Archive for the ‘Freelancing’ Category

Update: January 03, 2011: VWorker has also added skrill (moneybookers) as a new payment method for countries where Paypal is not supported. Since Paypal is not available in Pakistan, you can withdraw money from your Odesk and VWorker accounts using the following withdrawal methods. Skrill (Formerly Moneybookers): Odesk: Simply sign up at moneybookers and then go [...]

As the CEO of vWorker.com, I have close contact with many of the 300,000+ freelancers who use the site to earn a living. I’ve seen virtual workers of all temperaments, nationalities and ages. But the thing that always strikes me is how there seem to be two distinct types of freelancers. The first seems to [...]

Usman Shahzada: Where are you from and tell something about yourself? Ian Ippolito: I grew up in Merritt Island, Florida, which is the home of Kennedy Space Center. Most of the people who lived there worked for NASA and my dad did too. He first worked in the Apollo control room, and then later became [...]

Usman Shahzada: Where are you from and tell something about yourself? Gary Swart: I grew up in the New York City area and moved to the Bay Area of California almost 18 years ago. I moved to Palo Alto to work for Pure Software, and through a series of mergers and acquisitions, I ended up [...]

There are many online market places such as odesk, guru, scriptlance,getacoder, freelancer, elance and vworker but I will focus on VWorker.com and Odesk.com only. So I will be discussing how to Setup profiles on vworker and odesk Comparison of vworker and odesk (Arbitration/Mediation, Escrow ) Fixed Price vs Hourly Jobs on Odesk How to use [...]


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