Open Outsourcing The Social Freelancer

The Social Freelancer

C.V. Recruitment

Agency in the Middle theprogramminglemming

Like Dating Agencies

The Agency matches Employer with Employee

Classifieds The other way

Death of Classifieds

massmailsoftware Fixed difficult problems

recruitment classified sales dropping 43.6% to $497.5 million Newspaper Association of America 2 nd Quarter 2008

Long Tail of Ripples

Solved the problem of finding

No agencies Person to Person

Job Offered

Social Freelance

Growth of social freelance Between January and March, employers posted 70,500 of these work-for-hire positions on Elance.com and 43,000 on Odesk.com , which represents increases of 35% and 105%, respectively, from the same period in 2008. Sologig.com , which lists remote and on-site freelance jobs, says its average monthly postings have more than doubled to around 13,500 per month in the past year. In March, there were 750 jobs listed on VirtualAssistants.com , versus 400 in March 2008.

Between January and March, employers posted

70,500 of these work-for-hire positions on Elance.com

and 43,000 on Odesk.com , which represents increases of 35% and 105%, respectively, from the same period in 2008.

Sologig.com , which lists remote and on-site freelance jobs, says its average monthly postings have more than doubled to around 13,500 per month in the past year.

In March, there were 750 jobs listed on VirtualAssistants.com , versus 400 in March 2008.

Major Influence in Ripples

1 2 3 4 5 Freelancers

Guru.com Admin

Social Network Marketing Consultant

1 2 3 4 5 Employers

List of Social Freelance sites Rentacoder.com Guru.com FreelanceSwitch GetACoder Elance Sologig Net Temps Get A Freelancer Freelance Bank iFreelance Go Freelance

Rentacoder.com

Guru.com

FreelanceSwitch

GetACoder

Elance

Sologig

Net Temps

Get A Freelancer

Freelance Bank

iFreelance

Go Freelance

All Industries – not just geek!

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Major Influence in Ripples

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