How Freelancers Can Improve Their Social Influence

By now, you’ve established your presence in social networking sites and just how credible are you as an expert in your niche? It all comes down to social influence…

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How Freelancers Can Improve Their Social Influence

What Freelancing Will Look Like in 2012 and Beyond

With new collaboration and project management tools, just how will freelancing look like in 2012 and the near future?

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What Freelancing Will Look Like in 2012 and Beyond

Are You Ready for Freelancing in 2012?

With 2012 just a few days away, how ready are you to face the new year with hope and optimism?

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Are You Ready for Freelancing in 2012?

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Starting a Freelance Revolution

Freelance Revolution - Ajeva

“A revolution is a fundamental change in power that takes place in a relatively short period of time.”

Ajeva is announcing a revolution for freelancers everywhere. A change of power is in order. Away from traditional marketplaces and back to the freelancer.

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Season’s Greetings from the CEO

This Holiday Seasons, we would like to take a pause… to give you our gratitude and best wishes for this time of the year.

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A New Ajeva is Coming!

Ever since we launched this current beta version of Ajeva, we’ve learned a lot working with the wonderful users we have. Since the past several months, we’ve worked hard on a brand new Ajeva, and we’re now very close to the launch.

Before we launch however, I wanted to write and talk about a few things:

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A Foundation for Success in Remote Work

PillarsI wrote about my experiences in global sourcing in the previous post – some were great, and others not so great. I even mentioned that I’d learned some lessons on the way, that inspired the dream of this ‘Livelihood Platform – Ajeva’.

So, what are those lessons, and how can we implement them to help create more successful relationships in remote work?

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Livelihood

Dream about AjevaI dream about a platform for livelihood.

In the past 10 years, I started a computer consulting company, that evolved into a website and graphic design house, and further evolved into a web application development company, with some kick-ass SEO abilities to throw in.

I worked with over 50 ‘providers’ in 14 different countries on nearly 100 projects. I learned as I went – I grew – I suffered –  had some failures, and some great successes, but most of all I learned. Maybe global sourcing wasn’t as easy as many said it was – and not all apparent cost benefits are as good in long-term. But the trend was clear. Global sourcing is here to stay, and will only grow as the world continues to shrink.

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