Elance Online Work Index Reveals New Hiring Trends

Mountain View, Calif. (PRWEB) March 31, 2009

Elance, the leading site for online work, today released its April edition of the ”Elance Online Work Index,” ranking the top skills businesses are seeking on the Web.

Based on data from more than 100,000 jobs posted on Elance over recent months, the Elance Online Work Index reveals that IT and marketing skills continue to be in high demand with businesses in search of specific expertise in open source technologies, computer programming, design, online marketing, social networking and writing. Top skills in demand include PHP, MySQL, HTML Graphic Design, Writing, AJAX, Adobe Illustrator, WordPress, Photoshop, Flash and Blogs. New data also show surging demand for social media skills and skills that deliver world-class web and application user experiences.

Notable hiring trends surfacing in April’s Elance Online Work Index include:

Open Source on the Rise: The overall trend of businesses migrating to open source technology solutions is stronger than ever with PHP (#1) programming now topping the Index followed closely by MySQL (#2). Demand grows for a variety of other open source skills including Joomla (#18), Drupal (#48 – up 10 spots), osCommerce (#49 – up 20 spots), Ruby on Rails (#73 – up 27 spots), and Linux (#74 – up 13 spots).
User Experience Paramount: With more pressure than ever for companies to compete based on a world-class user experience, hiring trends show accelerating interest in technologies that deliver and enable great customer experiences, such as HTML (#3 – up 3 spots), Flash (#10 – up 2 spots), AJAX (#12 – up 14 spots), JAVA (#16 – up 13 spots), and – the biggest mover on the list – Actionscript (#56 – up 43 spots).
Social Media Rising: Social media continues to gain mainstream traction with companies that want to connect with customers, drive traffic, and become part of the conversation with customers, partners and prospects. Demand for professionals skilled in developing for Facebook, Twitter and blogging applications is growing. WordPress (#15) and Blogs (#19) crack the top 20, while Social Networking (#38) moves up 6 spots, Facebook (#61) is up 10 spots and Twitter (#93) makes its debut on the Index.
The demand for online work is growing across a variety of skill sets as businesses face tighter budgets and growing workloads. Marketing and IT departments are hiring online as an alternative to hiring full-time. In March, companies posted nearly 25,000 new jobs on Elance, building on the 250,000 jobs and $ 100m worth of online work posted on Elance in the last 12 months.

Elance empowers independent professionals to demonstrate their real-world expertise while differentiating themselves in the online labor market by getting tested in any of the more than 250 skills tests offered for free on Elance. More than 13,000 skill tests were taken in March, with popular tests including PHP5, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Business Writing, XHTML 1.0, Search Engine Optimization, and HTML 4.01.

Elance Online Work Index – APRIL 2009

Rank – Skill – Change

1. PHP (+ 1)

2. MySQL (+ 1)

3. HTML (+ 3)

4. Graphic Design (- 3)

5. Article Writing (–)

6. CSS (+ 2)

7. Web Content (–)

8. Photoshop (+ 3)

9. Logo Design (- 5)

10. Flash (+ 2)

11. Illustrator (- 2)

12. AJAX (+ 14)

13. Data Entry (+ 8)

14. Search Engine Optimization (1)

15. WordPress (- 5)

16. Javascript (+ 13)

17. Online Writing (+ 5)

18. Joomla (+ 1)

19. Blogs (- 6)

20. Business Writing (+ 12)

21. Sales (+ 6)

22. Admin Assistant (- 8)

23. Lead Generation (- 7)

24. Research (- 1)

25. Advertising (+ 13)

To view the full Top 100 of the April edition of the Elance Online Work Index, visit the Elance Blog.

About Elance

Elance is the leading site for online work, where businesses connect with independent professionals to get work done.

On Elance, businesses find the experts they need plus the tools to manage online work from hiring to collaboration to making payment.

Elance offers companies flexibility, cost effectiveness and instant access to a vast pool of skilled and tested talent. Professionals use Elance to find work, deliver great results and get paid for doing what they do best.

The company is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information, visit Elance at http://www.elance.com .

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Feature-Rich Website Design and Online Marketing Programs Define MarketYourCenters Work for Commercial Real Estate Clients, Shopping Center Owners, Developers & Tenants

Davie, FL (PRWEB) June 18, 2012

MarketYourCenter, one of the countrys leading commercial real estate marketing firms, is proud to announce the launch of yet another jewel in its portfolio of highly-acclaimed websites. GatorInvestments.com allows users to easily navigate through eight million square feet of commercial and residential properties ensuring Gator Investment employees and prospective clients fast access to the information they need, such as demographics, up to date collateral materials, Google map data and much more.

This is a beautiful new website that really embodies what Gator Investments is all about: solid, tenant-driven and easy to work with, noted Matthew Harris, President and CEO of MarketYourCenter, the advertising and marketing firm Gator Investments hired for their website redesign.

In todays ultra connected world, where a strong internet presence is a must-have for any commercial real estate company to be successful, the folks at Gator Investments were eager to refresh the aging website upon which they had come to rely. Harris and his team at MarketYourCenter.com designed GatorInvestments.com using a WordPress CMS that was custom-built exclusively for Gator Investments so the client can control all aspects of data entry from anywhere they have internet access.

There are bells and whistles aplenty including an opt-in email database and Google maps with street view. Its fully searchable, allowing site visitors to search available shopping center space for lease by size and location, and is replete with a host of other highly touted resources required by commercial real estate companies such as Gator.

Of course its mobile-ready for Apple iOS and Android devices, added Harris. And as is a hallmark of all MYC-produced websites, GatorInvestments.com is 100% SEO friendly and fully scalable to handle client growth.

About MarketYourCenter

As one of the nations leaders in commercial real estate marketing, MarketYourCenter (marketyourcenter.com) has established a track record of success in the marketing of a diverse array of commercial properties. MYC is a boutique agency with more than a decade of rock solid success in commercial real estate marketing. MYC offers a comprehensive suite of products and services designed to help clients sell, lease and promote commercial real estate, shopping centers, office buildings, vacant land and specialty retail properties.

For additional information about MarketYourCenter and their array of services, contact Matthew Harris at 954-916-9800 or info@marketyourcenter.com.

Feature-Rich Website Design and Online Marketing Programs Define MarketYourCenters Work for Commercial Real Estate Clients, Shopping Center Owners, Developers & Tenants

Bluehost Introduces New Video About How Websites Work on Its YouTube Channel

PROVO, UT (PRWEB) March 02, 2012

Bluehost today announced the availability of a new video called How Websites Work on its YouTube channel. The new video, part of a series of educational videos, is designed to help anyone who wants to learn more about websites and how they work. The video can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/bluehost.

The Bluehost YouTube channel contains a number of educational and tutorial videos that help individuals learn about, set up, and manage their own website, whether for personal, professional or business use. Other currently available titles on the Bluehost channel include:

How to use WordPress (7-part series)

How to Grow Your Business with SEO

What is SEO and How Does It Work?

What is an eCommerce store?

How to Create an Email Account

How to Create an FTP Account

How to Transfer a Domain Name

Feedback from Bluehost customers and other viewers regarding the new video series has been very positive. It has helped a number of our customers and other individuals learn more of the basics of web hosting, so that setting up your own website is not so daunting, said Daniel Handy, CEO of Bluehost. Well continue to add more and more videos that will help anyone, even if they are not our customers, learn how to get started and manage their own website.

The new videos are part of an overall effort by the company to better connect and help its customers and other interested individuals. The company also recently launched its Facebook page and Twitter social media presence (twitter.com/bluehost or @bluehost). And a new company-sponsored blog will soon augment and complement the companys YouTube channel with relevant information about setting up and managing websites.

About Bluehost

Bluehost is a leading provider of shared hosting services and is known for its industry-leading reliability and U.S.-based customer support. Bluehost produces exclusive technology designed specifically for shared hosting and reseller hosting. The company also owns and operates its own data center, domain registrar and nationwide fiber network. For more information, visit http://www.bluehost.com or call toll free (888) 401-HOST.

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Wordpress Sales Page Theme Bundle Now Includes 10 Sales Letter and Landing Page Templates that will work on any Wordpress Theme

Oklahoma City, Okla. (PRWEB) May 27, 2009

WP Internet Marketing Concepts, a leading provider of WordPress themes and plugins for Internet marketing, today announced that it has added 10 sales page templates to its WP Sales Letter Theme Bundle that can be used on any WordPress theme. Consumers can learn more about the complete theme bundle at http://wp-saleslettertheme.com .

The sales page templates provide users with a way to easily create product sales pages, direct marketing sales letters, pay-per-click landing pages and email squeeze pages within their active WordPress theme.

Jason Keith, president of WP Internet Marketing Concepts, said the sales page templates provide users with a way to easily promote individual products and build customer prospect lists without the need to create an entirely new website or change their website’s existing look and feel.

“WordPress is a great content management system to build professional looking, highly interactive websites,” said Keith. “The problem up until now has been that it was not the easiest platform to launch pay-per-click campaigns and direct marketing campaigns due to the high number of outbound links and other distractions on each page or post template.”

Keith said that the new sales page templates allow users to quickly create landing pages that are free of these links and other distractions.

“Our sales page templates are made to be leak-proof island pages,” said Keith. “This means there are no sidebars, blogrolls and other distracting items that can keep a website visitor from getting through your entire sales message. These templates are perfect for Internet marketing, affiliate marketing, email marketing and more.”

In addition to the sales page templates, buyers of the WordPress Sales Letter Theme Bundle get 12 complete WordPress sales letter and landing page themes, 10 matching HTML sales letter templates and an in-depth user guide with step-by-step photo tutorials all for just $ 77. Prospective customers can even download one complete sales letter theme absolutely free at the website.

“We feel like we have the best package of WordPress sales letter and landing page themes and templates available on the market today,” said Keith. “We plan to continue improving the bundle to provide solutions that our customers want.”

WP Internet Marketing Concepts is a leading developer of themes and plugins for Internet marketers and affiliate marketers. For more information, go to http://wp-internetmarketing.com.

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