Star Rating and Earnings at iWriter

At iWriter, one has to write a few articles to become a standard rated writer. Having five star rating for every article is a good start to become an Elite writer. There are three levels, first is standard, next is Premium and last is Elite.

For now, I am a standard writer at iWriter, need 8 more good ratings to be branded Premium. Being premium or listed in top writer category is beneficial, because requesters choose their request to be visible to top writers only.

A top writer is also paid more when compared to a non rated or lesser rated writer. I am yet to become a Premium writer first, will be posting experiences as and when i write for iWriter.

Initially I had pleasant experience from good requesters, with many of them choosing to rate me a 4 or 5 stars. I was very happy to have found iWriter, and I should say, it almost interferred with my usual writing work. This is evident from the fact that there have not been any updates since a month.

I had read reviews everywhere else, where rejected articles had substandard quality, Considering my writing is not so bad. I did not expect a rejection, when special instructions are clear and easy to follow. It was good initially, when there were many requesters and I chose requester with high approval rate.

Of late, there are not much articles requests of high quality. By high quality, I mean, genuine requesters who do not search silly reasons to reject.

Silly reasons for rejections include, "article needs correction at multiple places and will get rejected by article directory" Not silly isnt it, Well, this article was requested for a website content and not for article directory. So, what am I to understand of it gets rejected on context of not complying with Article directory website rules.

I am right now, very put off by attitude of requesters on iWriter, but its not any fault of iWriter or Brad Callen. It is these unprofessional people who take others time and money for a ride, spoiling the environment.

One such requester laments because there is automatic approval facility that rates writers even though the content may be bad. So he says, top writers need not be top quality writers at all. He says he did not find time to review it before 48 hour time window and hence it got auto approved with five star rating.

For such requesters, first of all, it is not 48 hours but three days(which add up to 72 hours) and the rating displayed on a writer does not take into consideration such automatic reviews. Only requester reviews are used to rate a writer.

This has been my experience until now. Am raring to hear what experiences you all had. Do use the comments section. Thanks.

Work at Home Typing Scams Sites Identification

People want to always earn more by working less and typing work from home is considered to be such a job. It is this attitude that has got many people lured into scams where they lost few $100 on each such scam site. A scam site will always want one to pay few dollars to get trained for typing work from home, but a typing work does not need any form of training. one has to simply key in certain standard phrases. This is so because generally all typing work from home posts refer to ad posting jobs.
Before letting oneself fall into trap of typing work from home scams, one should do thorough background check to verify a company or person's credibility. There will not be a proper contact information for a scam typing work from home website. They will have a form for queries to contact them. There will not be contact numbers to call or proper information about firm or person who has coordinated this website. Whenever one feels it is too good, they should be more alert because these sort of websites will have a simple questionnaire in FAQ's section that will generally have more attractive content to lure one into this sort of scam typing work from home jobs.
Many websites go to any lengths to claim their genuineness when it concerns typing work from home. No firm will outsource a form filing job to any other firm. Only ad posting job is the relevant type of work that is invested with huge money because advertising is the lifeline for any business. So, it is impossible that one needs a book of photos to be written into word documents by people who are into typing work from home. Other data entry or form filling job can be registration with survey sites. There are many scams doing rounds for form filling too that are being tagged as typing work from home.
There are websites that lure people by claiming to pay more for rewriting which is classified under typing work from home. A rewriting job can never fetch a $20. It is better to stay away from websites that talk about article rewriting and offer higher pays. Generally any website that is offering high claims and is elusive about contact details, turns out to be scam for typing work from home in near future. This truth is always learned the hard way. People are never tired of falling for scams and this factor is used to create intelligent scams for typing work from home.
Website that claims to be dedicated for typing work from home, and has only links and ads posted on it without any details about the firm should not be believed on face value. Few websites go ahead and give fake contact details to get the cash flowing in. Unsuspecting people pay fee for typing work from home only to know it was a scam. It is always good to verify the address online and offline. These sort of measures will help one avoid typing work from home scams.

Work at Home Stay Away from Fraud

Scores of websites try to take advantage of these keywords, work at home. One can find many of them may be set up by freelancers or moms with free time. There are scam websites that promise many things using these magic words work at home. Basic idea is to get identified with one of the many who are also searching. They go about to any length describing how they fell for scams after scams and finally hit upon gold. This gold they dig up is priced very nominal at times too. Imagine millions of visitors buying an e-book that may be costing few dollars but promises $30,000 earnings. This is a lure that is set upon at many websites about work at home.
There are few genuine work at home options available, few websites want one to register for free. One should have a secondary email address for such purposes, and make sure they provide minimal personal information. If any work at home website wants you to share a mobile number, you should start searching for different website in genuine sites. Genuine work at home websites may want one's mobile number, but that wont be until they are sure that this you are hired and need training and a mode of constant connectivity is needed.
Since genuine work at home websites offer to test a candidate before testing, few scam sites may also want to lure on these lines. They offer to test them with free software available on the Web and ask them to pay for training to work at home. One should always be on the lookout when such free tools are used for testing. Out of million scam sites, select few are genuine websites, the only difficulty is people often get impressed by high earning figures and content that talks about scams outright. Every website that talks about work at home scams need not be a genuine one.
Whenever there is an offer that seems to be very attractive at a work at home site, they are bound to be fraud. E-books, books that have advices about making money online, are all a part of scam. Why should one buy them when this is available for free on the Internet. There are many work at home blogs that have more information about it. Blogs are always a safer bet because they are not asking for investment. Another good place to look into is forums. These are best places when one needs to know about scams pertaining to a new work at home program.
People who have skill to write effectively and precisely may have a good work at home job as content writer. Many companies and websites need ghost writers. Searching right is always the key to landing into good websites. To become a skilled writer, one may start with small blogs that is updated regularly and hone their skills. Registering with article based directories that provide free training in this regard are very helpful in setting up one's own work at home writing job in near future.

How to Search for Home Typing Jobs

Online search is quite easy and difficult at the same time. Easy because you can search and verify facts at once. Difficult because there are many sites that you will have to verify about. Everybody wants to earn good income, from comfort of a house. Finding genuine home job sites are very difficult these days. If you are ready to search for long hours about sites that offer home based typing jobs ads then you can surely register with a site providing home typing jobs.

Good results are listed when right keywords are typed. For example, when you type home typing jobs or online typing jobs from home. You get many ads from companies along with results of websites that have any of this keyword. Generally, top sites are more relevant. But these days, with many SEO companies offering different means to improve Google ranking and search submissions, a site that occupies first place need not have to be legitimate one. What do you do in such a scenario? Go to these websites and find it yourself. If they are kind who ask for initial registration fee for an e-book or for manual, then skip this site and go to next link listed in search. So it is better if you open every link in a new window or tab.

There are a few legitimate sites that offer home typing jobs. How to get to these sites? Answer is simple and easy. You will have to locate them with extensive search. Although Google tries its best to block spam and irrelevant sites, it cannot identify which site is legitimate or fraud. So, best bet is to have a secondary email id that can be given when you are not impressed by a site but do not want to miss out on an opportunity to earn from home typing jobs. Make sure you check inbox for this secondary email address regularly. Legitimate sites need not show proof of earnings. This is one sure shot way to identify fraud sites. If you are tempted by earnings, just type site name for scams in Google search bar. If you do not find any bad remarks from any user. You can go ahead and get registered with them.

Home typing jobs are offered at every site, but legitimacy can only be established when one searches thoroughly. There are blogs that help one in deciding legitimacy of a home typing jobs site. One such blog that has genuine sites list is Genuine Surveys. Resources folder in this site is pretty useful in finding legitimate sites. Some of findings of my own research are listed here. These sites take a test and need you to qualify for them to train you or give you work.

There is NMG Group for home typing jobs.
For more such jobs, you can also try Data Out Sourcing Hub, which is another legitimate site I got to know about from genuine surveys blog.
For people who are good at resume writing. There is KP Resume Writing services that has openings for home based jobs.
Writers can earn from sites like Bukisa.

Are You Generating Quality Leads

Marketing online has become a revolutionized concept these days. With each passing day new methods of marketing your product has to be applied. You might have employed best SEO techniques and your website is attracting heavy traffic. But there is no increase in sale of your product. If this your current situation, then you must wake up to new ways of marketing. Generating and following leads.

What is a lead?
A lead is nothing but contact information of a person. This is generated when a person agrees to submit this information to expect mails regarding a product or a service. All these forms for subscribing for a newsletter on a particular subject are generating leads. There are firms that sell these leads related to a particular industry to organizations with products in same field.

How can you generate a quality lead?
It is easy, there are many templates that let you collect user information on a website. You do not have to redesign your whole website, just add this code to relevant place and viola, you can have a form that collects user information, like email id. Use automated systems that store these lists to a database. This will lessen your need for man power.
A form must be as concise as required. A longer form may make a person to navigate away from your site. But a shorter form need not always guarantee super quality. You can offer to take information in steps taking care to provide option for the user to skip providing a particular information.
For example, you can have a form that basically asks for an email address and a purpose for choosing to get information. When a user clicks the submit button, you can offer to provide another form that asks for contact number if he or she is interested to be called for with hot deals related to product he or she is searching. Also provide option to skip this form if user is not interested.
So, if user has submitted his telephone number also, that means he or she needs this product pretty urgently and must be acted upon quickly. Now you know where to start from to clinch a deal. Just call him or her at the earliest. If this call is managed properly your company might end up in a deal with that lead person.

How can I market using these leads?
When you have a lead, that means a user is interested in a product, all you have to do is make a contact. Mail him or her with products and offers regarding his search. Remember a form must be able to collect information about what a user is in need of. For example, if you are a travel agency, then your form must have options like travel accommodation cost query, travel package query, etc. Leave an option for the user to specify any new option unavailable in your drop down list. Next time, you can add this option in your drop down list of this form. This way, you can develop your website and also generate quality leads.
When you have these details with your organizations, next step is to make sure that this probable client is really in need of this service. Mail him or her with promotional offers in asked category and also ask him to provide a contact information for further assistance. This way of double checking will ensure that these leads are quality one, that is each person contacted is a probable client in near future.

Be better organized to turn every lead into a sale. That is you have to update your database storing these lists as and when a client status changes. For example, a lead has turned to a client and sale has materialized, then you need not delete his or her contact information, but change his status to a client and mail him of her with general offers available with your firm from time to time. This list must be separate from the lists where a lead has not yet turned into a client. Because a lead must be mailed with mails focused on their interests only.
If you want to know about different type of leads and ways to attain and use them. Go to myBukisa where you can find many knowledgeable articles related to online marketing.

IT Maintenance Outsourcing various approaches

IT maintenance Maintenance management system consists of six stages. Identification of work, Planning required to carry out the work, scheduling to be done for the same, Execution of it, recording the response, analyzing the response. All these stages form a cyle for any maintenance system. The analyzed result is again considered whenever new work is identified. Hence all these stages are linked. Generally lots of effort is put in the planning, scheduling and execution of work, as it is very important for the benefit of the organization. Sometimes, in this process the response analysis takes a back seat. Many a company, have had to face the rough weather for not considering the response for a particular product launched by them. Outsourcing comes in handy for such work. Deciding on which part of the maintenance to be outsourced is the crucial part of it.

How to plan outsourcing for maintenance?

There are various types of approach to decide on the work to be outsourced. In case of a shutdown of work because of workers, execution of the work can be outsourced. One can outsource even the planning, scheduling, execution, result recording to other organizations. In short the contractor or the organization has the freedom to plan and schedule the work at his or its own pace.

The common trend now is to outsource the two stages where in, the product reviews are recorded and then the reviews are analyzed for submission to identify new work. This is called Customer support. All the complaints or suggestions made about the product are recorded and analyzed to give shape to better products.

One can outsource all the stages of maintenance to other organization thus giving total control over the job identification and techniques for development of the product as well.

The job to be outsourced must be decided considering the pros and cons and hence the outcomes of giving control to the contractor or the other organization.

Process in outsourcing Once the job to be outsourced is identified, next comes inviting tenders. Any outsourcing done must have proper tendering. Meaning tenders must be invited first, citing the specifications of the product, type of work, the minimum amount payable, other factors related to the work. Specifying the requirements is the key to achieving proper response to the tender.

Once an organization's tender is selected, proper payment mode must be decided upon by both the parties. Pricing plan must be selected after considering the sequences of each plan, agreeable to both the organizations.

The responsibilities and limitations of the organization taking the contract must be clearly mentioned and agreed upon. i.e if the organization taking up contract work has to follow a set of guidelines, then this must be provided at the tendering stage itself. The guidelines help in decision making of the organization taking up contract work.

Finally the organizations must work towards the common final goal, by co operating with each other on various issues, thereby avoiding dissatisfaction in any of the organization.

Search Engine Optimization-Techniques

A website is a compulsion now a days for any business company or firm. Opportunities come clicking their way into the site for want of a product or service. The products offered must be properly advertised to the internet users. Generally people search for any product or service in any search tool bar, and the first top results are explored. A site is listed in the result if the keyword typed in the search bar is linked to it. One of the optimization techniques employed for increasing your site visibility is using the linked keywords. When a visitor clicks on the keyword, the browser will be directed to your site.

Linking are of two different ways. Internal linking where in, the keyword in a page of the site can link to another page in the same site. Creating pointed links from other sites to your own site needs to be done in affiliation of the other site. Like for example an advertisement on a different site can have links pointing to your site for certain keywords. Having more links is always advantageous. The search engine calculates the ranking of a particular site taking into consideration of all above factors. Ranking of a site, decides the place in the result listings. Generally users do not bother to see the listings after the first page. Hence it is very important for one's site link to appear in first page of the listings.

There are a certain guidelines to effectively use linking in your own site. The keywords used for linking must not be repeated. This is considered as spam by the search engine. Same meaning words can be used as links. The famous search engine Google allows 100 such links in a page. Keywords must be chosen with proper care.

One can link the footer to important pages of the site. There are many search engine optimization experts, who are well versed with the techniques and working of the search engine. Their insight of the engine related algorithms for ranking help in deciding on the strategies to be employed.

Reverse Marketing Process - Stages

The eleven phases invoved in the Reverse mrketing process can be categorised into four stages.

The stage one needs analysing skills and selection of a strategy for purchase. This analysis results help in deciding on the option of marketing startegy to choose from. This requires in detail research of the firms's developments and its stand in supply markets. A tactic must be devised to retain such position in the market. Potential and current suppliers are to be evaluated to formulate required plan for the fullfilment of current and desired activities. The suppliers with similar characteristics must be grouped together and the one that suits the best for the needs of the firm must be chosen.

The next phase is to contrive on the reverse marketing strategies to be applied. The objectives of the marketing strategy choosen must be identified and efforts must tbe put into realizing the short term results. Circumstances that require a certain decision to be altered, must be recognised and acted upon swiftly. A good support system has to be developed to focus on the cross functional communications.
The third stage is the action part. The strategies formulated must be put into action. This requires segragation of the relevant decision makers at each phase and decide upon the decision making powers of each department. A custom approach must be used to sell through this strategy. The contract form developed must highlight on the beneficial points of the deal to the supplier. Choosing a proper person to lead the team from the project initiation process through continued commitment towards it.
The final stage is to maintain the healthy relation with the customer. Evaluation must be done with regards to the satisfaction level. Providing technical assistance is a good way of maintaining the relationship. Performance evaluation must be done as agreed upon by both the parties.

Refer to Detailed Paper on Reverse marketing by Biemans and Maryse for more information