Chapter
13
Managing Your Projects
In This Chapter
• The ins and outs of the client workroom
• Features for building teams
• Managing hourly jobs
• Utilizing awesome applications in your virtual office
• Nurturing the client-contractor relationship
In an ideal online work world, you will develop go-to contractors that you either employ all the time, or rehire each time you have new projects to complete. Many long-term work relationships are created and maintained in the Elance environment. Naturally, it’s easier to work with someone you’re comfortable and familiar with than it is to go out searching for a new contractor each time you have a project.
A critical part of developing this type of relationship takes place during the job itself. Managing your projects partly entails using the right tools and gadgets Elance provides. But the other part, and one too often left to the side, is managing the human relationship. Contractors and clients alike want to be respected and valued.
By looking after the people who are taking the time and effort to do your job in the best way possible, you’ll be fostering excellence and ongoing symbiotic relationships. Oftentimes, this will happen between people on opposite ends of the globe.