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5 Ways To Create Great Web Content
Writing for the web is another great freelance writing market. It’s already huge and it’s growing every day. There’s so much web content out there that you need to make yours stand out. Here are ways to make your web content appeal to readers.
1. Descriptive Titles
The title of your article should tell the reader what it’s about. Some people like to use humor, while others prefer to play it straight. It doesn’t matter, as long as readers know what to expect. Readers want to know what’s in it for them. A good title will tell them. That’s one of the reasons that article titles with numbers in them tend to do well. If your article is called: ‘Seven Ways To Land Your Perfect Partner’, then readers know what they will get. (more…)
How To Localize Social Media Content
Over the last few years, social media marketing has grown up from an experimental avenue for reaching students and twenty-somethings to a major channel for global companies to communicate with their customers. But, these digital consumers demand elegant solutions for interaction, which has opened a host of complications for global brands.
With interactions primarily happening within a varied stream of engaging content, we can’t expect users to seek out the correct content for their location and language. Given the precision of targeting available (down to the city level in most countries!), having a compelling content calendar that’s actionable and useful for the long run for a large enterprise can be a challenge. Some points to consider when putting together your branded Facebook content plan: (more…)
Tips For Shifting To Home-Based Jobs
Whatever you call it—working from home, telecommuting, or working remotely—getting out of the cubicle and cutting the weekly commute is becoming a common practice for the American workforce. More and more, young employees value an employer that affords them good work/life balance, and working from home is part of that balance. If you’d like to jump on the bandwagon and start telecommuting, consider these tips for approaching your boss about it.
Make a Plan
Cali Yost, author of Work+Life: Finding the Fit That’s Right for You, suggests scheduling a meeting with your manager and present her with a telecommuting plan. Your plan should include which day(s) you want to telecommute, the ways you can be reached, tasks you can work on at home, technology you have at your disposal, how you’ll communicate with clients, and your strategy should an emergency require you to be in the office. (more…)
How To Come Up With New Article Content
Article marketing is one of the most important tasks you can do for your business. Regardless of the business you run, you can use article marketing to help you grow. If you find you’re struggling to come up with content, you may find you need help. There are numerous ways to come up with the content you need to make article marketing work for you. Here are a few suggestions for you to use.
1. Search through article directories to find topics that are of interest to you. The best thing to do is look through the titles only, that way you won’t have to worry about anyone saying you stole their content. (more…)
Balancing The Risks And Rewards Of Outsourcing
Majority of business owners think that the best outsourcing setup is one that covers the least amount of cost. But outsourcing should be focused on the long-term value of the contract and how it meets overall business objectives instead of solely on operational expenses. For this, Alsbridge shares five points that companies should keep in check in evaluating the coherence of an outsourcing setup with organizational goals and strategies. (more…)
Avoiding Common Pitfalls In Outsourcing
SearchCIO.com senior news writer Linda Tucci reports that for 2010, companies that outsourced IT work spent 7.1% of their total budgets for outsourced IT services. In her report, Tucci interviews Steve Martin, a partner at outsourcing advisory firm Pace Harmon LLC. Martin was a former partner with Deloitte Consulting, where he closed $7 billion worth of outsourcing deals. He lends his experience to provide an insight into the four common mistakes committed in outsourcing deals. (more…)
How Freelancers Can Improve Workflow
People tend to believe that being a freelancer means you’re not on a tight schedule. It’s quite the opposite. Clients appreciate quality work, but a project done on time, or better yet, ahead of schedule will earn you extra recognition and will be highly appreciated by your clients. Here are some tips that will help improve your workflow & time management as a freelancer: (more…)
2 Steps To Topping Google Search
If you have a website and want to get to the top of Google you will probably have heard of SEO. The whole process of SEO can seem a bit confusing but the aim of this article is to give you the basics and make it seem a lot simpler. We have split the process of SEO into two major steps and if you follow these steps you will find you can get to the top of Google in an efficient way. (more…)
How To Spot Work-From-Home Scams
Every Internet user is aware of the fact that the web is flooded with advertisements for “work from home” or “make easy money” jobs. While many of these offers are phony, there are some jobs that are 100% legitimate and represent a great way for certain individuals to make rent money and maybe even more.
Unfortunately, many of the offers promising loads of money in return for a few simple tasks are fakes, designed to dupe the unsuspecting user into handing over an account registration fee, or make him perform tasks that never pay off. Here are a few steps you can take to spot those scams:
Check out the company
This does not require professional detective work, instead a simple Google search can provide all the information you need. The thing about phony jobs is that once someone falls into the trap they set, the victim will start flooding forums and social media websites with complaints and warning messages. In the situation where a phony company changes its name a lot, you can search for the ad’s content. In most cases the fabulous story served to potential victims remains mostly unchanged. Usually, job offers that come via unsolicited email, or via a pop-up window that displays in big bold letters something like “single mom earns thousands from home” are scams.
Never trust jobs that offer big money for small tasks
Legitimate jobs, such as the ones I mentioned before, offer a decent amount of money for tasks that can’t really be considered to be a walk in the park. One thing I noticed about phony job offers is that in most scenarios they rely on the financial power of Google (or other well-known large organizations) to attract potential victims. Another variation of this plot urges the “employees” to join a pyramid scheme in which they have to attract their friends into working for them.
Work, but not too much
First of all, even if everything is done remotely, genuine companies will offer you a contract for a limited or unlimited period. There is a chance that a phony company offers a contract just to make everything look genuine. So, to make sure you’re covered and you don’t end up wasting a week or a month doing a task for con artists, you can do some work, but not too much. If the company pays you after each week of work, it’s even better.
Have you been a victim of a Work From Home scam? How did you identify it as a phony?
Source: Softpedia
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Tips On Hiring Your Social Media Consultant
With the strong emergence of social media in the internet marketing world, every Tom, Dick and Harry has come out saying they are social media experts. If you do not ask the right questions you may wind up spending thousands of dollars and get no results. Here are 3 questions that you need to ask before you hire your Social Media Consultant: (more…)
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