Success

JUNE 19, 2022

Cheryl Rosner, co-founder of former hotel-booking app Stayful.com, worked with eight full-time employees and outsourced to four specialists who are contract workers. You can advertise for freelance help on sites such as Guru.com or Elance-oDesk.com. Outsource them and you’ll have more time to focus on more important things.

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Tips From T. Marie

JULY 18, 2011

He makes a great point about waiting until your business is ready for a virtual assistant rather than simply getting one because some ‘guru’ tells you to in their book(s). Places like Craigslist , Guru.com and Elance. Sites like Guru and Elance are bidding wars, plain and simple.

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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. The first project – transcribe a one hour speech from an audio file. It was simple to set up the account and post the job and before long I had 40 people apply for the job.

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Andrea Kalli

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

With a few hundred dollars and some hours spent on Elance, you can easily program and design your own marketing tool. After a while, your blog could develop a proactive and valuable audience that’s begging for new blogging tools and marketing resources. Rather than searching for a company that can provide, why not create your own?

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Small Business CEO

APRIL 27, 2010

Author Ori Brafman wrote about this extensively in his book “Sway&#. This community interaction mechanism is so addictive that it’s been integrated into Ebay, Amazon, Elance and many ecommerce sites for customer engagement. By offering me money, you’d cheapened the experience for me… and possibly even insult me.

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 9, 2013

 Portfolio careerist Marci Alboher called people pursuing this approach "slashes" in her 2007 book One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success. I would add another key reason, which the book probably missed due to be released prior to the Great Recession.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 2, 2014

  The author of the essay has also written The Economy of You , a book on side gigs. According to Elance, 25% of their global freelancers are side giggers  and the percentage is even higher for their U.S.  By adding a second stream of income, I would no longer be entirely dependent on a single paycheck. 

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