Daryl James

Outsourcing Your Website's SEO

Ready to optimize your site so that you get a notable increase in traffic? Here are some ways to boost your SEO (we've also included a list of resources if you want to delve deeper). 1. Links! Links! Links! - First, use this cool backlink search too... Read >

9 Ways Social Media Can Expand Your Online Marketing

When every news report warns of global doom and gloom, the business owner's first instinct is to cut all extraneous costs. You run your production team lean, run your sales force lean, and everything else goes into the deep freeze. Too many people see mar... Read >

Integrating Your Virtual Freelance Staff with Your In-House Team

Most outsourcing assignments start small--you hire a freelance provider to complete a specific project. Then, when the provider proves they can be relied upon, you start giving them more hours and increasingly vital outsourcing tasks. Soon you may find yo... Read >

6 Ways to Market Your Freelance Self Online

Though times are tough and seem to be getting tougher on a global level, successful freelance professionals will need to be ready to respond when the outsourcing market changes. In an increasingly competitive outsourcing environment, freelance providers ... Read >

A Brief Overview of Today's Outsourcing Buzz Words

Offshoring, Homeshoring… in this global outsourcing economy, you can add -shoring to anything and make it a freelance buzz word. But what do all of these outsourcing terms mean? Here's a brief overview of some remote freelance work vocabulary: Outsou... Read >

How to Conduct Effective Outsourcing Interviews

Though the newest member of your workteam may not be walking in the front door of your office any time soon, outsourcing to a freelance professional is often like hiring another on-site employee. Though the web is filled with multiple search tools, skill... Read >

Top 5 Qualities In an Outsourcing Company

What do freelance providers look for in an outsourcing company? What makes a company a preferred outsourcing buyer? We asked some of our freelance providers to think through their most rewarding outsourcing experiences and define the top qualities they o... Read >

5 Actions for Successful Remote Freelance Work

As an online freelance provider, I use technology every day to provide my outsourcing managers with transparency, visibility, and open and honest communication. These three critical areas are the real deliverables with respect to outsourcing, and the mos... Read >

4 Critical Principles of an Online Outsourcing Marketplace Feedback System

Feedback systems are such a fundamental part of making an online outsourcing marketplace work that it sticks out like a sore thumb if you don't have one. They are designed to improve the experience of both the outsourcing buyer and the freelance provider... Read >

8 Warning Signs That an Outsourcing Job is Failing

While outsourcing specific skills can be a great alternative for businesses, the realities of human resources can still sometimes rear their ugly head. Just as new hires for in-house positions can turn out to be unproductive, outsourcing freelance placem... Read >

When, Why and How You Need to Hire a Freelance Project Manager

Most successful outsourcing buyers post their first freelance project on a site such as ours at oDesk to fill a specific skill need or budget gap on a particular project, finding a skilled worker or two and seeing the project completed successfully. Then... Read >

How to Write a Killer Freelance Bid Cover Letter

There are hundreds of ways a freelance professional can ruin a bid cover letter. Outsourcing buyers on sites like oDesk often have to weed through a list of 30, 50 or 100 freelance candidates, and every little detail that's off irritates the person who re... Read >

How to Effectively Manage Remote Workteams

As an outsourcing company, we work with offshore workteams as a matter of course. The two most pressing challenges we continually face are those of managing and measuring the outsourcing performance of our remote workteam, and facilitating communication b... Read >

10 tips for an Eye-Catching Freelance Profile

So you're a freelancer at an online outsourcing site with 25,000 providers to choose from. Seems like it might be hard to stand out to prospective outsourcing buyers. Here's some quick advice: 1. Spell-check for goodness sake. There is no faster ... Read >

Why You Should Include Open Source Work in Your Portfolio

Very recently, one of our product architects posted a job opening on our site to find an additional engineer to add to our growing team (in a remote provider capacity). He received inquiries from a number of interested freelance provider candidates and th... Read >