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The Freelance Economy Still Runs on Word of Mouth

Harvard Business Review

But we’re not quite there yet, according to a new survey conducted for MBO Partners, which provides back-office services to independent workers — which it dubs “solopreneurs.” They ranked sales and marketing sixth. Overall, there are now an estimated 17.9 million estimate, derived from an online poll of 2,017 people, is up from 17.7

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

One has to do with definitions — the BLS standard for self-employment isn’t the only valid one. First, the definitions. 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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