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Rhyne: Micro-agencies offer immediate team cohesion over hiring individual freelancers

Steven Rhyne · 1377 Moving To Enterprise Reduced Revenue Churn by 50% in Under 12 Months · May 2, 2019 · at 10:05

Steven Rhyne, co-founder of Conveyor, shares his remote hiring strategy for sourcing contractors.

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“I tend to like working with these micro agencies. So it's like one or two developers, maybe a designer developer team. They tend to work really well together. So you get that cohesiveness right off the bat, rather than trying to find your own designer, find your own developer. These little micro agencies are really great.”

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