May 2013 Newsletter

Contests are now open to all job categories! Freelancer.com launches in 6 new countries! Reply to private messages through email! We've updated our messaging system We've improved our directory - it's now easier than ever to find and hire freelancers! Vote for our CEO Matt Barrie and win! Winners of the 1 in 1000 contest named Receive ACH transfers from US companies with Payoneer! Get your own print shop 24/7 Take an exam now and let your credentials do the talking! Suggestion of the Month winners for January, February, and March revealed! Freelancer.com is changing the game by taking crowdsourcing to the next level. Our latest update to our contest feature redefines industry standards by allowing employers to host a contest for freelancers in ANY job category, not just for design work. Whether you need a freelancer for software development, slogan-writing, video production, or even architecture, you can get our freelancers creative juices flowing to submit ideas in any of the 580+ skill categories currently offered on Freelancer.com. To run a contest, simply create a contest brief, select up to 5 skills and set your prize amount. Freelancers that best match your selected skills will submit entries to meet your job requirements to compete for your prize. Your prize can start from as low as $30 USD, but the higher your prize the better the results you'll receive. Review, rate and submit feedback to ensure freelancers know exactly what you're looking for. Receive a winning submission and award them your prize, or your money back guaranteed! The next evolution in contests is here. Crowdsource your next big idea today! Post a contest now! Join us in officially welcoming Pakistan, Malaysia, Uruguay, Sweden, Portugal, and Peru into the worlds largest freelancing marketplace! In the last 2 months, all 6 countries saw the launch of localized services and offerings, such as local language, currency and payment options. Access to these localized services is expected to aid SMEs and entrepreneurs in increasing their labor flexibility and cost-effectiveness without sacrificing quality. To date, over a billion USD worth of projects have been completed on the site, and with 1 new person signing up every 20 seconds, Freelancer.com continues to dominate the world of online outsourcing and crowdsourcing. Help us grow - invite your friends now! Fast, effective communication is essential to a successful project. As part of our ongoing efforts to provide convenient, seamless messaging between employers and freelancers, today we're releasing a feature that lets you reply directly to Freelancer.com private messages from within your phone, tablet, or desktop email client! When you get a private message notification, simply hit the reply button in your email client, type your message and hit send. Your message will appear in the recipient's Freelancer.com inbox within seconds. Any attachment 20 MB or smaller will also be sent. So whether you are in the office or at home, on a bus or at the beach, you'll always be able to stay up to date and in control of your latest projects. Since releasing our new instant messaging system in January, we've received thousands of great feedback emails. Here are some of the improvements you've suggested and we've implemented: We've separated out your received messages from your sent messages, making it easier than ever to respond to your clients or reply to a freelancer. You'll hear an alert sound whenever you receive a message, helping you reply more quickly to your employer or freelancer. We've added award project and accept project buttons to the chat windows, helping you get your projects underway faster. We are trying hard to listen to your feedback - keep sending in your ideas! We've updated the freelancer directory, making it a lot easier to find the right freelancers for your next job. We streamlined the job categories, and introduced a new feature to help you choose your next freelancer by suggesting the skills they will need to make your dreams into reality. Check it out here! News.com.au is holding a Young Tech Entrepreneur of the Year competition, and our CEO Matt Barrie has been nominated! Vote for Matt and you'll be entered into a draw to win $1000 to put toward your own startup, and a Blackberry 10 phone valued at $700! Vote for Matt and win!!! Winners of the 1 in 1000 contest named To celebrate hitting the 7 million member milestone, a US$10,000 contest was launched to see who could put on the best Freelancer.com seminar, presentation or event. After reviewing more than 50 entries, here are the winners: Grand Prize US$5,000 Lauren Angela, Philippines 2nd Place US$3,000 Waseem Abbas, Pakistan 3rd Place US$2,000 Sankalp Agrawal, India View all entries here. Receive ACH transfers from US companies with Payoneer! SPONSORED Payoneer's US Payment Service allows you to receive US ACH/Direct Deposit transfers from select US companies, no matter where you are in the world. Get paid from companies such as PayPal, Amazon, Apple, and more! This premium service provides you with a US account/routing number, which you can use to receive payments from select US companies. All payments that you receive are automatically credited to your Payoneer Prepaid Debit Card, which can be used to make purchases online, in stores and at ATMs worldwide! If you already have a Payoneer account, click here to read about the US Payment Service and sign up. To submit your free application for a Payoneer account and US Payment Service, click here! Get your own print shop 24/7 SPONSORED Whether you are a freelance designer, graphic artist or marketing guru, Pro Advantage is your easy solution for custom printed quality products. Join Vistaprint Pro Advantage and enjoy competitively priced, quality customized products for design and print businesses and many other amazing benefits. Click here to learn more. Take an exam now and let your credentials do the talking! Take an exam and increase your chances of landing that dream job by 370%. What's more, the cool badges you get when you pass an exam speak for themselves! So what are you waiting for? Give your credentials a boost! Remember, the road to freelancing success is lined with exam badges! Take an exam now! Suggestion of the month winners for January, February, and March revealed! Dumindalk from Sri Lanka takes January's prize for suggesting Freelancer.com accounts for teams or companies. It's a great idea to allow colleagues and teammates to co-manage projects and place group bids, while still being able to maintain personal profiles and accounts for their own work. Great job, dumindalk! Canadian francoisdumaine wins the prize for the month of February. He suggested giving employers the option of increasing their contest prize even after it has been posted on the site. Upping the ante is a terrific way to entice talented freelancers to your contest at any stage of the process. Congratulations, francoisdumaine! A round of applause goes out to vinaysaral of India as well, who submitted the winning suggestion for March: allowing users to add comments to screenshots taken by the Time Tracker app for hourly projects. Thanks for the suggestion, vinaysaral! If you've got a cool idea to improve the site, just submit a ticket to the Support Desk under the 'Suggestion' category for your chance to win the U$250 monthly prize. Give it a go as many times as you like! Good luck!

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