PeoplePerHour is a website that connects small businesses with freelance workers from across the internet to help them complete small projects quickly and affordably.
According to PeoplePerHour.com, thousands of small businesses use them to hire remote, freelance workers to complete small projects, or just to work for a few hours a week. They claim this allows small businesses to stay flexible.
PeoplePerHour says this benefits small businesses because they can create virtual teams of people across the country – or even internationally – “without the red tape, cost, and bureaucracy of traditional employment.”
They have seven main categories of projects: IT/Programming, Marketing/Sales, Design, Admin/Secretarial, Writing/Translation, Accounting/Legal, or Other. Each category is broken into smaller, more specific categories so workers can something that works for them.
Both businesses and workers can register at PeoplePerHour.com for free. The website does take a small fee from workers, however, when they successfully book a job.
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As a freelancer, you are used by the clients, used by the PPH and if anything goes wrong, you get the full scale of the blame.
Avoid it like the plague.
The issue is those who go for very low bids then turn around and moan about there not being good quality freelancers on PPH
It is a highly competitive market, and sites such as PPH and Freelancer do not help that aspect, but at the same time they also put buyers and seller together.
You get what you pay for. If someone is able to do the work for £200 to a high enough standard, and THEY are happy with that amount - what is the issue?
So you'd think that escrow means that you'll get paid if you complete the work right?
Well not on PPH. On Elance.com, if you do the work, and the customer is satisfied, and the funds are in escrow, you do get paid.
Again, not on PeoplePerHour.com. After I completed the job, and After the buyer gave me five stars, then they told me that they wanted to hold my $140 payment until they could re-verify the buyer.
Remember, PPH has the funds in escrow. ... so what's the hold-up?
I'll stick with Elance.com. Their escrow means that Elance holds the funds, and all fraud checks are complete. If I do the work, and the customer is satisfied, I'll get paid.
Eric
I suggest you all get your facts checked. Yes, there are always rooms for improvement and they are getting there. No Auction website has bent over backwards like they do for freelancers.
You talking of them charging higher fees.. grow up! the price of an employee has shot up too! you ought to increase your payout to freelancers as well. If you are looking for a 12 page Wordpress website with all the complexities for $100 or a little more than you are the scum..not they.
Feel free to quote me - Respect the people who gets your work done and respect the people who give you the resources where as you be paying through your nose.
Within a week I had 2 jobs paying about £250 each. Not my full rate, but hell - £500 for what is essentially 3/4 days work.
I think freelancers should stop being greedy and be grateful of such trading platforms. What is the other alternative? Close the site down? Will they be better off then? I think not!!
Paying through the nose I agree with.
Of course prices go up but that is not a reason to increase the percentages. PPH takes 18% of earnings as commission and provides zilch customer service, they do not respond to queries, they ignore all your messages and hope you will go away. The only way to get any sort of response is to post on facebook and normally your post is removed very quickly but sometimes you do get a reply.
PPH is probably still ok for clients but for freelancers it is a disaster, soon the only ones left will be the ones who cannot get work any other way. And the quality will go down.
Peopleperhour doesn't give a damn about its freelancers who are,after all, the ones keeping the organisation afloat - in a row-boat as opposed to a fancy cruise ship - but afloat all the same.
The CEO and his acolytes are inspired by the teen-aged jargon of Urban Dictionary,and they are so arrogant, that they really feel they are above having their wrists smacked for a serious breach of copyright
They offer (accurately) about 300 000 freelancers for rougly 2200 jobs - so from a client's point of view - he/she/it can't lose.
Also, if you know better sites, why not list some of them? Do you prefer elance, Guru, Craigslist, LinkedIn, what?
Enough said really.
I think all of the comments are the people who cannot write a decent proposal and have had bugger all work. Either that or they are working for competitor sites!
Within a month I had a 100% rating and 7 glowing reviews from clients and of course had paid a huge share of my earnings to peopleperhour. I once left the UK to visit my home country. Peopleperhour called my home & my family member not well versed in English could not answer the phone as was expected by the arrogant peopleperhour team. Without sending me an email notification, they blocked me and wrote next to my profile that I had been banned
I started receiving skype messages from concerned clients asking why I was kicked out. When I wrote to peopleperhour to explain, I received several messages from them from different so called 'ninjas' saying contradictory things!!! No one apologised and they are a truly unprofessional, mismanaged company who need to have a basic lesson in etiquette before continuing to work. The rude ninja Sebastian thinks he owns the company - or probably in reality does own it. His attitude is unbelievably arrogant.
The ninjas need to learn to say the word SORRY when required. I have left peopleperhour for good as they do not respect us providers. A very strange attitude to not respect provides who are in fact their clients who PAY THEM. No wonder most reviews here are negative - a big eye opener.
What annoyed me was that I had a credit in the account which I left there for the next job, however when I returned to PPH after some time the account had been deleted and thus I lost the amount in the account.
Whilst it was not a lot of money, nonetheless I feel disappointed that PPH should feel free to close my account and pocket the balance in the account.
PPH: Not very professional or honest.
Avoid like a plague