Tag archive for "freelance"
As part of our New Year’s resolution to start the forthcoming year dynamically, amongst new staff, new ambitions and new growth plans, PPH has now also moved into brand new Headquarters in London. Bigger, busier and buzzier than ever, PPH’s new offices are in for a fresh year full of exciting prospects, lots of hard [...]
As an online marketplace for over 100,000 small businesses, we pride in encouraging and enabling the virtual way of working – a more efficient, cost-effective and greener way of doing business. Alongside the increasing availability of the internet, many of you out there have embraced the opportunity to work remotely, out of the comfort of [...]
PeoplePerHour has just celebrated its 3rd birthday in the den. The tech-savvy team gathered in the PPH London headquarters for some signature margaritas and yummy birthday cupcakes, but of course a start-up’s birthday just wouldn’t be the same without a ping-pong tournament to get even the geekiest of our geeks up and running for a [...]
Up until now, as some of you may already know, our Clients had the option of posting “Commission-on-Sales” Jobs on PeoplePerHour. This has now been modified to “Base Fee + Result Fee”. The reasons and differences are explained below. As we have witnessed, in many cases “Commission-on-Sales” Jobs meant that Freelancers were expected to work [...]
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 [...]
Employment, Freelance Articles
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 [...]
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 [...]
Freelance Articles, New Features
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
PeoplePerHour have 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 [...]
Economy, Employment, Entrepreneurship
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 [...]
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Working from Home – Can you really please all of the people all of the time?
Movers & Shakers – TechCrunch Mini Meetup in NYC
Simple Social Media Strategy- Part 1
The Importance of Quality Content
Minimum service fee announcement
5 ways to set goals for yourself and your business
Tax Return Must-Know Steps for US Users
Freesources Part 2
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