Freelancer.com Celebrates One Million Projects by Giving Away US$20,000

SYDNEY, April 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace announces the winners of its One Million Projects Party contest.

Wild celebrations were seen and heard all over the world as Freelancer.com's One Million Projects Party contest reached fever pitch, with the biggest and best parties competing for up to US$20,000 in cash prizes.

"The almost one hundred individual parties all over the world celebrating our one millionth project perfectly demonstrates the Freelancer.com's global reach. Thank you to everyone who celebrated with us," said Freelancer.com Chief Executive, Matt Barrie.

The winners were announced today and none were bigger than Paul Agabin from the Philippines, whose laser-tag theme party earned him the US$10,000 grand prize for Best Overall Party and an additional US$2,500 for Best Decorations.

Accepting the award, Paul said, "For us it was an opportunity to have some fun and celebrate the site that has provided us a great deal of work. We just enjoyed ourselves and never really thought about winning the contest. Thank you everyone and Freelancer.com!" he said.

The response was emphatic, as Freelancers held One Million Projects Parties all over the world. From Abuja to Bethlehem, Bucharest to Delhi and Kathmandu to Lahore, with many partygoers creating local Freelancer.com networking groups to share ideas and build work-teams.

"The first one million projects is just the beginning," Barrie continued. "More and more businesses are ramping-up through Freelancer.com as online outsourcing becomes ubiquitous," he concluded.

The contest winners are:

About Freelancer

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 2.5 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.

SOURCE Freelancer.com