You can find freelancers by searching Google, asking colleagues for recommendations and posting projects on freelancing sites such as upwork.com. No matter where you find your freelancers, you’ll need to do your due diligence to ensure you only hire reputable freelancers who’ll produce great work.
Take these steps:
Check the freelancer’s feedback and ratings on freelancing sites. If your freelancer does work on sites such as upwork.com, fiverr.com, freelancer.com, guru.com and similar, then check their onsite ratings. Look for someone who has a long history of providing good work on time and on budget.
Follow up with references. If the freelancer doesn’t have any references listed, then ask for them. Preferably, get phone numbers so that you can have a real conversation with someone (rather than dealing with the anonymity of email, which doesn’t let you get the verbal cues embedded in normal conversation).
Review the freelancer’s portfolio, where applicable. Check that the portfolio shows they create consistently good work across a variety of projects.
Search for the freelancer’s name in Google, and avoid any freelancer with a pattern of complaints. Be sure your prospective freelancer has been in business for at least a year or two.
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Talk to your colleagues to see if they have any experience with a particular freelancer. Ask them about the good and bad points of working with this person.
Check that the freelancer’s rates are a good fit for your budget. Don’t shop based on price alone. As the saying goes, if you pay peanuts then you can expect to get monkeys.
Ask the freelancer to complete a small project first. In fact, you can hire three or so of your top candidates to see which ones produce the best work. Then you can hire the top one or two freelancers to complete bigger projects for you.
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