Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The Forbes article In the Future, Nobody Will Have Jobs  summarizes the growing view that traditional jobs are going the way of the dinosaurs, replaced by an array of contract workers and automation. Scale of some form is still a key competitive factor in most industries, which is why the Global Giants continue to grow.

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Make or Break Moments

JULY 19, 2010

I’m familiar with Elance but a colleague who had a similar project told me that she’d had great success with oDesk - so that’s where I started. Do you take the time to address the prospect by name rather than a generic form letter? The first project – transcribe a one hour speech from an audio file.

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Small Business CEO

JUNE 1, 2012

With social media and similar forms of marketing, this is a fun and highly cost-effective strategy. Accountants, web designers and marketing people can be hired online at places like ODesk and Elance. For example, try promoting a contest like The Royal Society of Chemists. Try open source websites like WordPress.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Another discussion was with an associate who said he saw freelance projects on Elance with bids of $50 for sales letters and $5 for blog posts. The uncertainty can take many forms: l You don’t know how long it’ll take you to complete a project. Guys, what in the wide world of sports are you thinking? Working for $5?

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BioTeams

JUNE 14, 2010

In my first article in my YOUBIDFAST series I introduced The TRANSMITTER as the first of three essential components of your Online Business Development System. In this article I describe how to build your blog transmitter using just free software. In this article I describe how to build your blog transmitter using just free software.

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Men With Pens

JULY 7, 2010

Failure to pay as agreed is a particularly bad form of feedback, but I’ve often seen clients use it that way. Mathew – Lots of good article on Men with Pens about finding freelance work. Do use sites like Elance. Great article and a great way to explain to newbies how to act professionally too.

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