Recommendation/Experience with outsource

Hi, I am hoping to get everyone to pitch in and recommend companies or people you have had experience with in out sourcing. personally I am looking to out source web development and design to somewhere like India because from what I see they are extremely inexpensive and pretty good programmers.. Im looking for overall web development/ wordpress/ etc.. I would appreciate anyones experience and links to companies websites. and how easy it was to work with them.
thanks

I'd suggest checking out odesk first to get your feet wet. Start with a couple small projects and learn how it works.

I've gone down the road of hiring perm employees, which is just like hiring for a bricks job. Take resumes, interview, ask for samples of work, etc. Hiring them, half don't show, some show but don't do much, and then the few that actually work and you can train.

It takes work to find them and train them, and you need to pay them fairly and promptly. There are services out there that have the employees ready and sometimes already trained, but haven't used them myself as I prefer my own methods and training. Plus they cost a good bit more.

Just like many things in IM, it can be a PITA to get it rolling right, but when you do, it can be very much worth the effort.

If you want to outsource for 3r world country prices and have someone good at the same time... add me on skype
Skype ID:fernan.garcia.cr

BTW Im aldragon`s good guy

Outsource is a big problem and specially when you need content writing in other languages than English. In my case where most of my websites are in Spanish I found a really good guy here. Problem now is that he is full of English work.....
Crixus is right, I got dirty on elance and odesk but didn't get any cheap ones. A few days ago I posted on a family of websites for "work from home" and I have now 300 fresh emails that I have to go through.. resumes samples etc... I'm guessing it will take some time but I'll get what i need. Now for Wordpress and PSD css html theres a good guy here he has done some work for me pretty fine. ill pm him to post here

xfernanx said:

Add me on Skype Quality Web Design at Affordable Prices
Skype ID:fernan.garcia.cr

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LOL we were posting at the same time

any more ideas maybe on sites like elance, i found them shortly after and i guess there not always as cheap but i found one that looked cool to me Agile Technosys min 16 dollars an hour, i dont know if thats a "holy crap" kind of cheap but if they are pros and do good work i feel i could get almost anything i want done for less than 3k.. and thats a high ball at least i think it is for what i want.. im looking at having work done to the wordpress platform, a fully featured and functioning theme,, lots of plugins "built in" and fixed, sense theres a lot that are screwy..

applesfaceman said:

Hi, I am hoping to get everyone to pitch in and recommend companies or people you have had experience with in out sourcing. personally I am looking to out source web development and design to somewhere like India because from what I see they are extremely inexpensive and pretty good programmers.. Im looking for overall web development/ wordpress/ etc.. I would appreciate anyones experience and links to companies websites. and how easy it was to work with them.
thanks

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if you are really looking for PM me, so we can discuss something.

What do you guys consider "cheap" for a top notch php/C/c++/javascript coder? Just wondering.

hi

cant post pm's yet. what tasks do you let them perform ?
what training do you go through ?

thanks alot.

I am not ready to contact anyone at this moment but will be hopfully soon, I am not looking for content writing, i am looking to have wordpress development done. i use it as a CMS for an adult website and want to have a lot of things built in and i would like strong coding and personally i dont mind paying high (out source) prices when i can afford it, i eventually want a good amount of work done.
Keep the posts coming!

I have outsourced quite a bit myself. There are some countries I have had good experiences with and some countries not so good experiences with. I guess much has to do your own personality and how well you get along with each culture.

I am from California and the country I personally mesh well with is the Ukraine. Kharkov, Ukraine is the kinda the equivalent to Silicone Valley in the US.

There are some GREAT designers and programmers that come out of here and I have never been badly disappointed with a single individual from there. Again, every experience and personality will be different for all of us. This has simply been my experience.

An important factor you want to take into consideration is the time difference. Since there is a 10 hour difference between California and the Ukraine, I often find myself staying up very late to complete an important project.

If your projects are pretty standard and cookie cut, then you may not have to worry about babysitting your projects. For me, I must do this often.

There is also the language barrier. For me, when these guys say certain things, I have to stop and think what they are trying to say even though it is in English. It's important to show respect to these guys and give them incentives to work hard for you. Don't forget, many times they are not exclusively working for you. So if they have another project in addition to your project, you don't want to get thrown on the back burner. You have to nicely micro manage them and ask them how certain tasks are coming along and if there is anything they need to get it done faster. I will often provide a $20 or $30 cash bonus if they can complete certain tasks within a given time period. This seems to go over very well.

If you are doing a mass number of generic WordPress sites, this may or may not be helpful to you.

There are lots of things to consider when outsourcing, so there is no better way to get the feel for it than to start working with a couple people.

I hope this helps!