The benefits of hiring a freelancer can be significant, but the nature of remote working can also bring challenges, particularly to a small or start-up business. In fact, you might be wondering how you will be able to manage a freelance employee. However, with enough understanding and adaptability, this will become far less daunting. One […]
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How to Set Up a Business Entity as a Freelancer
So you’ve decided that freelancing is the right career move for you. Bravo! You’ve become part of the growing number of people making a living in the gig economy. But where should you start? And what should you know about setting up your own business before you dive right in? Here’s how to set up […]
How to Hire the Right Freelancer for Your Business
So, you’ve decided to hire a freelancer. Smart choice! 77% of hiring managers said utilizing freelancers helped them get more done, according to a report from Upwork. The same reports shows that 84% of hiring managers would have been forced to delay or cancel projects or heavily increase their team’s workloads without freelancers. 57% of […]
How to Find Great Freelancers: The Easy Way
This article is a helpful guide on the best ways to find great freelancers — including strategies to ensure the decision is right based on project and business needs. Working with freelancers lets businesses tap into a range of specialized skills, without having to commit to a full-time salary to do so. In other words, […]
Overview: The Gig Economy Worker’s Guide to Stability
While the link between the gig economy and the future of work is becoming stronger, the former is still in its infancy. Organizations and individual workers who have jumped onboard are likely to encounter growing pains. Those who continue to ignore it are keeping themselves from the opportunities arising in their respective industries. But both […]
4 Expansion Options to Achieve Success for Finance SMEs
The financial industry can be highly competitive almost everywhere in the world, but for SMEs that are successful and experience good growth there are plenty of opportunities to expand even more. However, it is important that you expand in the most appropriate way, depending on where your business is based, the economy at the time […]
6 Ways for Global Freelancers to Save Money
Working as a freelancer comes with its share of benefits – you get to decide your own work hours, you can work from anywhere, and you don’t have to worry about what to wear or commuting to and from the office. However, inconsistent income requires that you save money for the rainy days to come, […]
How to Team Up with “Slash Workers” for Small Business Success
The difficulty of hiring solid talent has been a complaint among small business owners for the last several years. I suspect the convergence of one economic development and one social development may be to blame in large part. The economic component is our emergence from The Great Recession. As the recession worsened, small business owners […]
How to Increase Your Efficiency as a Freelancer
Freelancers are typically faced with a lot more opportunities, challenges and pitfalls while working. Why I mention those 3 things? Well, with so much flexibility and freedom, it can sometimes become a hassle when it comes to actually sitting down and getting the required work done. Uncle Ben’s famous last words were, “With great power, […]
Leverage These Freelance Specialties
Upwork just published its list of the 20 fastest growing freelance categories or skills. Demand for each of these – via its system – has increased more than 100 percent over the last year. Some of these don’t concern the average small business owner (they can be very technical), but several of them do. Looking […]
