Freelance management: the new black?
Talent is precious. So precious that it can get wasted. Mauritian web designers are talented people but nobody has actually taken hold of these talents in different fields and exploited them. A major of part of these qualities are used by foreign agencies working a lot in outsourcing and the Mauritian brains and talents are just tools used like any other employee in the company elsewhere.
Few Mauritians have set out to go freelance but we are not in the Neanderthal age. Many are highly qualified in one field but lack major qualities in others. Good graphic designers might not be good CSS integrators for example. Great PHP coders might not be good SEO engineers. This is where one might crop up with a great business model or at least a great NEW job.
Influential blogger Seth Godin has simply titled it: Manager of Freelancers. Why freelancers? Answer: marketplace Darwinism. The word “world recession” is the new buzz-word and medium and small sized structures will be gaining more flexibility and encouragement than large creative agencies. Andy Rutledge, in his article on Web 0.2, states the advent of small companies:
Small businesses have had certain advantages ever since the advent of the Web, but I believe we’re entering primetime for agile and opportunistic squirrels, as the larger beasts lumber and sputter along. I think the coming years will in many ways be a return to the early days and wide-open frontier of Web design and development business. Web 0.2. This situation favors free agents[...]
He hits the bullseye. This is where the business is heading and he incites freelancers to learn how to manage a business and prepare for an increase in freelancing demand. This is where the manager of freelancers gets in the picture. Why not hire the freelancers you need to build up a project and reduce their management problems and drive the whole project along? A new type of job in a changing world?
This has its lot of consistency in a country like Mauritius where the market is not saturated and Web Design companies are lugging back building dinosaur aged websites regardless of standards, compatibility, SEO, site management and accessibility. Using freelancers, all experts in their fields, guarantees customer satisfaction as well as freelancers’. So why not go for it?
This might really be the new black!
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“Good graphic designers might not be good CSS integrators for example. Great PHP coders might not be good SEO engineers.”
If graphic designers would do CSS integration then what would front-end developers do?
If PHP coders would start doing SEO then what would SEO specialists do?
If 1 man starts doing everything then wat about the others? We have division of labour for some good reasons! So this post goes in trash!
Viraj » You, my friend, are a good example of our country’s great thinkers. You could have made the effort of reading the whole article instead of stopping at the second paragraph and quoting a statement. The whole point of the article is that each body specialises in its own field and “Freelance Management” is the way of bringing all this together in one project.
Could you please review all the posts of the site and point out which ones should undergo your high profile validation ? Thanks.
Twitter: freelancersmu
says:
You should check out the new Mauritian website on the block: http://www.freelancers.mu
Cheers.