global freelance pools on sites like Elance, and increasingly crowd-based labor sites, which gather around sites like Mechanical Turk and Crowdflower, where, once again, US workers predominate.
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