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Freelancers (at least the good ones) have their pick of projects, and you have to work hard to keep them engaged. Here are a few tricks of the trade.

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Some 40 percent of small businesses say money they're owed is trickling in, while the Freelancers Union says half its members struggled to get paid last year. Getting paid for invoices is slower going than it has been in years for small business, says a new survey by the National Federation of Independent Business . Manufacturers with less than $10 million in annual revenue received payments an average of 48 days after invoicing in 2011