Since we launched the FreelanceSwitch job board in 2007, it has been a big success. It is one of the most popular freelance job boards on the Internet because of its high quality and tough standards; when we moderate jobs, we ensure that they’re good for freelancers, making fair requests and paying fair pay.

I personally got my start with Envato by applying for a job writing articles for the PSDTUTS Wiki on that board, so I’m not unfairly biased – I was a user first, moderator second! Before my run-in with Envato I scored plenty of other writing work too and still often consider that $7 a month some of the best money I’ve ever spent. No joke and not an ad, but you’d be crazy not to sign up.

Currently, we have close to 150 jobs open and consistently about five or more new jobs per day come in (not to mention the million get-rich-quick schemes and so-called “revenue sharing arrangements” that you don’t get to see). We’ve made some changes to improve the experience for both job searchers and job posters:

• We’ve added search – now you can see a full listing of all open jobs based on your keywords.
• Job posters can now use a WYSIWYG editor to add formatting to their posts, such as lists, bolding or italics.
• Posters can now go back and edit their advert after the fact.
• We’re also now running job applications through a form on the site based on an email address the employer gives us to help reduce spamming.

For the occassion we’d like to give away three 1-year subscriptions to our readers. If you leave a comment on this post explaining why you’d like a subscription before Monday the 9th of March, you’ll be in the running to win. Make sure that if you have a job board account already, you use the same email address that you use for your account in the comment’s email field.

The ‘TUTS family has indeed been expanding rapidly of late. Our newest baby is AUDIOTUTS, featuring free magazine-quality tutorials on production, mixing and mastering, sound design, DJing and everything audio related. If this sounds like a fit for you–no pun intended–head on over and sample our first tutorial on creating a reverse reverb effect.

As editor of AUDIOTUTS, I’ve spent the last month or so hard at work sourcing-out exceptional talent to produce tuts for the site. The work seems to have paid off. Our assembled team of tutorial-wizards have written for industry magazines like Computer Music, Future Music and Music Tech, run hugely successful websites and YouTube channels, owned their own record labels, designed sound effects for Platinum selling video games, remixed Top 10 hits, worked with famous and well-respected artists, and otherwise stamped their name on the industry.

In addition to the work of our staff writers, we embrace contributions from the community. If you’re a Reason ninja, a superstar DJ, a Logic magician or a Cubase champ, you could earn $150 sharing your knowledge and passion with us.

If you like what we do, head over to AUDIOTUTS and help spread the word and the love by commenting, linking, or passing a social media vote our way. As always, your support is much appreciated, and received with thanks.

The father of Freelance Switch, Collis Ta’eed, has just added VECTORTUTS to his lineup of quality websites, joining PSDTUTS, NETTUTS, FaveUp, Flashden, AudioJungle and, of course, Freelance Switch.

If you work with Adobe Illustrator or otherwise eat vectors for breakfast, VECTORTUTS promises to take your skills to a whole new level. You can already learn the secret to creating a cool water-ripple effect in Illustrator, or create a gorgeous watercolor vector flower illustration. There’ll no doubt be more top-notch tutorials arriving in the coming days.

If you fancy yourself a vector ninja, you can share knowledge and make cashola by contributing to VECTORTUTS.

In other news, Collis and I are busily preparing for the launch of AUDIOTUTS, which will feature high-quality production, composition, DJing, mixing, recording and mastering tutorials. We’ve got an impressive host of writers signed up to drive the site, including contributors to Computer Music Magazine, Future Music Magazine and Music Tech Magazine. It’s going to be awesome.