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About Elance Elance is an online workplace where businesses hire and work with qualified professionals to get work done. Elance facilitates the entire work process from hiring to collaboration to payment.
Businesses and hiring managers use Elance to find, hire and work with qualified professionals with specialized skills. Service professionals ("providers") use Elance to meet customers, produce quality work and get paid for doing what they do best.
How Elance Works for Businesses
How Elance Works for Providers
It's free for you to sign up and post a job on Elance. There are two ways to get connected with expert service providers.
You can join Elance as a provider by selecting a membership plan that is right for you. Membership plans range from free trial memberships to paid memberships.
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Post your job (free) and list the skills you need while indicating timelines, requirements, and a budget range you are expecting to pay. Providers will respond by offering their services in the form of proposals. You then review proposals, evaluate and interview candidates (via chat, messaging or calls), and award the job to the provider that best fits your needs.
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Alternatively, you can post a job, and then proactively invite specific providers to submit proposals on the job. You can browse the directory of providers, and identify providers who have the right sets of skills and portfolios of work that matches your business needs.
Once the membership plan is chosen, you set-up a profile to showcase your skills and services. You can upload samples of past work, list credentials and get your skills certified by taking skills tests administered by Elance.
You can find work by browsing the open jobs posted by clients, and then submit proposals for the work that interests you and best matches the skills that you possess.
Working Together Once the work is awarded to the selected provider and both parties agree on business terms, the client will typically "fund" the project by putting money into Elance Escrow. This ensures the money is available to pay the provider upon completion of agreed upon milestones.
At this point, the work gets started.
The Elance Remote Work System ensures structured communication between businesses and their service providers to drive great results. The Remote Work System notably includes a “workroom” where both parties can easily communicate and collaborate with each other, set milestones, provide status update, share feedback, and ultimately make progress toward completion of the work.
At the conclusion of the work (and sometimes upon completion of interim milestones) the provider gets paid for the results delivered.
How Does Elance Make Money? Elance collects a small percentage (4% - 6%) of the total billings on the work done on Elance. This money is collected from the provider during the payment settlement process. Additionally, Elance collects subscription fees from service providers who voluntarily opt into membership plans that are designed to help them grow their business and get great work on Elance. Clients pay no fees beyond the money that is paid to the provider for the work that is done.
