freelancing and the gig economy
I spend a lot of time talking on this blog about using your website and your online marketing efforts to connect and convert leads into customers. But it’s just as important to be able to share what you do with others “offline”. Whether you’re looking for investors, clients, partners or a new job, everyone needs…
Chances are, even if you’re not offering up products or services within our ever-expanding gig economy, you’ve used it. The choices are endless. There’s Uber, Lyft, or Getaround for transportation; airbnb or VRBO for lodging; TaskRabbit for just about any job ever; Etsy for all things DIY and LiquidSpace for a conference room or work…
Full Disclosure: I’m a Wordsmithie newbie. I’m not a writer by trade. I have never worked for a virtual agency. Somehow I got this gig anyway and am over the moon excited to join this team of writers and marketing professionals. This is an amazing bunch. Not only do members of the team have diverse…
As we’ve written before, the gig economy is growing fast; in fact, its notoriety is such that it was voted concept of the year by the Financial Times in December 2015. With all the opportunities of this new way of working comes questions. What, for instance, is the difference between a gig and a job?…
When I graduated from college, I cut my teeth working in an 8-5. I’d beaten thousands of other applicants for the position, a prestigious traineeship program with the USDOJ. I had a tough time acclimating. It wasn’t so much the hours, though I know many of my colleagues struggled with the early start. It was more…
Articles upon articles have been written about the “gig economy.” If you’re not au fait with the term, don’t worry- its been slow to catch on, but soon it’ll be ubiquitous. What is the gig economy? It used to be that only musicians and artists looked for gigs. The rest of us had full-time jobs that…
We often get people coming to us asking whether they should retain an agency or stay in house with their projects. There are certainly benefits to keeping your resources in house; often we get questions about the value of the time and energy spent explaining business practices, projects, client relationships, and responsibilities to a new…
Wordsmithie works internationally, which also means we’re much more widely scattered than many agencies our size. We have ’smithies not only all across the United States, but also in Europe (Madrid) and Asia (Singapore). We routinely collaborate on projects that have us talking and collaborating with people all across the globe—from Norway to New Zealand,…
As Laura wrote in her recent post, Wordsmithie is a rapidly growing organization. Although our home base is in San Jose, near several of our Silicon Valley clients, we’re a widely scattered bunch. Many of our ’smithies operate in the Bay Area, but several live and work on the East Coast. We have others in…
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