I have many freelancers working for me, yet sometimes I need to hiring freelancer new worker to ease the workload and / or expend my business.
Nothing beats working with your regular freelancers. You know the quality you are going to get from them, you know the delivery time, and you know that there is a slim chance for a letdown.
Yet, what will you do if want to hire someone completely new?
Here are my 5 tips that you must follow when you hiring freelancer :
1. Daily Email – don’t hire a freelancer that doesn’t agree to send you a daily email. The daily email will keep you updated on his progress, and will create order in your business.
In the daily email, your freelancer needs to show you exactly what he has been able to accomplish so far.
2. Don’t use Skype – if you let your freelancer to correspond with you via Skype you will lose in the end.
Skype, for example, is a great tool to use with your regular freelancers, but not with a new freelancer.
If you hiring freelancer from a website like Upwork.com it’s very important that all your interactions with him will be via the get freelancer website.
This way you can refer to your previous interactions with him if problems start to happen.
3. Write everything down – When you post your project ad on Upwork.com write exactly what you expect from the freelancer clearly –
Your freelancer is not a mind reader.
If you want the project to be completed within 5 business days write it down, if you want it to be completed within 5 regular days also state it.
4. Don’t pick low bids automatically – like everything in life it’s obvious that you as a buyer would want to spend as little money as you can for the best quality you can get.
Yet, that doesn’t mean you need to pick the lowest bid on your project.
There is a lot of truth in the sentence:
“You get what you paid for”
It’s true that it’s not always the case (especially when you hire good people from the Philippines) yet most of the time if a freelancer puts a bid of $30 for writing 10 ebooks (50 pages each) for you, you need to be careful.
5. Research the freelancers – when freelancers put bids on your project, do an extensive research on their profiles.
Look what other employees have said about their service and quality, look for negative feedbacks, read their background, view samples of their previous work (if available).
That’s it!
Please read, and implement these methods to the letter.
If you will choose not to follow them, you may find yourself in a place where a freelancer has given you back a project which is completely different from what you wanted.
Then you may reach a point where you don’t want to pay for the project, and your freelancer don’t want to let go of your money because he is invested time and effort in your project.
Moreover, in the end he may write a negative feedback about you which may cause you to lose other freelancers bids in the future while hiring freelancer.
Love to hear your comments!
