Global Freelancers Survey: Enter & Win!
Update: The Global Freelancers Survey is now closed. We’re contacting our winners and will have an announcement on the results soon!
The 2010 Global Freelancers Survey is online and we want YOU!
Freelancers by nature usually work on their own, as such we often don’t really know what others are doing, charging and thinking. This survey aims to compile our collective knowledge for the benefit of freelancers everywhere! The 2007 survey rendered great results with input from over 3,000 participants, but we need help to update it! By taking part in the Global Freelancer Survey you will be rewarded in three ways:
1. Detailed Statistics. After the survey is complete we will be posting an abridged version of some results on FreelanceSwitch.com, however respondents who complete the survey will be emailed a COMPLETE set of results and data from the survey. I.e. you’ll get exclusive data that non-respondents don’t get!
2. Random Prize Draw. We have prizes. That’s right, fabulous prizes! Everyone who participates in the survey is eligible for a drawing for the grand prize. We’ve put together a prize package worth over $1,000 with some pretty sweet stuff that will make any freelancer’s life easier:
- A 32GB Wifi Apple iPad. Laptop just too old fashioned? Keep up on your work (and play!) in style.
- A free copy of WPBids, the WordPress template for freelancers. Easily create hand-crafted proposals on the fly.
- $100 worth of awesome merchandise from the print experts at MOO! I especially love their business cards.
- $100 worth of credits for the Envato Marketplaces. Flash, video, web, graphics, print, music, 3d…need any kind of stock file fast? Grab it from sites like ThemeForest, ActiveDen, GraphicRiver, and more for your next project!
- A free copy of the up-coming e-book by Rockable Press which will include full survey results, analysis, and interviews from top freelancers in the industry!
- A one YEAR membership to FreelanceSwitch’s own job board. Find new leads and keep the work coming!
- A 6 month membership to Tuts+, Envato’s premier network of great tutorials, including sites such as NetTuts, PSDTuts, WebDesignTuts and more. Get access to the premium tutorials to keep your skills sharp or pick up new ones!
3. Satisfaction. By completing the survey, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you’re helping compile information to help freelancers everywhere, it only takes 10 minutes of your time and the sum of our collective knowledge will be huge!
The survey only takes a few minutes and will be a great resource for all of us – so take it now! All rules and nitty gritty included below:
The Rules, Fine Print, Etc
- Envato staff and people who have written more than two tutorials/articles for a Tuts+ site may participate in the survey but are not eligible for the grand prize.
- Edit: Survey now extended! Participants must complete the survey by Monday, November 29th, 12:01am (CST).
- Participants must provide a valid e-mail (first question in survey) to be eligible for the prize drawing. E-mail information will only be used to contact the prize winner and provide participants with complimentary survey results.
- A winner for the grand prize will be randomly selected by the Editor and notified via the e-mail provided in the survey results.
- Data collected from the Global Freelancer Survey will appear in an up-coming e-book on freelance statistics published by Rockable Press.
That’s it! Good luck, everyone! And thanks for participating!
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Sooo taking the quiz
*survey ;P
GIMME TEH PRIZE NOW OR DIE()
p.s. just kiddin
Done. Nice competition!
This sounds sweet… I’ll take the survey
I’m very excited about the results of this survey. You guys have done an excellent job with 2007′s results and I’m sure these will be put to excellent use. The prizes are great too. I hope lots of freelancers take part in this survey. I’m definitely going to promote it!
awesome just finish it
Oh dear, so along with Pluto no longer classified as a planet, Australia no longer passes as a continent either?
That was an oversight. Australia is now included. Apologies! It was still in the countries list so we’ll make sure to cross check the numbers from there in the results.
That’s a pitty, I work from Pluto…
Australia isn’t included in the continent list
Why people who have written more than two tutorials/articles for a Tuts+ site may participate in the survey but are not eligible for the grand prize.?
Good survey, can’t wait to see the results.
Very curious to see the results. Nice one guys.
me want!!!!!!!!
Done and done.
Um…no option for “software developer” or “programmer”. Really?
That seems like a mistake, especially since software designer is there.
done and submitted! Wish us all luck with the prizes!
The survey doesn’t seem to work very well for people who are both full time employees and freelancers on the side. It’s all about the full time freelancing, so I’m not able to answer accurately!
The day after completing the survey I had a dream that I owned and iPad…
i need an ipad, dont ask why. trust me!!!
I’ve been busy this past few weeks that I totally forgot about the survey! I’m taking it.
Hi. Thank you for an interesting and well-planned survey. Except for one thing. I was VERY surprised & disappointed that you didn’t have COPY EDITOR as one of the pull-down menu choices in the question about what a person’s freelance profession is. A much larger number of people do freelance editing than you think. Well, obviously more than you think, since you didn’t even include it on the survey.
Please add this job title the next time you have a survey — copy editors already have an awful time finding freelance work compared to writers, graphic designers, etc. etc., and one of the reasons is because of visibility problems.
Cheers,
Shari in Cali.
That’s done, I could really use some business cards
Survey done… lets move to the next step… talking about the price?
Great Survey! Just finish it!
would love to win these items.
Finished the survey, waiting for my iPad
Good to be this optimistic when you are a freelancer
Just finished the survey, I would really need an iPad to test my iOS apps on it.
done…let see..
Anxiously awaiting the winners announcement! (pick me, pick me!
) Also truly looking forward to the results eBook. Great survey.
Sorry, but it is over. Check it yourself.
So who is the WINRAR!?