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Research Your Client: Get the Job, Keep the Job Thursday, May 6th, 2010
In my eagerness to land a particular gig last year I forgot the cardinal rule every smart careerist follows: Research the client before you apply for the job. Foolishly believing that my resume would speak for itself, I did not specify my unique qualifications to meet the needs of the …
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Research Your Client: Get the Job, Keep the Job
In Part Two of oDesk’s interview with Nick Krym, the outsourcing guru behind Pragmatic Outsourcing, we’re tackling the issue of building trust with the consultants and providers you hire. Krym is a technology professional with over two decades in the IT industry, and he’s been outsourcing to offshore teams for more than …
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Researching and Trusting Your Outsourced Team
Platform as a Service (PaaS) allows businesses launching an application to be blind to the infrastructure their app is running on, and focus solely on the application they are launching. PaaS providers often include everything from a development and testing environment to hosting in an elastic …
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Cloud Computing: Emerging Platforms (PaaS)
Have you ever had a day when you wished you had a partner to share the ups and downs of running your own business? With my last company, I remember having days when I felt like it was me against the world—and the world was winning
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3 Tips for Setting Up an Advisory Board
On April 28, 2010 the Women Presidents Organization and American Express OPEN announced the winners of the 50 Fastest Growing Women-Owned/Led Companies in North America. The top winner? Argent Associates Inc.
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50 Fastest-Growing Women Owned Companies Share Key Attributes
While there are always lots of marketing contests going on aimed at small business owners (usually for an iPhone/ iPad), there’s a new one that just kicked off that I think SMBs are really going to want to pay attention to. The contest comes from Internet marketing company Bruce Clay, Inc. , which is offering up a free 3-day pass to Search Engine Strategies San Francisco , as well as a seat in Bruce Clay’s famed SEO training class .
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Bruce Clay, Inc Contest Offers SMBs Top SEO Training
Have you ever encountered one of those life-altering moments that turns your business around? Sarah Shaw had one such experience when a friend introduced her to a die cutter who helped her expand her handbag business out of her dining room and into the big time
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Small Business News: This Changes Everything!
A recent Growthink blog post titled “SBA Loans Are Growing like Gangbusters” included reference to SBA administrator Karen Mills’ statement that average weekly SBA loan approvals have gone up 86 percent since the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act became law. Similarly, an SBA fact sheet reported that “From Feb. 17, 2009 to Apr
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Are SBA Loans Really Growing Like Gangbusters?
We’re excited to announce the new payout for the oDesk Affiliate Program and what better way to do so than live at the Affiliate Summit? In just a few short months since our new affiliate program was launched, we’ve already begun working with affiliate marketers to grow the oDesk community.
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oDesk Announces New Payout at Affiliate Summit
oDesk is live at the Affiliate Summit and we just unveiled our exciting new payout plan for affiliate members. Now we’re also announcing a special offer for Affiliate Summit publishers: $100 towards your first oDesk hire! So, how does it work? It’s as easy as 1-2-3: 1) Join the oDesk Affiliate Program. Go to www.odesk.com …
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Special Offer for Affiliate Summit Publishers: $100 towards your first oDesk hire.
Last week we were privileged to be able to attend the Vator Splash competition in San Francisco which was put on by the folks at Vator.tv. Vator is a leading platform for innovators and entrepreneurs to broadcast themselves, and a provider of news and information through VatorNews
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oDesk Lends a Helping Hand to Vator Splash Finalists
There are two types of writers out there — generalists and specialists. Generalists will write about any topic and specialists write mainly (and sometimes exclusively) about the topic or subject that they know best. No matter how you make your freelance writing dollars — through applying for work, marketing, networking, bidding …
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Freelance Writing: Become a Specialist
As freelancers we’re afforded a lot of perks – everyday is casual Friday, and we don’t have to “pretend laugh” at our bosses’ bad jokes – however, we definitely have our fair share of burdens, too. One of the biggest challenges is forecasting demand for our skills, and deciding when …
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Future Skills: How to Match Professional Growth with Industry Demand
Up until a year ago, I had never considered doing work as a freelancer. When I started my own blog, I gained a wealth of experience and connections that led to my ability to offer freelance services in a variety of areas including article writing, web design, internet marketing, and …
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Blog Your Way to Freelance Success
The oDesk API gives you access to something infinitely more valuable than just a code library – it gives you unique, program-level access to a global, talented freelance workforce. A World of Possibilities If your application is tracking tasks–in the case of project management software like BaseCamp, or ActiveCollab–then the oDesk API …
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Getting the Most out of the oDesk API
In freelancing — much like in conventional careers — there will be times when you and the people paying your salary are just not a good match. While being half a world away from a difficult client may give you an advantage over an employee who works 10 feet from the boss …
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Happy Freelancing — How to Know When You and the Client Are Not a Good Fit
It’s okay to give your work away, even when you are trying to build a lucrative freelance writing career. It may seem counterintuitive at first, because the end goal is – of course – money in the bank. However, to earn it you sometimes need to make career moves that don’t involve money at …
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Giving It Away: 8 Reasons to Write for Free
More interactive than Twitter and more personal than LinkedIn, Facebook continues to grow as an online networking site for professionals. As more and more freelancing groups form on Facebook — such as the oDesk fan page – the rules of the game are becoming more clear.
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A Freelancer’s Guide to Professionalism on Facebook
In response to provider feedback, we have redesigned the “Apply to Job” form to make it easier to send just the right application. All-new styling brings this form in line with our design direction and sets the stage for future updates and additions. Set your rate right in-line instead of after you …
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Applying to a job just got a little easier
Thank you all for your fantastic entries in yesterday’s contest! Hearing about your oDesk milestones and successes was nothing short of inspiring. Some of our favorite entries were: #oWin #oDesk I’m finishing up another web design/development job today. Its great to work from home! oDesk Rocks! – @getterdonegurus made my first major …
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And the Winner Is…
Courtesy of Apple
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iPad: Anatomy of a Tech Failure
While most amateur bloggers make their fair share of internet and blogosphere faux pas before they learn the ropes, professionals can’t really afford to make too many mistakes — especially when it comes to copyright infringement and libel. When I was a newbie blogger, I naively thought any photo on the internet that did not state its …
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What Every Blogger and Freelance Writer Should Know About Internet Copyright and Libel Laws
There’s a general attitude in many freelance associations, meetings, conferences and blogs that’s becoming increasingly popular. It’s what I call the “starving artist” mentality. Basically, it’s the general feeling that good-paying freelance work is hard to come by
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Do Away with the “Starving Artist” Mentality
Most remote workers don’t have an “IT Guy” or an assistant on hand, so it’s important to be sharp and self-reliant when it comes to the basics. Here’s a list to help you evaluate and hone your own skills – let us know in the comments …
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Top 10 Tech Skills Every Remote Worker Should Know
A rebound in the economy could lead to the emergence of new startup companies and result in an uptick in tech-industry hiring. Last Friday, the Commerce Department revised upward its already impressive gross domestic product growth estimate for the fourth quarter of 2009. Previously, the department said that growth was 5.7 …
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Trend Watch: New Startup Activity Could Spur Hiring
Yesterday, Gary shared his vision for the future with attendees at SXSW 2010 as part of the panel “What Coworking Tells Us About the Future of Work”. Today, he shared with me some of his thoughts on coworking, co-location, and the future of work: Coworking is the future of work. There’s …
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Coworking and the Future of Work
The oDesk Online Jobs Report was released last week, and after having a chance to review the numbers, there is a very interesting trend that popped up. The skill “web design” is down 26 places from last year, however the category “Web Design” has remained unchanged …
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Online Jobs Report: Web Design Isn’t Dead