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. So throwing out the high and the low, I started to look for people to interview. I sent emailed interview questions. Hourly rates ranged from $2 and change to over $46.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 27, 2014

 But several recent studies report that small business formation and entrepreneurship are in decline. There are simply too many people participating in online commerce sites like Etsy, Airbnb, Elance, oDesk, Uber for this not to be true. Elance alone, for example,  is reporting it's creating more than 50,000 new U.S.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

A few weeks ago we reported on the trends that are leading to more workers being on fixed term contracts, which means employment relationships with their employer that terminate after a specific period of time.    A new study by the Freelancers Union and Elance-oDesk adds more information on this type of work. According

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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. One was a conversation with James, who commented on one of my blogs that many copywriters aren’t good with numbers. Guys, what in the wide world of sports are you thinking? Working for $5?

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