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Freelancing has a Bright Future- Survey Reveals

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on November 17, 2009
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Freelancers have a reason to celebrate as they would be having a bright and prosperous future ahead. In our recently conducted survey for Global freelancers we asked our participants as what they are expecting from their freelancing business and from over 800 freelance professionals a whopping 79% of respondents expect their freelance business to increase in 2010 and 59% of those surveyed prefer Freelancing to Full-Time Employment. Only 15% of those surveyed expect it to stay the same whereas 6% feel it would decrease. This clearly states that the freelancing sector will witness a major boom in the coming years.


The global economic downturn could be one of the reasons behind the growing demand of freelancers across the globe. As 18% of respondents are citing the recent loss of a job as their primary reason for freelancing, and another 36% using freelancing as a way to supplement income from a full-time job. Only 29% of respondents considered freelancing to be their primary job or business. The freedom is also one of the reason freelancers choose freelancing for as they work from home and set their own hours along with the ability to control their own destiny while increasing their earnings potential.

Owing to this current financial crisis small and large companies are also looking forward to outsource their important work assignments to freelancers. The main reason they chose Freelancers for Outsourcing, according to the LimeExchange survey respondents, was to “cut costs or reduce staff” (57%).

We hope that the freelancing business continues to grow in the coming years and also open more avenues for everyone to excel in their career path.

See the complete update on Survey results here.

Global Freelancers Survey – The New Voice of Freelancers

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LimeExchange
on November 4, 2009
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LimeExchange recently conducted a highly successful global freelancer’s survey in partnership with Payoneer, Thousands of freelancers participated, and the survey included many questions related to the freelance marketplace and industry.

The main objective for this survey is to understand freelancers expectation from the marketplace, where they go to find freelancing jobs, and their feelings and predictions on the state of freelancing in the current global economic scenario.We are sharing the survey results of some important questions that we hope will give  a valuable insight into the freelancing industry.

The rising demand for freelancers has given a significant boost to freelancing over the last few years. More and more people are choosing a freelancing career over a full time job. The survey shows that most professionals, a 59% margin, feel that freelancing is preference versus full time employment.  It gives them the flexibility to work from home and set their own schedule.

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When we asked freelancers about their expectations on the growth of the freelancing marketplace, a whopping 79% believe it is going to continue growing.   This is a strong indicator that the freelancing sector will witness a major boom in the coming years.

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With the rise of social networking, we wanted to understand how freelancers are utilizing these new platforms.   Facebook far outpaced other social sites, more than doubling the usage of the business focused Linked in and media darling Twitter.

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The survey also reaffirmed anecdotal information that Services, Writing & Translation and Web Development are some of the most popular and fastest growing project categories.  A growing global workforce and increased emphasis on outsourcing are two factors that contribute to this trend.

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We asked freelancers which source(s) they use for finding freelancing jobs and technology fueled approaches led the way.  Freelance marketplaces proved to be the most popular method, followed by search engines, word of mouth referrals, and other online resources like forums, social networking platforms, and classified sites,

See the complete update on Survey results here. Stay tuned for more posts on our Global Freelancers Survey, along with the announcement of the winner of this survey contest.