The Complete Guide to Managing Freelancers

The day-to-day management of freelancers, particularly if you have multiple projects running, can be very time-consuming for your business. This guide will help you create a blueprint for managing freelancers effectively.

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Creating a project brief

A detailed and concise project brief is essential for your freelancer to understand your objectives, goals and expectations. Make sure you also provide any useful background information (audience, benchmarks, competitor analysis etc.) from the beginning.

Providing Clear Communication

Good communication and regular interaction with your freelancers throughout the project is vital for a good outcome. We run through best practises and provide a detailed checklist of the 7 C’s of Communication.

Managing Multiple Projects

Having good managerial processes in place are necessary both on a macro and micro level in your business, particularly when you have multiple projects and freelancers. Our guide goes through a list of suggested tools so that you can work collaboratively and maintain accountability and visibility of all projects.

What is TalentDesk.io?

TalentDesk.io is a Freelancer Management System (FMS) and SaaS platform that allows you to manage your freelancers and contract workers in the most efficient manner. The platform involves:

Onboarding & ensuring compliance
Simplifying project management
Managing payments and invoices

By providing consistent workflows and facilitating clear audit trails, the system makes it easy for you to manage your existing freelancer workforce, whilst providing access to PeoplePerHour’s talent pool of over 1.5 million freelancers.

Your go to platform for everything freelance

Organise people

Source and onboard freelancers compliantly. Bring your own talent or use ours.

Manage projects

Keep track of budgets and deadlines. Allow your teams to collaborate.

Make payments

Automate timesheeting and expenses. Receive one monthly invoice.

Testimonials

Great platform for freelancer management - Talentdesk is great. It is exactly the platform we needed to manage our freelancer programme with a really good host of features. It is very easy and nice to use which is important considering the amount of users we need to engage. Our account managers were amazing, really dedicated to us and very good at making things happen for us.

- Xabier Perez-Izaguirre

Excellent freelancer management system - TalentDesk offers global access to freelance skills so that we can scale our business while remaining lean and agile. It simplifies the entire process and allows us to monitor project costs, budgets, and timesheets in one place. All payments are dealt with regardless of how many freelancers require paying or where they are in the world, we only pay one invoice and the rest is taken care of. We have seen a positive impact on our time, increasing productivity and lowering overall employment costs… Overall very happy with the decision to work with TD.io

- Josh Hanning

In 2018, the gig economy is strong. Small companies like ours rely on freelancers for work like writing, graphic design and IT. TalentDesk allows us to centralise all our freelancers in one place, saving time and frustration in finding our freelancers, keeping track of their work, and paying them. The introductory functionality released so far will be followed by increasingly useful additions and I’m looking forward to being part of that journey.

- Karen Thurman

Saves me time and keeps my freelancers happy! The way it combines all of the invoices from my freelancers into one invoice each month means I never miss a payment and my freelancers all know when they will get paid. This saves me a lot of time each month to focus on the rest of my business… the more invoices you have each month the more time it will save you, so you can focus on your business!

- Luke Austin