Kudos From Our Coders Thank you to our coders for their continued feedback. Click here if you'd like to submit feedback of your own. (Click here to see kudos from buyers, instead)    An increasing number of Romanians are obtaining outsourcing contracts. They can win between several thousand dollars and over 100,000$ per year from programming, writing articles and creating business plans. “Any programmer with an internet connection and the will to work, can find projects on our website. Also, we make sure that they get their money, if they do the job well.” says, Ian Ippolito, founder of rentacoder.com      Mihai Pop from Craiova started in 2004 at the age of 18, with the help of his mother. Last year, the entrepreneur managed to win, via rentcoder.com, $49,737 of IT contracts and is the 4th ranked coder in the world. “The business started with $25 projects. Without a portfolio, it's hard for somebody to trust you, even if you bid low. But with perseverance and hard work, that can be overcome”, says Doina Pop, marketing manager for Software Pop Service Electronic. "Programmers can earn more on the internet than with their employer" Capital Online, March 2008    I no longer have a simple answer to the question, "Where do you live?", so I usually launch into an explanation of exactly what I'm doing. I almost always get the same response. "Wow. I wish I could do that." But here's the thing: almost anyone can do what I'm doing. Despite being a much more interesting lifestyle, it's not particularly difficult or expensive. There are no significant hidden costs or hassles. Living as a nomad is just as manageable as living in a single location, but a lot more fun and exciting. Even if you don't want to start your own internet business, there is a lot of work that can be done by contract. To start, check out … rentacoder.com. You can get paid to write, edit, create web pages, research, or program. If you can't do any of those things now, you could surely teach yourself within a few months using free resources online and a little practice.... What's stopping you? "How I became a modern day nomad, and how you can too" by Tynan Gadling, March 26th, 2008    A trend that is also catching up fast is of professionals who are leaving plush company jobs to do freelancing full time. Aiding them are websites like www.RentACoder.com, from where these people can get their projects and as long as the moollah flows in, the scene is only getting hotter. Some of the areas in which a lot of work is getting [done]...are web design and development, graphic designing, search engine e-marketing, quality assurance, creating an e-commerc site, mobile commerce site, payments processing, multimedia movies and animation, etc.. "IT pros exploring new vistas" by Vani Aseem Grover The Financial Express, June 11th, 2007    IT giants like IBM, Infosys, Wipro and WNS have got a new rival on the fast expanding Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) landscape. The new challenger is not some thousand-employees strong Business Process Outsourcing firm, but individuals who could be sitting anywhere alone before their personal computer...and have before them an addressable market worth over 20 billion dollars in the US alone. Websites such as RentACoder.com act as trading platforms for such services and over ten lakh professionals are already registered on these sites as Person-To-Person Offshoring (PPO) providers. These tasks do not require expensive infrastructure and people can work from their homes with a broadband connection and earn between 10 and 25 dollars for an hour's work. Among other popular PPO services being offered currently, jobs like online tutoring fetch 8-40 dollar an hour. "Move over BPOs, it's time for PPOs" by Kevin Donlin The Economic Times, May 13th 2007    I am pleased to announce that Rent A Coder has been selected for inclusion in Weddle's 2007/8 Guide. We had over 3,000 sites compete for the 350 profiles that were included. Selection, therefore is a significant achievement. We are pleased to recognize Rent A Coder as one of the best employment sites on the Web. Weddle's Announcement letter Peter Weddle CEO of Weddle's.com, March 23, 2007    This is the classic Catch-22 -- the Excedrin Headache #1 of employment problems. You need experience to prove to employers that you can do the job. But how can you get experience if nobody will hire you? One way to cut through this knotty problem is to stop waiting for somebody to give you experience and, instead, go get it on your own. You will then be more attractive to employers. How do you go about getting experience in your field? Lots of temporary employment agencies and Web sites offer contract positions you can do to polish your skills for employers. Check the Yellow Pages or post your resume on sites like RentACoder.com. Who knows? If you sparkle in a temporary assignment, it could turn into a full-time position -- it happens all the time. "Two More Job Search Problems Solved" by Kevin Donlin Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 11th 2006    If you rely on only one source of income, and that single income source goes away (ever been downsized, laid off or fired?), you're left broke and desperate. This is why every successful internet entrepreneur I know has multiple streams of income...It is extremely easy to do online. If you [are] a computer programmer, a writer or editor, or a graphic artist or website designer...you can market your services to customers around the world, and it doesn't cost you a dime. You can offer your services to customers on websites like ... RentACoder.com. Basically, you register, and when someone posts a job that falls within your area of expertise, you can bid on the work. "Creating Multiple Streams of Income" by Tim W. Knox AOL Small Business, September 2006       RentACoder is ... a great place to put your technological strong points to work in real life applications and get paid for it. ...I myself as a coder have done numerous projects. ...You don't need to be a #1 coder making thousands of dollars to win a job on RentACoder. ...There are a ton of projects out there. "Landing A Job On RentACoder" by Mr. Mattley Blog Spot, March 12, 2006       Online marketplaces like RAC (www.rentacoder.com) offer enough reason to generate effusive prose.... Vikas Sethi...gave up a fairly cushy job at HCL Comnet five years ago. He now works out of his home at Paschim Vihar in New Delhi....RAC ranks him at 129....[and] Sethi is booked for projects until end-2008. Sham Yemul...gave up a job at SKF Bearings in Pune...He headed home to small-town Solapur where he set up Intellisoft Consultants on a loan from his father. But Solapur isn't the kind of place where tech companies have much to do. Exasperated, Yemul turned to the internet...Yemul now ranks 179 on RAC and six people work with him, all of whom have no time for local projects. "India's invisible billion-dollar economy" by Charles Assisi Times of India, September 10, 2005       Find freelance projects--and get your revenue rolling...If you want to start your freelance business with a minimum investment and good gains, this is the website you'll want to register with. ... A main attraction of RentACoder is the excellent escrow and arbitration service--you don't start a job until all the funds are escrowed. 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Your site is extremely popular amongst all IT employees here in Athens and my new boss was thrilled to see that I was actually the "greek in the top 10" ... Screen name:Theo Kandiliotis Athens, Attiki Greece       You may have seen Web sites where freelancers can bid on projects posted by businesses needing assistance. Rent a Coder works similarly by giving businesses the opportunity to post projects needing development help. Currently, there is no charge to use the service. However, like eBay, when the coder is the highest bidder, a 15% of the winning amount goes to Rent a Coder. I think that's fair, especially since they don't charge membership fees, and eBay has been successful with this method. It's not just for programmers, though, as there are categories for graphic designers, data entry, documentation, networking, testing, and Web design. 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