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VOIS Becomes Virtual Social Outsourcing Platform
Back in July, social networking service VOIS announced the launch of a social sourcing marketplace. This week the company has made a major change to the system and are now calling the platform, "VOIS – Virtual Outsourcing is Social". Co-founder Craig Agranoff tells me the site is like Facebook meets freelancing and that they have created the first decentralized social platform for web based hiring.
The new service has some of the elements from a social network and some of the elements of an outsourcing site like eLance or oDesk. Basically people post projects and workers bid on the projects. People can also review workers and offer work directly to them as well. There’s a feedback system for both employers and employees to help gauge their quality and work ethic.
Craig explains how the revenue model works:
If a member signs on and fills out their social, buyer and seller profiles, they can get enough credits to do over 10 projects for free. That means, no fees, no membership fees, no final value fees, no NOTHING. They even get bonus credits for leaving feedback.
Once they use up their free credits, they will need to purchae additional credits which Craig says are less expensive than other similar services.
VOIS is publicly traded on the OTC. Google Finance shows their market cap currently at $5.42 million.
I recently had my web site redisgned by a programmer I met through Vois. It was great and a highly recommend it.
Allen….really? Please tell me that this is a paid review. Market cap of 5.42 million? That’s called a classic pump to raise money on the OTC. Look at the compete numbers, 6K visitors? This company hired stock promoters to pump their shares, do they really deserve coverage on CN?
Hi Scott – it is not a paid review – I have never done any paid reviews on this site. I am not a stock blogger either – VOIS has a stock symbol so I went to google finance and copied their current market cap. I am sorry that I can’t answer your other questions. As for coverage on CN, we cover companies of all sizes and shapes – in fact, i’d say a lot of startups we cover have very small audiences.
OK, that makes more sense now. I just hate seeing OTC (over the counter, ie, penny stocks, ie mostly scam companies) companies that have ridiculous”market caps”. I don’t know why it bugs me so much! But it does. Keep up the good writing, I am a big CN fan.
Hey, thanks for showing us a new idea!
Revenue model seems questionable and it’s not a new idea. Exhedra has been doing this with coding for years. What makes it social?
It appears they have all the social networking components to interact with those you are about to hire
Site looks nice. Will post a project and see how it goes.