For many start-ups nowadays, the question they bear in their head is, “Do I really have enough income to kick off my business?” The answer is yes. There’s loads of freelancing sites cropping up all over the internet where freelancers offer gigs for fairly competitive prices.
With such a provision your start-up can save loads of money that might have rather been used to employ new stuff, accounting for salaries, benefits, insurance and the list goes on and on. Freelancing your company’s services at times can be really frustrating since there are loads of scammers and weirdos out there that are just there to rip off your hard earned capital or company resources. The really tricky part about outsourcing services is how you manage these freelancers that you call “employees” for the time being. For your start-up to succeed, you need to have regular and reliable freelancers that are there ready to work for you when and for the period of time that you need employees. A reasonable way to do this would be to go to sites that offer per hour gigs. This would save you so much because you can track your project and pay for only the amount of hours worked on the project.
With freelancers, you can never go wrong. Some sites offer a platform where freelancers bid on jobs according to their skills and experience and it’s up to you to select the best suited person for your project. This is a very good platform since you may have up to 100 people applying for a single project and you get to choose one or as much as you like to complete the project in a timely manner. You can also split down the task to have a number of guys work on a certain part of the project, hence minimizing costs. Another advantage on this platform is that if you’re looking to have major savings, you can opt to give the project to the least bid in the application list.
These online platforms can be the best thing to ever happen for start-ups since you can build long lasting relationships that could lead to future permanent employment. This means that if you have local trusted freelancers working on your project, when your start-up grows and you need to staff, you don’t need to post job openings; you just promote them from part-time to full-time workers. This saves resources that would have been used to conduct advertising, recruitment and training hence saving you loads of money that can be used to further invest in your start-up.
Finally, with advancement in technology, most people are opting to freelancing because of the flexibility. Nowadays college graduates are going for freelancing instead of searching for full-time office jobs. This is so rampant due to the fact that freelancing is flexible and you work from wherever you want. For start-ups, this is much more advantageous of the fact that you get well trained and qualified individuals that work for you on a need to basis. There’s nothing better for start-ups to have projects worked on only when you need them to.
It's A Freelance World 