A Better Way to Find a Web Design Company
A Web Hosting Article Contributed by Frances Rhea
Find the Right Web Design Company for Your Project
Elance Online is a quick, easy, secure way for your company to outsource Web design projects to a global pool of high-quality professionals.
Located at www.elance.com, you will have free access to thousands of professionals around the world at a significant savings. This is because professionals competitively bid on your project.
How Finding a Web Design Company Works
Buyers seeking services post projects in the Marketplace, and service providers bid on them. Buyers choose a provider based on bids, profile, work samples, and Feedback ratings from previous buyers. After a bid is accepted, the buyer and service provider use Work Space to communicate, create deadlines, exchange files, and deliver the final product. When the project is complete, the provider invoices the buyer through Elance. Buyers use Elance Billing and Payment to send their payment. Both buyer and provider enter Feedback ratings which is shown on their profile pages.
Charges for Finding a Web Design Company
It is free for Buyers to post their projects in the Basic marketplace. For the Select marketplace, a $25 posting deposit is required. This deposit is charged only if you receive more than five bids and does not get awarded for 30 days. Elance generates revenue through subscriptions and a Transaction Fee charged to providers.
Know You Have Found a Good Web Design Company
Elance offers buyers many ways to evaluate providers. Some of the features available to buyers are: service provider Profile Pages with experience, certifications, and work samples; Feedback system shows past performance, with a star rating system and comments from previous buyers.
Elance Trust works with US Search and SquareTrade to help ensure quality of service. US Search verifies the credentials. SquareTrade membership represents a commitment to customer satisfaction, professional standards and mediator use for resolving disputes.
Payment for Your Web Design Company Choice
You decide payment schedule and terms with your provider. Elance offers a secure Billing and Payment system that lets you pay any Elance service provider quickly and easily, by credit card, check, or wire transfer. You deposit the money into your Elance account, and Elance transfers it to the provider. There is no charge to the buyer.
A Better Way to Buy and Manage Services
The Elance Online services marketplace offers small businesses a quick, easy way to outsource projects. Using Elance Online you can realize a 20-60% cost savings. Posting projects is free.
Founded in 1998, and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with 100 employees, Elance has a team of seasoned executives from leading enterprise, e-commerce and services management businesses.
Conclusions
If you are looking for a Web Design Company or freelancer, Writing & Translation Services, or Graphic Design & Art services, Elance is one of the best places to find an economical solution to your needs. With thousands of professionals to choose from and the ability to obtain samples of their work and feedback from other people who have used their services, it is hard to make a bad choice.
