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The Rise of Independent Worker Teams: Fiverr's Studios and Upwork's Agency Experience

Small Business Labs

" The boutique agencies Upwork refers to are small service firms, most of which utilize freelancers as part of their project teams.  Cloud computing is clearly not the only trend driving freelancer teaming and the growth of boutique consulting firms and agencies.

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Agreement vs. Contract: Why Business Owners Are Using Informal Agreements for Clients

Success

When James Sperling first started his marketing and branding agency Sheep Don’t Bark, he noticed a pattern: His clients didn’t like contracts. The agency found that clients were much more willing to sign agreements, which would shield both parties if anything went wrong. They didn’t want to sign it.”

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Jinglesmart - Online Project Marketplace for the Jingles Industry

Small Business Labs

According to Staffing Industry Analysts , the online staffing industry is now about a $1billion dollar industry that's growing at "double-digit" rates.    The best known of the firms in this industry are probably oDesk and Elance.  Based on this, I don't think it's a big industry.

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Boost Your Online PR: Public Relations as Part of Online Marketing Strategy

Small Business CEO

There are several boutique agencies that specialize in pay per click management, who can manage this whole process for you. SEO is the art of creating a web presence that ranks your company and website above others, especially your competitors, for key words in your industry.

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11 Tips On Writing The Best Recruiting Cold Emails & 20+ New Templates

Recruit CRM

Most recruitment agencies see an average response rate of 15-20% with cold emails. Curate a list of relevant people to your industry and add them to your cold email marketing campaign. Unfortunately, they don't have the time to read a long email where half of it explains about your recruitment agency. Let's get this straight.

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The Biggest Secret of Stellar Copywriting

Men With Pens

I wrote press releases for the music industry, which was pretty cool. But, I was never initiated into the uber-secret-mad-men-esque clique known as “agency copywriters”. Then I met a copywriter who had worked in agencies for his entire career. Once upon a time, I wasn’t on the inside. Or the decoder ring.

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Age of Conversation 3: It Is In BookStores and Available On-Line

Make or Break Moments

Back then, the marketing industry was abuzz about how citizen marketers were changing the landscape, whereas the second two editions have revolved primarily around the growing field of social media and how its methodologies have affected marketing as a whole. Yours truly has a chapter in this book as well as in the Age of Conversation 2.