Comments on: Success Story: Danalyn West

By: jamesdevere

jamesdevere — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:55:48 +0000

I needed to read this blog! Am new here so I am just reading up.

Great write – inspired me to be clear about where I am coming from.

Best . j

By: web design

web design — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:38:16 +0000

outsourcing is really insane thing. I love it.

By: web design

web design — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:30:44 +0000

Thanks for sharing these outsourcing tips.

By: Steven Harreld

Steven Harreld — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:30:24 +0000

I had trouble reading the article because I had to keep scrolling up to look at Danalyn’s pic! WOW.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:34:14 +0000

Thanks for this. It was a good read. The payment system is my favorite part of odesk also. I’ve been burned by non-payers in the non-odesk past too many times.

By: Danalyn

Danalyn — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:27:07 +0000

You’re right that the specifications are only part of it. For me, since my work consists of web design/development, asking the buyer, “what do you hope to accomplish with your site?” helps determine which direction to head. Most of the time, they may not know how to go about getting it done, but they know how they want it to function. Having that information helps me tenfold!

On one hand, it might be nice to see some type of survey to help guide buyers along when posting their jobs…but on the other hand, it would be tough to implement simply because of the sheer amount of diversity in the types of jobs posted on a daily basis.

By: kamen

kamen — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:35:44 +0000

Hello

I like your comment: “…Detailed specifications about the job…”

Please note that detailed specification is up to 50% of the job. In other words it’s beyond the abilities of most of people working as buyers.

What do think about the idea to add more text in oDesk that recommend buyers to post jobs for writing detailed specification?

By the way I have seen serious companies to wander during years and I have developed my approach for making specifications/software design…