Hi, my name is Itay and i have been a professional designer/animator/web developer for 16 years now, and up until 3 years ago I only ever worked as a traditional full-time employee. I’ve worked for big companies (1,500 employees) .

3 years ago i my father passed away and at that time i made a decision to be a freelancer and to take myself out from organizations as an employee and start working with organizations / big and small businesses / personal clients – the options expended!!

here are some facts i learned back at 2013 and helped me dicede to be a freelancer:

• By 2020 freelancers are expected to make up 50% of the full-time work force. Why are more us choosing to break away from the nine-to-five?
• In the last five years alone, the average earnings for freelancers have increased by 50%.
• When everything you need is inside your computer, your place of work becomes very fluid: it becomes wherever you want it to be. This is a concept Generation Y truly embrace. You could be in a cafe in Paris, in a co-working space with other freelancers, or on a train through snow-topped mountains and still can chat to your client and carry out projects.With direct communication via Skype, Google Hangouts or instant messaging, face-time is becoming a thing of the past and with tools like Google Docs you can even discuss your work with the client or other freelancers directly on the work itself making each project a truly collaborative one.

The internet has made it possible to find exactly who you’re looking for

Recently i searched for top talented marketplace and came up with Toptal amazing platform.

The first thing that stood out is their screening process—you must pass their own phone and coding interviews before you make it to the site which mean they check who are the sellers – there are many marketplaces where the sellers is really not what you expect them to be with many promises and disappointments…

At Toptal you can post your projects and the best developers and designers will approach you for work. They have seasoned senior developers, software engineers, coders, architects as well as expert UI, UX, Visual, and Interaction designers. Choose from a wide range of experts who will do all your work on time guaranteed.

Also you have the best opportunity to join the Visual designers network which is is a marketplace for top visual designers. Top companies and start-ups choose Toptal visual design freelancers for their mission critical design projects.

after looking at the Toptal website, how it is organized, the sellers and projects and the honest reviews, this is a place i will love to work with…

Thanks for the opportunity 🙂

Itay Ganot
http://emdstudio.co/
http://mybcard.co/