Are you Crowd-Sourcing?
Essentially, Crowd-Sourcing is the idea that the more people you can get involved in solving a problem or designing something the more likely you are to hit on a novel and effective result. I'm a little sceptical of how useful this is as I think the quality of results will always depend on the quality of your crowd, but I do think there's real value for independent consultants and small businesses generally in tapping in to the ideas and knowledge of other people.
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Intelligent On-Line Marketing Workshop, London, 17th March 2010
It seems that new ways of marketing yourself online appear almost every day, with people flocking from Twitter to Facebook and back again as fashions change. So what should you do as a consultant or freelancer to make sure you have an effective online presence - while still having time to deliver projects for your clients?
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Newsletter - Your Online Presence
Why not boost your online presence by sharing it - scroll to the bottom of your profile on Skillfair and click on the share button to share on Twitter, Facebook, Technorati, delicious , Digg and others
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Newsletter - Things are looking up
The response to our fee survey this year has been fantastic, so thanks to all of you who participated or passed the survey on to your contacts. As well as our own database, the survey was sent out by a number of our partners, reaching well over 40,000 consultants and freelancers in total, making this the most comprehensive survey we've done.
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2010 Annual Fee Rate Survey
Skillfair’s 5th Annual Fee rate Survey comes at a time when many independent consultants and freelancers are feeling under pressure from all sides. Clients are under pressure to reduce costs and retain permanent staff – plus to read the press it would seem there are thousands of newly redundant 40 and 50 something’s looking to set up as self-employed. In this difficult market it really pays to know what your peers are actually charging and how you compare – otherwise it can be very hard to resist requests from clients that devalue your services.
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