Freelancing Tools and Tips http://freelancingtoolsandtips.com Blog On Freelancing Tools and Tips Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:03:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Get Free Trial of Our Exclusive Vantage Membership http://freelancingtoolsandtips.com/2010/03/get-free-trial-of-our-exclusive-vantage-membership/ http://freelancingtoolsandtips.com/2010/03/get-free-trial-of-our-exclusive-vantage-membership/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:03:09 +0000 admin http://blog.limeexchange.com/?p=2109

LimeExchange Vantage Plan is an exclusive membership plan that empowers providers to leverage their online reputation and credibility.

‘Vantage Tag’ against your profile adds weight to your profile and brings plethora of privileges with it. Some of the exclusive features enjoyed by the Vantage Members are:

•  Customized space on LimeExchange profile to showcase testimonials earnings, etc., from sources external to LimeExchange
•  Lower project fee
•  Improved Profile Rank
•  Enhanced listing on the search pages
•  Purchase Coupons
•  Dedicated Account Manager
•  Preferential listing on the Bid summary page

Plus a Vantage Service Provider on LimeExchange has some exclusive advantages like:

•  Unlimited Bids
•  Unlimited Featured Project Bids
•  Unlimited Friend Requests
•  180 Free Call Minutes
•  Free Payoneer Card
•  Unlimited Skill Tests

Since Vantage membership is one of our exclusive membership plans, we reserve the right of approval for a member to become a Vantage member. Apply for free 30-day vantage trial to become a vantage provider. Remember a vantage membership increases your chance of winning projects by 10s of folds.

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PayPal has resumed services for its customers in India. Now to withdraw your funds through PayPal service you need to enter the ‘Purpose Code. The purpose code helps your bank furnish information that may be required by the Reserve Bank of India to identify the nature of the cross border transaction.

When you select the ‘Withdraw Funds’ option on your PayPal account, you need to fill out a new field entitled ‘Purpose Code’.

For latest information on PayPal, you may visit https://www.thepaypalblog.com

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No Commission…No transaction fee… No hidden charges

Now enjoy 0% commission offer for 90 days – it’s our way of extending thanks to all our esteemed service providers.

Good News for all providers on our pro and vantage membership plans. We are waiving off all transaction and project commission fee for 90 days, effective from 10th of March, 2010.

For all service providers who are yet not on any membership plans, its a great time to upgrade to pro or apply for a vantage membership to enjoy our special 0% commission offer.

So get started and spread the word across…

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Social media websites like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and Orkut are easy-to-use, fun to connect and effective in terms of promoting your business. You get different sets of audience for your business and utility platforms to get connected to. These websites can help in increasing brand visibility, spreading your brand name, gain direct feedback from your audience and can help in getting good organic growth to your website traffic.

But the challenging part is that how to connect with them? How to engage them?

Here we are adding some possible ways to enhance your engagement with your target audience.

social-networking

Connect right

‘Being social’ is one of essential criteria for successfully increasing the engagement with your connection on social media websites. Your first goal should be connecting with right set of customers and contribute to their ongoing conversations.  Try to find out what discussions are taking place that relate to your objective? Once you find those discussions, connect liberally, comment on their threads, read their blogs/ articles, retweet interesting postings, and reach out to large number if targets while sharing/collaborating on content creation.

Create a valuable content

Before interacting with your prospective customers, it is important to think what content they are looking for. In order to engage with your connections you must have something interesting to say. You can provide user benefit updates including general news/events related to your objective as this will increase your updates importance and credibility in the reader’s eye. Write content which is easy to understand and useful so that people can share it with others.

Encourage feedback and work on it

You may want thousands of followers on twitter or hundreds of unique visitors a day, but in reality only a few of them will really comment and share your information with others. So make sure your interactions are meaningful. Respond to comments, updates, messages and retweets.  Keep a note of what types of content people respond to and focus on developing it more.  Try some fun content for your readers, start a contest, feature one of them, or just ask for their feedback/ suggestions.

Use applications

All social media websites offer a huge number of applications to connect with your followers. Research and make use of these applications to increase connections, send updates, know what people are talking about,  latest buzz, market trends etc. You can easily use their open source application matching your requirement.

Have patience

Engaging with the customers and building a Community doesn’t happen in a day. Don’t get scared if its taking time, keep interacting and set realistic goals for your organization based on others experiences. It takes time to develop your online community!

We hope you would try these simple and useful ways to engage with your customers and build a successful community through these platforms. Please share with us your suggestions and experiences on the same.

5 ways to Increase Engagement on Social Media

Social media websites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Orkut are easy-to-use, fun to connect and effective in terms of promoting the business. You get different sets of target customers for your business and utility platforms providing useful tools and features to attract them. Utilizing these websites intelligently can help in increasing sales, building your brand, and working as a centerstage to help get your word out.

But the challenging part is that how to connect with them? How to engage them? What business strategy you should apply?

Here we are adding some possible ways to enhance your engagement with prospective customers and also enhance the credibility in the community.

1. Connect right – ‘Being social’ is one of essential criteria for successfully increasing the engagement with your connection on social media websites. Your first goal should be connecting with right set of customers and contribute to their ongoing conversations. Try to find out what discussions are taking place that relate to your objective? Once you find those discussions, connect liberally, comment on their threads, read their blogs/ articles, retweet interesting postings, and reach out to others about sharing/collaborating on content creation.

2. Creating a valuable content – Before interacting with your prospective customers, it is important to think what content they are looking for. In order to engage your connections you must have something interesting to say. You can provide user benefit updates including general news/events related to your objective as this will increase your updates importance and credibility in the user’s eye. Write content which is easy to understand and useful so that people can share with others.

  1. Encourage feedback and work on it – You may want 1,500 followers on twitter or hundreds of unique hits a day, but in reality only a handful will really comment and share your information. So make sure your interactions are meaningful. Respond to comments and retweets; take note of what kinds of content people respond to and focus on developing it more; do something fun for your readers, start a contest, feature one of them, or just ask to meet them! You can also ask for their feedbacks on your latest event or updates and take their feedback seriously and work on them

4. Use applications – All social media websites offer a huge number of applications to connect with your targets. Research and make use of these applications to increase connections, send updates, know what people are talking about, latest buzz, market trends etc. You can easily use their free open source application matching your requirement.

5. Have patience- Engaging with the customers and building a Community doesn’t happen in a day. Don’t get scared if its taking time, keep interacting and set realistic goals for your organization based on other people’s experiences and the time you have to commit to developing your online community.

We hope you would try these simple and useful ways to engage with your customers and build a successful community through these platforms. Please share with us your suggestions and experiences on the same.

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There are lot of factors that strengthen a brand and can contribute to increasing the perceived value of it. It can be visual as well as non visuals. Among the visual ones, probably, Logo is one of the strongest elements that contribute in increasing the brand value as well as brand recall.

If you have an idea and looking to design logo for your brand, try some of these online logo designing tools. These are really helpful. Listing here some of the useful online logo designing tools in no particular order:

Logo Maker

logomaker

It is a custom-built design tool for entrepreneurs to design a creative log in just three simple steps. It lets you choose the image from icon gallery, color tools, add text and design in your own logo for free. They offer more than 10,000 images for you to use as a base in your logo.

CoolText

cooltext

This is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work.  They offer over 300 million free images, logo style and button designs to choose for your logo.

Logoworks

logoworks

Another logo designing tool which helps in producing original, custom logos you can afford for free.  It provides Professional logo designers in-house and freelancers to create a successful logo for you. It also lets you design brochures, websites, and more with your logo.

LogoYes

logoyes

It is the leading tool for creating a logo and other premium design products for small businesses around the world. It lets you customize you own design by choosing your area of work, symbol of your choice, adding your name and creating a logo design complementing your field of business.

Logodesignengine

logodesign-engine

This logo design tool allows you to select  matching logo template, select fonts, colors  and create your company logo instantly. All you have to do is to select your preferred Logo Design from our logo template collection, submit your company details, select fonts and colors and save your company logo.

Businesslogos

business-logo

It provides a comprehensive database of expert designers to create the best logo for your business.  Also  check out some additional logo design portals, including various informative articles, tips and other information.

thelogoloft

logoloft

This tool will deliver anywhere from one to six design concepts, and you’re allowed an unlimited number of revisions. Concepts arrive within three to four business days, and final designs are handed over once you’re satisfied with the revisions.

thelogocreator

logocreator

With more than 300 logo elements and 50 built-in fonts, you can create logos in just a few steps. The Logo Creator software also includes 75 logo templates and can import your personal fonts and images.

Logoease

logoease

This free logo design tool offers intuitive and simple design interface that lests you create your own free business logo designs easily. You will receive various electronic files for both web and print use including the vector source files. File formats include eps, png, jpg and tiff.  It enables you to save and download as many as 10 free logo designs at once.

logosmartz

logosmartz

It is a desktop logo creation software that can turn out high-quality corporate business logos and emblems instantly. It offers over 700 pre defined logo templates for your logo.  it aloows you to play with the color, fonts and symbols according to preference. Over 4000 high quality graphic symbols and over a 300 fonts. System fonts can also be imported.

Hope these tools will help you develop an effective logo for your business. Please share with us your comments and suggestions on the same.

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]]> http://freelancingtoolsandtips.com/2010/02/bandwidth%e2%80%94how-much-do-you-really-need/feed/ Boost your Organizational Efficiency with Marketing Applications http://freelancingtoolsandtips.com/2010/02/boost-your-organizational-efficiency-with-marketing-applications/ http://freelancingtoolsandtips.com/2010/02/boost-your-organizational-efficiency-with-marketing-applications/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:54:04 +0000 admin http://blog.limedomains.com/?p=1684 ]]> You can handle the complexity of projects easily by using Management Applications, which streamline the execution of your projects & enhance the efficiency of your project team and organization as a whole.
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]]> http://freelancingtoolsandtips.com/2010/02/boost-your-organizational-efficiency-with-marketing-applications/feed/ Increase Profile Rank and Win Projects http://freelancingtoolsandtips.com/2010/02/increase-profile-rank-and-win-projects/ http://freelancingtoolsandtips.com/2010/02/increase-profile-rank-and-win-projects/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:37:17 +0000 admin http://blog.limeexchange.com/?p=1958

Profile rank is one of the most important aspects for acquiring more projects at LimeExchange. Profile Rank is given to all the service providers on the parameters of activity, commitment and quality of the work. The more actively a provider participates on LimeExchange, the higher will be the profile rank of that provider.

profile rank search

You need to develop some positive attributes such as having a complete Profile, higher Earnings on LimeExchange, ability to get continuous business from the Buyers, etc. as this ensures buyers that  you are a authenticity and confirms skills and expertise as a provider.

We provide two types of profile ranks:

• LimeExchange Rank, and
• Category Rank

You profile rank would be displayed:

In the Search Results pages

While searching for an efficient and genuine provider for a project a buyer always check provider’s profile rank.  When a Buyer searches for Service Providers in a multiple categories, we show LimeExchange Rank in the search results. If he is searching in a single category, we show Category Rank in the search results.

On the Profile Page

Ranking always attracts the buyer and help him in taking an intelligent hiring decision. Your LimeExchange Rank as well as the Category Rank would be displayed on your profile homepage. Category Rank can be viewed by selecting any category from the drop down.

On the Bid Summary Page

When providers bid on projects, their profile rank is shown to the buyers on the bid summary page. Better ranking increases the chances of winning a project. All bids by Vantage Providers are shown to the buyers in order of priority along with the profile rank and a Vantage icon.

profile page rank

Increase your profile rank by following these guidelines:

•  Complete your profile 100%
•  Execute more projects, earnings from projects will boost your profile rank
•  Get your education credentials verified by justifacts
•  Join Vantage Plan, higher the plan more the rank
•  Get Recommendations, increase connections to get more business
•  Actively participate on LimeExchange, take skill tests, and participate in Q&A.

Hope these features will help in making your project execution easier and maximize your profits on this platform. Please share with us your feedback and suggestions on the same.

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