Running a large-scale blog can be a lot of work. If you gain a large readerbase, and are barely keeping up with writing posts, and managing others’ posts if you’re the editor of a multi-author blog, how are you going to find the time to do other things, like redesign the blog when the time comes? Or what if you just don’t have the skills to do something, like create an eye-catching design or code a custom add-on to the site.
Outsourcing, delegating, whatever you want to call it, somewhere along the line, you may need to find someone else to do some work for you. As a matter of fact, I highly recommend it in many cases.
I’ve been hired on a couple of occasions to do some custom PHP development for people in similar circumstances. People who needed something done for a web project, but didn’t have the skills or time to do it themselves.
Design is a big area where this is important. An good web designer can put together a template for a site that often could be better than what you could do yourself. The end result could be more useable, and better looking. If you don’t have much in the way of design skills, I highly recommend hiring a designer. It can make a big difference in site performance.
Blogs aside, there are many cases where you may want to hire a freelancer. Lightening your load while building a Web 2.0 startup, or finding someone else to write content for a site. come to mind. No matter what it is you do online, there are often times when you don’t have certain skills necessary to complete a project, or simply can’t juggle everything else at the same time. Hiring a freelancer is often the way to go.
Where do you find a freelancer to do work for you? The web is a large place, and there are thousands, if not millions, of portfolio sites out there. If you already have someone in mind to do some work, you should have no trouble contacting them via their website. But what if you have no idea where to start looking? Find a decent-sized job board type site to post a description of what you need done, and let the freelancers come to you.
I’d like to point you toward one such site, if you don’t mind a bit of commercialization in this otherwise innocent post. 
Our latest advertiser fits the bill for the type of site you may want to use to try to find a freelance designer/developer/whatever. Get A Freelancer.com just may be what you need. You can post projects for free, and get price quotes for the job before you decide to commit.
What about you? You could make some extra cash by freelancing. It pays well if you find the right project to take on, and it’s not too time consuming either. You can work from home designing, coding, writing, whatever you have the skills to do. If you spend a lot of time on the internet, you often pick up skills that could be put to use freelancing. Again, Get a Freelancer can help you. You can skim through the jobs posted there and find work to do in whatever free time you have, and make a quick buck. If you find yourself doing it a lot, you could even become a full-time freelancer (FreelanceSwitch is a good guide for those who go that route).
