Small Business Labs
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
The Freelancers Union and Elance - oDesk released a study showing that 34% of the American workforce freelances in some form. According to the study, 53 million Americans said they engaged in some form of freelance work in the past year.
Small Business Labs
MAY 27, 2014
But in many cases they use contractors, freelancers, outsourced services and other forms of contingent workers instead of traditional employees. There are simply too many people participating in online commerce sites like Etsy, Airbnb, Elance, oDesk, Uber for this not to be true. micropreneurs is growing. Nor are the roughly 1.6
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Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 17, 2012
Scale of some form is still a key competitive factor in most industries, which is why the Global Giants continue to grow. A couple of related indicators of this are: - Firms like Elance , oDesk and MBO Partners - leaders in providing independent workers - have decent numbers of traditional employees.
Small Business Labs
JANUARY 15, 2013
We expect this form of “mobile commerce” will take off in 2013 as personal service firms, retailers of all kinds and even industrial firms take advantage of the lower costs, increased flexibility and high levels of customer satisfaction that mobile business provides. 5.
Small Business CEO
JUNE 1, 2012
With social media and similar forms of marketing, this is a fun and highly cost-effective strategy. Accountants, web designers and marketing people can be hired online at places like ODesk and Elance. For example, try promoting a contest like The Royal Society of Chemists. Try open source websites like WordPress.
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. Do you take the time to address the prospect by name rather than a generic form letter? The first project – transcribe a one hour speech from an audio file.
Men With Pens
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
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. The uncertainty can take many forms: l You don’t know how long it’ll take you to complete a project. Guys, what in the wide world of sports are you thinking? Working for $5?
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