Better Bids - With a featured project, buyers emphasize their project commitment to service providers which will bring higher quality bids. Service providers tend to submit more bids containing more detailed proposals when they know a buyer is willing to invest in a Featured listing.

More Bids - Featured projects receive special promotion to attract the most bidders possible to the project. With more bids, buyers realize better prices and have more award options. Featured projects automatically receive the following enhanced promotion:

• Homepage Listing - Featured projects are prominently displayed on the iFreelance.com homepage which is viewed by thousands of visitors every day. This is, by far, the most visible page on our entire website. As featured projects near the awarding phase, they are rotated onto the homepage.
• Exclusive Search - When service providers search for projects to bid on, they are often only interested in featured projects. To assist these service providers, a special search option is available to only show featured projects in their search results.
• More Alerts - In addition to alerting the service providers in the project's subcategory, we will also manually review the project and send alerts to additional service providers that may be a fit for the project. On average, we send about 30% more alerts than with non-featured projects.
• Featured Icon - The Featured Project icon is displayed prominently on featured projects anytime they are shown, drawing extra attention to the project.