[ad_1] Gig platforms such as Fiverr, TaskRabbit, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, Amazon Home Services, JustAnswer and Upwork vary in the range of required expertise and pay. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (also known as M Turk) is a micro-task website, and the mechanical gigs on this site don’t require much skill, pay little — less than a …
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25 Payment Tools for Small Businesses, Freelancers and Start…
[ad_1] Moneris Solutions is a U.S./Canadian payments processing company that offers a wide range of tools, including EMV solutions, online and mobile payments, gift card and loyalty programs, echecks, ACH direct deposit, recurring payments and even payroll processing. There are custom pricing models for businesses to match business size, volume and budget. …
Read More »8 Lame Ways to Fritter Away Your First Million Dollars…
[ad_1] At one time, millionaire status was the dream. If you had a million dollars, you could live a lavish life filled with expensive cars, an oversized house, and no worries. However, inflation means that nowadays someone can easily blow through a million dollars in a matter of weeks. Simply …
Read More »Pivot or Die: How One Travel Company Finally Hit Its Stride…
[ad_1] This story appears in the November 2017 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » Ever visit a foreign city and wish you could hang with a local — someone to give you insider tips on the community and culture? Jen O’Neal and Jeff Manheimer were betting on it. “We wanted to …
Read More »Why Is This VC Firm Doubling Down on Women Entrepreneurs? Be…
[ad_1] This story appears in the September 2017 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » Nisha Dua is a true girl’s girl. When the former lawyer and Bain consultant joined AOL in 2013 to embrace her love of media and technology, she quickly found herself leading a charge to support young women …
Read More »An Experimental, Tuition-Free Program Is Teaching Business L…
[ad_1] This story appears in the September 2017 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » In a modish co-working space overlooking downtown Philadelphia, Imowo “Veli” Udo-Uton has six minutes to persuade six investors to finance his startup. He has an event production company he wants to take to the next level, and, …
Read More »How to Add to Your Day That Extra Hour You Really, Really Need: 15 Apps That Can Help…
[ad_1] Entrepreneurs are always running short of time for various reasons. From the moment they wake up until they hit the sack, their to-do list is never ending. Owing to their busy schedules, they often experience burnout. This is what leads them to crave the extra time that might help …
Read More »The Surest Path to Success Is Owning Your Mistakes and Reali…
[ad_1] When the unexpected happens, how can you do your best to bounce back? That was the question that Gloria Larson had to ask herself, when in 2008, a year into her tenure as the president of Bentley University, she was faced with the prospect of shepherding her students through …
Read More »4 Ways to Find Your Own Business Style…
[ad_1] Finding a style in finance will define how you react to changes and how you approach new situations. It’s as important in business as it is in stock trading. Developing a business style and developing a stock trading system are extremely similar pursuits. But I’m not going to pretend …
Read More »Your Customer Service Team Should Be in Every Strategy Meeti…
[ad_1] It used to be that mistreated customers were often powerless to stand up to a large company or organization, but social media is changing that. Even one wrong move has the power to drum up a massive number of interactions on various platforms, such as the video of a man …
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