article thumbnail

How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

Allwork

Many freelancers and small business owners optimize their personal social media pages to better advertise their services. Erin Balsa, head of content marketing at The Predictive Index , has been hiring freelance writers since 2011 and managing them since 2015. That’s why we recommend an onboarding checklist. Her secret?

article thumbnail

Last Minute Tips to Generate Business During the Holidays

Step It Up VA Coaching

Offer a limited-time-only discount on products and/or services if they sign up by December 31. Put the word out in your ezine, blog, and social media, before you head out for the holidays. Share with them your excitement about your new offerings and goals in 2011, and ask for them to help you spread the word.

Holidays 100
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Life After Twitter And Facebook

Brilliantly Better

When you meet someone new you don’t get automatically in your mailbox a letter promoting his latest hugely discounted ebook. Historians will be puzzled by the unexplainable extinction of an entire species, called “social media expert&#. © Dragos Roua for Dragos Roua - Brilliantly Better , 2011. Presto!&#.

article thumbnail

Can personal customer service survive in a digital world?

Service Untitled

If all goes well during a purchase or service, chances are the tweets, emails, and text message applications so readily available have helped to engage our customers with loyalty programs, discounts, rewards, and product information. How to improve customer service in the digital world Wachovia turned into Wells Fargo in March 2011.

article thumbnail

Why Aren't Newspapers Doing Social Shopping?

Small Business Labs

  The deals are generally discounted.  In the case of social shopping, I have no idea why they aren't aggressively pursuing it. .  The leader in this space is the start-up Groupon , which just raised $125 million and is valued at over $1 billion.    Groupon is an online collective buying service. 

2010 100
article thumbnail

Is Sam's Club the Answer to the Small Business Credit Crunch?

Small Business Labs

  They are piloting a program that offers discounted loans to their small business customers. Sam’s Club members who apply for a small business loan online during the test phase will receive $100 off the application fee and a 25 basis point discount on the loan rate ( click here for fee and loan details ).

2010 100
article thumbnail

Please Take "The Organizational Use of Video Storytelling" Survey

Small Business Labs

All survey participants will receive a complimentary copy of the executive summary of the survey results and a special discount to attend the 2010 Society for New Communications Research Symposium, which will be held in November in Palo Alto, CA, where the findings will be shared.   Click Here to Take the Survey.

2010 100