Freelancer.com vs. Guru.com

Whether you're a freelancer or looking for a freelancer, Freelancer.com can get you together. There is a wide variety of project types that either can post in. It does take more time to search for clients and freelancers, though, since there is quite a range of both in experience, quality, and compensation (to be expected, but harder to weed through.) As a freelancer, it seems to work well enough for solo freelancers, but it could be better.

Incentivized

VERY useful for small companies where one person does an entire job/task. May be less useful for larger companies, as it would be difficult to maintain, and there are usually teams to cover the slack. Also good for tech purposes. Our tech people constantly create Guru cards in order to help us learn to do back-end things.

Incentivized

• Taking care that all involved parties are satisfied, as client so the employed staff.
• Sorting and filtering the adverts.
• Tracking project progression.

Incentivized

• The segmentation of information into Collections, boards and individual cards allows you to keep a good control and organization of information contained within.
• An add-on app for Slack and a Chrome extension mean you don't even need to have the Guru.com site open to still be able to access all of your stored information.
• The ability to allow some or all users to create & edit cards adds value and strengthens the team collaboration.

Incentivized

• Provide screen sharing to work with freelancers.
• Provide an instant messenger software. When you receive a message from a freelancer, you receive a notification by email and then you have to go to the website to read his message.
• Fees are too high for freelancers, they can refuse small projects due to high fees.

Incentivized

• Relatively high fees taken out of earnings
• Fake clients still get through, which causes a headache
• Having to pay to get your bid higher up in the list of freelancers makes it even more costly

Incentivized

I choose Freelancer.com for technical projects, such as designing a more responsive website for the business or a mobile app for the business. Also, I come to Freelancer.com when I urgently need a design layout of for marketing materials, especially when our only designer is on leave or sick leave. This allows me to have a fast design to cover for the absence of the graphic designer.

Incentivized

• Freelancer.com increased the people who work with me by 3.
• Freelancer.com has helped me in finishing my objectives by hiring a freelancer and by working as a freelancer.

Incentivized

• Great for resolving tech related issues.
• Great for cross-training.

Incentivized