Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Because of this 68% of the respondents said they would be interested in a tool that made it easier to hire, manage and pay freelancers. No doubt not by coincidence, the company that sponsored this research - Elance  - recently announced a tool to help mid-sized companies do just that. 

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 29, 2014

.  Freelancer management systems are different from online staffing platforms such as Elance, Odesk and Freelancer.com in that they go beyond just facilitating one-to-one engagements between indidviaul buyers and sellers of freelance talent.    Instead, an FMS facilitates firm wide engagement and deployment model.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 7, 2015

  The main internet tool creating micro multinationals is, of course, online product and talent marketplaces.   Upwork (formerly known as Elance-oDesk)  is featured in the report and it certainly is focusing on the creation of micro multinationals. .  trillion by 2025. 

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 27, 2013

Online talent marketplaces like Elance and oDesk have seen substantial growth over the past couple of years.   Most interesting is a new focus on supporting small business micro-task buyers. These moves come as no surprise.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 15, 2013

2013 will see rapid increases in the number of small businesses using powerful yet inexpensive cloud-based data and analytical tools.  .  But the data and analytics revolution will also benefit small businesses.   This trend comes from our work with Intuit on. . 

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Small Business CEO

JUNE 1, 2012

Luckily, there are a number of affordable tools and strategies that cost little but deliver big, which is ideal when your business is on a budget. Accountants, web designers and marketing people can be hired online at places like ODesk and Elance.

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Andrea Kalli

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

The most popular marketing blogs do not always offer insider information or special tools. Most courses and marketing tools are not very good, but the few that are can be very successful as pitched products on a blog. Develop tools and products that are valuable to marketers. Monetize through value, not sales tactics.

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