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The What, Who and How of Outsourcing… So You Can Let Go

Success

You uncover outsourcing talent the same way you find employees: by networking in person or online, asking for recommendations and interviewing carefully. You can advertise for freelance help on sites such as Guru.com or Elance-oDesk.com. She recommends using sites like Asana.com or Evernote.com for managing projects.

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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. So throwing out the high and the low, I started to look for people to interview.

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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. Working for $5?

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The Rise of Fixed Term Contract Workers

Small Business Labs

.  A new study by the Freelancers Union and Elance-oDesk adds more information on this type of work. According million Americans work under fixed term contracts, which they describe as: Temporary workers: Individuals with a single employer, client, job, or contract project where their employment status is temporary.

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