Aegora Solves the Top 3 Freelancing Problems

Torrance, CA, December 02, 2015 --(PR.com)-- It is with great happiness that Aegora announces the fully-functional version of their platform. For those new to Aegora, they are a grass-roots marketplace for professional services that's a game-changer for freelancers and entrepreneurs. Users can promote their business, network, hire, get hired, manage projects to success, pay and get paid - all in one place.

As freelancer-entrepreneurs themselves, they weren't happy with existing corporate freelance marketplaces. Three serious problems meant these marketplaces weren’t fulfilling their potential to change the world.

- The #1 problem professional freelancers and their clients faced was a signal-to-noise ratio problem. It was nigh-impossible for quality consultants to get their voices heard over the overwhelming noise of low-quality competition, and equally difficult for the client to pick out the needles in the haystack.

- This clamorous environment inevitably led to the #2 problem: commoditization of professional services - the assumption that people and their work are fungible; mutually interchangeable commodities rather than specialized, unique values. Clearly, this assumption is mistaken, but when all clients can hear is the roar of low-quality providers, it’s a forgivable error.

- And of course, under these circumstances the only differentiator becomes cost. If a unit of work costs $x from one source and $y from another, the cheaper option is the obvious choice. So, the race to the bottom for price and quality completes our trifecta of doom.

Quality freelancers couldn’t and wouldn't compete on those terms, misinformed clients ended up paying for poor work, no-one benefited. As the oil well troubleshooter Red Adair said, “If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do a job, wait until you hire an amateur.”

So, Aegora designed their platform from the ground up to solve these problems, and make the marketplace experience easy and stress-free for everyone.

In contrast to earlier platforms, Aegora is a networked marketplace. This means a user's network of contacts determines how visible they are to, and trusted by, anyone else on Aegora. It’s just like how one does business in the real world - a friend-of-a-friend is trusted far more than a stranger, and rightly so. On Aegora, one always knows the strength of the connection between one and any other person at a glance, expressed as a “degree-of-connection” value (“1” means one is friends with a person, “2” means the person is a friend-of-a-friend, and so on). Just like in the real world, this chain of trust means serious clients and quality consultants find one another naturally.

Consultants with strong professional offerings can:

- Easily get on the radar of serious clients.

- Get their message heard without shouting.

- Have their individual value proposition clearly understood.

Clients can:

- Dismiss the noise at the click of a button, zero-in on the signal.

- Calmly determine which consultant will deliver the best value for them, personally.

- Make intelligent hiring decisions easily.

Solving these matchmaking problems using natural human social forces was great, but even when the right people are talking to each other, there are many pitfalls to be avoided - Aegora also needed to ensure each project has the greatest possible chance of successful completion. Addressing the poor success record of web-based work (which is rarely openly-discussed) meant radically improving clarity, planning, and trust through risk reduction. In brief:

- Automatically-generated, customizable contracts ensure everyone is on the same page on requirements, deliverables, and remuneration. Mutual understanding, completeness and clarity create a sound foundation for success.

- Flexible milestones let users split the job into bite-size chunks, reducing the risk for both parties and enabling variably granular project management (and letting one link Aegora milestones to any existing project management system). Create as many or as few as one likes for each contract. Proper prior planning prevents poor performance.

- Secure milestone funding means consultants know each milestone’s funds are available before they start, and payment on completion means the client knows they will pay out only when satisfied. Trust flourishes when risk is reduced.

Aegora takes users seamlessly from one step to the next, and the simple, intuitive interface means both the client and the consultant always know what they need to do, anytime. Rather more civilized, from start to finish.

The platform is ready to use, but that’s only the beginning. Aegora are not the only ones who believe the future of work is greater than the nine-to-five cubicle grind, and that building a business should be simple, focused and enjoyable - and users are showing their support by signing up, creating their free skill-showcasing profiles, networking with like-minded first adopters, and creating Aegora jobs when they need new talent to expand their businesses.