The word is spreading: today sees two companies who are regulars here on PeoplePerHour.com profiled on the BBC News homepage. Elliot Polak’s TextAppeal is featured alongside Chris Huey…
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The word is spreading: today sees two companies who are regulars here on PeoplePerHour.com profiled on the BBC News homepage. Elliot Polak’s TextAppeal is featured alongside Chris Huey…
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 [...]
Employment, Freelance Articles
Giles Roberts, one of PeoplePerHour’s consistently top-rated and top-earning freelancers, shares his success story with us. He explains how he earned more money, learned new skills, got more savvy and most importantly, won those all-important bids from discerning clients. I decided to start working as a freelancer after having a tough time with my last [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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