Freelancer.com Surpasses US$60 Million in Outsourced Work to Date, Rockets into the Top 400 Websites Worldwide

    SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, July 21, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace, today reached a whopping US$60 million in outsourced work. Additionally, on July 13th Freelancer.com broke into the top 400 most visited websites globally at position #396 (according to Alexa.com).

"As of today, over US$60 million worth of work has been successful outsourced through Freelancer.com. We are extremely proud of this figure as it roughly equates to over half a billion dollars in western world labour," said Matt Barrie, Chief Executive. "Freelancer.com provides small businesses the ability to outsource tasks for as little as $30. Whether it's building a website, design of a logo or something as esoteric as hydrogen engine design, you can outsource it all on Freelancer.com."

Web traffic to Freelancer.com has rocketed in the last year, with its worldwide Alexa rank shooting up from 5000th to around 400th today. "We've outsourced almost three quarters of a million jobs through the site to date," said Barrie. "This has provided a huge amount of value to small businesses worldwide by increasing their competitiveness and lowering their costs," he continued.

He finishes: "Anyone can take advantage of Freelancer.com; Imagine how your business would change if you had virtually unlimited labor at next to no cost?"

For more information, contact:
Chris O'Brien, Communications Manager
URL: http://www.freelancer.com
Email: [email protected]

Freelancer.com (formerly GetAFreelancer) is the world's largest outsourcing marketplace for small business. We have hundreds of thousands of satisfied customers from all over the world. We connect over 1.5 million employers and freelancers globally 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 and marketing, and accounting & legal services. The average job is under US$200, making outsourcing for the first time extremely cost effective for small businesses.

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