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Why are There More Non-Employer Small Businesses?

Small Business Labs

 Back in early 2007 we released a research report forecasting the continued growth of personal businesses.  Good examples of this include the growth of talent marketplaces like eLance and oDesk and the ability to contractually access world class business infrastructure through services like Amazon's AWS.

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Four Tips for Monetizing Your Online Marketing Blog

Andrea Kalli

With a few hundred dollars and some hours spent on Elance, you can easily program and design your own marketing tool. After a while, your blog could develop a proactive and valuable audience that’s begging for new blogging tools and marketing resources. Rather than searching for a company that can provide, why not create your own?

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The Two Types of Portfolio Careers

Small Business Labs

 Portfolio careerist Marci Alboher called people pursuing this approach "slashes" in her 2007 book One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success. The rapid growth of "gig" and peer to peer commerce sites - think TaskRabbit, Gigwalk, Fiverr, Airbnb, Uber, Etsy, Elance, etc. -

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