Small Business Labs

JANUARY 15, 2013

Small Business Hits the Road : One of the most interesting findings from our food truck research project is how quickly other industries are discovering the advantages of taking to the road and going to their customers.    We borrowed this trend from the 2013 Future Workforce Trends from our friends at MBO Partners.

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Make or Break Moments

JULY 19, 2010

The first project – transcribe a one hour speech from an audio file. 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. Within 48 hours 1/2 of the project was complete. And oDesk has been a great resource.

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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. But whatever it is, we need to get this straightened out, because if I ever meet you and learn that you’re working for next to nothing, I’ll have to kick your ass.

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Men With Pens

JULY 7, 2010

And for the freelancer, a clear statement of the project that includes understandable objectives, requirements and specific deliverables, helps focus his time and resources on the task at hand, instead of trying to figure out what you need. Trust freelancers to see the project through. Let freelancers do their job. 6) Thank them.

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