Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 30, 2012

.  The best known of the firms in this industry are probably oDesk and Elance.   A wide variety of talent can be hired at oDesk or Elance, everything from computer programmers to virtual assistants to writers.   But there are a growing number of industry vertical job and project marketplaces springing up.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Online work arrangement platform (OWAP) is Andrew's fancy term for online talent marketplaces like Elance-oDesk, Freelancer.com, etc. .  The key slide in this description is below, but going through the entire presentation is well worth your time.  He explains all this in the presentation.

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Tips From T. Marie

JULY 18, 2011

Places like Craigslist , Guru.com and Elance. Sites like Guru and Elance are bidding wars, plain and simple. The second item that grabbed my attention were the sites that were given as places to find a virtual assistant.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 30, 2016

This industry started with generalist sites like Elance that connect a wide range of workers with people looking to hire help. This has been happening in the gig economy for a while now, but we saw two interesting examples last week. One comes from the online talent marketplace space.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

  A new study by the Freelancers Union and Elance-oDesk adds more information on this type of work. According A few weeks ago we reported on the trends that are leading to more workers being on fixed term contracts, which means employment relationships with their employer that terminate after a specific period of time. 

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Small Business Labs

MAY 27, 2014

  Using contingent labor has gotten easier and more effective due to the growth of online talent exchanges such as Elance and oDesk, improvements in collaborative technologies for managing non-employees and growing numbers independent workers available for hire. micropreneurs is growing. freelance jobs per month. 

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

  The author calls MBO Partners a "work arrangement intermediation platform" that share traits with the online staffing firms like oDesk and Elance.  This is a mouthful, but I agree. Our research on the rise of the independent workforce makes it clear technology is one of the key drivers of this trend.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 24, 2013

This ecosystem includes a wide range of firm types, including: Talent marketplaces : firms like Elance , Odesk and Freelancer.com that connect independent workers with those interested in hiring them. The growth of the independent workforce (freelancers, temps, self-employed, etc.)

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 23, 2015

Online talent marketplaces such as Freelancer.com, Elance - oDesk, and others. The study defined the on-demand economy as including: online product marketplaces provided by firms such as EBay, Amazon and Etsy and others (Craigslist was excluded). Sharing economy platforms and marketplaces such as Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, TaskRabbit and others.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Freelancers Union and Elance - oDesk released a study showing that 34% of the American workforce freelances in some form. According to the study, 53 million Americans said they engaged in some form of freelance work in the past year. The study breaks these folks into 5 segments: "Independent Contractors" (40%, or 21.1

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Small Business Labs

MAY 23, 2013

Instead of offering talent buyers a large number of potential hires like an Elance or oDesk does, it connects buyer and sellers of talent  based on personal connections and recommendations. Coworks is a new online talent marketplace with a twist. " The site works on a referral model.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 21, 2012

" This is changing as sites like LinkedIn, oDesk, eLance and others provide job seekers the ability to create profiles that are widely and easily accessible. .  As John points out:  "online job boards like  CareerBuilder ,  Monster.com ,  Indeed ,  SimplyHired , etc.,

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 27, 2013

Online talent marketplaces like Elance and oDesk have seen substantial growth over the past couple of years. .  This is a new Task Rabbit site designed to help companies hire temporary workers for jobs that will span over multiple days, weeks, or months. These moves come as no surprise.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

   - Online Talent Exchanges such as Elance and oDesk.  .   Both specialty staffing agencies and the big players are increasingly placing higher value employees - including C-level executives - with their clients.    These firms have grown quite rapidly over the last 2 years. 

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Small Business Labs

JULY 7, 2015

  Upwork (formerly known as Elance-oDesk)  is featured in the report and it certainly is focusing on the creation of micro multinationals. .  If these sites even come close to creating $2.7 trillion in additional economic activity, the result would be a huge increase in the global number of micro multinationals.

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Last week Upwork (the entity formerly known and Elance and oDesk) announced two new products: Upwork Pro  targets mid-market firms and provides access to to pre-screened, top-rated professional freelancers that meet the specific needs of the hiring firm.

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The rapid growth of "gig" and peer to peer commerce sites - think TaskRabbit, Gigwalk, Fiverr, Airbnb, Uber, Etsy, Elance, etc. - Many are pulling together different gigs because it's the only way to make enough money to make ends meet. is making it much easier to create portfolio careers.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 16, 2012

GigaOm's Women make up the majority of online freelancers, study says covers research from Zinnov showing that women comprise 55% of the workers on online talent sites like Elance and oDesk.   This is consistent with  our research on U.S. independent workers.  We found that women comprise 53% of this group.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 17, 2012

  A couple of related indicators of this are:  - Firms like Elance , oDesk and MBO Partners - leaders in providing independent workers - have decent numbers of traditional employees. Simply put, the big compensation packages being offered in Silicon Valley make employment pretty attractive.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 5, 2016

The media is also surprised that most of this growth came from off-line activities instead of online platforms like Uber and Elance.  Most of articles express surprise at the finding that the contingent workforce has grown over the past decade.

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 1, 2011

  Elance , for example, has been around for well over a decade.  Once posted, TaskRabbits - people willing to do small jobs who have registered and been vetted by TaskRabbit - bid on the task.    The lowest bidder wins and does the job.    Online job marketplaces are not new.   

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 21, 2015

India is the second largest player in freelancing after the US, according to Elance, an online service that connects freelancers to projects, with average earnings of about $15 per hour and rising.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 2, 2014

According to Elance, 25% of their global freelancers are side giggers  and the percentage is even higher for their U.S. But what appears to be new is the growing number of people who are turning to side gigs because their employers aren't offering them training. freelancers. In

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 27, 2012

 Good examples of this include the growth of talent marketplaces like eLance and oDesk and the ability to contractually access world class business infrastructure through services like Amazon's AWS. Technology and the ability to access talent and business infrastructure on an as needed basis is enabling this trend.

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Tips From T. Marie

MARCH 26, 2015

Which begs the question, how ethical is it to take advantage of a situation like the one at Fancy Hands, Fiverr, Guru, Elance and other services that so many have turned to for extremely low cost virtual services?

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 15, 2013

.  The Solo Support Industry Grows Up : 2013 will see the continued growth of products and services designed to make it easier for solopreneurs and the self-employed to start and operate their businesses.   We borrowed this trend from the 2013 Future Workforce Trends from our friends at MBO Partners.

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Virtual Moxie

APRIL 9, 2012

You might (again, depending on how you feel about it) choose to let your VA know know that you’d like her to use offshored VAs, or people from Fiverr , or Elance , or Odesk to handle one-off, very specific projects. Good things, all.

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Andrea Kalli

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

With a few hundred dollars and some hours spent on Elance, you can easily program and design your own marketing tool. After a while, your blog could develop a proactive and valuable audience that’s begging for new blogging tools and marketing resources. Rather than searching for a company that can provide, why not create your own?

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Small Business CEO

JUNE 1, 2012

Accountants, web designers and marketing people can be hired online at places like ODesk and Elance. Outsource staff – Outsourcing everything beyond your expertise is another way many small business owners are cutting costs and overhead.

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Small Business CEO

APRIL 27, 2010

This community interaction mechanism is so addictive that it’s been integrated into Ebay, Amazon, Elance and many ecommerce sites for customer engagement. When everyone gets to punish or reward their fellow community members, all involved parties get feeling like they have a stake in the success or failure of the community.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Another discussion was with an associate who said he saw freelance projects on Elance with bids of $50 for sales letters and $5 for blog posts. One was a conversation with James, who commented on one of my blogs that many copywriters aren’t good with numbers. Guys, what in the wide world of sports are you thinking? Working for $5?

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BioTeams

JUNE 14, 2010

Graphics Designers: elance. There are many excellent free online tools you can use to build an excellent Transmitter for your unique Business Development System. Heres a list of the tools I have mentioned in this article: Blog: Typepad. Word Press. Analytics: google analytics. Social Media: twitter. Aggregator: ping.fm. Videos: youtube.

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Men With Pens

JULY 7, 2010

Do use sites like Elance. Yes, honing in to spear the ideal client is often a better strategy, but in the case of starting out, building a name and getting a reputation for good work, casting a wide net brings in the fish.

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Success

JUNE 19, 2022

You can advertise for freelance help on sites such as Guru.com or Elance-oDesk.com. You uncover outsourcing talent the same way you find employees: by networking in person or online, asking for recommendations and interviewing carefully.

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Make or Break Moments

JULY 19, 2010

I’m familiar with Elance but a colleague who had a similar project told me that she’d had great success with oDesk - so that’s where I started. The first project – transcribe a one hour speech from an audio file. It was simple to set up the account and post the job and before long I had 40 people apply for the job.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

 Think of them as a specialized Elance or oDesk that connects independent consultants with buyers. According to Christensen one of the sources of disruption is the growing role independent consultants - many of which formerly worked for major consulting firms - are playing.

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