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Your Business Failed, What’s Next?

Success

Especially in business, failures can be used to your advantage—but only if you learn how to bounce back from them effectively. For example, Elance-oDesk VP Matt Cooper learned from his first failed venture that he had a tendency to move too quickly with business ideas. Fortunately, this unpleasant experience is not futile.

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

Success

You can advertise for freelance help on sites such as Guru.com or Elance-oDesk.com. In time, your assistants will learn your ways, you’ll trust them to handle your jobs with care, and you’ll be free to concentrate on the things you do best and that build your business. Then bump it up to scheduling.

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Jinglesmart - Online Project Marketplace for the Jingles Industry

Small Business Labs

.  The best known of the firms in this industry are probably oDesk and Elance.   A wide variety of talent can be hired at oDesk or Elance, everything from computer programmers to virtual assistants to writers.   But there are a growing number of industry vertical job and project marketplaces springing up.

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Improving the Job Market With Big Data

Small Business Labs

" This is changing as sites like LinkedIn, oDesk, eLance and others provide job seekers the ability to create profiles that are widely and easily accessible. .  As John points out:  "online job boards like  CareerBuilder ,  Monster.com ,  Indeed ,  SimplyHired , etc., " I agree.

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How to Avoid Being Named in a Fancy Hands Type Lawsuit

Tips From T. Marie

Which begs the question, how ethical is it to take advantage of a situation like the one at Fancy Hands, Fiverr, Guru, Elance and other services that so many have turned to for extremely low cost virtual services? So while a program like mine might stress the need to learn the rules, another might never mention them.

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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2013

Small Business Labs

  Because of this, Angels will learn how hard it is to make money as a startup investor and the Angel investing frenzy will subside.     We borrowed this trend from the 2013 Future Workforce Trends from our friends at MBO Partners. Traditional funding is expected to be even harder to come by in 2013.    7.

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Set Yourself Apart from the Competition » Make or Break Moments

Make or Break Moments

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. I thought I would prefer someone from the United States and Canada but I soon learned that they were the highest cost and not all had experience.