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• How to Maintain a Steady Income: Addressing the Top Freelancing Concern

  
  Freelancing and Outsourcing Tips, Commentary, Analysis, and News from oDesk — Authority: 123
  A recent oDesk survey showed that the top concern for 76% of freelancers is maintaining a steady income. Of the other worries considered, no other single concern netted over an 8% response. As a freelancer, I know that this is my top worry as well, especially during the holidays when my personal life begins taking a ...
  5 days ago

• Buyers: oDesk Experts Holding Live Office Hours

  
  Freelancing and Outsourcing Tips, Commentary, Analysis, and News from oDesk — Authority: 123
  Join us for an office hour , in which we’ll answer your questions about how to work on oDesk. This is no prepared webinar — every session will be your questions, our experts’ answers, live . Advanced buyers and first-timers are invited. Go here for more information and a complete list of times — and ...
  1 week ago

• Make Things Happen – Undress For Success

  
  Freelancing and Outsourcing Tips, Commentary, Analysis, and News from oDesk — Authority: 123
  Someone said there are three kinds of people: people who make thinks happen, people who watch things happen, and people who wonder what the heck is going on. You wouldn’t be reading this if you weren’t one of the former; oDesk folks are the kind of people that makes things happen. That being the case, you know ...
  1 week ago

• 12 Offbeat Resources for Landing a Tech Job

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 769
  Layoffs are cropping up all over the tech industry, with workers at companies ranging from AOL to Adobe to Microsoft getting pink slips. But while most people know to turn to the big online job boards and social networks ranging from LinkedIn to Facebook to help land a new gig, there are a lot of ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Power of Feedback: Get Started Freelancing Without Any Feedback

  
  Freelancing and Outsourcing Tips, Commentary, Analysis, and News from oDesk — Authority: 123
  From building a portfolio to moving onward on oDesk towards a profitable freelancing career, Sara Haley shares some perspective from the provider’s view in her eBook series, How to Make Money on oDesk . Here, she shares what she has learned during her time in the oDesk oConomy . It’s a vicious cycle in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Get Your Zendesk Help Desk Staff with oDesk

  
  Zendesk Blog — Authority: 418
  oDesk , the global service marketplace for small and medium sized business to hire, manage, and pay remote freelancers or teams, has created a Zendesk Group which lets our customers leverage oDesks extensive listings when theyre looking to hire help desk staff. So far, about 50 people have applied to the group and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Optimizing Computer Performance for Online Work Success

  
  Freelancing and Outsourcing Tips, Commentary, Analysis, and News from oDesk — Authority: 123
  If you’re working with others online, as a small business owner or freelancer, then your computer is the conduit to your work. Your computer’s efficiency correlates directly to the your work productivity. Below are some tips to optimize performance and make the most out of the computer you already own. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Freelance Fun: oDesk t-shirt Day

  
  Freelancing and Outsourcing Tips, Commentary, Analysis, and News from oDesk — Authority: 123
  Today is oDesk t-shirt day! Check out my own bedazzled creation below… Some of our festivities include: Facebook Contest Become of fan of oDesk on Facebook and upload a photo of yourself in an oDesk shirt to be entered to win a $50 Amazon giftcard! Don’t have an oDesk t-shirt? No worries! Get creative ...
  4 weeks ago

• Cheat Sheet: Beyond Advanced Excel

  
  Freelancing and Outsourcing Tips, Commentary, Analysis, and News from oDesk — Authority: 123
  OK, so you’re really good with Microsoft Excel.  You can write bi-conditional nested if statements and vlookups that make peoples head spin.  You’re the only person in your tri-county area that can make a dynamic pivot chart with multiple vertical axes that retains its formatting.  Maybe you’ve even created ...
  4 weeks ago

• oDesk and Zendesk Team Up to Deliver Efficient Online Customer Service

  
  Freelancing and Outsourcing Tips, Commentary, Analysis, and News from oDesk — Authority: 123
  In a previous blog post we spoke about the growth and performance of the oDesk Customer Success Team , and the progress we have made this year. As we experienced a doubling of our case load to nearly 10,000 tickets and chats submitted per month, we also recognized the need for improved internal tools to help us ...
  4 weeks ago

• • Getting Paid in a Recession

  
  Undress4Success - Work From Home — Authority: 408
  When times get tough, getting paid for your work can too. There’s a good article by Polly Traylor about how to keep your customers’ cash flow problems from becoming your own on American Express Open today. (full disclosure: she quotes yours truly) Choose customers carefully Establish credit limits Be ...
  5 weeks ago

• Provider Voice: Bidding for Work – It’s Not About Price

  
  Freelancing and Outsourcing Tips, Commentary, Analysis, and News from oDesk — Authority: 123
  Recently I’ve seen some tweets from those curious about the presence of extremely low bids on oDesk. My response is that it doesn’t matter. Or at least, it shouldn’t. Face it, if the only thing that makes you a viable canidate for a project is your price, then you’ll need to have the lowest bid. But is that ...
  5 weeks ago

• oDesk Helps SNAP Summit Companies Succeed at FailCon

  
  Freelancing and Outsourcing Tips, Commentary, Analysis, and News from oDesk — Authority: 123
  We’re excited about taking part in today’s FailCon event being put on by the folks at Snap Summit.  It will be a great venue for entrepreneurs to share ideas about the most common startup mistakes, and take away practical and actionable advice to help keep each other from the dreaded #fail. In an effort to do ...
  6 weeks ago

• oDesk oConomy Hits $100 Million

  
  Freelancing and Outsourcing Tips, Commentary, Analysis, and News from oDesk — Authority: 123
  Moments ago, the odometer at oDesk’s oConomy rolled over. Our providers have earned over $100 million dollars on oDesk – a fantastic feat that has all of us here in Menlo Park cheering. This rate grows every day, and there will be more work done on oDesk this month than on any other online work marketplace. ...
  6 weeks ago

• oDesk’s oConomy Hits $100 Million

  
  TechCrunch — Authority: 884
  Startup oDesk received rave reviews at this years TechCrunch50 conference thanks to its innovative workplace platform. The startup was voted as demopit winner with the launch of a new iPhone application that allows project administrators to monitor the work stream of their team members while they’re on the go. ...
  6 weeks ago

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