Saif Bonar, UK Country Manager, Freelancer 24 September 2011, Joomla! Day UK, London Joomla! & Freelancer A Winning Combination for British Businesses.

Saif Bonar, UK Country Manager, Freelancer24 September 2011, Joomla! Day UK, London

Joomla! & Freelancer A Winning Combination for British Businesses

2.75m users from more than 250 countries, territories and regions

£65m worth of projects completed

1.1m projects published

Top 300 websites worldwide

Freelancer's World

120,000 users

110,000 projects

40,000 Employers

80,000 Freelancers

Freelancer in the UK

99.9% of businesses in the UK are SMEs

4.5m SMEs – over 99% of businesses in the UK

SMEs generate in excess of £1,500 Billion pounds

SMEs in the UK

Startups and Solopreneurs

SMEs

Employees supplementing income

Work at home mums

Students

Professional Freelancers

Who is using Freelancer in the UK?

Hestia Services

30 projects completed in 3 months

Total re-brand

Saved more than £30,000

Website, brochures, videos

Case Study

Precision Printing – Custom Software Dev

£ Multi-million printing company.

Custom solution to enable ID badge generation for guests to print facility in Essex.

Produced by a Freelancer for less than the cost of off-the shelf solutions in the UK Market.

Case Study

Great British Voice

Sharon Brogden used Freelancer.co.uk to launch and grow her Voice Talent business.

Initially working alone she has expanded to a talent agency. She now secures work and

employs people through Freelancer.

Case Study

Case Study

Danny Fontaine

Supplements income with Freelance work

Composed 200 Rap Songs to help Children in China Learn English

Marketing

Recruitment

Partnerships

Community Building

Supporting SMEs

Supporting British Freelancers

The Future of Freelancer in the UK

What is the position of Joomla! in the website design category? How many in that category in total? 15 out of 157

Total Joomla Projects

In past 12 months: 3,635

past 6 months: 1,917

all time: 11,033

Joomla! & Freelancer

Top 10 countries posting Joomla! projectsUnited States

United Kingdom

Australia

Canada

India

Netherlands

France

Germany

Greece

Italy

Key Statistics

Top 10 countries working on Joomla! projectsIndia

United States

Bangladesh

Pakistan

Vietnam

Romania

UK

Ukraine

Philippines

Indonesia

Key Statistics

Top 10 UK Towns and Cities Employing Joomla! SpecialistsLondon

Manchester

Northampton

Birmingham

Londonderry

Belfast

Shrewsbury

Edinburgh

Peterborough

Key Statistics

US Cosmetics Wholesaler & Retailer was looking for a low-cost website with transactional e-commerce.

Case Study: Cosmetics & Stuff

Joomla! 1.5.23 and Virtuemart 1.1.8Total Cost: Less than £400

Case Study: Cosmetics and Stuff

A Moscow based accounting firm wanted a new multilingual website developed, they wanted the ability to manage it themselves, they wanted a series of bespoke forms and some custom calculators using complex algorithms to give accurate quotes to prospective clients.

Case Study - DebitCredit.ru

Joomla! 1.5

Bespoke PHP for Calculators

Graphics

Custom Template Design

DocMan

Multilingual

Total Cost: Under £800

Case Study - DebitCredit.ru

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