Freelance Worker Marketplace Plan "Sribulancer" in 2019

Aims to select freelance workers (freelancers) selected and qualified, Sribulancer platform marketplace professional freelancers curate the listed candidates. From the previous 17 thousand freelancers, after the curation process, now Sribulancer only retains about 5 thousand candidates.

To DailySocial Sribulancer CEO Ryan Gondokusumo revealed, the process carried out in February 2019 was aimed at selecting freelancer based on portfolio and also cooperation freelancer in doing their job. Some of the benchmarks are timeliness and responsiveness of responses freelancer when communicating, both with the Sribulancer team and with clients.

"The main purpose of this curation is to improve the quality freelancer who join us, so that in the end it will also increase client trust, both to Sribulancer as a platform provider, and to customers freelancer who will do the job."

Apart from curating freelancer, Sribulancer has also received funding from the company crowdsourcing the largest in Japan, namely Crowdworks.jp in 2018. Asked whether this year Sribulancer has plans to do fundraising, Ryan said that according to the plan by the end of 2019, fundraising activities were carried out again.

Launch the app

Having previously been accessed by more users through the site and Mobile browser, this 2019 Sribulancer also has plans to launch an application. Currently still in the process of preparation and beta version, if according to plan in Sribulancer application will be launched soon.

To improve platform performance, Sribulancer is also equipped with several features such as filtering to ensure the quality of its members who are registered as job seekers. There are also features review which allows companies to see the track records of freelancer who apply for jobs on this site. Feature chat room where the entire recruitment process is carried out on this site and the payment system is managed directly by Sribulancer management.

"Not only that, if the company or client is not satisfied with the work freelancer recruited on its site, Sribulancer provides a money back guarantee (money back guarantee) because the payment will be held by Sribulancer first, until the work between the client and freelancer done. The categories we offer focus on content-related things such as writing, design, photography and video services," said Ryan.

Currently Sribulancer claims to have helped more than 15 thousand paying clients. Sribulancer noted that most of the client's locations are in big cities such as Jakarta, Surabaya and also abroad such as Thailand and Singapore. Sribulancer's clients, previously mostly from SME backgrounds, are now starting to expand to medium and large companies with diverse fields including property, F&B, and banking.

"Temporary freelancer We are widely spread in the cities of Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Bandung and others. The most sought-after job is design because through Sribulancer, clients get a variety of designers to choose from and of course with a variety of different designs," said Ryan.

Strategy to compete with similar services

Seeing the huge potential in Indonesia, Sribulancer has no plans to expand to other countries. Sribulancer still wants to stay focused on the Indonesian market because the market is still considered very large and there is also the possibility to add service categories that can be assigned to freelancer Sribulancer based on data obtained from market demand.

Meanwhile, it was mentioned about Sribulancer's strategy in order to compete with similar services that are currently more and more present, Ryan emphasized that in accordance with Sribulancer's vision, namely "home of world class freelancers" with a mission "to change the way people work". Therefore, Sribulancer focuses on penetrating the market with a strategy that prioritizes quality freelancer through the speed and results of his work.

"We have curated by re-selection freelancer registered us. We are also increasing cooperation through programs cross promotion with other parties like co-working space, events digital themed, as well as social communities," Ryan concluded.