vWorker Reviews – What Others Are Saying

My recent comparison of vWorker and oDesk has had quite a few people searching my site for vWorker reviews. So I have researched the internet and compiled a list of vWorker reviews by current (and previous) employers and workers on vWorker.
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vWorker Review 1: Telecommute FTW

They now boast close to 300,000 virtual workers and almost half as many employers. That’s one employer for every two workers! You have pretty good odds of finding some work if you’re even slightly above average in any field of work. Even though there does seem to be a lot of outsourcing going on there, there is still room for Americans to get plenty of real telecommuting possibilities. Many employers also specifically mention that they are long for someone they can trust to do long-term work, not just one or two projects.

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vWorker Review 2: 1HRO

Vworker is a freelancing website that helps employers to find freelancers to do work for them. Businessmen are able to hire freelancers in various industries, including programming, editing, graphic design, writing, and publishing. The expansive community of freelancers that use Vworker, do so because it is the most respectable of the many freelancing markets.

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vWorker Review 3: QuillForHire

vWorker.com is a good site to go to for work because there’s a lot of work there to be done and you get to set yourself up for free to start bidding. Everything is very binding there too which means it’s hard for either side to wiggle out of an agreement-everything has to be approved before money is put down and employers get a money back guarantee if there are problems.

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vWorker Review 4: TV Bubble

Vworker has accrued a reputation as the website which best serves the freelancing community as well as the community of entrepreneurs that uses their services. Hundreds of thousands of freelancers and employers use Vworker on a fairly regular basis. Freelancers are particularly prevalent in the programming industry, but the industries of graphic design, editing, writing, and publishing are all prominent industries where freelancing exist, too.

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vWorker Review 5: Affiliate Observatory

Rent a Coder was the first site i used for outsourcing, and till yesterday it had the charme of a craiglisting, with competitiors like oDesk and eLance it was very much needed that they changed the look and feel, i like the new design!

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So, as you can see, even since their recent name change, there is a growing number of positive vWorker reviews popping up over the internet. If you are interested in becoming a freelancer or are looking to outsource jobs overseas, then sign up for an account with vWorker and start saving (or making) more money!

vWorker or oDesk | Which Freelance Marketplace Should You Use?

There are a lot of outsourcing marketplaces and communities made available to us, and sometimes it can get a bit confusing when it comes time to finding the right one for you personally. Today I want to put two of the bigger players face to face. vWorker or oDesk?

Let’s Look At The Contenders

vWorker

vWorker.com is a dynamic online marketplace where 143,207 employers hire and manage 296,636 virtual workers to assist them in business and personal projects. Virtual workers span every country across the globe and every imaginable expertise, including computer programming, writing, graphic design, marketing and many more. vWorker.com offers the safety features and money-back/payment guarantees that allow thousands of these transactions to be done succesfully every month. (Quoted from vWorker Website)

oDesk

oDesk is the marketplace for online workteams, with the best business model for both employers and contractors. Our unique approach guarantees to employers that an hour billed is an hour worked, while guaranteeing to contractors that an hour worked is an hour paid.

This win-win approach attracts more work to oDesk than to any other online work marketplace. Each month, thousands of companies of all sizes post jobs on oDesk, representing more than $65,000,000. (Quoted from oDesk Website)

So let’s take a closer look at each of them, and who they are best suited for.

1. Marketplace Size

The more workers in a marketplace the greater the competition – and if economics taught me one thing it was ‘supply and demand’. The greater the supply of workers, the lower the price becomes.

vWorker = 296,636 workers

oDesk = 679,485 workers [Read more...]

Proof That You Can Hire Staff For Under $2/hour Using oDesk! (Plus The How-To)

I have been receiving quite a few emails from people who have read my ebook ‘GEO Arbitrage‘ and the majority of them are saying,

‘I have had a look at jobs on oDesk and I can’t seem to find anyone paying $2/hour or less!’

A few of them have been written in a accusing tone, making me out as a liar and Odesk as a scam, but mostly it is from people who genuinely want to know if it is possible.

YES…You Can Hire Staff For Under $2/hr On oDesk

I wanted to attach an screenshot of my oDesk account, where it shows the amount I paid my employees this last week. This is quite a big thing for me, because in it, it has the names of my staff (which means you can check them up, and try and hire them!)

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As you can see, my 3 staff range from $1.67, all the way down to just $0.83 per hour!

So that means it definitely is possible, but why are most people settling for paying workers extra?

The number one reason that people pay too much for staff on oDesk is that they let the workers set the price!

Tell me a company that when hiring, says to it’s candidates, ‘This is the job I want you to do, but I don’t have a set salary in mind, you tell me how much I have to pay you!’

Now I am sure there are some big companies who do this when head hunting, but for most jobs that you are hiring for on oDesk, it is like McDonalds asking its young staff to set their own wages – not smart!

The Only Reason That Pay Under $2/hour Is Because I Set A Limit!

In each of the jobs that I post on oDesk I set a maximum price that I am willing to accept and include this into my job description.

If I am looking for a link builder for one of my websites, I may include something like this into the job description:

Please keep bids under $2/hour, all job applications that have a bid over over this price will be automatically declined without reading!

This lets potential applicants know that you are serious, meaning they will put their best offer in.

It really is that simple:

If you don’t ask, you wont get!

So I encourage you, if you haven’t already, set up a free oDesk account, and see what kind of jobs you can outsource for $2/hour or less?

If you are up for the challenge, come back and post your results here, so that others can see!

The oDesk Scam: Really?!?!

I am surprised by the amount of people calling this scams without thinking. As I promote oDesk quite heavily through this blog I occasionally get an email titled: ‘oDesk Scam‘ where the writer goes on a massive rant about how they got ripped off on oDesk and how they will never use them again.

So I thought I would put my ’2 cents’ forward.

Is oDesk A Scam?

I am just going to jump straight into it and say an emphatic ‘NO’.

The people who regularly reference oDesk as a scam usually refer to being ripped off buy a buyer who didn’t pay, or a service provider who didn’t do the work they were hired for.I don’t know about you, but to me that is people who are ripping other people off – not oDesk.

Interesting Comparison

A local current affair tv show here in Australia recently ran a story on a Nigerian scam that would duplicate car listings in classified sections on regional newspapers and online classifieds, and people were purchasing these ‘cars’ sight unseen and only realized that they had been scammed after they had paid the money. The show rightly titled the ad posters as the scammers as the classifieds are just a marketplace to connect buyers and sellers – and it is the same with oDesk.

With the thousands of jobs being posted on a daily basis it would be impossible for oDesk to personally check over each one, and I don’t believe it is their job too.

It is the employer and service providers responsibility to make sure that they are working with reputable people and this isn’t really that hard: [Read more...]

Outsource Link Building: For 83Cents an Hour!

I am always trying and testing different methods to reduce my outsourcing costs – while no affecting quality. The other day I created a job on oDesk to outsource link building and I may have found an extremely low cost method.

As the title suggests, I have decided to outsource link building for one of my sites to a worker in the Phillipines for just 83cents an hour! That is right -  less that $1 an hour for an employee means I could have a full-time staff for under $40 a week.

If you have used oDesk or Elance then you will know that the wage range for workers can be extremely diverse. Today I want to give you some tips on how you can outsource your link building for under $1/hr!

1. Make Your Maximum Price Known

If you came though a Google search for ‘outsource link building‘ you may have seen an advertisement for oDesk that says the following:

Inexpensive Link Building
Hire Link Building Gurus $10-25/hr.
Interview Experts for Free Now!
www.oDesk.com

Maybe $10-25/hr is cheap seo for businesses, but if I had to pay that much for a link builder I would just do it myself. I needed cheaper – so I asked!

When you create a new job in oDesk you are asked to place a maximum bid (per hr) that you will accept. However the minimum you can place in that field is $3. That is a good start, but I still wanted cheaper.

So what I did was, in the job description I placed a line of text simply saying that I would only accept bids under $2/hr and all other bids would be automatically deleted – it doesn’t stop people bidding more – but it does make some of them lower their price.

This got me down to $2/hr to outsource link building – but I still wanted to see if I could pay less. [Read more...]

Communicating With Offshore Programmers

If you are visiting this page because you are looking for a place to find offshore programmers – I use and recommend oDesk.

Well I am sure you will be glad to know that I did find a fantastic ebook cover designer on oDesk for exactly $10. There were a lot of applications that were cheaper than $10, but I made the decision as usual based on portfolio and feedback – and the designer I chose had 4.98 (out of 5) feedback after 34 jobs and a portfolio that included some fantastic ebook covers.

My new employee is based in Pakistan, so I can take a guess that English is not his first language. So the key to working with oDesk offshore programmers is the way that you communicate with them.

Tips for Communicating With Offshore Programmers

In my communications with my designer I was reminded of a couple of tips when dealing with people who do not speak English as a first language. I will use this experience as an example and you will also get a sneak preview of the design process of the GEO Arbitrage ebook cover. [Read more...]

Find An Ebook Cover Designer For Less Than $10

As internet marketers all of us at one point are going to be on the search for a great ebook cover designer at least once .

Whether it is for a paid product, or a free giveaway for building your email list. Whatever the case it’s a sure bet that you want to find the best ebook cover designer – without the expert price tag!

While a lot of people are scared of accepting low quotes for fear of inferior quality, I accept them on the basis of the background and previous results – and that is why I am able to outsource work at a much lower rate than most people believe.

Why Pay $50 Or $100 For An Ebook Cover Designer?

Now I am all for making sure that I get the best result, because I believe that excellence is an important trait to have in any form of business. But I am very much opposed to the thinking of

‘If it is expensive, it is good. And if it is cheap, then obviously it must be of lower quality.’

It is all about finding great quality for the very best price ebook cover designer (in this case) – and it’s all thanks to GEO Arbitrage. [Read more...]