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A somewhat twisted path into freelancing

3 Comments 04 February 2010

Name: Karen Brito Age: 26 Nationality: Brazilian Full time freelance translator since: Oct/2008 I believe my story as a freelancer is the story of one of those things we just don’t see coming, but when they do, we feel as if we’d been hoping for them all along. Even hating getting up in the morning [...]

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Economy, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Freelance Articles

Top 10 Facts & Quotes for Small Business Entrepreneurs and Freelancers

9 Comments 28 January 2010

You have all probably been bombarded with links to blogs entitled something like ‘Top 10 ways to make Money in 2010’, ‘Top 10 New Year resolutions for Small Businesses’, ‘Make a Million a Month Online’ and so on and so on, and more so as 2009 approached its end and 2010 began. And you’ve probably [...]

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Blogroll, Built business with PPH, Client, Entrepreneurship, Freelance Articles

Katie Olver, Founder of award-winning U Star Novels, shares her Top Business Tips

4 Comments 21 January 2010

Katie Olver – Founder of U Star Novels, a National Finalist in the 2009 HSBC Start Up Stars which recently appeared on BBC2 show Dragons’ Den – and an avid, regular user of PeoplePerHour.com talks in an interview with People Per Hour about her journey so far and shares some invaluable business advice to help [...]

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Blogroll, Entrepreneurship, Freelance Articles

EXPERT BLOGGER: AN INSTANT GUIDE TO PR (with a bit of press relations chucked in)

1 Comment 18 December 2009

Edward Moss is one of our most experienced PR (Public Relations) professional freelancers. Having also being a journalist, Edward can offer expert advice on what the press is looking for in a press release, and what constitutes good PR. If you are a small business seeking to enhance your publicity, or if you are in [...]

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Blogroll, Entrepreneurship

Interview with Fabrice Grinda – Co-CEO, OLX, Inc.

No Comments 14 December 2009

We thought we’d share with you a great video of an interview of Fabrice Grinda, Co-CEO of OLX, Inc. – a free classifieds site with revenues of $10million – and a keen investor who has backed 33 other companies to date, including PeoplePerHour.com. >> view video Hear about the challenging 10-year journey of entrepreneurship from [...]

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Economy, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Freelance Articles

PPH Small Business Survey – Key findings

No Comments 30 November 2009

A big thank you to all those who’ve taken our PPH Small Business Survey. To date we’ve had 410 respondents  with the following average demographics 84% employ less than 10 employees Average size by turnover: £314k 20% based in greater London Area 18% are both Buyers and Providers on PPH Main findings from buyer (client) [...]

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Employment, Entrepreneurship, Freelance Articles, General News

Employee or Contractor? – get it right!

No Comments 23 June 2008

Being able to make the right choice between hiring a full-time employee and outsourcing a function or activity is crucial for growing small businesses and by no means an easy choice in a lot of cases. We have put together a list of important criteria to consider before making such a choice. How long your [...]

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Entrepreneurship, Freelance Articles, Web 2.0

Basic SEO – how to get traffic from search engines

2 Comments 23 June 2008

How search engines rank websites Before any Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) work takes place, we need to understand how search engines work. A widely-held misconception is that search engines rank websites; they don’t! Search engines rank web pages – a common mistake is to assume that if your website is optimised for a number of [...]

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Entrepreneurship, General News, Web 2.0

FOWA discount for PPH users

No Comments 02 June 2008

We are continuing to look for and arrange relevant deals for PPH users and this week, we are excited to be able to offer a 15% discount to any PPH user wishing to attend the forthcoming Future of Web Apps conference, which will be held on 8-10 October in London. Registrations for FOWA London will be opening up at [...]

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Entrepreneurship, General News

Spare Room Start Up

No Comments 22 May 2008

For those of you who’ve heard of Enterprise Nation, you’ll know of Emma Jones – the founder who’s very much the heart & soul of the business. A serial entrepreneur herself, Emma has now written a book on home working called “Spare Room Start Up” shown here. I was pleased to attend the launch of [...]

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