Hiring a freelance team: tips for founders

Hello, dear digital nomads! We’ve already written about How to choose a freelancer and to work with him successfully and How to run a freelancer dream team and why it worths to do. So let’s connect them both and talk about hiring a team! Does it differ from hiring a single remote worker? Do you need to coop with all at the same time? And what about payment? 

There are plenty of options for remoting, just like the rules for constructing this type of collaboration. We won't repeat, we only remind again that remote teams have lots of advantages, especially if it's the Beesy.pro freelancers teams! Why so?

Create a productive team of freelancers is troublesome, especially if you are not an expert in the field in which you need to have the work done. That's why we developed Beesy.pro! Hiring a whole team of talents on our website is completely the same as hiring a single employee: you don't need to check and choose each team member individually, hand out and control all tasks and make dozens of payments on various conditions. All that is required of you, is to sign up on the site as an employer, describe your project in detail, go behind the team's portfolio before starting cooperation (making sure that there are works similar to your project) and trust the team leader in the work process! All negotiations, clarification of conditions and payment occur exclusively with the teamlead. Thus, you still communicate only with one freelancer and get results from several professionals! Moreover, teamlead, as a rule, is a person with high communicative qualities, a manager and a QA in one person, which means decreased risks of misunderstandings and poor quality work.

Many employers complain about a significant drawback — the inability to control the quality of work at all stages. Like, one freelancer will perform the task efficiently and on time, and from the other there will be only promises. Such situations aren't uncommon if the employer creates his own remote team and hires each freelancer individually. But thanks to Beesy.pro you get an already formed team, the responsibility for the which work is held by one person —  team leader! In addition, you can require each team member to use a time tracker, and in the case, for example, of missed deadlines, ask the teamlead to provide you with these reports. However, we recommend act this way as an exception, because the main thing for you is to build productive and trusting cooperation with the teamlead, and to solve team-based conflicts or fight incompetence are already his/her  “problems”.

Oftenly arises an additional question about the price: is it more expensive to hire a team than one professional? Not necessarily, we will answer! Of course, if you have a small project and you need a junior specialist, hiring a team will be more expensive. But if you have a large-scale project with several diverse tasks at once (for example, website development, its content filling and promotion), then hiring a team of professionals is much more profitable and more productive than hiring one senior expert. At the same time, if you correctly evaluate the team's qualification by its portfolio and reviews, you will only win in finished work quality!

For more confidence for both employers and freelancers, we always recommend using a safe deal service and agree on a technical specification. Also, in order to avoid conflicts, we recommend not change the project's conditions and price during the cooperation. And upon its completion we advise to exchange reviews, which will affect the rating of both sides and help them in further cooperation with other website users. Be sure to agree on the time and frequency of communication, the method of transferring work results, copyrights and the possibility of rework / further supporting the project. And how to check hard and soft skills of potential performers and not to be mistaken with the choice, read in our previous articles!

Be proactive, be creative, be with Beesy.pro!