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Seven Steps to Start a Consulting Business

Chart Your Course

According to MBO Partners, a support service for independent consultants, boomers are a fast growing sector of the independent workforce. In its 2012 Independent Workforce Index, MBO Partners estimates that boomers account for around a third of all independent consultants. Marketing, Marketing. Set Up Shop.

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

What about “ The Rise of the Supertemp ” that Jody Greenstone Miller and Matt Miller reported in HBR in 2012? I’m not going to carp too much because it’s in keeping with the Freelancers Union’s noble aim of taking the lemons dealt by the labor market over the past decade-plus and turning them into artisanal lemonade.

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