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

Success

You make it happen, you’re up for a challenge , you do it your way. While they ultimately hoped to maintain the website themselves, DeNike says, they planned to hire a designer to get it up and running. You can advertise for freelance help on sites such as Guru.com or Elance-oDesk.com. I use it with my interns for my blog.

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Four Tips for Monetizing Your Online Marketing Blog

Andrea Kalli

Marketing is one of the most popular topics for bloggers, mostly due to the many parallels that the blogging and marketing world share. Unfortunately, marketing blogs are also some of the hardest blogs to monetize. The most popular marketing blogs do not always offer insider information or special tools.

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The Rise of Micro Multinationals

Small Business Labs

This is up from about 30,000 in 2009.   Upwork (formerly known as Elance-oDesk)  is featured in the report and it certainly is focusing on the creation of micro multinationals. A study recently issued by eBay reports that in the last year 190,000 U.S.   If these sites even come close to creating $2.7

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

Tips From T. Marie

Places like Craigslist , Guru.com and Elance. Sites like Guru and Elance are bidding wars, plain and simple. The second item that grabbed my attention were the sites that were given as places to find a virtual assistant. As with anything, you get what you pay for. Contact me for help in eliminating the trial and error method.

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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. It was simple to set up the account and post the job and before long I had 40 people apply for the job. He gave me options. Within 48 hours 1/2 of the project was complete.

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

Men With Pens

One was a conversation with James, who commented on one of my blogs that many copywriters aren’t good with numbers. 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. Guys, what in the wide world of sports are you thinking?

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Your online Business Development System: The Blog Transmitter

BioTeams

In this article I describe how to build your blog transmitter using just free software. The main component of The Transmitter is a blog and here is what I will cover in this article: Setting up your blog. Writing great articles for your blog. Monitoring your blog traffic. Linking to Social Media.