RedesignMe.com is known as the largest crowd-sourcing agency for design and marketing projects. Quality services include logo design, corporate identity products, graphic design, packaging, website design, business cards, marketing support, corporate names, product development, and taglines or slogans.
Here's the company's unique process:
• Issuing an "challenge" or request for ideas or designs.
• Maintaining lists of thousands of creative freelancers, who are invited to submit their proposals in response to the challenge.
• Carefully selecting the best entry and awarding the project.
ChumBonus asks "Who do you know?" It provides online referrals as well as job postings, in which companies advertise job openings, members refer their friends or "chums," and each member gets a bonus for making the referral. This combination of recruiting and network-based referrals is unique in the industry and allows users from around the world to systematically build their writing careers and their professional networks at the same time. Members who tap into their business or social network and refer appropriate worker contacts get paid for their trouble. They can accept the bonus money, share it with their referral "chums," or donate it to a favorite charity or cause.
Founded in 2006, OzLance is a freelance marketplace aimed at the Australian market. The website was started to make it easier for businesses and freelancers from New Zealand, Australia and other countries to work together. Buyers will find many experienced , highly skilled professionals to tackle jobs such as content management systems, cartooning, web development, SEO strategies, creative writing, photography and software development.
Although CrowdFlower is a comparatively new player in the crowd-sourcing industry, it has earned quite a reputation for tapping a vast global workforce for performing repetitive yet difficult to automate tasks round the clock.
LanceEarner is a fledgling freelance marketplace which is doing its best to follow the lead of some of the major players in the market. The design is strikingly similar to that of freelancer.com and the breadth of jobs like the other leaders in the market who have moved from a programming niche to a broader base of freelance workers covering a range from creative writing, SEO and online marketing through to programming and web development.
Superlancers.com is a freelance portal that offers job opportunities to freelancers who belong to varied fields such as freelancer programmers, php developers, web designers, wordpress experts, custom templates, custom software, iphone application development, script installations, logo designers, data entry jobs, content and article writing, graphic designers, and custom magento themes among others. Freelancers can look for projects through the process of auctioning. Hence, they can bid for projects which they find interesting. The website provides the option of SmartEscrow to its users so that they receive payments on time. The portal has been designed to give users a chance to interact with each other and build strong customer relations and network.
TaskArmy is a cross between a conventional outsourcing marketplace, such as freelancer or vWorker and a buy a job board, like tenyt or fiverr. The site is simple but effective and provides an emphasis on quality, over value. TaskArmy was founded by Aymeric Guarat-Apelli, a Frenchman living in Sydney, Australia. Aymeric says his motivation for launching the site was two-fold, to help buyers secure quality work from freelance providers; and to provide a platform for freelance providers to offer their skills without competing with dozens of other providers on price alone.
GetACoder is a job outsourcing site that brings together internet freelancers and the people who need their services. Its name does not reflect the focus of work undertaken on the site with categories for copy-writing, online marketing, all featured on the homepage. The site has a small but steady stream of projects posted and was ranked as one of the top ten freelance marketplaces in our recent review of freelance marketplaces. With more than 40,000 freelance providers taking advantage of the free membership GetACoder is a useful site for freelancers, but as a buyer we would stick with one of the busier marketplaces which offer a wider range of talent.
YourCoders connects service buyers with service providers (freelancers) by employing a reverse auction style freelance marketplace. YourCoders acts as a "middle-man" between bid requester and bidder. YourCoders' mission is providing an inexpensive, feature rich and friendly marketplace environment to both buyers and sellers.
ProjectSimple is a freelance marketplace that caters to web design, programming, flash, search engine optimization and database management. The site has a great referral program for both project managers and project seekers, with a ton of bonuses along the way. The interface incorporated by projectsimple.com is user friendly and ensures that all aspects of the hiring process are taken into consideration.
