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.  billion from Angels in 2011. 

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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. 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.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 27, 2014

 But several recent studies report that small business formation and entrepreneurship are in decline. But in many cases they use contractors, freelancers, outsourced services and other forms of contingent workers instead of traditional employees.  We think entrepreneurship is alive and well in America.

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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. Freelance business owners” (5 percent, or 2.8

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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. 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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