Elance.com

Elance is a company that provides an Internet virtual marketplace for freelancers and freelance agencies to negotiate work contracts with businesses that hire independent professionals and agencies.It also provides online collaboration tools to help companies manage remote teams and results online. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Elance allows businesses to post a project and assess providers bidding on the project by reviewing qualifications, ratings, portfolios and skill test scores. Once a provider is selected, the employer can then manage people and projects. The company earns revenues by charging businesses a one-time $10 fee for posting jobs, and by assessing a fee on payments from businesses to providers.
The company also allows freelancers to search the site for potential jobs and read through the requests for proposals and make bids.

The largest categories of work on Elance are Information technology and Marketing – including Web development, programming, creative design, multimedia production, writing, search engine optimization, content translations and research.

webiste : www.elance.com