Posts Tagged ‘hiring freelancers’

3 Digital Start-up Business Mistakes to Avoid
Neil Lewis on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010Digital business (previously called internet businesses) are still all the rage and therefore the majority of new start-up business plans are digital businesses.
But we keep seeing the same mistakes. So here are 3 errors that we keep seeing – and you should avoid…

How to Achieve More with Less Cash
Neil Lewis on Thursday, May 27th, 2010Okay, we know the answer lies with outsourcing – but how much can you outsource and how do you do it safely?
Here are our 7 key tips…

7 Point Plan – How to Grow Your Business in 2010
Neil Lewis on Thursday, April 29th, 2010How do we grow our businesses in 2010?
We have less cash than before, and borrowing is either impossible or way too expensive.
We’ve made cuts already to our business and so have a smaller team and less staff than before.
We know government cuts to public spending are coming and will impact on at least some of our customers if not our businesses directly.
So what do we do?

Wake up and Smell the Greek Coffee
Neil Lewis on Wednesday, April 28th, 2010The riots on Greek streets and the IMF inspired bailout tell us that a major fiscal storm is coming to the UK very soon – unless deep cuts are made to public spending.
And, for businesses to be prepared to handle that impact, we need to plan and implement right now.

Three special questions every successful entrepreneur asks
Neil Lewis on Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Successful entrepreneurs are constantly asking three key questions –
- ‘what isn’t working’
- ‘why isn’t it working’ and
- ‘can I do anything about it’?
These three questions are the most important questions in the entrepreneurs vocabluary and a lifetime can be spent on developing the skills and abilities to answer those as successfully as possible.

The Big Secret – Recruitment Interviews Don’t Work
Neil Lewis on Thursday, January 7th, 2010We have a recruitment interview Breakdown – 86% of interviews fail to pick the right person for the job.
According to a Michigan State University study on predictors of performance,
Some 90 per cent of hiring decisions are made as the result of the interview, but interviewing is only 14 per cent accurate…

Freelancing – the Future Looks Like This… Part I
Neil Lewis on Friday, November 27th, 2009“The glue that holds the company together is trust” said Dr James Bellini, a forecaster of employment trends, and therefore not employment.
This statement stands in direct conflict with some of the comments expressed in response to my article ‘Entrepreneurs – never employ anyone’.

Objection to Hiring Freelancers – “I Want to Hire the Best”
Neil Lewis on Friday, November 20th, 2009
Okay, we’ve started the ball rolling on this website with the controversial claim that entrepreneurs should only hire freelancers…
…that you have to hire the best. … and hiring the best means you have to offer the full time employment – the best package – a full time employment contract and for CEO’s golden handshakes to welcome them and golden parachutes should they fail, share options if they don’t etc.
