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Product update: Opportunities to charge 1 proposal credit

Have you bid on projects with the opportunity or high-value label before? You may have wondered why these projects require 3 proposal credits rather than the 1 proposal credit needed...

4 min read - Success Stories

PeoplePerHour Female Freelancer of the Year: Introducing the Nominees

PeoplePerHour Female Freelancer of the Year, 2019

Hi PeoplePerHour Community! We love to celebrate the success of our freelance community and highlight their many achievements. As it’s International Women’s Day on March 8th, we want to put the spotlight...

6 min read - Small Business Advice

10 Key Qualities of Successful Startup Founders

It is a sad but true fact that only 10% of startups will ever succeed. Conversely, however, that doesn't mean that 90% of all entrepreneurs that try and start a business...

4 min read - Small Business Advice

Six essential tips for building a scalable business

Launching your own business is an exciting time, but it also requires some advance planning. It's important to build a business that's scaleable — growing alongside your business needs so...

1 min read - Blogroll

Video Alert: Steve wants to help you make a new start!

[video type='vimeo' id='56762843' height='540'] Episode 12 - Here's your weekly WednesDate! Steve is always on the lookout for Hourlies posted. Who...

1 min read - Blogroll

Video Alert: Banish the post holiday blues with this week’s Happy Hour with Steve!

[video type='vimeo' id='56719869' height='540'] Episode 11 - Here's your weekly WednesDate! Steve is always on the lookout for Hourlies posted. Who...

1 min read - Small Business Advice, Blogroll

Tip#9 – Focus on the positives!

Starting off a Proposal with the words, “I’ve never worked in this area before but I’ll have a go” is...

1 min read - Blogroll

Video Alert: Your first (in 2013) WednesDate with PPHer Steve!

Episode 10 - It’s the New Year and Steve is on the hunt for Hourlies that will help him to kickstart 2013....

1 min read - Blogroll

Video Alert: It’s Snowing, Everyone’s Smiling, You’re a Star!

Episode 9: It’s the last date with Steve before the big day so today he’s picked the best hourlies to...

1 min read - Blogroll

It’s not so Grim up North!

This week some fascinating freelancer figures came to light when our research revealed the geographical spread of freelancers in Britain....

1 min read - Blogroll

Video Alert: Steve is helping you with your festive bills

Episode 8 - Forget comedy repeats this Christmas, Steve’s WednesDate is different every week! Steve is always on the lookout for...

1 min read - Blogroll

Video Alert: This week’s Happy Hour has a festive surprise!

[video type='vimeo' id='53229851' height='540'] Episode 6 - The holiday season is almost here and we are feeling festive! Steve is always on...

1 min read - Blogroll

Video Alert: Happy National Freelancers Day from PPH and Steve!

Episode 5 - Whether you buy or sell a service we think you will loooove this week’s Happy Hour with PPHer...

1 min read - Blogroll

Pin it and Win it! Join us in celebrating National Freelancers Day

We have more than 300,000 reasons to celebrate on National Freelancers Day and we are sure you have many...

1 min read - Blogroll

Video Alert: Meet & Greet some of the most interesting Hourlies

Episode 6 - Sit back and relax it's time for Happy Hour with PPHer Steve Steve is always on the...

1 min read - Blogroll

Video Alert: Meet & Greet some of the most interesting Hourlies

Episode 6 - Sit back and relax it's time for Happy Hour with PPHer Steve Steve is always on the...

1 min read - Blogroll

Video Alert: Watch Happy Hour with PPHer Steve and give yourself a break!

[video type='vimeo' id='52425814' height='540'] Episode 3 - We know most of you are working hard to build your business or to establish...

1 min read - Blogroll

This Week’s Happy Hour is… Spooky!

[video type='vimeo' id='52146083' height='540'] Happy Hour with Steve - Episode 2 from PeoplePerHour on Vimeo. We know you looved him,...

1 min read - Product & Platform, Blogroll

Upload Progress Bar

Want to know if you have time to make some tea before your file is uploaded? Well, now you will!...

1 min read - Product & Platform, Blogroll

Minor Updates on Payments Section

Since most of you spend time on Payments section we decided to add some more details, that will make it...

1 min read - Product & Platform, Blogroll

Tweaks on the Top Navigation Menu

We know that you were used to the ‘Hourlies’, ‘Jobs’ and ‘People’ naming on the navigation menu, but we...

1 min read - Product & Platform, Blogroll

So Long…Feedback Time Limit!

Now both Buyers and Sellers will be able to view their Feedback, right after it is published. Okay, we...

1 min read - Blogroll

Happy Hour with Steve – Episode 1

[video type='vimeo' id='51754337' height='540'] Hey PPHers sit back & get comfy because the 1st episode of our brand new series Happy...

2 min read - Product & Platform, Blogroll

Search Results? Sorted!

It is really important to us to make User Experience on PeoplePerHour super friendly by introducing new tools and...

1 min read - Blogroll

PPH Meetup… just Google it!

A huge thank you to all those who joined us for last night's Meetup at the uber cool Google...

1 min read - Blogroll

PPH Meetup…just Google it!

A big thank you to all those who joined us for last night's meetup at the uber cool Google...

1 min read - Product & Platform, Blogroll

A New Way to Discover Hourlies!

Now, when you click to view an Hourlie you are interested in, we will present to you other Hourlies...

1 min read - Product & Platform, Blogroll

Hey, You Have Already Viewed this Hourlie/Job

Wouldn't you want to know? Of course, that is why we launched this new feature today, to save you time!...

1 min read - Product & Platform, Blogroll

We Jazzed up our Quote Icon

Although we highly recommend you upload your work, pictures or even videos to go with your Hourlie(s), we understand...

1 min read - Product & Platform, Blogroll

Hourlies are now viewable on Profiles

Everyday, we are doing our best to improve your user experience on PPH. Today we launched a brand new...

1 min read - Product & Platform, Blogroll

Improved Search Algorithm for Hourlies

Now searching brings even more accurate results! Most Popular: The results under this section will be based mainly on...

1 min read - Blogroll

Infographic Alert – How Hourlies are evolving!

Hourlies have only been going for just a few months and so far we have seen some excellent results, so...

1 min read - Product & Platform, Blogroll

Welcome Home(page)!

We know that we gave Hourlies a lot of space on our homepage in order to establish them amongst our...

1 min read - Product & Platform, Blogroll

The Profile Popover just popped in!

We know how important time is to you that is why we came up with the Profile Popover. This...

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