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How can I spot a talented freelance blogger?

For our eCommerce business, I'm writing a series of cosmetics tips & trends blog posts that tie into our products. Once I have a few up (about 8), I want to hire a freelancer online, ideally a girl/lady who's passionate about cosmetics, writes…
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Site hosting and charging a customer

I'm not planning on doing freelance work full time but I have done a few sites for some small businesses and I now have small business owners asking me to do work for them. All of my work has been for myself or people that I have close relationships…
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Social media strategy for self-employed business-to-consumer branding

I'm a self-published writer and want to market myself as a brand to my target audience. In social media marketing, is it better to use only one platform (e.g. Facebook or my own website) and publish all my news, blog posts and images there, publish…
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How do I keep my individual taxes separate, as an agency on oDesk?

I do have a freelancer account and an agency account on oDesk for a real company. I'd like to apply to a job on the behalf of the agency account. To get paid, tax information is required. The company (a real one) is based in Hong Kong. oDesk asks me…
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How request for payment process work on Elance in hourly based job?

Suppose if someone is working on a client project, in which they give support for a product, like bug fixing & updating the project. This person is working on an hour-based rate, in which client finalized that the work will be 10 hours in a week…
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Choosing Uk registered address for a limited company

I created one year ago a limited company. At this time, I chose to use my personal address as my "Registered Address". Now I am thinking of changing flat, so I have to change this address and I am wondering what are the best choices. I was looking…
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What should I do about a client threatening to call the police for me taking down an app?

I had made an app for an employer on Freelancer. He just paid half the money and put the app on the Play Store. When I asked about the rest of the money, he started abusing me and didn't pay. So I complained to Google and got the app removed. Now…
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What legal benefits are there to working as a sole proprietor vs. a freelancer?

I do not have employees, but I may hire independent contractors in the future. I am currently working as a freelancer. but I am contemplating becoming a sole proprietor. It's really cheap, so I figure why not? I want to get my business license one…
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How to quote & bill as a subcontractor

I'm curious to hear if anyone has any experience as a subcontractor partnering with another business/contractor and if so how you go about setting parameters around each project. I've been approached by a local graphic design firm to help them with…
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Give code (scripts) to statistical analysis or not?

I'm new to freelance consulting. I'm performing a statistical analysis in R. I've been hired to perform a specific analysis and give a specific predictive model. I've only agreed to give the analysis as is without the code, but they would like the…
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What are the best practices that ensure the pay-per-hour freelancers are only paid for hours that they have actually worked?

As both new to entrepreneurship and freelancing, I have just come into a position where I need to start hiring freelancers and this confuses me. How do other employers deal with this? Are there tools/software for monitoring/control of the…
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How tightly to guard pricing

I do custom computer programming for businesses and I usually end up working very closely with my client's IT director. Often my proposals all go through the IT director. I have a new client whose contracts out their IT to a company that does LAN…
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How to let a client know that not replying is not acceptable?

I've had this happen with two potential clients now and I'm really hoping there's a good way to handle it. I don't do this as a full time job, but I run into people every now and then that want me to write an app or website for them. I'm always…
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Convincing a non-technical client that a product/service is a bad idea

I have a client that wants me to post a competition for a large group of student freelancers to build an iOS app for an alumni group. The problem is that I have looked at the basic spec and it really doesn't fit an app. It fits a good mobile…
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What should I know about taxes/VAT being a freelance artist?

I'm a comic artist in the UK. I earn money from my website, 3rd party merchandise sales and commissions. I've recently been commissioned to draw illustrations for an international magazine. They want my VAT number and other details so they can pay…
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