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Buyer Profile
Abi Farran
Management Accountant |
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Company Profile
Bridge Corporate Finance Plc
Sector: Finance, Number of Staff :4 |
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| About the company |
| Bridge Corporate Finance plc provide short term commercial loans to clients to help fund property acquisitions and renovations. Our core values lie in our commitment to excellent customer service and our vision is to be recognized as an international leader in bridging finance. My role is varied ranging from the complete Finance function, to the strategic management of Bridge Corporate Finance |
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| How my business benefited |
| "I use peopleperhour.com because I look to subcontract non valued added activities in an attempt to focus on our core competences and enabling Bridge to deploy specialist skills whilst ensuring our profit is maximized. I have found People per hour to be a valuable tool." |
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Projects Posted by Abi Farran |
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Buyer Profile
Craig Dawer
Managing Director |
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Company Profile
Smarket Ltd
Sector: online media, Number of Staff :2 |
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| About the company |
| Smarket Ltd which is one of the leading UK sources of news and business information for Entrepreneurs and Home Based Business Owners - www.ukentrepreneur.com
Our goal is to share the extraordinarily exciting and challenging new business models and opportunities provided by the internet and other new technologies - which will help you in starting and growing a Home Based Business of your own.
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| How my business benefited |
| "Being a small home based business it isn't always feasible to have more two people in the office at the same time, this is where I find PPH so great as I can outsource some of my work with the confidence of having my work professionally finished by a set period of time" |
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Projects Posted by Craig Dawer |
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Buyer Profile
Penny Haywood
Managing Director |
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Company Profile
PHPR
Sector: PR, Number of Staff :2 |
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| About the company |
| Penny Haywood runs PHPR, a PR agency that specialises in promoting 'the difficult to explain' - usually technical, financial or IT sectors. PHPR has worked with all sizes of organisations in the public and private sector, so they can provide flexible services to suit most budgets, including teaching you to do your own PR.
Penny also wrote the business book best seller, DIY PR, the small business owner's guide to 'free' publicity - Batsford 1998 - now out of print
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| How my business benefited |
"PR is a hard business to expand because everyone wants to deal with the key people at the top and at PHPR, that's me! So it's key that I delegate as much of the non client-facing tasks as I can. And People Per Hour is proving a big help with that because it's such a flexible resource. We have a number of associates and preferred suppliers we use to create teams and handle bigger projects, and People Per Hour has accelerated that process for us. It is perfect for trying out new people without the hassle if it doesn't work out.
And everyone we've used to date has exceeded expectations.
We found Megan, who's now a regular team player handling our client's media monitoring reports.
I also use Nadine, a VA from PPH, to regularly drag my timelogs out of me and type them up.
But there's a lot of smaller jobs, both personal and professional, that collectively build up and become a hassle. You end up tackling them well after midnight when they've become urgent. Then you're half wrecked the following day. But PPH are taking these off my hands as well, and doing them better than I could because other people bring focus to the specific project plus really useful relevant experience.
For example, I posted a project to contact all the care homes in our area to set me up with appointments to visit, so I could find a good home for my mother in law. I chose Lyn as she is a former PA to a care home director. She gave me a brilliant checklist that flagged up all sorts of issues I hadn't thought of. That really helped me sort out the services on offer. When she sent me my appointment schedule she also attached the official Care Commission's inspection reports on each of the homes I was to visit. From knowing very little about care homes, she put me into a pretty knowledgeable position. The cost was just £60, but the peace of mind it bought was priceless. My mother in law looks happier than I've seen her look in years." |
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Projects Posted by Penny Haywood |
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Timelog |
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Bids Received : 18 |
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the job: help a freelance pr consultant stay on top of the timelogging that forms the basis of the billing and cpd (continuing professional development) training record.
key skills needed: excel spreadsheet, good verbal and written english, attention to detail and reliability.
methodology:
ring once a week (ideally on skype) at agreed times and tease out the details of what's been done.
you do that by prompting me to tell you by going through the diary, outlook journal log of files opened plus sent emails. you take notes then log the time i spent on each client's work or on my cpd training in an excel spreadsheet. we use simple headings (client task description time logged in 5 min chunks). the description of each is a 1 sentence/phrase descriptions agreed verbally with me.
then send me the updated spreadsheet every week within 48 hours of the phone call.
the work usually takes about half an hour to one hour a week as there's not a huge amount of data and quite a lot is repetitive, so can be copied and pasted. the main thing is to do it regularly and stay on top of it. << View Less |
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Online Media monitoring search |
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Bids Received : 7 |
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pr agent needs to track a client's media coverage in their emea (europe inc uk, middle east & africa) trade publications, blogs & press release news distribution channels (online news wires, online press release depositories etc)..
i've tried various media monitoring services, but none cover this particular trade sector in depth.
many of the publications are online.
i've set up google news alerts but that's missing things as it just tracks major press and we've not been targeting that type of media with press releases.
the idea is to collect up all the media mentions blog and press release mentions you find on the clients (there's 3 companies in the group), excluding the us & canadian mentions their own pr people are generating from their n american hq. they use different trade names for their products in the us & canada, so it's fairly easy to distinguish the emea from the american coverage.
then make them up into a word doc or folder of docs for onward transmission to the client.
we'll also need an analysis report - a half page table listing the coverage & source & date plus equivalent ad spends and roi (the equivalent ad spend x3) . i can supply some of those equivalent ad spend figs and an estimate for the rest.
they have good relations with most of the trade press so there should be no problem about gaining permissions to copy published articles for internal reference by the source of the story.
they're clocking up 20-30 mentions a month.
the more you find, the better i look!
needs to be done once a month from 15th october to 14th november and thereafter. it took me 2-3 hours to find and save the last 2 months worth of cuttings and i still have to make up the analysis sheet.
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Admin help to find care home |
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Bids Received : 12 |
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my lovely mum in law is increasingly frail and needing to move to a care home. we have been supplied with a huge list by the social services people and no-one seems keen to stick their neck out and make positive recommendations.
we want to get it right first time and find a long-term solution.
initially we've narrowed it down by postcode and now need someone to take the postcoded list and contact around 10 care homes in edinburgh to:
a) find out if they have the facilities to care for her (we'll supply further info) and if so,
b) get them to send us literature (or note their website address)
c) get an idea of weekly costs - preferably in a single room
d) make a weekend appointment for me to go in to see the place and take some general photos to show her. (allow 2 hours between appointments)
e) report back to us on these actions within a week of commencing the task
she's currently in sheltered accommodation so she can wait a little for space in the best available option. << View Less |
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Marcomms: OR CCTV / Case Study Writing |
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Bids Received : 5 |
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pr case studies of how my client's cu... View More >> |
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pr case studies of how my client's customers have used my client's leading cctv cameras and equipment to overcome problems.
written from questionnnaires compiled by the relevant sales person and to be topped up as required through the sales contact, who may or may not sanction direct client contact.
often an intermediary distributor or installer is involved.
there is a template covering 2pp a4 with lots of masthead, design elements & pix bringing the total wordcount down to c600 -800 words.
there's a formulaic approach to follow to ensure we pull out the relevant points. creative writing it ain't, but a certain amount of ingenuity will be needed to stop this being dull.
we need you to sign a nda agreement in case anyone accidentally divulges info they subsequently regret. they have been assured that you will treat all material as confidential.
all done by phone and email.
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Buyer Profile
Enzo Favro
Owner |
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Company Profile
EF Associates
Sector: Construction, Number of Staff :3 |
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| About the company |
| we are a business to business consultant specialising in International projects (normally for a foreign client who wants to either procure from the UK or US or wants to build in the UK, we have experience of Hotels, Airports, Offices and many other commercial and residential projects. I personally am fluent in Italian and Spanish and have staff and associates who speak most major languages. |
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| How my business benefited |
| "I use peopleperhour.com because I feel they offer a quick and cost effective solution. I also feel very strongly that it allows professionals to work from remote locations without overburdening urban centres which cannot cope with concentration of population we have.. I have found People per hour to be a valuable tool." |
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Projects Posted by Enzo Favro |
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Buyer Profile
Nigel Salmon
Owner & Managing Director |
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Company Profile
Girasol Homes
Sector: Property, Number of Staff :7 |
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| About the company |
| Girasol Homes is a company specialising in the sales of overseas properties to holiday home seekers or property investors, using technology and hard won experience our expertise helps find our clients the right property overseas through a one to one experience. |
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| How my business benefited |
| "People per hour helped us source the right individual to work remotely in helping us with essential marketing experience and fit in with our budget and execution of these tasks." |
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Projects Posted by Nigel Salmon |
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Copy Editing |
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Bids Received : 15 |
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I need a data input assistant to write up copy into our closed website, this will always be in a standard format and we will provide the guidelines and basic copy templates. most of the copy exists in brochures and needs to be extracted, re-written and re-formatted for the web. job should take a couple of hours a week. << View Less |
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Buyer Profile
Alan Kent
Owner & Managing Director |
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Company Profile
Pubnclubsupermarket.com
Sector: online auction, Number of Staff :2 |
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| About the company |
| Pubnclubsupermarket.com is a an auction site for the licensed trade in the UK: pubs, clubs, restaurants and hotels. |
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| How my business benefited |
| "I have used People Per Hour several times over the past few months and intend to use them even more in the future.
As a small business my biggest cost is wages and I need to keep these under very tight control. I need to pay for
projects etc when they have been completed, What I don't need is to pay somebody for chatting about how good a weekend they had !!
I have not always agreed terms with the potential bidders for my projects however this seems to be no problem.
I like the flexibility and the broad range of quotes for any particular project from the extremely expensive to the very cheap. The trick is to discuss the project
with your bidders to ensure they know exactly your requirements , there are then no misunderstandings.
I would whole-heartedly support People Per Hour in providing a service that is tailor-made to the small business entrepreneur." |
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Projects Posted by Alan Kent |
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Do Email Campaigns |
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Bids Received : 10 |
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I want to carry out an e-mail campaign i... View More >> |
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I want to carry out an e-mail campaign into the pub trade in the uk, can you advise
1)process re gaining lists of e-mail recipients
2) creation of e-mail itself
3) costs
4) broad outline of process
5) reporting of success rate
6) dealing with isp spam software
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Write Copy For Website |
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Bids Received : 9 |
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I am having a website designed, which is to be online from mid october. i need professional copy for the text for the webpages.
the likelihood is that there will be 10>12 webpages , with the normal amount of text on each, ie it is not a novel !
the text will be produced and then reviewed by myself for changes and tweaks. a certain amount of communication with the website designer will possibly (but not definitely) be necessary.
for the right person there is the possibility of a regular project on a monthly basis to produce a newsletter from information / e-mails provided by myself. a business plan / copies of leaflets / minutes of website design discussions will be made available for the project winner.
i would need to be able to see examples of work completed by the bidders also
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Evening telesales |
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Bids Received : 2 |
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I am setting up a website for the uk on trade (pubs & clubs)
there is a need to do some teleselling of the services and also data cleansing (in particular e-mail addresses / mobile numbers)
the project would initially be for 2 hours per evening 6>8pm from tuesday 2nd oct > 4th dec.
ideally i want an experienced telesales person with a good telephone manner preferably with experience of the uk on trade
target outlets & tele numbers will be provided , although there will be an element of autonomy / expectation of self reliance.
the short list of project bidders would be expected to phone me using the basic script to show me their selling abilities & telephone manner
i need a quote based on a per hour rate
the project winner could also expect further work throughout next year , depending on the success of the website
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Create Addictive Flash Game |
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Bids Received : 4 |
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I am looking for unique addicting flash games.
if you have created some, send me the link to them and i will tell you if i am interested or not.
it is important that players get addicted on the games and that the game also provides a high score; so that players can defeat each other to do better.
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ArticleLive Template |
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Bids Received : 5 |
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I need someone create a skin/template for my site based on interspire articlelive (http://www.interspire.com/articlelive).
- simple, clean, friendly site. should feel comfortable and inviting.
- should be w3c compliant
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Multiple 'basic website development' |
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Bids Received : 18 |
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I need a provider that can create a qual... View More >> |
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I need a provider that can create a quality and speedy turnaround of multiple websites. the websites will be based on a max of 3 different templates, with text & visuals supplied by myself. each brochure website will be 6>7 pages and all will include 1 x updatable news page and 1 x updatable information area page. 3 elements are important
1) consistent quality
2) speed of turnaround
3) price
so long as the written use of english is of excellent quality , it does not matter where in the world the web pages are produced.
what i require now is
1) a template of the information that you would require with the submission of the website request. (in a word format)
2) at least three url's of websites that you have produced
3) your bid per website
the target number of websites jan > dec 08 = 24, but this could be higher or it could be lower !!.the best way to deal with that would be to have an agreement that was based on 24 websites if this was exceeded then a refund would be due to me of £?? per website , if it was not achieved then an additional payment would be due to you of £?? per website.
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Buyer Profile
Richard Romain
Managing Partner |
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Company Profile
Answers & Solutions Kent
Sector: Telemarketing, Number of Staff :9 |
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| About the company |
| I am the Managing Partner of Answers & Solutions Kent which is a telemarketing company. We work for smaller businesses, finding new clients, making appointments, list cleaning, market research and customer surveys. There are seven of us (about to go up to nine) and we all work remotely – we are a virtual company. |
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| How my business benefited |
| "We have had three projects completed by people through Peopleperhour.com We are really pleased with the way it works. It has bought us into contact with a wide range of designers with differing skills." |
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| "I was quoted £160 for translating the text from English into Spanish by two translation agencies and I am getting the work done for £45 by one of the bidders on Peopelperhour.com" |
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Projects Posted by Richard Romain |
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Telemarketing |
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Bids Received : 9 |
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Telemarketing to b2b prospects for a ran... View More >> |
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Telemarketing to b2b prospects for a range of clients. must be experienced in telemarketing. work from home. must have computer, telephone line and broadband access.
we will provide telemarketing software and full training in how to use. we are a small, family friendly firm of seven people. we need to add another telemarketer to our team. hours and days are flexible. << View Less |
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Asbestos Training leaflet |
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Bids Received : 9 |
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This leaflet has been produced by the cl... View More >> |
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This leaflet has been produced by the client as a pdf file and now needs re-designing to give it more impact. there are no photographs available.
this needs doing this week!
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Re-design Asbestos Training Leaflet |
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Bids Received : 6 |
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This leaflet needs some design input. to... View More >> |
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This leaflet needs some design input. to give it more sales impact. see www.alltrain.co.uk for more information and to see the client's house style.
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Hard Hat Mailer |
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Bids Received : 6 |
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We have been working with this client fo... View More >> |
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We have been working with this client for two months, generating appointments for him to see managing directors of businesses with sales of between £1 million and £10 million, who have something that is keeping them awake!
see the brochure attached for more information and look at the website - www.hardhatbusiness.com. the client has written a book on boosting sales - see http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3dstripbooks&field-keywords=bob gorton.
we are finding it a challenge to get past the gatekeepers. so we want to create a mailer (not a letter, we have tried that) which will get on the mds' desks. we think the message has to be "if you do nothing else, give this man half an hour - he could transform your business as he has with many others". you can use some of the testimonials he has on the website (also attached).
we can also offer a free copy of his book (but it is delivered and signed by the author himself)!
we are looking for an exciting creative concept and for you to turn that into a pdf for printing. we will handle the printing. << View Less |
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Buyer Profile
Debra White
Owner |
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Company Profile
Debra White Business Coaching
Sector: Business Coaching, Number of Staff :1 + Freelancers |
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| About the company |
| As specialists in executive coaching and leadership development, we offer a range of business consulting services designed to help you find the questions and uncover the solutions. By combining this knowledge with your expertise, we can help facilitate positive growth for both you and your organisation. |
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| How my business benefited |
| "People Per Hour is the ideal tool to connect buyers with professionals. It offers a quick and cost-effective solution for a one-off or long term project. We are delighted with the work completed by our chosen provider and shall definitely consider using People Per Hour again for future projects." |
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| "Based on our understanding of average rates for copywriters, we consider ourselves to have saved £140 (or 50%) on this job alone. Moreover, we'd rate our chosen provider, Sue Dunn, as well above average, so consider we were also able to access a very high quality service. I think the People per Hour system works well for the provider as well as the buyer as costs of acquiring new business and time spent in identifying quality providers is significantly reduced on both sides. In short, it's the ideal solution for time-constrained small businesses." |
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Projects Posted by Debra White |
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Copy writing/editing/support |
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Bids Received : 13 |
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I'm a business coach in the process of a... View More >> |
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I'm a business coach in the process of a marketing review. i'm upgrading my website and brochure, and need help with the copy.
the material's there already but i feel a professional writer would be able to convert my amateurish attempts into something more powerful. i would aim to start small and allocate more work as we build up a relationship and establish trust. the jobs that spring to mind immediately are:
1. certain parts of my website blurb
2. my biog (i'd let you have a look at my cv – you may see things i can't)
3. a small 8-page brochure describing my services
4. reviewing and editing my own submissions to my discussion forum.
at a later date i might ask you to research a certain topic and maybe pull together a summary, a few thoughts, or even an article on some chosen subject for the discussion forum. but that's a bit further along the road.
if you understand and are able to write with search engine optimisation in mind, that's a real bonus!
my ideal candidate would have the following:
• an upbeat tone
• a style that's professional, factual and conversational
• broad awareness of business & the economy
• quality of writing equivalent to that of professional business publications
• warmth, empathy and a sense of humour
• an understanding of hr, management development, personal development
• open to possibility in life! - not cynical :-)
• a willingness to challenge me and my thinking
• willingness to share new ideas or thoughts about new opportunities
i'd prefer to work with a fixed fee per job rather than an hourly rate ongoingly, but am open to suggestions about how to organise pricing. i appreciate you taking the trouble to read this far and look forward to receiving your application.
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Gaynor Ridgway
Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
Business Support Services
PPH Earnings: £1175.00
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| Are you a home worker? For how long? |
| Yes, I am. Have been working from home for approximately 6 months now. |
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| Gave up my full-time employment at end of May 2007 |
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| I was Group Finance Director for a corporate travel company – huge pressure, 70/80 hour weeks |
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Loads! On the work front, primarily no guaranteed income – causing sleepless nights, no colleague support/interaction, long quiet days when I am free to get on with my work without all the interruptions that come when working with others, but I often don't actually see or talk to anyone – so a sense of isolation. I talk more to my cat! Lots of self-motivation needed, and lots of confidence because you don't really have anyone to bounce your 'rejections' off and could easily sink into a little hole and not want to come out again! Despite all this, I do feel far less stressed, and appreciate the fact that I can work flexibly, having an afternoon off if needed but can then work in the evening etc.
On the personal front, reduced income has affected my previous spending patterns, but, then again, you don't actually need to spend as much if you're not topping up the office wardrobe etc. The sense of isolation, in my case anyway, spreads over a little into my personal life too as some of my friends were work colleagues from whom I now feel very remote and with whom I now have little in common. So I have started to appreciate more the necessity to develop a 'new' social life to get more of a work/life balance. Very, very important for this homeworker who – living alone - would otherwise become a total recluse! |
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| A mixture of both |
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| Has your personal life improved? How? |
| See above. I am a lot more relaxed and calm than I was, and will have more time for friendships than previously. |
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| How difficult was the transition? What were the key challenges faced? |
| It has been extremely difficult, the key challenges really being the changes detailed above, and the ongoing difficulties of establishing a new business in terms of client base. This is the most difficult thing of all. |
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| Being home-based means that I can work flexibly to meet clients' deadlines and requirements, and am 'on site' if an urgent job crops us. |
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| ???? I have no intentions to give up working from home, and certainly wouldn't go back to working for anyone else in a normal office environment. |
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| What would you advise people looking to make that transition? |
| To be really sure that you have the sort of personality that copes with isolation. Lots of people like the idea of doing it but would struggle with the reality of the loneliness and lack of peer support. |
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| How has Peopleperhour.com helped you since you joined? |
| It's been brilliant. I log on regularly to look for the latest projects and bid for all those which I know I can do well. Have now been awarded 2 projects, both giving me the opportunity to do the type of work I enjoy. I intend to keep using the site. It's way ahead of its nearest competitor, and totally user-friendly. |
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Johnathan Whalvin
Southampton, United Kingdom
Website/Graphic Designer
PPH Earnings: £2525.00
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| Are you a home worker? For how long? |
| Yes I am a home worker and have been so for just under 6 months. |
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| I started preparing for it middle of last year and made the leap at the end of September 2007. |
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| What did you used to do professionally before? |
| I have been working in Graphics and Website Design since leaving university in 1997. I worked for a range of companies from being part of marketing teams for large international blue-chip companies, advertising agencies as well as small local design firms servicing the local community. |
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| What have been the major changes / differences in your work and your personal life? |
| Happiness, I had a number of reasons to make the move with significant impact on both work and personal. From a work point of view I can obviously work the way I believe is right and provide the customers with the service that I believe the work deserves at a cost that I deem fair. |
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| The decision was both business and personal. To cut to the chase, from the business side I was becoming more and more disillusioned by the way companies I was working for were seeing and treating clients as nothing more than an invoice, obviously the end point has to be to make money but in the design field I believe that if you produce great design and not just value the customer but involve them in the process then everyone wins and the customers are also far more likely to repeat. From a personal point of view, my daughter was one and a half and I felt I was missing her growing up. No matter where you work you cannot see everything but the opportunity is there to be far more a part of her life. |
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| My personal life has improved greatly, from having breakfast as a family to being able to make time for simple things like taking our daughter to feed the ducks, or taking an hour out of the week to take her to swimming lessons. I am also less stressed as being the master of my own destiny so to speak I can manage my time better which benefits my marriage and our joint happiness. |
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| How difficult was the transition? What were the key challenges faced? |
| As with any transition there is worry involved. I was lucky enough to have a few clients come on board almost exactly at the time of change over but I was able to make the move as after 10 years in the business I had gradually made the right contacts which I was able to call upon or had in place to help generate initial security. The added value of sites such as people per hour are also highly beneficial. There is no obvious guarantee to get every job that you put a bid in for but there is a chance as long as you are honest, fair and realistic about the service you are offering, they also have a great rating system so service buyers get an idea about what you can offer and a good indication from past buyers to the quality of the work done. |
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| What was the biggest benefit to your business (if any)? |
| The biggest benefit is the freedom to work how I want to. Over the last 10 years I gained a lot of beneficial experience but was also present to see a lot of mistakes being made. I took all these on board and bear them in mind with every job I undertake and so far the reaction from all my clients is very positive. |
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| Would you go back to working from home? |
| Simply put, NO, even though I have not been doing this for that long I think my mind has been ready for this for a lot longer, I just had to wait for the right time. Saying that though if I was approached and offered a position where my talents and experience were used as a source to benefit a company I may be tempted but that has been offered before and was not the case so I would be wary. |
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| What would you advise people looking to make that transition? |
| Get the business experience and contacts first, just because you set up a company does not mean you will get work. Open the yellow pages and look up your chosen industry and you will have an idea how many competitors you have and that is just locally. Also having some sort of hoo | | | |