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How to Benefit From the Consolidation of Freelance Marketplaces

In the world of business, companies often oscillate between two major strategies: bundling and unbundling. Bundling combines various products or services to offer a comprehensive package, while unbundling entails breaking down these packages into individual components. This cycle of bundling and unbundling is prevalent across industries, driven by changing market demands and technological advancements. One […]

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Why Hire A Virtual Assistant? (And How To Go About It)

Small Business Operations / Outsourcing, Outsourced Labor, Guest Posts

Are you totally overwhelmed? Hire a Virtual Assistant. You might say “I can’t afford one”, but you can’t afford NOT to hire a VA.

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You Need to Know How a Drug Dealer Mindset Will Ruin Your Hustle

Small Business Finances / Revenue, Outsourcing

Successful entrepreneurs know that it is not revenue or sales that count, but the gross margin you can produce from your sales. Without a healthy gross margin, your sales will not produce enough gross profit to cover your operating expenses and return a profit to the owners.

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How To Hire An Employee The Right Way

Small Business Operations / Employee, Outsourcing, Hiring

The convention wisdom about hiring a new employee is to ask for a resume to screen candidates followed by a face to face interview of a few candidates that made the cut and to ask then a series of frequently asked questions. This old-school process is no longer effective.

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Are Your Personal Values Destroying Your Business?

Small Business Finances / Bootstrapping, Freelancer, Social Media, Banks, Outsourcing, Budget, Outsourced Labor

Businesses have to make money and turn a profit to survive. While personal consumption can be influenced by personal ideals and values, in business, it is all about making a profit.

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How to Leverage Experts and Crush the Competition

Small Business Operations / Outsourcing, Outsourced Labor, Website, Logo, Freelancer, Social Media

Many nascent entrepreneurs simply roll up their sleeves and try to do everything themselves in the hopes that it will save them money. Unfortunately, the most valuable asset entrepreneurs have is their time. Doing tasks that can be done by less expensive experts prevents entrepreneurs from focusing on the most important aspects of their business. Freelancing platforms exist to help the business owner outsource non-key tasks to experts in their fields for a fraction of what most experts cost locally.

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13 Steps to Find Your Profitable Niche for Free Using Long-Tail Keywords

Before Starting a Small Business / Niche, Branding, Outsourcing, Outsourced Labor, Long Tail Keywords, Keyword, SEO

Recently, I was teaching a course, “Going Pro – Moving from Hobby to Business” and one of the students was a jewelry designer looking to take her hobby of making jewelry, mostly as gifts for friends and family, and turn it into a paying business. I suggested she focus her jewelry design on a profitable

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4 Publishing Industry Lessons To Make You A Better Entrepreneur

4 Super Valuable Business ROI Lessons From Publishing

Small Business Operations / Interruption vs Permission Marketing, Revenue, Advertising, Outsourcing, Revenue Streams

While the underlining ability to write content that people want to buy is the same for both the magazine and the book publisher, the design considerations mirror many of the same issues entrepreneurs go through when they try to define their business and economic models.

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Are Large Corporations Past Their Prime?

Small Business Operations / Sunk Cost, Outsourcing, Management, Outsourced Labor, Website

One has to ask “Are corporations past their prime?” Corporations came into being to allow multiple investors to invest a portion of their capital across several risky, but potentially highly profitable endeavors. Corporations Come Into Existence When sailing ships were constructed to carry on world trading, it was a highly lucrative proposition but was fraught

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The Robot/Application Arbitrage

Small Business Operations / Trends, Manufacturing, Outsourcing, Innovation, Automation

More and more products can be produced and assembled by robotic assembly lines. Even services, such as those offered by CPAs and stock brokers, can now be performed by software tools or applications such as TurboTax or e-Trade. Recently, I read an article that said that with the threat of a monumental rise in the

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