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Service Provider of the Month: MP Solutions

By Chloe | 25. January 2012 | Write a comment

MP Solutions, a company from Freren, Germany, is one of the most successful providers on twago. Peter Ostmann, founder and CEO of MP Solutions lets us see how how his company works and how he acquires clients with the help of twago.

Mr. Ostmann, how was your company, MP Solutions created?

Since I was a young boy, computers and the ability to control them, have defined a great part of my life. At just 9 years old I had already started writing programs on my 286 and have never lost my passion for the field. I started my professional training in a marketing agency in Essen where I learned more about Online-Marketing. With one eye set on the practical use and a strong will to create something of my own, thereby bringing my own ideas on the market, I made the decision to found MP Solutions in the summer of 2009. 3 years later we are leaving the founding phase and have become a bit more reflective on our work, however we are even more passionate about our work than we were 3 years ago. Read more…

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Freelance Trends 2012

By Chloe | 24. January 2012
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The future of freelancers looks very promising. The rapid growth of our platform is not the only evidence for the fact that freelancing has truly become a feasible alternative to full-time employment. It is expected that this trend will hold in 2012 and that there will be new possibilities for IT and design freelancers.

Of course, freelancers of constantly changing sectors like programming and web design always have to be up-to-date and follow the latest developments in order to guarantee future success. If you are not informed about the changes occurring in your sector you will miss the boat.

We have therefore used the turn of the year to present you with the most significant trends for the next 12 months. Over the last weeks we have tried to provide you with tips and key topics for the successful organisation of 2012 for sectors like online marketing, web design and programming.
Of course, we do not claim to have a crystal ball with which we can see into the future, but we would nonetheless like to introduce to you the most important subject areas that a freelancer should not ignore. Read more…

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The Mayans were right: The famous Pinterest dofollow links have already become nofollow!

By David |
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The latest news for all those SEO fans out there;

Pinterest has been creating a buzz within SEO circles over the past few months due to its growth in membership (10+ million) and because of its apparent goldmine status for SEO. Even Seomoz guru Rand Fishkin, in his 2012 SEO predictions, foresaw a growth in interests for the social media platform and saw 2012 as being the year of the Pinterest.

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Freelancer Trends 2012 – Programming

By Chloe | 23. January 2012
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In the last part of our outlook for 2012, we talk about the IT sector and the trends that particularly programmers should pay attention to. In our opinion, the following five developments deserve to take up some of the time of IT freelancers.

  • More Mobility: all analysis of the mobile communication markets point in the same direction. Gartner, GfK Retail and Technology, Strategy Analytics, and also twago’s analysis of the most sought-after IT freelancing skills all predict an enormous growth of the turnovers generated by app stores and the sector in general. The market penetration of smart phones is higher than ever before and the tablet market is also developing at an extreme pace. iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone are the most important systems for  app sales. A strong trend in app development, alongside the expansion of successful models in the areas of gaming and social networks, is also the development of locally oriented applications and professional business apps. Particularly in relation to the latter, apps that, for example, link mobile employees with a company’s CRM, are seen to have enormous potential in 2012 according to experts.

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Freelancer Trends 2012 – Web Design

By Chloe | 20. January 2012
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After our predictions for SEO, SEM, and SMO trends, we are now trying our luck with web design. There are some interesting developments that will change the occupational image of designers significantly. You can find the five most interesting developments here:

  • HTML5 & CSS3: the new web standards of W3C became the most important topic of web design in 2011. Many loved them, many hated them. Now it is becoming clear that no professional web designer will be able to avoid them in the long run. The browser support seems secured and, as twago’s evaluation of the most sought-after IT freelancer skills 2011 indicates, the project situation for freelancers will develop accordingly as Javascript and jQuery are also gaining more and more supporters. With the newly assembled libraries of jQuery and CSS3 it is now easier than ever before to integrate impressive animations and effects into your own website. Nowadays it is even possible to reach a respectable result with only a few lines of code.

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