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Why People Use oDesk

A lot of people (and even full-scale businesses) have taken to outsourcing many of their internal components lately. While a decent number outsource their payroll operations and some even outsource a percentage of their service offering (keeping few besides their sales and marketing team essential to the company), the greatest potential for outsourcing success is in the realm of fairly mundane tasks. In the areas of research (be it patent, general legal, or simply for topics and information related to an upcoming blog post), a surprisingly large number of individuals have taken to outsourcing through the use of the Internet. And while there are a lot of different sites where you can find professional, high-quality freelancers who work hard for a reasonable price, oDesk may be chief among them.

There are a lot of reasons why the labor force uses the site. One reason why a lot of freelancers like using oDesk is they can set up their fees according to what they want to make. If they use something like Paypal, they have to have its fee deducted from what they earn. It can lead to additional complications and can chop hundreds of dollars a year off of what they end up earning. Another reason why they enjoy the site (and thus flock to it) is it allows them to hustle up ample amounts of work from clients who are ready and willing to pay for quality and speed.

The reason why you should consider using oDesk is, first and foremost, freelancers tend to love it. A lot of hard-working, very dependable people are ready and willing to do whatever you are willing to pay for. So it’s a buyer’s market, and you can often get great work done (by people who live in low cost-of-living countries) for a small fraction of what you would end up paying if you hired a freelancer who operates locally.