Anyone need any projects done, dirt cheap?

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I recently launched Webmaster Workforce and the response has been great so far! It is a site where 'buyers' can come and post projects that they need done for them, the 'providers' out bid each other, undercutting each other, fighting to earn your business.

We have a decent amount of providers (coders/designers) already, so if you guys have any scripts, data entry, or practically any other type of webmaster work, please come on over and take a peek.

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What's your USP?

I am curious as to what makes your service different from the other ones that sound similar like elance, getafreelancer, etc? From the provider end, I must admit that I hate the whole bidding and price-cutting atmosphere of these sites. I refuse to lower my rates in order to compete with people who will do things for way under a living wage. Some of the purchasers don't seem to care what the quality of the work is as long as they can pay dirt cheap.
 
Tedel said:
I need you to stop lowering down our industry's prices (even more)
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I wouldn't worry too much about lowering the development prices. There's a reason top developers charge a premium. These sites merely exist because naive managers think they can get great code for cheap. Generally people complain about developers they find online through sites like RaC and eventually they may learn to pay for great developers.
 
goalsetter said:
I am curious as to what makes your service different from the other ones that sound similar like elance, getafreelancer, etc?
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Webmaster Workforce is a marketplace similar to some other lance-type sites like you mentioned, however we have decided to expand on the typical business model for a site like this and allow projects typically not allowed on those other sites. We allow all kinds of projects to be posted from mainstream and adult webmasters. In addition to projects, you also can post/reply to job offers there.

I am getting ready right now to leave for a webmaster convention in Atlanta. I will be back early next week, if you guys had any more questions for me.

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DavidR said:
I wouldn't worry too much about lowering the development prices. There's a reason top developers charge a premium. These sites merely exist because naive managers think they can get great code for cheap. Generally people complain about developers they find online through sites like RaC and eventually they may learn to pay for great developers.
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Anyway, now people pretend I'm going to SEO their sites for 300 bucks. It sucks.
 
Price unfortunately is not an indication of quality work. I found it's pot luck with writers at least. been disappointed in the one web site firm I used. They were great at design but their code won't validate and I can't get them to make any corrections.
 
Whenever you hire someone below market rate or at a rock bottom "deal" price prepare for these excuses as soon as you engage them;

* My harddrive went down.
* I just moved and they're still connecting my internet.
* Personal emergency sorry couldn't get online and respond to you.
* There was a power outage.
* Just bought a new CPU and had problems with it.

Also prepare for "This has never happened before" when they use any of the above excuses. This comes up on a regular basis even on WF.

Even when you hire an offshore, get references or use something like odesk.com where you can verify the fuckers are sitting there and not pay if they don't do what you ask.

For market rate people, they can be fuck ups too when it comes to consultants, absolutely verify references.
 
Here's an idea: hire real programmers, not some fucktard who learned PHP from a book.
 
does anyone know if any kind of like monthly tech support one can buy on subscription. I.E say you pay $XX or $XXX a month and you are entitled to X amount of basic service. If someone knows of this please tell me, if not someone seriously needs to come up with this
 
DavidR said:
Here's an idea: hire real programmers, not some fucktard who learned PHP from a book.
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Guess I'm a fucktard :P (well not just books, mainly ASP/SQL work experience, then did PHP/MySQL by the book and online research, no formal training)

In my opinion most just-out-of-school students can be as bad as the at home book-worm. They generally only know one way how to do something. Now if you had someone who actually had to learn the stuff as part of work experience, then like most things you learn there are several ways to do something, and not all of them are correct for every situation.
 
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