Last weekend we attended another Startup Weekend in beautiful Miami, FL, and again came away excited to have been a part of such an innovative and exciting event. The intense, three-day event was jam-packed with brainstorming exciting ideas and executing on them to form multiple brand new startup businesses in …
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oDesk Partners with Startup Weekend
Recently oDesk had a chance to corner Nick Krym, the outsourcing guru behind Pragmatic Outsourcing. He’s a technology professional with over two decades in the IT industry, and he’s been outsourcing to offshore teams for more than 15 years. We knew if anyone could tell us the secret to successful communication …
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Communicating With Your Outsourced Team
We get it. Freelancing can be a tough gig to come by, and sometimes you can do everything right and still come up short of jobs. If you are one of those people, we wish you the best of luck and a world of patience in your continuing search for clients. …
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10 Reasons You Aren’t Getting Freelance Work
Recently oDesk had the opportunity to talk about writer-targeted scams with marketing expert Marcia Yudkin, author of 11 books inluding Freelance Writing for Magazines and Newspapers, whose work has appeared in the New York Times and Boston Globe. Her insightful article “You Too Can Sniff Out a Scam” got us wondering what freelance writers need to …
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3 Scams Every Freelance Writer Should Know About
When you ditched your 9 to 5 job, did you also ditch “office hours”? Join the club. One of the benefits of freelancing is the ability to plan work hours around your day — rather than the other way around
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Freelance Challenge: Does Keeping Office Hours Increase Productivity?
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
oDesk lets hundreds of thousands of talented providers find the work they want to do, but sometimes when we’re looking at the oConomy’s satellite perspective (almost $150 million earned via oDesk!) on our vibrant marketplace, we wonder about the individual stories, not just the numbers. Nearly every month, we run …
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Has oDesk Changed Your Life?
The phrase Dropout Economy (made popular by Reihan Salam in the recent Time Magazine article) tells a tale of community activism and radical thinking — sparked by a rejection of traditional norms that revolve around working for “The Man.” In a time when corporate profits are …
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The Dropout Economy and Remote Workers
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
I recently wrote an article on Social Media Marketing- Boon or a Bane, and this blog post follows up on that by offering a list of the best social media websites to start your business idea with. There are a great deal of social media sites on the internet, sometimes too …
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Best Social Media sites to begin with
“What the heck is this Social Media Marketing”? Since, I am into the Online Marketing Industry; I heard this statement hell lot of times from friends, relatives, colleagues and professionals working in different domains. Well, I am not considered to be a Social Media Guru nor an Online Marketing expert. I …
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Social Media Marketing- Boon or a Bane
Are You Ready for Anything? Popular executive coach David Allen shared his life and work organization tips in Getting Things Done, but in Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life (Penguin Books) he delves into the important theories of productivity and creativity that inspired his methods. Exploring the negative psychological impact …
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Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work & Life
Affiliate marketing can be a profitable business if it’s done right, but there are many mistakes that can ruin your chances for success. Here are the top ten affiliate marketing mistakes to avoid in your campaign: 10. Thinking you’re going to get-rich-quick. Affiliate marketing is by no means a golden ticket to …
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Top 10 Mistakes in Affiliate Marketing
Imagine, you start your day sitting down with a cup of coffee… you search your company name online and the top result is someone slamming your company, your brand or you. I am not kidding, it’s very possible that conversations about you and your company are taking place across the web …
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Guide to Online Reputation Management
When I am talking about Social Media, particularly for the small businesses and for whom the time to invest in less and want to jump into social media quickly being on one or two social media site out of continuously growing social media tail, then I’d suggest them to try …
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How to use LinkedIn for promoting your Business
Social Bookmarking is still doubted by many marketers for its ability in supporting their Online Marketing campaigns. Marketers always tried escaping from the use and important of Social Bookmarking and often considered it as a time taking unnecessary activity
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Why you should care about Social Bookmarking
In an era of economic uncertainty, a lot of freelancers may feel they don’t have the option to turn down work. However, the key to successful freelancing is freedom. There are plenty of reasons to say “no” to a client and plenty of polite ways to do it. Here are some …
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How to Say ‘No’ to a Client: Four Sticky Situations and Four Ways Out
Vision Helpdesk offers unique feature — “ Satellite Helpdesk ” that allows you to manage multiple companies support operations from one place – the key thing is Vision Helpdesk creates a logical separation among each company staff, users, tickets, knowledgebase and almost everything,. Vision Helpdesk has central database and single Admin / Staff Portal where each company admin / staff log’s in and can view respective assigned company departments / tickets. Same way each company has its own client portal which allows that company clients to submit / view their tickets / knowledgebase / news / downloads etc and of course each client portal can be branded as per company name and design.
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On Demand Private-Branded Helpdesk
Amazing HD and Widescreen Desktop Wallpaper and Calendar Backgrounds for May 2010. Welcome to May 2010. Like every other moth, I have designed some wonderful Desktop Wallpaper Calendars for May 2010. The May 2010 Desktop Wallpaper Calendar Collection includes an Amazing Hd natural and green Wallpaper, a beautiful Star Trek(2009) Wallpaper with another Fantasy green Wallpaper. You can download these wallpapers with or without calendars in different resolutions.Hope you will like them.
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May 2010: Amazing Desktop Wallpaper Calendar Collection
The German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest sponsored this conference German Green Building Innovation Delegation Conference You can access the presentations that were made & streaming video from the conference through the previously mentioned link. The event was abbreviated because 1/2 of the visiting delegation from Germany was stranded at home because of
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German green building conference
I caught this article by Jessica Guynn in the Chicago Tribune Google faces censorship issues every day, around the world I don’t think there’s a lot of new news here, but because it’s google & global, I feel compelled to comment. Here’s the tool to which the author refers http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/ That other governments, in addition
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google’s global barriers