Powered
by 1.7 million freelancers, Freemarket.com to become one stop shop - 'iTunes for
designers and programmers' - with digital marketplace for stock logos, website
templates, stationery, images, sound clips, 3D models, themes and more PR
Newswire -- July 19, 2010 SYDNEY,
July 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace,
today announced the acquisition of Freemarket.com and simultaneous launch of an
online marketplace for buying and selling virtual goods. Stocked with content
by Freelancer.com's rapidly growing user base of over 1.7 million registered professionals,
Freemarket.com aims to be the world's top marketplace for buying and selling digital
content. The
launch of Freemarket.com marks a major milestone for Freelancer.com, who up until
today focused on providing a marketplace for remote workers. "This is a giant
step for us," said Freelancer.com Chief Executive Matt Barrie.
"Freemarket.com
essentially doubles the options a small business person has for getting things
done online. For example, a small business might choose to purchase a website
template from Freemarket.com and have it customized by a freelancer from Freelancer.com.
As a result, the website will be up and running faster, be potentially more cost
effective and have higher certainty towards the final outcome. It's great for
freelancers as they can now generate multiple passive income streams while they
sleep," he continued. Freemarket.com
has been in private beta for a couple of weeks, and already over five thousand
items of content have been uploaded. "The strength of Freemarket.com will
be that content will be powered by our massive user base of talented freelancers,"
commented Barrie. Investment
banking firm Piper Jaffray estimates that by 2013 the online virtual goods market
will be worth in excess of $6 billion globally, with over $2.5 billion in revenue
generated in the US alone. While much of this has been focused on the consumer,
Freemarket.com is the world's first digital one-stop-shop for small business. Freemarket.com
is open now for anyone to upload digital content for sale. 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 1.7 million professionals from over
234 countries & regions. 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 and 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. How
would your business change if you had virtually unlimited labor at next to no
cost? For
more information:http://www.freelancer.com
SOURCE
Freelancer.com
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