Small Business Labs

JANUARY 15, 2013

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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Virtual Moxie

APRIL 9, 2012

You might (again, depending on how you feel about it) choose to let your VA know know that you’d like her to use offshored VAs, or people from Fiverr , or Elance , or Odesk to handle one-off, very specific projects. Don’t abdicate authority on choosing the folks that get involved with your work.

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Andrea Kalli

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

With a few hundred dollars and some hours spent on Elance, you can easily program and design your own marketing tool. After a while, your blog could develop a proactive and valuable audience that’s begging for new blogging tools and marketing resources. Rather than searching for a company that can provide, why not create your own?

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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. 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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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

.   PwC describes their Talent Exchange as a platform that provides registered independent consultants and freelancers: “a single, integrated platform that facilitates the project lifecycle from searching for open roles, to joining a project, to submitting hours and expenses, to networking.”.

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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. million) don’t have a traditional employer and do freelance, temporary or supplemental work on a project-to-project basis. Moonlighters” (27 percent, or 14.3 Diversified workers” (18 percent, or 9.3

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

.  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. . According

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Men With Pens

JULY 7, 2010

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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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

 Think of them as a specialized Elance or oDesk that connects independent consultants with buyers.   There are also a growing number of firms that bring together groups of independent consultants to take on projects and then disband. .  The Business Talent Group (BTG) is an example of this type of firm.

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