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If you are a entrepreneur planning to outsource your project, you might be in a dilemma for the reason that you don’t know whom to employ – a corporate firm or a freelancer? Having only vague knowledge concerning the technicalities involved, you decide on a freelancer because you are afraid of your project being relegated to a file in a corporate office cabinet drawer! Great decision! However now comes the tough part. Put on your thinking-cap, keep pen and paper at hand and answer these irksome questions:

Do you know the technical names of applications used in website development?
Do you at least know the functionalities you want to be added to your dream-website?
How are you going to engage the best freelancer who would understand your vision, your ideas?
How are you going to interact with him, considering that you can’t speak his lingo?
Can you get a state-of-the-art website as well as cost-effectiveness?

When you have jotted down your answers incompletely yet honestly, you are left with a headache, but your dream website will have become twice as clear and your hurdles will seem surmountable!

When you post your outsource project at a freelance website, be clear about the functionalities you want on your website even though you don’t know the technical terms involved. If you don’t know “flash player”, say you want a one-minute video to be displayed; if you haven’t heard of “SEO”, simply say that you want your website to figure in searches by prospective customers. If you don’t know about integrating “Social Networking and Web 2.0 tools and Sitemap” into the website, say you want your prospective customers to have the facility to rate your product, compare with similar products, move easily through web pages, and have an enriched website experience. Otherwise you might get an average finished product based on the freelancer’s uninspired assessment.

Further, avoid casual language; use simple and clear-cut language. Avoid common grammatical or spelling mistakes. The best freelancers are essentially of the type: “Speak less, Work Efficiently and Earn More”. Your project proposal should be pointed and lucid, giving little room for ambiguity, otherwise it may discourage the best freelancers from bidding.

Quote a realistic budget in relation to your estimated ROI from a top class website. Visit some websites like globfreelance.com and note down what budgets are being posted for website development projects like yours. Many “service buyers” impulsively post a “low budget”, and often, it turns out to be “penny wise, pound foolish” in the long run.

When the bidding starts develop a profile for each freelancer by noting down his experience, rating, projects completed, their variety, budget and relevance to your website project. Now short-list a few prospective freelancers and start communicating with them during bidding itself. Ask questions and encourage them to know your dream website so that they can share your passion in developing a great website. It creates a good base for the continual communications which would be necessary once the actual project starts, in order to get it done smoothly, effectively, and on schedule.

When the bidding closes, don’t blindly select the lowest bidder! In most cases, the lowest bidder will not deliver to your expectations. Select the best freelancer from your short-listed candidates through a judicious blend of his profile and bid amount. Don’t haggle even if his bid seem a little high. Consider it as a well-deserved tip for promising to render a quality website with enduring features, flawless design and seamless functionality!

If he demands advance money before starting the project you can agree upon “milestone payments” and “escrow”. But, remember to state in clear and unequivocal terms your high expectations of quality and work schedule.

As a result, you’ve selected the best freelancer, but the real work lies ahead! Now, you have to get the best performance out of him or her through communication, patience and motivation.Outsource your project on globfreelance and let the best freelancers handle your project.

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