Author: prosperplanetpulse.com
America’s freelance economy is booming, targeting not only programmers but also the creation of web landing pages, other writing, editing, and similar tasks posted on job search sites such as: o deskand Elance.But this is not a US-led market. Increasingly, low bidders from the Global South outbid U.S. freelancers by bidding pennies on the dollar for tasks posted on reverse auction-style marketplaces.And it’s booming. Great news awaits bootstrapping professionals on one continent. According to the Rockefeller Foundation’s Africa experts, just a few months later he predicts that by 2015, Africa’s online job market will reach $5 billion.That online job industry…
oDesk is a marketplace for online work teams. Each month, the service publishes a report containing information collected from its unique community of employers and job seekers. For its year-end report, oDesk researched historical data from a proprietary database of 890,000 contractors and 220,000 employers. The service has over 1 million users and generates over $12 million in work each month. The company used that data to report on the top markets, categories, and jobs in 2010, and what to expect in 2011. For 2010, oDesk reports: In 2010, employers spent more than $115 million on online operations. Employment opportunities…