I have signed up with GetAFreelancer. It is a slighty strange process to register - they have a single form for both ’sellers’ and ‘buyers’ which I found very confusing at first - but other than that it seems to be pretty easy to use.

I don’t know why, but I got quite nervous posting my first project on the site. Bit of the unknown I guess and not being exactly sure what to say and all that. Anyway - wrote a nice description of what we need (20 product reviews to be researched and written - 300 words each) and hit the ‘go’ button.

I then thought I would tidy up before heading off home and see if anybody had placed a bid in the morning - in the time it took me to wash up my coffee mug I had got 5 proposals!! These guys must be sitting there clicking the ‘refresh’ button on GetAFreelancer and waiting for the next project to appear.

The average price is around $60 - that is $3 per product review - that is £1.50 each!! The feedback on most of the bidders is excellent so this is looking pretty good to me.

Now I’m getting nervous again - is this all too cheap? Is it going to be a complete waste of time with a load of rubbish text? Or is this the way forward?

I’m thinking (and hoping) it is the latter.

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