How Small Businesses Use Elance

 

 

Thousands of entrepreneurs and individuals are hiring Elance providers to help them get work done. Browse the stories below to see how small businesses just like you are using Elance to get more work done, faster, better and easier than going it alone.

 

Charting the Way for Social Networking 3.0   Manufacturing Design of Award-Winning Board Games

42-year old Rohan Hall, an Elance buyer, is a seasoned tech executive with experience from PeopleSoft and Oracle, who has turned his experience into his new vocation of tech entrepreneur. For his new venture, Rohan followed his hunch on the next wave of technology trends and is now charting the way for online social networking v3.0.

 

  

Given a background in Electrical Engineering designing semiconductors for Silicon Valley firms, you wouldn't expect 45-year old Andy Daniel to have a 'low-tech' hobby. But, in fact, Andy has a passion for traditional-style board games, and started his own company, Enginuity, to serve fellow board game enthusiasts.

 
     
Mompreneur Helps Kids Increase Their Financial IQ's   Vroom Foods Takes Off With Elance

Amanda van der Gulik, a mompreneur and Elance buyer, is passionate about two things: financial independence and children. She combines the two in her business, CleverDoughKids, a website dedicated to teaching children how to make money work for them rather than having to work for money.

 

  

When Vroom Foods revved up its engines in 2001, Elancers provided the branding and marketing support that put this start up on the road to success. Trevor Kensey, Vroom Foods Director of Marketing and his colleague and brother, Jason Kensey, shared with us the Vroom story and the role Elance providers played in the company's launch.

 
     
PickrPres.com Makes "Super Tuesday" Easier to Navigate   Entrepreneur Gallops Into Cyberspace

PickrPres.com Makes "Super Tuesday" Easier to Navigate A number of states are holding presidential primary elections today, hence the nickname "Super Tuesday." With the help of a provider on Elance, Chris Siglin, a music industry veteran, found a unique and powerful way to impact the political process.

 

  

From riding submarines in the United States Navy to galloping ponies in cyberspace, small business owner and Elance buyer, Jeff Ness, has quite a story to tell. 35 year old Jeff Ness is the Founder and CEO of Ponybox.com and its subsidiary Ponypaws.com. Founded in 2002, both websites offer family-friendly, equestrian and pet-themed online simulation games.

 
     
Golfgal Turns Woman Entrepreneur   Meet Campus Joe: A Young Entrepreneur

 

Susan Hill is a professional golf trainer by trade, an Elance buyer, and with 13 e-commerce and blog websites, she is also a burgeoning Internet mogul thanks to her entrepreneurial spirit and the help of several Elance providers.
 

 

Joe Colasuonno isn't your ordinary twenty-something: he's a recent college grad, current graduate school student in Biomedical Science, Medical School applicant and entrepreneur. Joe started two businesses targeting college students, and is using Elance to build his latest venture - CampusJoe.com.
     
Rockers, Launch Your Garage Band   Special Night in NYC

 

19 year-old Daniel Kessler is a Research Analyst Project Manager by day, but a rockin' garage band member at night. He is also an Elance buyer. One of the problems Daniel faced as the band leader of Friggin' Guavas was a way to promote and market his band and their music. He knew that without the backing of a record label, his band would not have much exposure.
 

 

How can you plan the perfect birthday dinner in a city that isn't your hometown?  That was the challenge facing Christian Aranda, an Internet executive and Elance buyer, when he tried to plan a special evening in New York for his girlfriend's birthday - and then he turned to Elance provider, BrandrB, for help.