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Impressed with oDesk’s business strategy

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In the outsourcing space, there are several players that offer freelance job posting services (for businesses to post jobs and freelancers to submit proposals). The two big ones are Guru.com and Elance.com; there are others but those are the big two.
There was a time when oDesk might have vied for placement among them [...]

Just read: ‘Four Ways of Looking at Twitter’ at Harvard Business Review

At first I thought this was an article about 4 ways to use Twitter — “looking at” as another way of saying “approach” or “use”. However, the article is really about data visualization. Dataviz looks great but (hopefully) you push beyond the “gee whiz” factor and get some use out of it.
In at least a [...]

What is your conversion period?

A conversion rate is the percentage of prospects who become customers. So if you talk to 10 prospects and one of them becomes a customer, your conversion rate is 10%. The exact rate depends on a number of factors including the industry, the competition, and your ability to sell. And there’s a good chance that [...]

Just read: ‘Seth Godin on What it Takes to be a Linchpin [INTERVIEW]‘ at Mashable

I enjoyed this interview and got 2 takeaways from it:

Have I made myself indispensable to my clients? I need to revisit my client list and see if there are ways to add more value and truly be indispensable to them.
Am I crushing the resistance and moving forward without a map? I hope so, but it’s [...]

Just read: ‘A Foolproof Method To A Game Changing BREAKTHROUGH!’ at Strategic Profits

I enjoyed this blog post by Rich Schefren. It’s a great read and it really nicely outlines an “easy”, clear, step-by-step way to start or improve businesses that capture the attention of an audience. (Note: when I say “easy” I mean that he simplifies the thought-process, NOT the implementation; there is no substitute for hard [...]

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