If you are planning to go online, you must have different thoughts of whom should you consider? A freelancer or a development agency.
Freelancer is those who do not rely on the working hours from 9 am to 5 pm job and are not tied up to any professional firm. The key reason for many freelancers growing is because freelancers can be found at low cost.
So, if you have a smaller and tight budget than you would surely pick an option of freelancer, as it becomes a more appealing option for you.
BUT Do Remember: To keep in mind, a website represents a brand; it represents your business and the unique work you provide. To showcase, to reach your customers and clients.
Now let’s clear out the confusion of whom should you consider – a freelancer or a professional development company for your next project.
- Freelancers Vs Development Agency
Here are some points, which can help you differentiate between working with a freelancer and a development company.
Skills and Expertise:
If you are planning to hire a freelancer means you will work with a single person at a time. He/she will depend on you for all the tasks related to the project.
Hiring an agency for a project means working with people who have knowledge about diverse fields and they’re skilled employees. The project will also have a project manager, developer, designer, or tester those are expertise in their specific field.
Now you need to think, do you need a freelancer to do a single task or an agency who can do everything related to your project.
We can say a development company has a unique experience of employees, and that will help in sorting out each issue related to your project.
Vision:
After you have finalized an idea of the next revolutionary step, you’re encouraged for the “vision” of your app or website.
Your vision must be clear as it’s the combination of the application’s concept and strategic approach.
If you are working with a freelancer, they can provide your ideas only in they’re experienced. Working with a company can provide a vast range of examples.
Manageability:
Hiring a company to do your work means you’re hiring a full team of people including a project manager to communicate with you about your work progress and will lead the team. But if you are working with a freelancer, it bound you to manage all the parts on your own.
A company works if has any problem/issues related to your project, the person will be responsible. For the time being, you’re enjoying working in your business. On the other hand, you hire freelancers; you need to hire some more freelancers to get your work completed.
Communication:
A highly organized company always communicates with its clients on the progress of the work. The updates given to you will be on time by the project manager, which makes it easier to monitor the work in progress.
Working with a freelancer means talking to him/her directly. But if you are working on a bulky project, the concept needs to be cleared to each one of them, which is time-consuming.
Costs:
At the end of the day whatever you are doing it’s for your business and you would like to save as much as you can.
The main reason businessman hires a freelancer is because they are cheaper than a development agency. However, the rates depend upon the region.
The cost of a development company in the IT industry is growing at a rapid speed, at a reasonable cost. And you’re hiring an experienced team of developers.
Quality:
You’re needful to have a website or application, then these digital platforms must have quality. Quality plays a major role in the business’s success.
An online platform must be attractive and responsive. Because it’s the one that attracts customers and lets them explore their business easily.
After your digital platforms built, you need to hire additional freelancer QA testers, who will examine the developed platform and remove all the bugs from it. But if you are working with a company, they already have a tester who’ll be competing for all the testing.
Security:
Your clients would purchase from your digital platform only if it’s secured from all the angles and properly examined and tested.
As the era is changing in the software development world, it’s becoming harder to meet all the security requirements. Working offline feels safer than working online until and unless you don’t have protection.
As companies have their reputation. They’ll try to provide you full security, as their reputation and the client’s safety both fall at the same time. But a freelancer can only try to provide you with free available security tools.
A freelancer can also block your website if they think we do not pay them enough.
Deadlines:
A company works for reputation and has a logical fear of failure. They don’t want to lose their contacts and their client’s trust. So, they try working with 100% efficiency to complete their project before the deadline.
A hired freelancer comes up with any issues like getting sick or any other issues the freelancer will delay your work and suffer your project. A company will replace its developer and provide your project before the deadline.
Support:
If you are paying for a service, you would like to get full-scale services either from a freelancer or a development company.
A company can give you a full support team, to resolve any of your queries or the launching project. The company will not only hear your problems and issues but also solve them immediately.
Nowadays, some development company has an interminable warranty period. So, don’t worry if there is any problem with your digital platform. But if you are working with a freelancer, you might not get all full phased service
Summary:
Now you know about a freelancer and a development company, which would you like to consider?
Seeing the above mentioned points. Once would probably choose a development agency.
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