When Should I Use Freelance Talent?

When should I use Freelance Talent?

The following four points are excerpted from writers-editors.com. While the specific examples are geared towards a writers perspective, the lessons to be learned are fully applicable to any industry. Let’s face it, any agriculturalist, no matter the job, is a busy person. Why not relieve some of the stress and still get high quality work?

From writers-editors.com:
"When To Consider Using Freelance Talent”
“1. When you want a diversity of writing styles that will keep your publication, your Web site, your agency, your business communications from going stale. Freelancers will give you a wider range of story, public relations or advertising ideas from which to draw.”
“2. When you want to save money. One editor likened the use of freelancers to buying a time-share vacation plan: "You pay for only the time you use." In one year his publication's payments to freelancers was almost $31,500. If they had chosen instead to hire the two additional staff writers it would have taken to turn out the same quality and quantity of work, he says their costs would have been about $46,600 including salary and benefits. With freelancers you don't have to pay for non-productive "working" hours, vacation days, holidays, unemployment insurance, social security, sick leave or other fringe benefits.”
“3. When you want to cut travel costs where research needs to be done in another city or state. Airline, car rental, meal and hotel expenses can be much less - if not eliminated altogether - by hiring a freelance writer who lives in that area.”
“4. When work has piled up, you're short on staff writers, or you've taken on a job that requires special expertise."

No matter the job, if it can be done outside of your location, you can save time and money using freelancers. Hire consultants, experts, worker bees, accountants, data entry people, web designers, graphic artists, agriculture professionals, someone to organize your life, just about anything! In the next post, we’ll talk more about how you can justify the cost of using a freelance professional – and how they might just help you make more money!