[thelist] freelance outsourcing

Thanks for the great information/breakdown, Chris.

This brings up a question that's been on my mind... how do people find other
freelance folk to outsource to?  I mean is it all a matter of hobnobbing and
visiting conventions and all that Networking shtuff, or are there common
places people go to?  Wouldn't it be interesting if there was a website out
there that kept it's hands out of the pie directly, but provided a place for
freelancers to get information about each other for outsourcing purposes?
More specifically, I'm wondering if there's a place where I can say "Ok, I'm
looking for someone who can do some backend work for my client", look up
some interesting prospects and give them a ring.  

I know there are a few places out there that do this for actual corporations
and such, and I bet they get a slice of the pie at the same time.  Which
doesn't exactly make them an unbiased conduit.

Scott

|Estimated time to delivery:  100 - 120 hours
|Estimated Budget:              $600 - $900
|All work over 120 hours will be billed at standard rate
|

|This has always worked very well for me.  The client knows 
|exactly what you are doing and charging, and is almost always more willing
to 
|pay extra when they are in the know.
|
|Another advantage to billing this way, you get the ability to 
|farm out work. For example, if you are a good programmer but have no design

|experience, you can take the gig, and then farm out the graphics work to
someone else.
|Sometimes you can pay your contractor a little less than you charge the
|client, but even if you pay them straight across, you are still making all
|the other money on the gig.  This is also smart because a project always
|gets out of control in the area's you are not as comfortable with, and
|that's where you loose your money.  If you know it should be done in 2
hours
|but it takes you 5, you have effectively driven down your hourly rate.