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When, Why and How You Need to Hire a Freelance Project Manager
Most successful outsourcing buyers post their first freelance project to fill a specific skill need or budget gap on a particular project, finding a skilled worker or two and seeing the project completed successfully. Then, as success breeds success, their needs continue to expand and more freelance professionals are eventually hired. Suddenly, these outsourcing buyers find themselves managing a growing remote workteam, which is usually more demanding than anticipated and ultimately a resource stress. If you are feeling overwhelmed by the requirements of keeping your remote workteam in motion on an outsourcing project, perhaps you need to consider hiring a freelance project manager.

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The Top 11 Branding Challenges Facing Mid-Sized Companies
While this edition is based on our experiences as a provider of branding services to mid-sized companies, organizations of all sizes will benefit from this advice. Small, but growing companies will gain insights on how to avoid future branding dilemmas as they head to mid-market size. Larger organizations will benefit too from the ability to better understand their supply chain partners, many of which are mid-market entities. And mid-sized companies will gain new respect for the importance of branding to their success.

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.

4 Critical Principles of an Online Outsourcing Marketplace Feedback System
Feedback systems are such a fundamental part of making an online outsourcing marketplace work that it sticks out like a sore thumb if you don’t have one. They are designed to improve the experience of both the outsourcing buyer and the freelance provider. As a whole, these systems allow outsourcing companies to establish their own reputation as a reputable employer while reviewing the reputation of freelance providers in an effort to find the most capable and proven talent. Outsourcing companies submit feedback on freelance providers and relay their positive or negative experience so other buyers can review feedback before entering into an outsourcing relationship with that freelance provider. In theory, the entire process works great...depending on a few critical principles...

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?

Entrepreneurs – Want To Bid On Project Market Places?
You’ve seen the sites – they offer loads of people and companies all looking for small and medium projects to be completed. All you have to do is register as a “guru” or provider. So how do you go about finding this extra work and winning those projects?

Guaranteed Powerful Equipment Leasing Tips For Canadian Companies Financing Large and Small Assets
Information on why equipment leasing companies in Canada are the best provider of small and large equipment financing transactions for new and used asset classes .

Email Protection: As Important as Password Protection
As you may know, email marketing service provider, Epsilon, sustained a major security breach and now at least your name and email address are in the hands of spammers. Here are at least some of the companies affected...

Why \"We\'re the Leading Provider of\" is NOT!
Lead Generation Companies | Why "We're the leading provider of" is a BIG Mistake As an experiment, I did a Google search on "Leading Provider of" Wow! Lots and lots of hits.

What Does Expensive IT Really Look Like?
Many companies, especially those that are growing, would love to have a high-quality IT services provider that they can rely on, but ultimately make a few phone calls before deciding it's "just too expensive." That doesn't mean that their technology needs go away, however. And so, many of these companies turn to untrained IT solutions providers, in the form of employees pulling double duty, or even just someone from the neighborhood who is "good with computers."

Data Security & Outsource Service Providers
Contracting with outsource business services partners frequently brings with it the need to share highly confidential and proprietary data. This article looks at best data security practices that should characterize the working relationship and be included in the contract between companies and their BPO service providers. Areas addressed include who should own data security when working with an outsourced provider, questions to ask BPO providers, and data new security technologies including continuous online backup and remote data wipe-out if a provider’s device is stolen.

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