Freelancing (Elance To Upwork) – A Game Changer?

As Technology paradigm is changing with the rapid pace, its also creating an immense competition among different Services Provider, today we will focus on the portals which work as a bridge between consumer and service provider i.e. Freelancing Portal. In Today’s world Freelancing Portal crafted an opportunity for those who have expertise in any domain i.e.

  • Writing Skills
  • Graphic
  • Website Designing
  • Virtual Assistance
  • Project Managers
  • WordPress Developers
  • Ecommerce Developers
  • Mobile Applications

The list goes on, at the same stage its creating a new opportunities for the consumers as well which is creating new opportunities for the vendor as well.

In July 2012, Freelancer.com made a decision to overtake vworker and some other portals which has immense potential for the work to be carried out and they merge the user in one line which made the other premium Portals, portals like Elance and Odesk made to think to venture as well to create a monopoly and give a ease way to their user to proceed with Hourly and Fixed Price Job. But now with their Joint Venture in the form of Upwork, the Management of Elance must need to reconsider their decision either their Users and Companies will be happy with this decision or not. As People tend to be bit relecutunt to switch over from one Platform to another. I consider all the platforms Important over here without discriminating any Portal I must say every portal has its own cpacity and compeition must prevail among themselves.

There will be absolutely positive outcomes for this decision as well like:

  1. Irrelevant Services Provider / Duplicate Service Provider will be eliminated by this approach.
  2. A Healthy Competition will prevail among Relevant List of Service Provider.
  3. Fake Consumers will be eliminated as well.
  4. Consumer will enjoy the service of Service Provider as Hourly Jobs as well as Company point of view.

But at the same stage there will be cons of this approach too.

  1. People who are happy with the Interface of Elance.com & vworker.com upon merging with Odesk.com and Freelancer.com have faced a lot of issues, more signifcantly such portals have more reputation when it comes to Fix Price Job or payment procedure.
  2. Company Profile Level make such a great impact on the consumer side through which they can evaluate the performance of individual and Company.
  3. In Portal Like Elance.com you can withdraw the payment upon your desire but by using upwork.com their will be a time frame afterwords the payment comes into your account to be released into your account either its fixed price job or hourly job.

After having all said, I must say competition must prevail and some times you have to create yourself as a competitor of yours and your sister company as well so the end user gets benefit out of it. Do share your thoughts and feedback with me at my Email