The demand for Freelancing services has witnessed a major boom over the last couple of years. Small and large sized businesses are hiring freelance professionals for all kinds of work requirements. Many professionals have given up their full time jobs and taken up freelancing as a career while some chose freelancing to supplement their income.
But the challenging part for almost every freelancer is to find genuine buyers who will make timely payments for the work. Or perhaps completing an assignment and not getting paid is one of the biggest risks of a freelancer. Constant nagging and reminders are something no one wants to do especially when you have delivered the project as per buyers expectations. Our recently conducted survey also confirmed that freelancers face this problem as they don’t receive their work payments. When we asked the participants that “Have you ever completed an assignment and not gotten paid” 59% of the respondent admitted that they worked but didn’t get paid and 49% confirmed that they had never faced any such problem.
It has been observed that freelancers who get projects from unreliable sources generally face this kind of issues after executing the freelance projects. This is the reason most of the respondents who participated in the survey preferred Freelance marketplace over search engines and friends / referrals.
The Freelance marketplaces like ours are secure for freelancers to do freelance work for a number reasons:
1. Security- We escrow the complete project amount before you start working on the project. The buyer needs to deposit complete project amount to LimeExchange account this means that your project money will be in secure hands and you can start working on the project.
2. Fraud Protection system- This service ensures high security standards on our platform by verifying the contact phone number entered by the buyer at the time of making escrow payments.
3. Multiple withdrawal modes- Freelancers have an option to withdraw their money through multiple payment modes. We offer withdrawal methods like Payoneer, PayPal, ACH (U.S.), Moneybookers etc.
4. Dispute assistance – The dispute resolution and mediation service is also available in case of any disagreement between both the parties. The online arbitration service removes the barriers of court and traditional drawbacks of arbitration to provide fast and affordable online dispute resolution using email.
These and many more benefits of freelance marketplaces make them a better place to find and execute freelance work. Please share with us your comments and suggestion on the same.
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