Blur Group (LON:BLUR), one of the more successful flotations of 2012, said it has now made live two more business exchanges.
The crowdsourcing specialist said blur-legals.com and blur-accounting.com are now both fully live and ready to accept briefs, bringing up to eight the number of exchanges blur run.
The former site is aimed at the legal community and the latter at accountants.
Since the exchanges were announced last year, legal and accounting firms from 43 countries have joined the exchanges.
The new exchanges adhere to the same rules as blur’s existing exchanges, from briefing to project delivery and payment online, and allow customers to source and deliver corporate legal and finance requirements.
These requirements include projects like intellectual property (IP) and patent filing, employment contracts, arbitration, tax planning, financial planning, compliance and tax.
For legal and accounting firms the exchanges offer the perfect platform for the generation of new business opportunities that can grow from the delivery of an initial project to valuable ongoing customer relationships, blur’s statement said.
Philip Letts, chief executive officer of blur Group commented: "The launch of blur Accounting and blur Legals marks another key stage in our growth as we build a world-beating services commerce (s-commerce) platform. The success of our other exchanges is having a clear positive effect in encouraging other businesses to join our expert communities, meaning a reduced time for the announcement of an exchange to launch. Businesses from around the world are wanting to be a part of this new approach to services delivery. "