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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Success

JUNE 19, 2022

While you’re certainly capable of answering the telephone, filing and ordering supplies, why waste your time on drudgery that almost anyone could do? 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

The first project – transcribe a one hour speech from an audio file. 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. So throwing out the high and the low, I started to look for people to interview.

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