Boom in Freelancer.com Contests Spurs Expansion Into all Design Categories

SYDNEY, Aug. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Freelancer.com, the world's number one website for outsourcing and crowdsourcing, today announced the expansion of its crowdsourcing feature to accommodate for all design categories.

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"The categories on offer are everything you would expect to find including logos, websites, brochures and smartphone app mockups to the more niche such as personalized twitter backgrounds and Photoshop editing.  In total we now have 18 design categories including of course the option to post a generic design contest if you are not quite sure where your requirements fit.  The generic contests start at just $100," said Greta Stojanovic, VP of Product Strategy.

The site already boasts over 700,000 registered designers, more than any other contest site, and attracts over 12,000 new design projects each month, a strength which Ms. Stojanovic proudly acknowledges. "The dominance of our marketplace is intrinsically tied to the skill of our design community. Expanding our contest site strengthens our core business and helps build small and medium businesses that rely on outsourcing or crowdsourcing to stay competitive," she said.

To create a design contest, simply post a brief containing your design requirements along with the amount of prize money you wish to pay (prizes start from $100). Interested designers respond by submitting their designs and, with no limit to the number of entries they can submit, you could receive potentially hundreds of original designs! Every design arrives ready for you to preview, containing your branding, and all you have to do is rate and comment on them to ensure you get exactly what you asked for!

"Entrepreneurs and small and medium business owners can literally get just about anything designed for their businesses through a Freelancer.com design contest and we're excited to give designers new ways to find work, by showcasing their considerable talents. With commissions starting at only 3% for gold members, ours is the most lucrative design marketplace in the world for designers. Whatever you need designed for your business, there's a contest for you on Freelancer.com," she concluded.

To learn more or post your design contest: http://www.freelancer.com/contest/welcome/

Here is a recent example of what a design contest can deliver:

Logo Design for All About Girls (AUD$290)

http://www.freelancer.com/contest/Logo-Design-for-All-About-Girls-436.html

About Freelancer

Webby award winning Freelancer.com is the largest outsourcing marketplace in the world. Through Freelancer.com, businesses connect with independent service providers and freelancers. Freelancer.com connects over 2.7 million professionals from all over the world. Through our website, employers can hire freelancers to do work in areas such as software, writing, data entry and design right through to engineering and the sciences, sales & marketing and accounting & legal services. The average job is under US$200, making Freelancer.com extremely cost effective for small businesses, which often need a wide variety of jobs to be done, but cannot justify the expense of hiring full time.

URL:  http://www.freelancer.com

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