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Take the Freelancers Union Live and Work Survey

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The Freelancers Union is conducting a survey on how freelancers work and live. The goals of the survey are to better understand how freelancers are changing the definition of success and how they are working with one another to improve their business outcomes. The survey is short and will take 7-9 minutes to complete.

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InboxQ's Excellent Twitter Q&A User Survey

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I wasn't familiar with InboxQ until I saw a reference to a survey they'd done in Entrepreneur's Why Savvy Businesses Field Customer Questions on Twitter.  " Because of our blog, we get sent a lot of surveys to review.    To be honest, most are poorly done.    InboxQ&A did not do this. 

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Why Surveys Show Wide Differences in Small Business Social Media Use

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You many have noticed that different surveys show very different small business social media usage rates. For example, the Wall Street Journal article Facebook Tops for Small Business reported on a survey that found small businesses quite positive about social media.    Another point of view comes from Citibank.

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The Recent Flurry of Gig Economy Studies

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Want Your Business to Thrive - Cultivate Your External Talent : The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and Success Factors teamed up for study, which surveyed independent workers, managers who hire independent works and HR employees.    The goal of the study was to get a 360 view of external labor use by businesses.

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Defining and Achieving Small Business Success

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  The study consisted of a survey of over 400 small business owners coupled with a set of 26 in-depth interviews with "successful" business owners.   It also makes them happy to learn their goals for their business and definition of success is shared by most other small business owners.

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Freelancers and the Rise of Multiple Income Sources

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A recent Freelancers Union post titled  87% of Freelancers Have Multiple Sources of Income covers the gowing trend of freelancers piecing together multiple sources of income - and even multiple careers - to meet their financial, work and lifestyle goals. But its been very hard to quantify this information via surveys.

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Mapping Key Emerging Technologies

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The map's horizontal axis is based on survey of "members of the Traction Network (mostly CIOs, CTOs, and senior IT execs in the enterprise)"  They were asked to rank the importance of a wide range of technologies. .    They were also asked to rank the rate of adoption of these technologies on a 1 to 10 scale.

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