anyone use people per hour ?

wendywooh

just interested to see if anyone is registered on the people per hour website and what sort of success do you get

thanks

DS4215

Only ever won one contract one there, and that was taken off me before I could start. To be fair though I don't apply for many jobs on there - mainly use odesk, but I have work coming out of my ears at the minute so am not applying for anything...

wendywooh

DS4215 wrote: »

Only ever won one contract one there, and that was taken off me before I could start. To be fair though I don't apply for many jobs on there - mainly use odesk, but I have work coming out of my ears at the minute so am not applying for anything...

ok thanks is odesk the same sort of thing then

JuniorDesigner

Been on PeoplePerHour for many a year now.....never won a single job!!

DS4215

yes. odesk is similar. As are freelancer and elance.

JuniorDesigner

These sites all suffer from the low rate/work problem though, some find it acceptable to charge $5 for a logo or similar.

SailorSam

I've read that when you put in for a job you could be up against someone who has put a tender in from say India, where pay may be a lot less. So unless you have specialised skills you may find it hard to land work.

JuniorDesigner

Jonathan-PPH wrote: »

I'm the community manager at PeoplePerHour and we publish all our stats about earnings and winning countries here if you'd like to look at PPH economy

The vast majority of winning freelancers are Brits and only a tiny fraction of jobs (around 7%) go to the lowest bid.

JuniorDesigner and others, if you'd like me to give you some tips please head to our forum and I'll see what I can do.

Hope this helps,

Jonathan

PS - I can't post links but head to our site and search for the Forum and Economy under the Community tab

Jonathan,

Thanks for the reply, good of you to make a response on this.

Any tips you can offer on bidding for work would be greatly recieved.

Cheers

TwistedPsycho

*cough*

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/site/forum-faqs#companyrep

*cough*

Having a PPH rep on here is a great idea, but I don't to see PPH reps getting banned.

InsideInsurance

Have used many sites like it and over the years had a few reasonable jobs from them - probably 5 or so a year after having to do the silly low value jobs to get feedback.

The two challenges are firstly youre up against people who are willing to work for £3 an hour and secondly you have to factor in the time it takes to win bids in your costings. A lot of projects posted never are awarded to anyone & I would suspect a lot of people posting have very unrealistic expectations. The challenge is to identify those who you have a good chance to win rather than simply those projects you could technically do.

We still occasionally bid on work when we have spare capacity in our team but most the time it is for things that sound interesting that we wont lose money on rather than something to make a good profit.

yataka

it's all up to you. You can judge from your own personal condition.