Freelancer.com Adds the 2012 SmartCompany Best Company Website
Award to its Trophy Room
MELBOURNE, Australia,
Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Freelancer.com has been presented a Smart Company Web Award in the
category for Best Company Website with over 20 employees.
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For the fourth year in a row, SmartCompany has recognized the
best in Australian internet enterprise with its Web Award. Selected
by a panel of fifteen judges with expertise across a broad range of
industries, winners in eight categories are chosen based on their
innovation and excellence in design, user experience and
implementation. Past winners have included world-renowned digital
marketing blog Digital Buzz and popular matrimonial planning site
Easy Weddings.
This year, Freelancer.com was honored with the award for Best
Company Website with more than 20 employees. After a string of
acquisitions, CEO Matt Barrie has
grown his website to an impressive population of nearly 7 million
users, greater than the population of countries like Libya, Denmark and Singapore. The key to its success has been
Barrie's enthusiastic embrace of constant innovation and
improvement.
Freelancer.com both affirms and defines the outsourcing and
crowdsourcing phenomenon that is sweeping the services industry and
empowering SME's and entrepreneurs worldwide. An acute focus on
design and user experience, coupled with a strong business model,
has driven Freelancer.com's meteoric growth. SmartCompany Web Award
judge and head of strategy at Edge Custom, Richard Parker, lauded Freelancer.com's direct,
to-the-point approach to user experience.
"The site features very simple information architecture, making
for an easy to use experience. All in all, it's a very slick,
robust, accomplished and active site that feels full of life and
purpose," said Parker. The Freelancer.com Chief Executive couldn't
agree more. "The user experience is key," he says. "It's the
difference between a $1 billion
company and a company that doesn't get off the ground. We are
constantly working to make things simpler and faster and more
streamlined."
The Best Website Company Award gives Barrie yet one more reason
to be optimistic about where his outsourcing marketplace is headed.
"Freelancer.com has brought SMEs to the frontlines of the global
economy, and Freelancer.com will continue to lead the charge," he
says of his company's trajectory in the industry. "We couldn't be
more pleased about being singled out by SmartCompany this year. For
four straight years, they've spotted some real innovators in web
business, so this award puts us in good company."
About Freelancer
Triple Webby award-winning Freelancer.com is the largest
outsourcing and crowdsourcing marketplace in the world.
Freelancer.com connects businesses with over 4 million independent
professionals globally, specializing in fields as diverse as
software development, writing, marketing, engineering, and the
sciences. The average job is completed for under US$200, making Freelancer.com extremely
cost-effective for small businesses unable to justify the expense
of hiring full time.
SOURCE Freelancer.com