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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2013

Small Business Labs

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.   5.

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Set Yourself Apart from the Competition » Make or Break Moments

Make or Break Moments

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

Men With Pens

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. Charge hourly for long or uncertain projects. The uncertainty can take many forms: l You don’t know how long it’ll take you to complete a project.

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Survey: 1 in 3 Americans are Freelancers

Small Business Labs

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. Moonlighters” (27 percent, or 14.3 Diversified workers” (18 percent, or 9.3

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

Men With Pens

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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