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Your Business Failed, What’s Next?

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Especially in business, failures can be used to your advantage—but only if you learn how to bounce back from them effectively. For example, Elance-oDesk VP Matt Cooper learned from his first failed venture that he had a tendency to move too quickly with business ideas. Fortunately, this unpleasant experience is not futile.

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The What, Who and How of Outsourcing… So You Can Let Go

Success

You can advertise for freelance help on sites such as Guru.com or Elance-oDesk.com. Whenever we have an idea for a blog post or see an article we like, we add it to Evernote. This article was published in February 2015 and has been updated. Then bump it up to scheduling. Photo by Zivica Kerkez /Shutterstock.

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Improving the Job Market With Big Data

Small Business Labs

Interesting article from John Horton at oDesk  on the Digitization of the Supply Side of the Labor Market. " This is changing as sites like LinkedIn, oDesk, eLance and others provide job seekers the ability to create profiles that are widely and easily accessible. " I agree. " I agree. from Harvard.  

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Set Yourself Apart from the Competition » Make or Break Moments

Make or Break Moments

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. I thought I would prefer someone from the United States and Canada but I soon learned that they were the highest cost and not all had experience.

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How to Set Your Copywriting Fees and Earn What You’re Worth

Men With Pens

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. But whatever it is, we need to get this straightened out, because if I ever meet you and learn that you’re working for next to nothing, I’ll have to kick your ass. Working for $5?

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Six Ways to Get More Juice from Your Freelancer | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Mathew – Lots of good article on Men with Pens about finding freelance work. There is a search in our sidebar, by the way, and it picks up a ton of results, but with over a thousand articles on the site, sometimes that gets hard to sift through. Do use sites like Elance. The other James´s last blog.

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Your online Business Development System: The Blog Transmitter

BioTeams

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.