GetAFreelancer | Freelance Programmers & Service Providers
A great site where programmers can bid on projects and buyers can post their projects –all for free!!!
Working in a high-standard quality-controlled company for over 5 years, I can say that if any institution surpasses all international standards and requirements it must be of top quality. This is exactly what GetAFreelancer.com is. Upon my yearss of research and active participation in this fast-growing freelance website, I have discovered that it just started in 2004 but has amazingly become one of the telecommuters’ favorite project site nowadays.
GetAFreelancer.com is owned by Innovate It, a Swedish company regulated by Swedish authorities. It started in May of 1999 and has since developed into stable online business. GetAFreelancer.com started in February 2004 and is today one of the top players in the online freelance area. The company’s auditor is KPMG - one of the largest and most trusted companies in the world. They operate in 148 countries and have about 6,500 partners, 70,000 client service professionals, and 17,000 administration and support staff working in member firms around the world.
GAF’s objective is to provide a sanctuary for serious business people. This includes a buyer who needs someone to get his project in order for his business to grow and flourish. This also includes a seller (professional computer programmer, work-at-home mom, working student, part-time job earner, unemployed person, retiree, etc.) who are looking for honest income, that is why they are here in GAF. They’re willing to provide the services that buyers need, and all they ask in return is to be paid a fair amount for their time and skills.
I’ve tried participating in GAF and true to their words, the website was not designed to be ‘a discount super center specializing in providing top-notch skills at rock-bottom prices’. They stand firmly in a belief that for their business to grow and attract high-quality buyers and sellers, every attempt must be made to use standard business practices and pricing when creating and bidding on projects. This kind of commerce will then pave the way for buyers to receive a lot of value from professionals who sell their services here at GAF. All the buyers have to do is treat the sellers as how they want themselves to be treated.
Outsourcing a project in GAF is very effortless, reasonable, and pleasurable. The company has received a first-rate status so they can be trusted. This is the reason why they don’t want to ruin their good reputation by a payment system waterloo. In this light, GAF provided a safe escrow environment wherein every payment is released after the project is completed.
Posting projects in this website is classified into 4 types:
- Featured Project. For only $25, No other fees are taken, including project commissions and the refundable fee of $5 to post a project. Most buyers will save a lot of money with this option. This is recommended if you want to find a long-term employee, partnership, or need to post a project where you pay based on commissions.
- Hidden Bids. Absolutely free! You just need to log in to view your bids.
- Gold members only. A Gold member do not pay commissions on completed projects, they just pay monthly fees of $12. As a result, Gold members are usually more reliable since they have a long-term commitment in GetAFreelancer.com.
- Hide project details from search engines and not registered users ($3). Maximum days of project display? …a whooping 60 days!
Average # of daily active users 697 Average # of new projects added daily 427 Minimum bid amounts $30 Maximum days project open for bidding 60 days Year established 2004 Country Sweden Traffic Rank 3574
A freelancer is a self-regulating worker, not earning a regular wage, and hired instead on a project basis. GAF claims to have thousands of satisfied clients around the world so if you are a programmer and wants to find a good project to work on, sign-up process comes in 4 easy steps:
- Sign-up, it’s free!
- Bid!
- Complete your project.
- Get paid! The maximum bid count is up to 10 bids. This will eventually renew after a certain period. The minimum bid amount is $30.
According to my statistical research, GetAFreelancer.com’s clients are from more than 200 countries. Since the start of the company (2004), there have been 271, 786 number of posted projects, 568,010 number of verified users, and $22,973,900 total money spent by their users. The average number of posted projects on a daily basis is 427 and the average number of verified users (also on a daily basis) is 697.
http://www.getafreelancer.com/info/about.php
The dominating services in this website includes Website Design, Flash, Web Promotion, data Processing, Data Entry, PHP, Link Building, Copywriting,
and .NET.
Everyone wants the most excellent transaction they can unearth nowadays. This does not exclude the buyers and the sellers on GetAFreelancer.com. Buyers want to pay as modest as probable for the finest quality result whereas sellers would like to make a fair rate of return on their venture of skills and time. If you are willing to look for it, somewhere in the middle of those two needs lies a win-win situation. (GAF)
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