The Freelance Community Get Behind National Freelancers Day
As well as around 800 people supporting the various events and panel debates that are taking place around the UK on the evening of National Freelancers Day, there has been amazing support from the broader community - and we would like on behalf of all freelancers to thank those companies supporting this programme. A full list of companies who have pledged their support to the day can be found here.
We have highlighted below a selection of other intreresting ways that the day has been supported and some potentially enticing special offers:
ContractorCalculator CEO Dave Chaplin makes the 192 metre 83 km/h jump from Auckland’s Sky Tower in New Zealand, the tallest building in the southern hemisphere, to celebrate National Freelancers Day and to encourage others to make the jump into contracting.
WATCH VIDEO HERE www.contractorcalculator.co.uk/NFDSkyJump.aspx
People4Business… we’ve decided to extend our offer of 25% off annual Premier Membership in support of NFD (reducing the price from £75+VAT to £56.25+VAT) and this will now last for the full week – up to and including Sunday 29th November. .
www.people4business.com
Brookson secured a meeting of minds with some of the most industry’s influential people to shed some light on the challenging issue of the ‘Future of Freelancing’. www.brookson.co.uk/news-and-press/170/8/the-future-is-bright-the-future-is-freelancing.aspx
It's Crunch Time! – A special offer to celebrate National Freelancers Day! Crunch are keen supporters of the PCG's efforts to boost the profile of freelancers from all industries. National Freelancers Day will considerably increase the awareness of the contribution that freelancers bring to UK businesses and the economy -- and that can only be a good thing.
To mark this auspicious day, and to try and tempt more people into the freelancing fold, Crunch would like to offer PCG members an honest-to-goodness special offer -- “special” like a fine wine rather than “special*¥¤¹” like a DFS sale.
We are offering a 10% lifetime discount if you sign up to any www.crunch.co.uk package before the end of the year and we've created this offer because we are committed to freelancers and the freelancing community.
JSA are applauding the freelance contribution to the economy with the following deal. If you sign up for JSA services (by registering online or quoting NFD09) on National Freelancers Day - they’ll give you one weeks FREE processing* AND the chance to win a cool Wi-Fi Netbook for life on the go in 2010!** And there’s more... We know that word of mouth is a powerful tool and one we want you to keep on using. So, if you recommend JSA now to someone you know this National Freelancers Day, as a way of saying thanks, we’ll give you £50 worth of shopping vouchers to spend in the high street. ***
Pitch Perfect Communications produced this hilarious summary of the freelance sector http://www.perfectpitch-communications.com/news/news.php?id=9
Independent Contractor Services Ltd (ICS) is supporting National Freelancers Day on 23 Nov 2009 by offering contractors the opportunity to win a weekend city break for two in Kraków. To enter simply request a free IR35 and contractor tax review by visiting http://www.ics.me.uk/national-freelancers-day
Kingsbridge Professional Solutions have decided to run a prize draw. All existing customers will be entered automatically along with anyone who obtains an insurance quote from our website between 09:00 on the 10th November 2009 and midnight on the 6th December 2009. Prize winners will be drawn on 7th December 2009 www.kpsol.co.uk/nfd.html The prizes are:
FIRST PRIZE - A Netbook, and a £50 voucher towards a policy from us
SECOND PRIZE - A free insurance policy
THIRD PRIZE – An iPod Shuffle and a £50 voucher towards a policy from us
FOURTH PRIZES – Five x £30 insurance discount vouchers
FIFTH PRIZES – Ten x £20 insurance discount voucher
IIM Case Study Finalists hoping to fly high - 6 Interim Managers will be giving case study presentations to a panel of judges and an audience drawn from industry, public sector, interim recruiters and their peers in the interim world at the IIM Case Study Finals night.
http://www.ioim.org.uk/news/newsdetails.asp?id=191
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