During the crisis the only way to run business is to decrease costs and increase demand as much as possible. In terms of software projects you need cheap and highly skilled developers. This is there the recession gives great opportunities.
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Overview
When you start moving a software development project to offshore, the most obvious choise is a partnership with big companies. They are the first in search engine results, you could found them through advertizing and if you put your project to freelance auction, the first bids will come from big companies. But obvious variant isn’t always better.
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One of the most popular methods of finding offshore freelancers is searching on the freelance auction sites. You may post your project and see how freelancers make their bids. You may also search portfolios to find a freelancer which fits your needs. So let’s look at this system closer.
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A short overview of using local middlepersons for working with offshore freelancers.
Let’s say you want to make some software product. It could be a web application, intranet or desktop – doesn’t matter. You heard about cheap offshore developers, but don’t know how to deal with them? The easiest way is to found local middleperson dealing with offshore developers. You could found very affordable prices (up to 50% cheaper than local developers) combined with full legal responsibilities. Cheap service, no risks? Not so simple.
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