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Freelancing / Remote Development FAQ

What is freelancing?

Freelancing - free working on projects. You can regulate you worktime youself without signing long term contract. You can regulate you work load as you want. You can earn good money from western webmasters and companies. Most of freelancers projects - remote work. You not need to go to office each day. You can work from home and receive more money that at regular work.



What is freelancing sites?

Freelancers sites - intermediary company who help you to find projects and acts in a role of arbitr if any problems happen with webmaster and programmers. They have small fee for soft buyers and developers based on project count or on monthly membership.

Workflow
Most of freelancers sites have same projects workflow:

  1. Webmaster/Buyer post project with detailed info about what need to be done
  2. Programmers/Developers who is interested in this project use Private Message Board (PMB) to request any additional details they want.
  3. After receiving answer to his questions Programmers/Developers place bid with price
  4. Webmaster/Buyer select best offer they have from developers
  5. Developer must approve Buyer selection
  6. On this point project change status to closed and both parties charged project fee and received contact information for direct communication
  7. Buyer can and Developer can ask buyer to use escrow account for payment
  8. Buyer and developer communicates directly or in PMB antil project is completed
  9. After project completed and developer receive his money, both - buyer and developer can post review to each other related to his project expirience.
  10. If there is any problem occured between buyer and developer, they must both contact site support in order to create dispute case and solve this problems with site support.
Membership
Most of sites have free membership by default (you will pay fee only based on project count, no monthly fee) - this membership is accepteble for beginners. Who only planning to start such buisness.

Also they have some membership programs based on work amount you planning to post/receive on this sites. This programs will allow you to save money on projects fee when you planning to post/win big amount of projects. Some sites have Gold/Premium membership programms wich allow you to pay only small monthly fee... such as 10-20 usd. And post/win as many projects as you can for free. This program is very useful for people who planning to ousource/winning a lot of projects.

Escrow system/account
In order to make you and other party interaction safe, most of sites provide Escrow system or Escrow account. Using this feature you not need to worry about you payment.

    Features:
  1. After project closes (Buyers select specific programmer) buyer will place full payment or by parts to escrow account.
  2. Programmer can see money in his account but can`t get this money (withdraw or send to another people), they can only cancel this payment back to Buyer.
  3. Programmer do his work safe, because see money in escrow.
  4. After Buyer receive work result (site, program, modifications) they release escrow payment (send money from escrow account to programmer account)
  5. Now, programmer can use this money (for withdrawal or for payment to another site members)
  6. After project complated and payment made, both party can post feedbacks/review for each other.


Feedback posting/Giving review
Do not give feedback/review to other party until project not completed and payment not made! If you get asked to post feedback before project completed/payment made please inform site support about this issue!

Try to always give accurate feedback in order to give other buyers/developers next time see how right this buyer/programmer or not! Always indicate additional money asked, additional work gived and payment status for additional work. You can also include information about escrowed payment or not, how fast payment occured.



Why some freelancers sites not allow multiply account creation?

Most of freelancers sites not allow you to create more that one account. It is security and social tweek in order to force people to be more friendly to each other and to not create one times accounts.

Recommendations: Try to not create more that one account on each site. Other way you accounts will be suspended by site owners. You also can be banned from using very great features from this nice sites.

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