Top Six Reasons Why Big Companies Engage Freelancers

Occasionally people ask me a perfectly reasonable question: why do HUGE financial services firms – which have significant internal resources – choose to work with external consultants?

That reminded me of an excellent article on elance.com. Providing insights from a freelancer perspective, I’ll bet that you can identify with at least one of these:

1. You’re slammed.

2 You need a new idea/strategy.

3. You’re stuck.

4. The internal team lacks a specific specialty.

5. Politics prevent internal allocations.

6. You want to control accountability and ensure things get done.

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Happily, clients have engaged Manko Marketing to help with all six!

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