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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. based virtual assistant is $10 to $20; an overseas assistant will probably cost less. You uncover outsourcing talent the same way you find employees: by networking in person or online, asking for recommendations and interviewing carefully.

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Why You Shouldn’t Hire Your Virtual Assistant on Guru.com

Tips From T. Marie

Places like Craigslist , Guru.com and Elance. Sites like Guru and Elance are bidding wars, plain and simple. The second item that grabbed my attention were the sites that were given as places to find a virtual assistant. As with anything, you get what you pay for.

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Coworking in India

Small Business Labs

India is the second largest player in freelancing after the US, according to Elance, an online service that connects freelancers to projects, with average earnings of about $15 per hour and rising. Here are a couple of other articles on coworking in India: Tech in Asia on 6 Coworking Spaces in Mumbai.

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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?

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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2013

Small Business Labs

  We expect this form of “mobile commerce” will take off in 2013 as personal service firms, retailers of all kinds and even industrial firms take advantage of the lower costs, increased flexibility and high levels of customer satisfaction that mobile business provides.     6.   Social  8.

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5 Ways Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners Are Bootstrapping Their Companies

Small Business CEO

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. With social media and similar forms of marketing, this is a fun and highly cost-effective strategy. Utilize free web services – Here’s where you can save a bundle on costly software suites.

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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.