Posted on Nov 10th, 2009 
Freelance job websites are not too different from traditional job listings (or other online job listing sites such as Craigslist) where a small percentage of jobs falls under the category “scams”. However, the online marketplaces offer a variety of ways to find out what they are. Each marketplace has a unique way of giving hints to the freelancers. Here’s the overview of popular...
Posted on Nov 4th, 2009
Not all the online freelance job sites take their time to help the providers signed up in their website. Even if they do, they don’t go an extra mile to ask their elite buyers to come up with ideas that make every other provider to be ‘the most sought after’. Lately, Elance has done an extremely painful job by requesting it’s 300 highly active employers to participate in a...
Posted on Nov 2nd, 2009
oDesk has made a tremendous change in it’s job search interface. The great old job search has gone and the new era of fancy job search has begun. One thing that stands out from the rest in the new job search is the information about the buyer who posted the job. Now, it is very clear if the buyer is “new”, the feedback received and how active the buyer has been. Here,...
Posted on Oct 28th, 2009
In India, the only way to verify a Paypal account is using a real credit card.
Papal account verification process is quiet easy in India. Let’s first talk about the kind of account you may need (you may want to refer my other post on having multiple Paypal accounts now). For freelancers, I don’t think business account is needed. If you are sure that you need it, then have all the...
Posted on Oct 26th, 2009
Elance “Connects” are a fantastic way to connect serious service providers with serious employers. These are like virtual points that can be used to apply for a job. To bid (or pre-bid) for a project, one must have at least one ‘connect’ (or one virtual point). The more valuable (read: high budget) a task is, the more ‘connects’ a provider needs to submit...
Posted on Oct 24th, 2009
oDesk has been unique among online marketplaces in many ways. This is another unique initiative from oDesk that has not been done by other marketplaces (at least, as of NOW!). Back in July 2009, one of the oDesk staff (Josh as the ‘Team Captain’) has joined Kiva, created oDesk Kiva Lending Team and made an announcement in oDesk community forum. Now, it has grown to be a team with 26...
Posted on Oct 17th, 2009
Hello Freelancers,
Here is the fantastic news for all of us. Two of the promising companies (in freelance marketplace) join their hands together to offer a handful of incentives for freelancers who could spend a couple of minutes of their time. As a freelancer, you have a chance to win up to $500 by participating in a simple survey. The survey is being conducted by LimeExchange and Payoneer....
