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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. Then bump it up to scheduling.

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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.

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Coworking in India

Small Business Labs

Coworking in India is growing quite rapidly, with more than 100 spaces across the country and new spaces popping up on a regular basis. India is the second largest player in freelancing after the US, according to Elance, an online service that connects freelancers to projects, with average earnings of about $15 per hour and rising.

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How to Avoid Being Named in a Fancy Hands Type Lawsuit

Tips From T. Marie

Which begs the question, how ethical is it to take advantage of a situation like the one at Fancy Hands, Fiverr, Guru, Elance and other services that so many have turned to for extremely low cost virtual services? Does that mean that clients shouldn’t be aware or concerned with those rules?

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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2013

Small Business Labs

  The Solo Support Industry Grows Up : 2013 will see the continued growth of products and services designed to make it easier for solopreneurs and the self-employed to start and operate their businesses. .  Economic  3.     6.   Social  8.

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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. How do you set yourself apart from the competition?

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

Men With Pens

It might cost a bit more but it tells freelancers you believe in their great work and you believe in them. Everyone wins, and it’s a simple, zero-cost, low-effort gesture that makes all involved feel good. beating freelancers up says volumes about the client and their own feelings of business self-worth. 6) Thank them. .&#

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