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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

Allwork

You can’t get the best out of freelancers until you’ve honed your management processes. And the key to good management — freelance or otherwise — is communication. Clear communication up front, and continuing conversation through regular check-ins and transparent project management helps streamline workflows and prevent confusion.

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

Success

Vet the potential partner to make sure they have solid finances and a track record as a reliable and ethical business. Proof it works: Schaus’s profits grew by 15% from 2011 to 2012 as a result of her partnerships. Make it explicit that you want to learn everything you can about them in short order,” Gage says. Mike Kilchenstein.

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Experts Weigh in on 17 Investments for a Rich Life

Success

We polled a handful of experts, in fields ranging from food to finance, and asked them to talk about ways you can spend your hard-earned money to achieve prosperity —not just the cash-in-your-pocket kind that comes from a profitable business, but also the kind of abundance that enriches your life and feeds your soul. Know when to buy organic.

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Linking Coworking and Innovation

Small Business Labs

  Their Idea Engineering Agency has created a process to make innovation leaner, faster, and effective for its members." The interaction between people of such diverse backgrounds makes our spaces a breeding ground for strong idea communities, which will then lead to the creation of new sectors and industries."

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Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/12/15

The Small Business Blog

WinWeb – Your Office Online Simply the best way to manage your small business! A recent survey of small-business owners or managers by American Express’ small-business division shows that fewer of them are planning to give gifts or cash. per cent in April 2011 has angered small business owners. — ST.

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More on the Growth of Small Farms and Local Food

Small Business Labs

She is overseeing the agency's "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" program, designed to revive the processing, marketing and distribution networks that once made small farming viable but disintegrated in the last 30 years as U.S. agriculture went through a dramatic consolidation. Web/Tech women work/life balance

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The Structural Shift to a Contingent Workforce

Small Business Labs

    The reasons are pretty straight forward:  (1) technology makes it easier to hire and manage contingents; (2) it is cheaper; and (3) it provides companies with increased business flexibility.  Cheaper, too, because with flatter organizations, less management is involved.

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