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Benefits of Using Online Freelance Platforms

As startups and businesses grow, their need for agile and reliable talent also increases. It can be a real challenge to find the right people to expand your team, putting aside the budgets of adding them to your operations. Working with freelancers keeps the overhead costs to a minimum and creates the opportunity for organizations to work with many talented individuals on specific projects....
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Hiring a Freelancer: A Leap of Faith or Winning a Talent

It’s the age of startups, entrepreneurs, and tech businesses. The economy has had some major shifts in most of its known managing strategies. Therefore hiring a freelancer has become one of the first ways tech people will think of when they want to get a job done. From reassessing budget and resources, to hiring resourceful smart talents. Not to mention the development stage of each company...
3 Ways to reward your freelancers

3 Ways to Reward Your Freelancers

Even though freelancers are not really employees, they expect fair compensation and enjoy rewards just as their employed counterparts do. Compensation is the total cash and non-cash payments employees and freelancers receive for their contributions. It contains freelancers’ agreed payments, rewards, different bonuses, and other perks such as free parking and commuting costs....
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Global Freelancing: How to Manage Time Zone Difference

Companies experience lots of benefits by hiring freelancers instead of full-time employees, such as time and cost savings. As the global talent pool is rich with people with diverse expertise, it is only natural that companies start hiring international freelancers. Thanks to the internet and online freelancing platforms like WinATalent, this has become possible. However, there are some issues,...
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How to Manage Top Talent

Every company has a program designed to help its high-potential individuals thrive, as they can have an enormous impact on future business results. Top talent is highly sensitive and easily lost. Therefore, retaining and managing it is vital. These individuals can be freelancers or full-time employees, this does not affect the overall outcome and solutions. Establishing a successful...
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Employer Value Proposition: How to Attract Top Freelancers

Companies compete against one another over acquiring top talents. They need to create an Employer Value Proposition just as they create an adequate client brand to attract customers. A client brand (or Customer Value Proposition) describes why a customer should choose to use services or buy products from a certain company instead of others. Whereas an Employer Value Proposition (EVP) defines the...
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Why Is Outsourcing Your MVP a Good Idea

After mulling an idea over for a new product and analyzing the market, it is time to plan and build an MVP. There are several options: finding a technical co-founder, hiring full-time employees or freelancers, or outsourcing the project. Many startup founders are skeptical about outsourcing their MVP. They ask themselves a lot of questions: will my intellectual property be secure? Will the...
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How to Build a Successful Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

Deploying a new product and validating a new idea is always a big risk for an entrepreneur. Can the product be successfully implemented? Is it unique and distinctive enough? Does it answer the customers’ needs? A minimum viable product will help answer all these queries. What is a Minimum Viable Product? A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is the product in its smallest and simplest form with only...
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7 Tools in the Roadmap of Becoming a Freelancer

The digital nomad has become an upward trend in recent years. The gig economy has shifted vigorously toward individual self-employed talents who can bring expertise to the world of startups and project-based jobs. In another blog post, we discussed how the industry is moving towards focusing on top talents and quality of service instead of just looking for lower prices and more bids....
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The Next Generation of Online Freelancing Platforms

It's been a while since platforms like Elance and Odesk (merged into Upwork) boosted the freelancing industry by adding the features of online platforms. In the first stages of the freelancing industry's development, the value proposition was summarized into availability. You could walk beyond the limited circle of your connections and look for many other freelancers in any other...