Angeli, I used elance and guru years ago. I prefered guru and I closed about $30,000 over 2 years; I believe I closed about $7,000 worth of business on elance. Two of the Guru projects were $14,000 and $10,000 and the rest were $500 - $3000. Elance, I had a couple small projects and one $5,000 project.
The problem is that if you value your time and work, it takes forever to find customers willing to pay more than $500 to $1000 for a project. If you don't mind doing work really cheap, you'll get projects quicker, but you have to turn out a lot of work to make it worthwhile in my opinion. Finding any projects with reasonable budgets is difficult and you spend a lot of time searching and bidding. I used it to help me get my company off the ground, but I wouldn't use either one of them now that I'm established and have leads coming in from other sources. I found it best to only bid on projects where I really thought they would spend a lot of money. Don't bid on simple websites unless you are going to do it for a few hundred dollars. I've also used Guru to hire freelancers and that has worked out fairly well, although, in most cases I've restricted it to Houston and then met with people for a quote unquote interview. Hope that helps. -Steve -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Angeli Wahlstedt Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 12:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [houcfug] Re: Looking for freelance or part-time work Hi, thanks, Byron, that reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask. This is probably a bit off-topic, but have anyone actually used Elance (either as a provider or a client), and if so, how was your experience? I am asking because the competition on Elance seems quite a bit stiff, especially with many people out of country offering service for very low rates. Also, have anyone tried Guru.com as well? You can email me privately, as to not clutter this mailing list with non-CF stuff. My email address is angeli + at sign + ideasculpt.com. Thanks, -- Angeli -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giles, Byron L CTR USAF ACC 8 AF DET 1/AFNOC Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 11:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [houcfug] Re: Looking for freelance or part-time work Have you tried Elance? Byron Giles 8AF DET 1/AFNOC Webmaster/Web Developer COMM: 318.456.7784 DSN: 781-7784 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Angeli Wahlstedt Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 11:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [houcfug] Looking for freelance or part-time work Greetings, folks....I'm Angeli Wahlstedt. I've been on this list for over a year, though mostly as a lurker. I'm looking for freelance or "as-needed" basis work in Cold Fusion, PHP or Asp.Net (C#). If you happen to have that application with a mile-long change request list that you can never find the time to do, or just need to have a website cleaned up or data massaged, I'm your person. I have over 10 years of experience with web development, 9 years in Cold Fusion. I'm based in Houston, but the work doesn't have to be local as long as it can be "outsourced". You can check my website, www.ideasculpt.com for more information. (Just to be clear, I am not looking for a full-time job or contract-to-full-time gigs.) - Angeli Wahlstedt, IdeaSculpt LLC --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Houston ColdFusion Users' Group" discussion list. To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit http://groups.google.com/group/houcfug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
