Freelancer.com will be exhibiting at CeBIT in Sydney, which is the leading business event in the Asia Pacific region for Information and Communications Technology driving business strategy. We will be one of the 600 exhibitors at the event interacting with over 30,000 visitors from Australia and overseas. Our CEO, Matt Barrie will also be speaking at the CeBIT exhibition about how to turbocharge your business with online freelancers. He will be sharing ideas on how to dramatically grow your business… Read more
Freelancer.com hits 1.5 million Registered Users and Becomes the Largest Website Run by an Australian Company
Freelancer.com has just hit 1.5 million registered users. We would like to thank all of our valued users as we could not have achieved this without you. This means we now have more projects for service providers to bid on and more service providers for employers to choose from. This is a great milestone and we look forward to hitting 2 million users. Also this week according to Alexa traffic rank we overtook sites like news.com.au and ninemsn.com.au to be… Read more
Outsource Interior Design – Success Story
I had previously used Freelancer.com to build a website and discovered that they also had freelancers in the area of 3D rendering. I posted a job to create a photo realistic rendering of my apartment renovation designs. This allowed me to decide upon some changes and gave me the peace of mind that the renovation was exactly what I wanted. If I had the same thing done locally it would have cost me $1000, and wouldn’t have been as high quality. I was able to get the job done for $200, and it was of the highest quality.
Computer Weekly Talks about Outsourcing and Freelancer.com
Mark Kobayashi-Hillary wrote a piece about outsourcing and Thomas Friedman. He explains how the world is flattening and agrees with a lot of Friedman’s points. He also goes on to talk about Freelancer.com being a major driver behind this outsourcing epidemic. You can read the article here: http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/social-business/2010/03/opportunities-abound-for-p2p-jobs.html
Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer Will Be Presenting at Funding Connect
Funding Connect will be held at Customs House, 31 Alfred Street, Circular Quay on the 22nd of April. The event helps connect investors, successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders from all sectors from the technology industry in Australia. The event aims to provide opportunities for partnerships, funding and networking for technology companies. Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com, will be one of the speakers at Funding Connect on the ‘Going Global’ panel. He brings his business experience and heavy involvement within the… Read more
Freelancer.com Smashes Through 1,000 Jobs Per Day
In the last 24 hours, Freelancer.com smashed through 1,000 jobs per day! This affirms us as the #1 outsourcing site in the world for jobs with almost 640,000 jobs posted to date. Also yesterday we were #1 outsourcing site in the world for reaching users on the Internet, according to Alexa, with just shy of 0.15% of all Internet users reached! We are experiencing some great growth in not only job numbers but also users. We have now hit over… Read more
Freelancer.com in the New York Times!
Multiple Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Thomas L Friedman mentions Freelancer.com in the New York Times. He talks about the benefits of immigration to American in driving innovation, and mentions Freelancer.com in assisting in the realisation of ‘sparks of ideas’. If I just have the spark of an idea now, I can get a designer in Taiwan to design it. I can get a factory in China to produce a prototype. I can get a factory in Vietnam to mass manufacture… Read more
Design Our T-Shirt Competition
We have decided to run a Design The Freelancer T-Shirt Competition. We are looking for creative entries and t-shirt designs that will really encourage people to wear them. We want our t-shirts to be worn by ALL freelancers. This competition will be open for 30 days and close on April 16th 2010 Midnight (EDT). 1st Prize is $US2,500 and a Specialist Graphic Designer Insignia 2nd Prize is Gold Membership for a whole year and a Specialist Graphic Designer Insignia 3rd… Read more
Interview with Andrea Smith (USA) – Grand Winner
Andrea Smith from USA took out our “Expose Our Logo For $US10,000.00″ and won the grand prize of $US10,000. We managed to catch up with her and ask her a few question in regards to her entry and winning the competition. Check it out below! Question 1: What do you do for a living at the moment? Answer: I am a student. I recently graduated from the University of Florida (Go Gators!) with my Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, and I… Read more
Interview with Judson Cabalatungan (Philippines) – People's Choice Award
We ran a quick interview with Judson Cabalatungan (Philippines) who took our the People’s Choice Award with his huge Freelancer logo in the sugar cane fields. Here is the interview below. Question 1: What do you do for a living at the moment? Answer: I’m currently employed in the City Government of Kabankalan as Computer Department In-charge. I also do system programming, website design and computer repairs in my free time. Question 2: How did you come up with your… Read more