Mar/100
Get Smart With Taxes!
Worried about filing taxes? Freelancers and self-employed individuals find filing taxes a big fuss when lack of preparation meets lack of information. It doesn’t have to be this way. Whether you are living inside the United States, or outside, you need to be a law-abiding citizen and do your share. These taxes will be used by your government for your country’s own good, wherever you are in the world.
Mar/100
Truth vs. Fiction
Outsourcing services has always been wrapped in myths and it is high time to separate the truth from fiction. There are just plenty of misleading concepts about an industry that is evolving on its own, becoming a catalyst of change in the way the world works. Like the real workforce, there’s plenty of room for success… and failure. Many of these myths have evolved out of misconceptions and deals that didn’t simply work. If you’re new to outsourcing, you are in for a treat as we demystify these myths.
Mar/102
Is Freelancing Right for You?
To Freelance… or Not to Freelance? A tough question to answer, specially when long-term work is truly hard to find these days. If the thoughts of freelancing have been gnawing on your mind lately, maybe now is the best time to give it a try. Who wouldn’t want to work at home, being your own boss at your own time? If you think that freelancing sounds this simple, you are deceived. There’s more to freelancing than meets the eye.
Feb/100
Overcoming Road Blocks
What seems to be yesterday’s dream is today’s reality: The Virtual Workplace. With the recent economic crunch, more people are moving into a paradigm shift, of working anytime and anywhere in cyberspace. Working remotely had become the latest trend in doing business that many move away from the brick-and-mortar way of doing things.. into managing their own virtual teams. If managing your conventional office has its own issues, imagine how you can manage a team of people working for you in various regions across the globe. How can you make your team efficient? Will they be able to produce stellar results?
Feb/100
Why You Must Love Social Media
If you’re a certified social media addict, you can turn those re-posts and re-tweets to your advantage to find freelance work on the web. Sounds too good to be true? We have all known that networking with other people of like interests is the best way to spread the word about what we have to offer. It also works the same way with social media. You can simply tap the right network and eventually, find that gold mine in freelance work. The next time you have some fun playing Farmville on Facebook, why not try searching for leads or clients who will be interested in your services?
Feb/100
Get Your Pompoms Ready!
You don’t need to make a rhyming cheer or do cartwheels to give your virtual team that encouragement they need to work their best. The real question is: HOW? There are more to rewards than meet the eye when it comes to driving your virtual team for success. If team building is tough already in the brick-and-mortar world, what more of those who work on a virtual platform? When you are faced with the challenges of having a contract worker with no long-term commitment, you need to look beyond your two cents in motivating your freelancers to do their best and stay with you until the project is completed.
Feb/100
The 7 Habits of a Highly Effective Freelancer
Overcoming challenges and achieving the peak of your goals are the two things any remote worker or freelancer face each day. How one responds to these lies in the principle of harnessing skills, creativity, and drive in making sure that any endeavor is more than done. Inspired by Steven Covey’s best-selling, self-help book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Ajeva brings you the seven habits of being a highly effective freelance professional:
Feb/100
It Truly Pays to Outsource!
If you’re an entrepreneur who fears being ‘taken for a ride’ when it comes to outsourcing, you better think twice. Outsourcing may be a tough challenge, specially when working with remote workers in different locations and time zones. Most often, outsourcing fails simply because they have done so without knowing if it’s necessary in the first place. Then, they might have outsourced to the wrong firm who failed to produce a 5-star deliverable. The causes are too many to count.
Feb/102
Setting Rates: You are Worth It!
What exactly is a Fair Rate when it comes to freelancing? This has been a timeworn question that is endlessly debated over the web. One of the toughest decisions any freelancer can make is setting how much his or her time is truly worth. If you make the wrong decision, you are in for bigger troubles or worst, going broke. Remember the rule of the thumb when setting work rates as a freelancer: No One Rate Fits All! Your may charge more or less than your competitors. This will actually depend on your skills, years of experience, reputation, or even your location. It all comes down to the art of selling yourself well to service buyers.
Feb/100
To Hire or To Outsource?
Your business is expanding… and now comes the greatest debate of all times: Hire Employees or Outsource Independent Contractors? The cost of doing business today has never been an easy reality to face, specially when competition is becoming tougher and budget is getting tighter. In the past decade, offices employ a mix of full-time in-house staff, part-time employees, and a very small percentage of freelance workers. Today, the trend seems to go on the reverse as more employees get fired and more contractual workers get hired.
