August 29 Coworking Convo: How to Give Great Tours of Your Space
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The other day in my home coworking space, I overheard a conversation that went something like this: Person 1: Hey, did I show you the
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A 2014 study commissioned by the Freelancers Union and Elance oDesk found that there are 53 million freelancers in the U.S. That’s more that the