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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. If it’s data entry, you need to train them on the program. 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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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? There is no standardized training either. Before working with any virtual services professional learn the rules.

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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. The first project – transcribe a one hour speech from an audio file. It was simple to set up the account and post the job and before long I had 40 people apply for the job.

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Four Tips for Monetizing Your Online Marketing Blog

Andrea Kalli

With a few hundred dollars and some hours spent on Elance, you can easily program and design your own marketing tool. After a while, your blog could develop a proactive and valuable audience that’s begging for new blogging tools and marketing resources. Rather than searching for a company that can provide, why not create your own?

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The Role of Side Gigs in an Uncertain Economy

Small Business Labs

But what appears to be new is the growing number of people who are turning to side gigs because their employers aren't offering them training. According to Elance, 25% of their global freelancers are side giggers  and the percentage is even higher for their U.S. freelancers. In

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

Men With Pens

When training young people in ad agencies I always coach them to start with the positives, with the things they like and that are on target, then their comments will be better received and will have context. Do use sites like Elance.

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