Elance is a website like Ebay, but instead of you putting on an item for sale and people bid on it you put on a project and the bids begin.
A project I was involved in was the cataloguing of every laptop on the market and their specifications. After signing into Elance I wrote a very thorough job description and posted the project.
Bids come in like an auction but you can check out the bidder’s profiles, past projects, personal websites, etc. Once you have chosen your ‘worker’ (mine was in India and spoke excellent English. I have also used people in Croatia, Russia and USA) the funding for the project goes into ESCROW. This means the money will only be released when all parties are happy.
Here is an older project I got help for -
The amount of work that can be carried out just by carefully managing your Elance workforce is truly amazing and at very very competitive prices. Look at the list below for the categories available with the numbers of work providers listed.
And that above list grows immensely when you break them down into sub-categories.
Treble the size of your work force with the click of a mouse – elance.com