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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

Allwork

Why you should (or shouldn’t) work with freelancers After learning about Fishkin’s past hiring experiences, we decided to do our own analysis on the subject — comparing full-time marketing employees to outsourced agency and freelance talent. And they need help to get onboarded to your tools and introduced to your team. Her secret?

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Top Ten Small Business Trends for 2012

Small Business Labs

  Social Trends.   Being Human:  A trend that has rippled through our research the past couple of years - and especially in 2011 - is the growing dissatisfaction with our de-humanized world.  Corporate employees tell us they are tired of being cogs in the enterprise machine.    Economic Trends.

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Disruption and the Analyst Industry

Small Business Labs

  It is a analyst service that provides research reports and analysis on emerging technology.    It costs $79 a year to subscribe. GigaOm is trying to fill a need for timely, high-quality yet low cost data and commentary on emerging technology.    The traditional players in this space - Gartner, Forrester, etc.

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Foreign Born in the US Workforce

Small Business Labs

  In March, the BLS released their annual analysis of the number and characteristics of foreign born U.S. workers.  Workforce Since we a nation of immigrants and just celebrated independence day, it seems like a good week to cover the BLS data on foreign born workers.   workers.  million workers. 

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PWC's 2040 Industry Cluster Forecast

Small Business Labs

  While the PWC analysis focuses on 5 big industries, clusters can be large or small.  .   The chart below shows PWC's 2040 forecast of the largest clusters by industry.   Clusters are important because they create jobs and economic growth.  Web/Tech women work/life balance

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5 Reasons For A Healthy Blog Hiatus

Brilliantly Better

If you followed closely my social media stream, you know what WPSumo is. And this requires a little bit of analysis. © Dragos Roua for Dragos Roua - Brilliantly Better , 2011. But if you didn’t, let me start by saying that this is the biggest project I embraced since I sold my company, two and a half years ago.

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The Truth About Impostor Syndrome and How to Overcome It

Stephanie LH Calahan

Research published in the International Journal of Behavioral Science in 2011 suggests that approximately 70 percent of people will experience at least one impostor syndrome episode in their lives. Social media users have created a voyeuristic environment where we can easily get caught up in “comparisonitis.”

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