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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.    5.    6.

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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. Try open source websites like WordPress.

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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. Do you have testimonials?

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Six Ways to Get More Juice from Your Freelancer | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

It might cost a bit more but it tells freelancers you believe in their great work and you believe in them. Everyone wins, and it’s a simple, zero-cost, low-effort gesture that makes all involved feel good. Failure to pay as agreed is a particularly bad form of feedback, but I’ve often seen clients use it that way.

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