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The What, Who and How of Outsourcing… So You Can Let Go

Success

While you’re certainly capable of answering the telephone, filing and ordering supplies, why waste your time on drudgery that almost anyone could do? You can advertise for freelance help on sites such as Guru.com or Elance-oDesk.com. Some tasks are easy to do but also easy to hand off.

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Set Yourself Apart from the Competition » Make or Break Moments

Make or Break Moments

The first project – transcribe a one hour speech from an audio file. 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. Shriram joined my team.

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How to Set Your Copywriting Fees and Earn What You’re Worth

Men With Pens

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. One was a conversation with James, who commented on one of my blogs that many copywriters aren’t good with numbers. Guys, what in the wide world of sports are you thinking? Working for $5?

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