mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 04 2009 | outsourcing, assistant, virtual
VJ mentioned oDesk as a great place to hire a virtual assistant.
I wonder how this compares to using Amazon Mechanical Turk for oursourced work. This seems like you have more of a one-to-one relationship with people you are hiring - so it's betting for long term relationships - like a virtual employee.
Quoted: oDesk is a global service marketplace for small and medium sized business to hire, manage, and pay remote freelancers or teams. Submit a free job posting and hire from over 25,000 top professionals.
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 29 2009 | Mechanical Turk, video, outsourcing
click to playAwesome use of Mechanical Turk to help you collect data.
Quoted: An overview product tour of Smartsheet's Smartsourcing solution, powered by Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Smartsheet is the only collaboration tool that lets yo...
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 08 2009 | design, marketing, logo, outsourcing
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 05 2007 | web development, outsourcing
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 06 2006 | outsourcingI had not heard of BOT before - came up in a discussion about outsourcing I had with the Entomo founder.
Quoted: Typically, a Western customer contracts with an Indian or Chinese vendor and the vendor builds and operates a customer call center or other business process for an extended period of time. However, the client retains the right to take over the operation ("transfer") at any time based on certain conditions and certain payments to the offshore partner.
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 24 2006 | outsourcing, Development
I thnk this one was mentioned as used by Richard Fade's friend to get some quick development work done to build a small virtual company.
Quoted: Rent a coder is an international marketplace where people who need custom software developed can find coders in a safe and business-friendly environment. Buyers receive an average of 12.4 (no obligation) bids in 24 hours, and can browse resumes and work records online. When they find their 'perfect' coder, they can hire them safely using the site 'Safe Project Escrow'.Coders make extra money doing the work they love, under the protection of the 'Safe Project Escrow' system. We have the most daily bid requests of any site!
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 24 2006 | freelancing, outsourcing, development
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