http://30boxes.com/user/49292 Small Business Radio's calendar at 30 Boxes. Build your own at http://30boxes.com. en-us http://www.30boxes.com/ 720 Do you work with outside consultants to who assist you with your work? What is the best way to engage an outside consultant working remotely to ensure quality deliverables and a great working relationship? Cathy Siciliano, Senior Director of Marketing at Elance (http://www.elance.com), shares tips on the best practices for working with an outside consultant. From defining the project scope to finding the right person all the way to setting up the engagement and managing the work. Cathy will provide practical tips to make sure your remote project is set up for success. Tune in to listen live (http://blogtalkradio.com/smallbiztrends) 30BoxesEvent_65327575_2008-09-02 http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2008-09-02 2008-09-02T13:30:00-04:00 Many businesses begin with very few employees and, as such, are incapable of completing larger projects. But instead of resigning your business to fight for pennies, learn to use the strengths of other businesses to propel yours to the next level. Or, if you're really saavy, you could use the strengths of other businesses as your primary business. Ben Jones, Founder of Ben Means Business (http://www.ben-means-business.com/) walks us through the endless opportunities of sub-contracting. Tune in to listen live (http://blogtalkradio.com/smallbiztrends) 30BoxesEvent_65165943_2008-09-09 http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2008-09-09 2008-09-09T13:30:00-04:00 Russell H. Granger, author of "The 7 Triggers to Yes" and president of ProEd Corp., will be joining us to discuss the activation of emotional triggers to get the results you want. You can have anything you want. All you have to do is persuade someone to give it to you. We each have an emotion based internal navigation system helping us to get to the right decisions, easily, quickly, automatically. We employ emotional triggers to make our decisions. Activate other's emotional triggers, and get the decisions and results you seek. Tune in to listen live (http://blogtalkradio.com/smallbiztrends)! 30BoxesEvent_65251412_2008-09-16 http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2008-09-16 2008-09-16T13:30:00-04:00