: Using Freelance Services Can anyone share any advice or experiences using any of the many freelance gun for hire sites out there like guru.com? I may be leading a small development team soon

@Rambettina238

well regardless of site that you use you're almost always going to get a bunch of offers that are either automatic or are damn close to it from various dev groups.
Your best bet is to detail out what the required skills are in detail (i.e. not just experience with php5, but more along the lines of experience of use php5 along with jquery to parse json results into...)..

some of the freelance sites are better (at least it seems to me) than others for specific needs.. ie. elance i go to whenever i need copywriting. i'll use odesk (because of their tracking ability) for any coding projects that are more than just simple scripts...

As for finding designers.. i usually go through creattica.com/ and take a look at the portfolios there..

Make sure that your requirements are solid/straightforward as well as whatever timeline you setup with whoever you work with (as well as what happens if the timeline is broken.. )

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