2008-02-17 – Sunday Links Folder And Some News
Posted February 17, 2008 in Uncategorized 10 Comments »
Hey everyone, I hope you had a really productive week! It’s time for another ‘links folder‘ post, please take a minute to read these posts. You never know, you might learn a thing or two.
oDesk and the oConomy
Talking about learning something new, the folks at oDesk recently launched the oConomy, which gives data from the oDesk network on hourly wages, jobs, certification tests, etc… It summarizes trends based over $22.5 million of work completed on oDesk. Lots of very useful data. Check it out! :)
Just Creative Design – Group Writing Project And Giveaway
Jacob, is having a massive contest over at JCD (Just Creative Design), with over $5000 in prizes:
- Fender electric guitar from Rafie at mohdrafie.co.uk (that’s freakin’ cool!)
- Go Media Vector Packs – donated by Jacob himself
- 55 iStockPhoto credits from P.J. at Premium WP Theme Showcase
- Design consultation with David Airey
- Logo design by Vivien from InspirationBits
Oh and 1 month of free advertising (260×120px banner) on FreelanceFolder :)
Check out Just Creative Design to find out how you can enter.
Now This Week’s Links
- Can You Take the Struggle Out of the Artist?
- Your Home Office Library: 45+ Home Office Tips, Hacks and How-Tos
- Be more productive – 5 sure fire ways to improve your productivity
- 100 Ways to Use Your iPod to Learn and Study Better
- Calculating Your Freelance Rates – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3
- 9 Signs You Shouldn’t Hire THAT Web Guy
- Bill More, Work Less: The #1 Way Freelancers Can Make More Money
- 20 Specialty WordPress Themes
- An Introduction to Rich Internet Applications
That’s it for this week folks! Have a great week-end!
Jon
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*If you read or wrote a great post, please send me the link, and I’ll maybe add it to the next ‘links folder‘ post. Thank you!
About the author: Jon Phillips is a full-time freelancer, designer and blogger, he loves WordPress and plays guitar in a heavy act. He's also the founder of Freelance Folder. Oh and he'd be pleased if you would follow him on Twitter. :)
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10 Comments
James Chartrand - Men with Pens
February 17th, 2008 at 2:17 pmJust checked out Odesk… 10$ an hour is the big winner rate? OUCH! I think some people could use those three links you posted about setting rates ;)
Jon Phillips
February 17th, 2008 at 2:59 pmHi James, yeah I was really surprised to see these numbers, $10 isn’t much (kinda makes me feel like I’m uber successful with my average of $35-$45 an hour hehe)
Jacob Cass
February 17th, 2008 at 8:29 pmThanks Jon for the very generous plug :) Good luck and thanks for the sponsorship.
Allena
February 17th, 2008 at 8:33 pmHi there, thanks for including a link to my blog article about VA’s over at Leo Babautas new blog. I appreciate it!
Steven Snell
February 17th, 2008 at 8:46 pmThanks for the link Jon!
Jon Phillips
February 17th, 2008 at 11:13 pmYou’re welcome for the links guyz :)
Keep writing awesome posts! Cheers!
Josh Breinlinger
February 18th, 2008 at 12:13 amHey Jon,
Thanks for the reference to oConomy and thanks to others for the comments. We see a lot of interesting trends in hourly rates and intend to keep sharing more data. A couple minor insights:
*As of a year ago, the vast majority of our network was offshore, but the number of US-based freelancers is growing very rapidly. (thus starting to increase average rates)
*We’re starting to see more and more of the experienced providers on oDesk double or triple their rates.
*Data entry (at low rates) is an expanding category as well, thus bring the averages down.
We’re planning to refine the way we share the data so these trends become clear. Any feedback is welcome.
-Josh Breinlinger
oDesk
Jay F.H.
February 18th, 2008 at 12:41 amGreat contest. Thanks for the link Jon.
Jerret
February 19th, 2008 at 11:58 pmHi Jon,
Thanks so much for the link!
-Jerret
Dwayne
February 21st, 2008 at 3:39 pmThis is the first time for me visiting this blog here, Jon I wondered where you went to. Nice thing you have going on here, a lot of good things.