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Freelancers on sites like oDesk can be much cheaper than automating with software, and valuable in a pinch if you want to staff up for a short term project. It’s long term projects, building your business, and getting persistent relief from the stresses of entrepreneurship, that oDesk probably won’t be your best solution.
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Before diving in, there are three fundamental things you need to appreciate about these 5 lean techniques.
1. They do not depend on Google. If your business depends on Google; you are doing it wrong.
2. Where possible, I am interested in the long game. These very obvious techniques will continue to refer traffic well into the future.
3. They aren’t going to make you broke.
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Your work accumulates “bloat” when you’re going in multiple directions at once, juggling many simultaneous business ventures or projects, and letting inertia keep you on a path that keeps you busy but doesn’t help you progress toward your goal.
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If you are familiar with oDesk that sentence probably just gave you heart burn - I know it used to for me. oDesk isn’t some well-ordered temp agency—it’s a f*cking jungle. I can’t explain it without cussing - sorry. It’s a hot mess of freelancers from every age, ethnicity, and hole of the world.
Follow these simple steps, and you will save yourself time, money and lots of soul-crushing scenarios.
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