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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. When you start talking to a potential outsourcing hire, make sure the person understands your business, your needs and possesses the necessary skills. Whenever we have an idea for a blog post or see an article we like, we add it to Evernote.

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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. job posts have detailed descriptions about the nature of the work, skills required, location and approximate salary, but the job seekers—the sellers—generally do not create profiles that describe themselves."  

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Why You Shouldn’t Hire Your Virtual Assistant on Guru.com

Tips From T. Marie

I recently read an article by Ryan Lee called “ The REALITY of Outsourcing and Virtual Assistants ”. Places like Craigslist , Guru.com and Elance. Sites like Guru and Elance are bidding wars, plain and simple. That’s because most highly skilled virtual assistants abandoned those sites long ago.

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Are Traditional Jobs Going to Disappear?

Small Business Labs

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. For people with the right talents and skills, the rewards of traditional employment are increasing. is going to continue to grow.

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The Rise of Corporate Independent Worker Talent Pools

Small Business Labs

  According to the Spend Matters article, PwC created this exchange for these key reasons: A growing number of talented professionals are choosing to become independent workers. To provide broader and easier access to independent workers with specialized skills while increasing PwC's business agility and flexibility.

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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. Seek clients who want your expertise, experience, and skill. One was a conversation with James, who commented on one of my blogs that many copywriters aren’t good with numbers.

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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.