Question about Odesk and contacting clients through their website?

[Jake]

Typically communicating outside of the marketplace's channels is a violation of their terms, which you could read through, getting a track record of satisfied customers, so important for getting more customers is tough at first, I suppose you have to do what you have to do, just bear in mind the potential employer is probably the only source from which Odesk would hear of the off campus solicitation, don't be overly aggressive in your communications or so anything that might motivate them to turn you in, sounding dumb about policy might be better than talking collusion.