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Marketplaces: Why Hire Freelancers

Melanie Li | June 15, 2017

Marketplaces: Why Hire Freelancers

Marketplaces Why Hire Freelancers

There’s been a major rise in the popularity in the freelancing economy in recent years. Marketplaces are looking more towards these skilled experts to finish a job in order to save time and money. External and internal factors in the business world are unpredictable. Implement freelancers can help you adjust to the fluctuations of typical business cycles. The perks of freelancing do go beyond the obvious benefits of money and time, keep reading to get why you should work with freelancers!

Flexibility And Turnaround 

If you ask any freelancer what they love about it, flexibility will most likely be one of their top answers. Not only do the freelancers get to do work on their own time but you get to reap the benefits of freelancers promoting their work and your business. Weekends for example are typically freed up for a normal 9-to-5 job but freelancers can finish up a task over the weekend and you can make money quicker. The turnaround rate for work orders are usually much faster when working with a skilled freelancer. Blog posts for example can be ordered and posted all within the same work week. 

Independence

Payroll is a major fixed cost in any business and hiring full-time employees mean that you have to provide facilities and other amenities. With freelancers, you can hire them when you need a pay at an agreed upon price. Doing so will give you more money to put into other parts of your business.

Independence also works with the freelancer as well since they mostly to solo work. Choosing to work with a freelancer means that there is little to no training you have to conduct, freelancers are supposed to be skilled in what they do so you don’t have to hold their hand through the process. You can be sure that they get their work done in the set guidelines you’ve given them. 

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Creativity 

Freelancers work when and where they want so it’s probably in a place that gives them ideas and lets creativity flourish. The different settings can bring on different perspectives that can be put into the work the freelancer does for you. 

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Affordability and Time 

Working with freelancers can save you a lot of time and money. Like it was stated earlier, you can just the full-time employee costs to invest in other projects. With a little searching you can work with freelancers at great prices for amazing work.

Freelancing projects are usually finished quickly since they probably have a lot of other things they’re working on. Deadlines can be established and milestones can be discussed to organize the work that’s expected as well.

If you’re building a marketplace or are looking to spruce up your design try browsing through some freelancing sites to find the person to make your next project!

 

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