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Have Your Voice Heard

0 Comments 20 August 2010

With the month of September and the beginning of a new season dangerously approaching, PeoplePerHour has already began drafting up ideas on a new survey. The purpose of our new survey, as in the case of all previous ones, is to address the issues that relate to our users in particular, and to shine light [...]

Freelance Articles

Small Business Survey 2010 – The Results

0 Comments 05 August 2010

A great thank you to all those of you who took our Small Business Survey 2010. Thanks to your responses we have now put together a PDF of the Survey Results, published as usual on our PPH Economy. A summary of the key results are highlighted below. The Internet is taking an instrumental role in new [...]

Employment, Freelance Articles

Public sector turns to outsourcing for cost saving

0 Comments 26 July 2010

A Freedom of Information Act request by PeoplePerHour recently exposed an example of public sector waste. In 2008/9 UK local councils spent an astonishing £19.1 million on third-party website agencies, up by 18.6% from 2007/8. We calculated that for government IT/Web services alone, a significant amount of £6.7 million of taxpayer’s money could be saved [...]

Employment

2010’s most sought-after IT staff revealed

0 Comments 21 July 2010

A list of the UK’s most in-demand IT jobs of 2010 has been released by specialist IT recruitment consultancy IntaPeople. The top 10 list is largely dominated by developers, with C# and .NET professionals topping the bill, closely followed by Java J2EE and PHP roles. Interestingly, the senior-level position of Head of IT also made it on [...]

Freelance Articles

The single most important thing a freelancer must have

1 Comment 20 July 2010

Can there really be one single thing that a freelancer must have in order to be a success? Is there really one factor which has an overriding impact on the success or otherwise of a business? John Williams has been advising people for five years on how to make their business work, whether they be a [...]

Freelance Articles, New Features

Privacy enhancement

0 Comments 28 June 2010

Despite the fact that all names and contact details on PeoplePerHour are already hidden from search engines and the public eye, many of our users were inquiring on how to post a job that will not be visible on search engines like Google. To this end we have now added an option for users to [...]

Freelance Articles, New Features

Helping Clients set more realistic budgets

10 Comments 28 June 2010

PeoplePerHour has now introduced the below changes with the aim of making the budget and the bidding process for jobs clearer and more precise. Some of the terminology has also been updated in order to eliminate any possible confusion. Budget range: We have abolished the budget drop-down in the posting form and replaced it with exact [...]

Economy, Employment, Entrepreneurship

Budget 2010 – How it affects you

0 Comments 23 June 2010

Yesterday, 22nd June, chancellor George Osborne announced the much-anticipated new Budget. The cuts and new tax regulations appear to be beneficial on the whole for UK businesses, but not so much for the UK entrepreneur. The small business sector is also expected to benefit by a good number of the changes, especially micro-businesses with up [...]

Economy, Employment, Freelance Articles, General News

PeoplePerHour.com on abc NEWS

0 Comments 17 June 2010

Tory Johnson of abc NEWS talks to PeoplePerHour.com’s CEO Xenios Thrasyvoulou who explains the increasing importance of high-quality freelancers as more and more businesses take the freelance option for the long-run. Through abc NEWS, PeoplePerHour.com reaches out to an audience of 42 million all over the world, proving its establishment as a fundamental player in the [...]

Freelance Articles, New Features

PPH CHANGES IN INVOICING

0 Comments 15 June 2010

As of today, June 15th, PeoplePerHour.com has introduced 3 important changes in the invoicing process, all aimed at improving functionality and making the procedure as simple as possible for our users. Please make note of the changes as explained below. Change 1 – Billing amount to be inclusive of VAT In order to avoid any confusion [...]

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Interview with Fabrice Grinda – Co-CEO, OLX, Inc.

Added on 14 December 2009

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We thought we’d share with you a great video of an interview of Fabrice Grinda, Co-CEO of OLX, Inc. – a free classifieds site with revenues of $10million – and a keen investor who has backed 33 other companies to date, including PeoplePerHour.com. >> view video Hear about the challenging 10-year journey of entrepreneurship from a [...]