CodeR70

Hi guys,

I'm trying to get some projects to work on as a freelancer and I'm looking into the whole freelancer.com, odesk.com and guru.com sites. I'm currently working on oDesk to get my profile up to date. I'm from the Netherlands/Europe (so not from a <$1 country, if you know what I mean).

I was wondering before going this road, if you as website/network owner looking for a web developer (or any other contractors), would you consider hire somebody via oDesk or any of the similar sites? What are your experience thus far with the outsourcing sites? Do you look specific for the cheapest (few dollars per hour) or are you willing to pay a bit more for serious contractors via such sites? Or do you rather approach contractors directly?

As some of you know, I'm starting for myself to work as freelancer and I'm trying to figure out if it's worth to spend a lot of time on those outsourcing websites, creating profiles, doing tests, etc.

Cheers,
CodeR70

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