May 5th, 2010 by Alex Coté
Over the last couple of weeks there have been a number of media outlets from the Wall Street Journal to Bloomberg BusinessWeek to Clark Howard at CNN all covering the same topic: Freelancers struggling to get paid. Clark Howard’s blog post yesterday hit the point home:
“I think there should be a website where independent contractors can rate how well or how poorly a company pays. Big companies decide how credit-worthy another company is by going to look at a Dun and Bradstreet report. But what about you as the person who’s working on your own, serving at the pleasure of this non-employer, and they stiff you? We need this for those working as freelancers. That’s how capitalism works. A need is met in the marketplace and your reward for it is money – a real paycheck!!”
Clark is spot on in identifying this need. Freelancers, unfortunately, too often get the short end of the stick when it comes to payment. It’s time we bond together and change that. It relates directly to our company’s mission.
Cortera has built the first true online community where small businesses, freelancers and anyone can check in real time who’s getting paid and who’s getting delayed, or worse yet, stiffed. They can even report the deadbeats to protect the entire community. Check it out http://www.cortera.com/community/. Best of all, it’s free to join.
It’s time that the “little guy” in business has a say and gets heard.
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