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Highly Skilled Self-Employed Driving the Growth of the Gig Economy

Small Business Labs

The fastest growing sectors employing these privileged workers include finance, banking, management consulting, advertising and information technology. Between 2011 and 2016 the total number of U.S. By "privileged" they mean self-employed workers who are relatively highly skilled and well paid.

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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

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Erin Balsa, head of content marketing at The Predictive Index , has been hiring freelance writers since 2011 and managing them since 2015. To answer that, you need to understand how remote employees and freelancers work, and what motivated them to become freelancers in the first place. That’s why we recommend an onboarding checklist.

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One way to create cooler, cleaner megacities: Plant rooftop gardens!

Ideas.Ted

From 2015 to 2017, Egypt borrowed $1.03 billion from China to finance infrastructure projects. Schaduf, founded in 2011, establishes produce-bearing rooftop gardens for Egyptian and migrant families in informal neighborhoods. Those are the goals of Schaduf, another Cairo-based organization working in urban agriculture.

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Tablet Sales Forecasted to Explode

Small Business Labs

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Self-Employed Using Fewer Employees | Main | Dandelion Marketing » November 02, 2010 Tablet Sales Forecasted to Explode Marketing Charts (great site) reports that Juniper Research is forecasting tablet sales to reach 81 million in 2015.  Web/Tech women work/life balance

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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She started in real estate in 2011 with no SOI, no experience and $6 to her name. Bethke started out as an individual realtor in 2011. From lead generation to business & finance fundamentals, no topic is too big or small to be tackled. In 2003, Gogo Bethke came from Romania to the US with $200 to build her American dream.

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