Online Community for Freelance Professionals Launches

An online resource dedicated to PR and marketing freelance professionals will launch nationally on New Yearís Day (1st January 2008). www.networkfreelance.co.uk provides an online meeting place where freelance professionals can find work, promote themselves and network with other industry peers choosing the increasingly popular route of freelance employment.

The site contains a free dedicated recruitment section where freelance professionals can find work to match their industry skills and employers can recruit from the database of registered members.

With newsfeeds devoted to the PR and marketing industry, blogs, surveys, articles and forums www.networkfreelance.co.uk provides an informative and collaborative online community where freelance professionals and employers can mutually benefit from the siteís services. This site is home to over one hundred freelance professionals who have joined leading employers to take advantage of the free membership.

Commenting on the launch, cofounder Richard Pendergast said, ìThe Freelance sector is rapidly rising as PR and marketing professionals see working for themselves as a viable and increasingly popular route to earning a living whilst retaining independence. This site is dedicated to their needs and designed to make ëgoing it aloneí far from a lonely experience.î

James Birtwhistle cofounder of www.networkfreelance.co.uk added ìOver the past year the team behind the website has researched, surveyed and listened to freelance professionals in a bid to understand and share what makes going freelance a desirable career path. The site addresses the needs, fears and aspirations of this sector and brings together freelance professionals in one forum custom built for their requirements.î

Network Freelance is free for employers and freelancers alike to join. For further information click on: