November 2012 Newsletter

Here’s how we rounded out the month of November at Freelancer.com: Freelancer.com acquires vWorker! Expose Our Logo Contest extended! New top-shelf items in the Credit Shop! CEO Matt Barrie named one of LinkedIn’s 150 Influencers. The more the merrier! Get 20XP for every new user you bring to the site. Freelancer.com arrives in Mexico, Indonesia, Italy, and Turkey. Get 200 FREE icons for apps and websites! Prove your qualifications with these new exams September and October Suggestion of the Month winners Freelancer.com acquires vWorker! We are delighted to welcome vWorker users to Freelancer.com, and believe that they will make an invaluable contribution to our rapidly growing marketplace. With the acquisition of vWorker, we’ve now got over 6.7 million professionals in our network, accounting for over 4 million projects! That’s more users than our two biggest competitors have combined, cementing our position as the global leader in online outsourcing. Freelancer.com is truly a force to be reckoned with. For more details of the vWorker acquisition, read here: http://press.freelancer.com.s3.amazonaws.com/2012-11-19-Freelancer.com-acquires-vWorker-RentACoder.pdf Expose Our Logo Contest extended! So many people have asked for more time to finish their entries, we’ve pushed the end of the contest back a whole week. That means you have 7 more days to expose the Freelancer.com logo in the most creative, outrageous way you can think of, and submit a video of your plan in action for a chance to win $25,000 in cash prizes! The contest will now close on December 3. To see contest details and entries, visit: https://www.freelancer.com/competitions/exposeourlogo2012/ New top-shelf items in the Credit Shop! Chat with Freelancer.com CEO, Matt Barrie, for 20 minutes on Skype, or get direct access to the Freelancer.com Director of Customer Experience for a whole year. This is huge! Don’t miss out on your chance to get these exclusive, limited-stock items. Check them out, along with the rest of our Credit Shop line-up: https://www.freelancer.com/users/game/index.php?current_tab=credit CEO Matt Barrie named one of LinkedIn’s 150 thought leaders. These 150 people lead the way in politics, academia, commerce, and industry, and LinkedIn has provided a way to get exclusive access to their thoughts and trade secrets. Our very own Freelancer.com CEO has been on a roll on LinkedIn, with 3 insightful, thought-provoking posts about virtual marketing, making money, and Google. Follow him for an inside perspective on internet and software business. Go to his LinkedIn profile to read what he’s got to say and become a part of his network! The more the merrier! Get 20 XP for every new user you bring to the site. Rack up 20 XP for every friend who responds to your invite by signing up on the site. The more people we have in our community, the more jobs there’ll be and the more talented people there’ll be to get those jobs done. Not only that, but when the people you invite join the site, you earn 20% of their project fees. It’s a win-win! Send your invites now! http://www.freelancer.com/friend-invitation/inviteFriends.php Freelancer.com arrives in Mexico, Indonesia, Italy, and Turkey. Mexico and Indonesia now have their own Freelancer.com sites, with web content and user support in Spanish and Indonesian Bahasa. Users can even make financial transactions in rupiahs and Mexican pesos. Sites have also been launched in Italy and Turkey, with financial transactions in euros. Just choose the country you want from the drop-down menu at the bottom of our homepage: http://www.freelancer.com/ Get 200 FREE icons for apps and websites! SPONSORED Professional icons can greatly enhance your websites and apps. But high quality icons can be expensive and hard to get. With this free bundle from MightyDeals, you can download 200 vector icons that you can resize as needed and use without limitations on both your personal and commercial projects. DOWNLOAD HERE: http://www.mightydeals.com/freebie/reflection-free-icons.html?ref=freelancericons Prove your qualifications with these new exams It’s not who you know, but what you know that counts, and we’ve got a few new tests to find out exactly what you’re working with: Language Exams: Swedish Level 2,3 Norwegian Level 2,3 Filipino Level 2,3 Italian to English Translation Turkish to English Translation Turkish Level 1,2,3 Technical Exams: Google AdWords Level 2,3 Google AdWords API Level 1,2,3 Google AdSense Level 2,3 HTML5 WebSockets Level 1 Joomla! Level 1,2,3 Take an exam now! http://www.freelancer.com/exam/exams/index.php September and October Suggestion of the Month winners We’re pleased to announce that gnujavasergio from Bolivia won the US$250 best-suggestion prize for September, for recommending that users be able to filter Freelancers by country in our Directory. That’s sure to come in handy! Please also congratulate our October winner, Speedycom from the UK, for suggesting the addition of Joomla! exams to the site. Thanks as always to everyone who submitted suggestions. Keep cranking out those ideas for your chance to win US$250 every month. There’s no limit to the number of suggestions you can submit. Just create a Support Desk ticket in the “Suggestions” category to enter the contest. Good luck! http://www.freelancer.com/users/helpdesk.php

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