which site is good for you to find work or find a provider ? odesk or elance , lets  review both sites below and compare the features , i am freelancing for almost 6-7 years  , there are few renowned websites known for outsourcing like Odesk , getacoder , getafreelancer ( now freelancer ) and Elance  there are some other too like scriptlance , rent a coder , ilance etc etc but if you compare traffic stats you will definately dropdown to these two   , so which one is better ?

Free

i regularly use both odesk and elance to find projects , Elance isnt completely free for providers which isnt  catchy  for any new provider to signup at all ,while Odesk is 100% free for providers but theres limited quota of 20 Bids per week for average provider there which i think is good idea to keep odesk spam free  ,  there are always fresh job postings on both sites but through buyer’s perspective if he/she will post a job on odesk candidate list will be around 10-30 same posting on elance will only render 5-10 applicants so it will give buyer less choices and talents to select best provider .

Profile Pages

now lets checkout provider profile pages , Odesk profile pages are much smoother , through the point and clean while elance prodile pages look bit boaring . if you dont have  attractive feedback there chances are low you can get job there when your competitor have high feedback , in this context on odesk if you have good portfolio and less or no feedbacks you can still prove your presence to buyers there .

General popularity

Popularity wise i think both websites are at same stage , both websites are featured in  media many times .

SEo rankings

seo wise Elance got edge , elance is ahead of odesk for popular searched keyowrds like “ find web developer” ,  ”find a freelancer”  .

Payment and Withdraws

Payment wise odesk is superb elance doesnt support withdraws via moneybookers , which is very depressing as many Asian countries which are marked as top outsourcing destinations like Pakistan , Philippines etc dont have paypal and service providers of these countries vastly use Moneybookers .

will share more comparisons soon if you want to share some likes / dislikes of any of these sites please comment below .

i was passing by IT park lahore , through model town construction phase is near its completion as you can see in an image below , i love this piece of architecture , truly unique , modern and state of the art construction . lahore IT park is a project of Punjab IT Board this project was launched when Pervaiz Elahi was the cheif minister of Punjab .
After suffering many hurdles i am happy its almost ready , hope it will render some new paths for IT industry in Pakistan .

IT park lahore, pakistan

some genral specs : (area / dimensions ) 17-Storeys with 475,000 Sq. ft. covered area
Fiber Optic, Wireless LAN / WAN, WiMax & VSAT Technologies, Global Data Center , beside that as summers are very hot in lahore so it park lahore got central cooling system and most important of all 24 Hour power supply backup

Online payment gateway payoneer suspended its services for customers inside Pakistan , users of Payoneer wont be able to withdraw funds from ATM machines nationwide , but users will be able to shop online using payoneer , its very common payment gateway for Pakistanis who cant avail paypal services .payoneer suspended its service after Pakistan’s Anti Money laundering law expired .

i think govt should think about this and should renew this act asap or else many Pakistani Freelancers wont be able to withdraw funds instantly .

Apple Recently launched ipad , altough it isnt too attractive  but got alot of interesting features , application development for ipad is going to be be next big trend in coming time for coders and developers .

Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers Partner Matt Murphy on the impact of Apples iPad on application developers and sales.

so in simple if you want full time job for next 2-3 years , start learning ipad application development

i recieve many messages on social networks and IM’s from my friends and collegeues that how they can work online and earn some $$  ,

So i decided to to write a little content to guide them how they can find some work online , first of all forget phishing scam offers like :

“work from home and earn $10,0000  daily”

or

“work from home and earn millions ”

etc etc  ….websites with such slogans demand a startup fee between $100-$200 and when you pay them initiall fee …boooom …they either dont reply back to your emails or either they will give you a long timeframe when you will have to start working for them…..so heres the easy way :

a. Every work and task demands skill

it isnt possible that you can just start earning online without having any skill

you must either have good content writing skills , coding /programming , or designing skills to work online .

b.  what skills i must have to  find online work ????

so this time you wont have to submit any fee or dont have to click any links to earn , there are many websites which hosts many projects posted by service buyers if you either one of the following skills you can provide your services as freelancer and can earn good amount online :

1.Web Development

2.Graphic Designing

3.Technical Writing

4.Creative Writing

5.Programing Knowledge

6.Article writing skills

……

there are many other skills but these skills are prominent

so if you have either of the following skills then there are chances you can apply for online Freelance jobs.

c.Where i can find work ?

so now you visit the following websites:

1. Odesk

2. Get A Freelancer

3. Get A Coder

4.Eu Freelance

5.Rent A Coder

i personally prefer odesk (the first one)  as there are tons of freelance jobs there and its payment methods are very good .

i will soon post another topic to make things much easier please let me know if you want to clerify anything .

best Regards

Zain