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How to Find a Programmer, Web Designer, and Other Freelancers
If you’re a regular reader, you know I always talk about getting values on big ticket items. Well, if you are a blogger or small business owner, hiring freelance help certainly qualifies as a big ticket item. If you have an online presence, sooner or later you’ll probably need a website or logo designed (or redesigned). But if you look in the wrong places, you can easily drop a couple grand. Fortunately, if you look in the right places, you can get a new logo for under a $100, a qualified programmer anywhere between $5 and $25/hour, and a virtual assistant for $3-9/hour!
There are lots of intricacies to hiring programmers or designers, even for small jobs that only require a few hours. You need to find someone qualified, cheap, who can communicate properly. And you’re probably not an expert in the arena which you are hiring, otherwise you might be tempted to do the job yourself. As a result, you need to know where to look and how to evaluate candidates in different fields. I’ve hired a fair share of programmers and other types of freelancers over the years so I have a lot to say on this topic. In fact, I have so much to say that rather than fill up this blog, I decided to create an entirely new blog devoted to the subject.
I’ve started out by putting together several in depth hiring guides to help you find a freelance web programmer, a graphic designer, or a virtual assistant and I plan to keep adding more. I also created an honest, no holds barred breakdown of the best freelance websites. I couldn’t find an objective opinion on the web about freelancing sites so I decided to start making my own reviews, some not so flattering. And starting this week, I’ll be blogging both here and on the new site with tips about finding and managing resources, creating websites and blogs, and living an entrepreneurial lifestyle.
I named the site Don’t Do It Yourself because I’m a strong proponent of focusing on your strengths and outsourcing everything else. I don’t advocate that you go out and hire a big staff right away. I just explain that it makes sense to look at where you’re spending your time, and where you could be more productive. By using low cost freelancers to do things like SEO, social media promotion, coding, and graphics, you can work on what’s important and tied to bringing in the dollars.
On an interesting side note, I decided to go with a very short domain and it’s a .co extension instead of a .com. FindTheBestCarPrice.com and Car Negotiation Coach are both so painfully long to type that I vowed to never choose a domain that long again! So I went from 23 characters down to 7, pretty sweet.
Anyway, go check out the new site and if you think it’s useful, please spread the word!
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Wow, congrats on your new adventure! Will be checking out your new site as well. Good luck!
I checked out your site, looks good! Congrats on getting it started. I’ll tweet this…
Thanks Buck and Squirrelers!
Your new site is GREAT! This is exactly what I’ve been struggling with and what can make blogging so difficult! Hope its a great success.
Hey FE, good to hear from you and glad you liked it! If you do end up using any freelancers definitely let me know how it goes.