Today we're offering the Manager subscription, a complete package of Knowledge, Tools, and Talent for an organization that wants to run Assembla-style software development.  We know how to equip a team instantly, build software fast, cure the talent crunch, maintain control of IP, and eliminate the risks associated with outsourcing or purely local teams. So, why aren't more people doing it? According to our clients, they don't know how. We  can solve that problem with the Manager subscription.

We're also taking the wraps off our staffing service, an ambitious effort to take the type of online staffing pioneered by Rentacoder, eLance, and oDesk, and apply it to bigger, better jobs.  We've done a lot of things differently to achieve that goal.  Our managers and buyers get will access to a whole new world of talent, and our developers will get high quality opportunities.

In previous releases, Assembla.com has focused on serving developers, and we're now serving many thousands of developers and development projects.  We love them all and want to do even more for them.  However, developers don't buy much.  With the Manager product, we are finally offering a service for the people that do buy stuff - the people who hire developers.  We are doing some things differently to reach this new audience.

We've done some rearranging of the product:

• The free workspaces now include 500MB of disk space, up from 200MB.  Hooray!
• Free workspace no longer include the staffing tool.  From now on, only Manager subscribers can post jobs.  We pre-qualify them to make sure that we are posting serious, high-quality jobs.  That's part of our commitment to serving the Web's top developers.  If you want to make a job posting, sign up for the Manager 30 day free trial.

Also for the first time, we're asking online buyers for real money.  We have to sell that proposition, and provide great service.  Here's the video pitch from me.  It's not studio quality (yet), but it's sincere. We really want to help you succeed.



What's in the Manager package?

Knowledge

• Two hours per month of consulting and advice from us.  Call or write.  You don't have to reinvent the wheel.
• Membership in our Agile Manager space, with premium content and contact with peers and team leads facing similar issues.
• Weekly online conferences

Tools

• 10 Commercial project workspaces - our full-featured team spaces, with enterprise-quality security, reporting, and backup.  You can fully equip your team with a few clicks.
• Optional on-site trac/svn.  Want to keep your code close, but still be in the Assembla network?  We have the technology.  More on that later.
• The Portfolio Manager tool for keeping track of what's going on
• The Staffing tool, a workbench for posting jobs, communicating with candidates, qualifying, and managing them.

Talent

• Use of the Staffing tool to manage all of your job postings.  Post and manage any job, regardless of whether you intend to use Assembla contracting.
• Exclusive posting on Assembla.com
• Guaranteed candidates.  If you don't find the candidates you want already on Assembla, we'll advertise outside.
• Assembla online staffing and contracting
• Billing, payment, payment guarantees, and arbitration for one low 10% fee
• One standardized Master Services Agreement
• Job agreements can include hourly, weekly and fixed-price arrangements
• Pay in advance, by credit card, or qualify for a line of credit

I think it's cheap at $490 per month ($400/month for the annual subscription), since we make an open-ended commitment to your success, but we want  you to be sure.  So, we offer a 30 day free trial, and a 60 day money-back guarantee.  And if you need more, we'll do more.