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Integrating Your Virtual Freelance Staff with Your In-House Team
Most outsourcing assignments start small--you hire a freelance provider to complete a specific project. Then, when the provider proves they can be relied upon, you start giving them more hours and increasingly vital outsourcing tasks. Soon you may find your remote freelance provider fully integrated with your in-house staff, changing the relationship between outsourcing buyer and freelance provider. Here's what we've learned (on the job) when it comes to integrating outsourcing and in-house workteams.
5 Proven Strategies to Keep You From Being Held Hostage by Your Virtual Team
Many times, service business owners are so relieved to have delegated something, whether that's administrative tasks, social media, marketing, web site updates, etc. that they don't think through the ramifications of a situation in which your team member disappears suddenly or where the freelancer is unavailable over a long term. Would you be able to replace that person and/or keep your business running? Here are my 5 proven strategies to prevent being held hostage by your freelance team:

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Integrating Your Virtual Freelance Staff with Your In-House Team
Most outsourcing assignments start small--you hire a freelance provider to complete a specific project. Then, when the provider proves they can be relied upon, you start giving them more hours and increasingly vital outsourcing tasks. Soon you may find your remote freelance provider fully integrated with your in-house staff, changing the relationship between outsourcing buyer and freelance provider. Here's what we've learned (on the job) when it comes to integrating outsourcing and in-house workteams.
6 Ways to Market Yourself Online
Though times are tough and seem to be getting tougher on a global level, successful freelance professionals will need to be ready to respond when the outsourcing market changes. In an increasingly competitive outsourcing environment, freelance providers must work harder and smarter at making themselves more visible. A key step toward increased outsourcing marketplace competitiveness and success is tying your online freelance presence more closely to your other personal online marketing activities. Here are 6 ways that you can lead more potential outsourcing buyers to your freelance profile:
Actions for Successful Remote Freelance Work
As an online freelance provider, I use technology every day to provide my outsourcing managers with transparency, visibility, and open and honest communication. These three critical areas are the real deliverables with respect to outsourcing, and the most successful freelance providers recognize their value when building long-term outsourcing relationships. Relating to these three outsourcing concerns, there are some relatively simple things that a freelance remote worker can do to help themselves succeed. Here are five actions for successful remote freelance work...
How To Get Your First Freelance Interview
When a professional decides to begin his/her freelance career, they have no specific and directly applicable freelance work history or feedback/references to offer potential outsourcing companies. In addition, most new freelance providers start out with a poorly written profile because they are in a rush to apply to any and all available jobs, hoping that there might be some outsourcing manager who might be willing to take a chance on their skills - at least enough of a chance to offer an interview. If you are a new freelance professional, take a day off from applying to outsourcing jobs and start applying for outsourcing interviews by polishing your professional freelance profile. Focus on the following:

Are you Freelance Ready?
Most freelance assignments start small--non-staff providers are hired to complete specific outsourcing projects. But when these freelance specialists prove to their outsourcing employers that they can be relied upon, there is soon an increased allowance for more remote working hours and the performance of increasingly vital tasks. Soon freelance providers may find themselves fully integrated with the outsourcing organization's in-house staff, thus marking a change in the relationship between outsourcing employer and freelance provider. We've been there--oDesk hires freelance providers to work with our in-house staff on several different outsourcing assignments, and on some projects, one type of worker is virtually indistinguishable from the other.
10 Ways for Freelance Providers to Give Themselves a Raise
The global economic downturn has everyone nervous. However, being a remote freelance provider means that you've already extended your reach beyond your local in-house position, and are ready to take advantage of the exponential increases in outsourcing opportunities in the global marketplace. More businesses are discovering the value of outsourcing to remote freelance workers, and you've already started establishing your reputation. There's no better time than now to hone your competitive freelance edge, both to increase the volume of your work, and to make yourself even more valuable to your next outsourcing employer. Here are 10 ways to boost your freelance marketability - and your hourly rate - even in this economy...
Why You Should Include Open Source Work in Your Portfolio
Very recently, one of our product architects posted a job opening on our site to find an additional engineer to add to our growing team (in a remote provider capacity). He received inquiries from a number of interested freelance provider candidates and then proceeded to interview to find the top provider for the team. Once he had narrowed the list down to just a few freelance provider candidates, he researched their work history in more detail, finally selecting a particular candidate in India largely based on an example of his work. What it ultimately came down for my co-worker in his freelance selection process was reviewing prior work on open-source projects. Why should you care about open-source work?
How to Write a Killer Freelance Bid Cover Letter
There are hundreds of ways a freelance professional can ruin a bid cover letter. Outsourcing buyers often have to weed through a list of 30, 50 or 100 freelance candidates, and every little detail that's off irritates the person who reads your cover letter. It's the freelance professional's first -- and perhaps only -- chance to impress a potential outsourcing buyer. One mistake and they're immediately crossed off the list (freelance professionals who understand this harsh reality can use it in their favor). So, how does a freelance professional write a more refined and effective bid cover letter? These tips will help to make your cover letter stand out from the freelance crowd...
How to build a distributed marketing team
I have been working in the freelance marketing world for more than 10 years and have been considering outsourcing some of my projects to a remote team. I recently had the chance to sit down and speak with Josh Breinlinger, Director of Marketing for oDesk, and manager of their successful distributed marketing team to learn a bit more about the whats and whys of managing a team of remote workers. Here's what he had to say...
Home Based Business Tips For Freelancing
Many people who decide to get involved in a home based business decide to do so by freelancing. Although many people think of freelancing in relation to writing, there are other freelancing options. Yes, freelance writing is one, but there is freelance photography, freelance computer programming, and so much more.
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