For business owners: the best marketplace to hire talent without spending cash

Hiring is slow and expensive, especially for small jobs. Freelance sites take a cut, agencies have minimums, and posting a job ad for a thirty-minute task is not worth it. Help Barter is built for exactly those jobs.

Small jobs, paid in time

On Ask for Help, members offer fifteen minutes of their skills. You pay in Time Coins, not money:

• A second opinion on a contract clause.
• A product description in better English.
• A quick logo concept, a formula in your spreadsheet, a bug in your website.

You earn Time Coins by helping others — so a business owner who answers a couple of questions a week can fund their own help.

Find proven people

The leaderboard's People helped table ranks members by how many different people they have completed work for. Use it to hire: the members at the top have the most proven experience. Every member also has a public track record of completed and contested work.

Bigger projects on Elite Works

On Elite Works, Elite members post bigger jobs and pick who does them:

• Up to 100 people can apply to each listing, and you pick up to 25.
• Pay in Time Coins (Double Coins Work, 400 per job) or in money at your own rate.
• Keep strong applicants pending, recall somebody who has not started, and bring in replacements if work is contested.

Hire people near you, or anywhere

Every board shows people near you first and lets you filter by country, region and language — or hire from anywhere in the world.

Your own business page

A Business Listing gives you a shopfront page where candidates and customers can find you, and opens Business Cross-Promotion for partnerships with other businesses.

Start here: Ask for Help · Elite Works · Leaderboard.