There are other ways. Check back for updates. Ads keep showing up that cry out for SEO and now SERP. O, Acronym! SERP stands for Search English Response Page. O, Brother!
Please reply with a brief proposal for SEO / SERP and any additional marketing ideas.
Here is the entire Craigslist ad:
I'm a small healthcare business in downtown Denver, and I'd like to start comprehensive marketing.
I've had trouble finding a marketing company that understands the needs of a small business - including its budget.
I'm looking for someone who has the resources to improve my website design and also SEO / SERP.
If you've got graphic design skills or other marketing skills (ideas, connections, etc.) - then let's talk about those as well.
Please reply with a brief proposal for SEO / SERP and any additional marketing ideas.
But given what Bill Myers sent me, these links here would at least direct someone toward more specific results. SEO is not to be taken lightly. I initially thought that all that was required was ad placement on a site, including an extra Google tool or two. Not so. Not by a long shot. First, here is what SERP means,
A search engine results page (SERP) is the page displayed by a search engine in response to a query by a searcher. The main component of theSERPis the listing of results that are returned by the search engine in response to a keyword query, although the page may also contain other results such as advertisements.
The ad
was headlined, "Need Malware Fixed on Site." My site was hacked
and needs fixing. I need someone located in Denver (preferably South). I want
to sit at a Starbucks and get it fixed.I am paying $100 to fix it and am
guessing that it won't take more than 2 hours (?) but you would know better
than me. Either way, that is what I am paying.
The site has affected a few other sites that have all been shut down. Once the
affected files are removed, they will all be fine.
Do not contact if you are not in Denver and cannot sit down at a
Starbucks. So, how does one fix such a problem
2.
Make $200 a Sale Selling Awesome Websites That Help Clients Sell
We have a
great new website design that will help our clients sell more.Website includes;
.com, hosting (1yr), awesome design, booking capability, Instagram feed, mobile
phone friendly and optimized for Google search.The websites cost $499, and you
get $200 for each website sold.
Will give you some warm leads, and I will show you how to find qualified leads
easily.You must also be willing to be creative and find leads.This can be done
over the phone, text, email or in person.If you have a tablet or iPad it's a
great presentation in person.I also have other marketing services to offer for
upselling later on.
Let's start making money today!
Call Ron at 714.386.9127
We're a small valet parking that has had the same web site design
for 8 years. We are looking to use 90% of the same copy, but use a different
format making the web site look more up to date.
We have a small budget and was hoping to find someone willing to
take on the job.
The design we're looking to upgrade to is similar to this
site: http://biemspray.com/.
Go Daddy currently hosts our site. There are 5 pages to our site.
Please provide references of web sites you have designed.
Thank you in advance for your consideration.
That at least gives you an idea what people are
looking for.
4. I am looking for someone to help me upgrade my
website that i currently have with GoDaddy , I own a small Limousine Company
and have an Existing running Website, i do feel i can upgrade the website with
someone with Experience , I am not looking for a company to run the website for
me all i need is to upgrade my existing website . My current Website is Socalprivatetransport.com i
made it myself with pretty much no web design knowledge , please send me your
contact info if you are interested in making some cash also it would be great
if you send me a website that you have develop of have worked on thanks any
questions feel free to text me thanks !!! Call JR at 310-867-5413.
We are a highly experienced, and
technologically progressive web design company in the Denver area.
We are seeking strong business partners to help with the marketing and
sale of our products. We possess a very solid work portfolio, and client list,
to aid deal generation from inception to closure. We are in addition the sole
US based partners in a content management system (CMS), that in our opinion
strongly out-performs all the CMS solutions we've investigated (dozens). In
other words we show a highly credible hand.
Job Responsibilities* Professionally sell Website design, graphic
design, web and app development,SEO, E-commerce...services our company offers*
Help us expand our client roster*Identify new areas of opportunity for our
systems to be utilized*Grow our referral network*Grow your opportunities for
significant income generation going forward, while maintaining your autonomy.
I am dumbfounded by some of the offers on
Craigslist here in Denver or anywhere for that matter. "In other
words, we show a highly credible hand." That's it? That's
their selling point? That's their Unique Sales Position? Give me a
break. And they're offering a 30% flat commission? It should be
"flat 30% commission," for it is that--flat. I love it.
30% of what? Of what they hope to earn? And what they hope to
earn is based on your hard work?
I have 3
companies that are looking to move into ecommerce. We have sites built, but our
web person just moved and is no longer with us. We are looking for someone to
run, manage, blog, social media, etc.....whatever it takes to generate sales.
Your compensation is 20% of all sales from the
website (including ebay/amazon/shopify/ whatever medium you use). If you are a
master, you can make thousands a month. It will take time to build it up to
that point, I believe.Need ecommerce expert for commission position.
This gem offers 20% commission. What has happened to the
economy? It is in the tank. And these are the good offers I am
finding on Craigslist. Unbelievable. How is anybody making it
anywhere?
_____________________________________________
7. Shopify Web Updates Needed -
Beauty Company (Denver)
Battington
Lashes, a beauty start-up based in Denver, is looking
for someone with experience in making Shopify Website Updates (videos,
graphics, etc.). You will need to email examples of work, references, as well
as price estimate per hour of work.
Please visit Battingtonlashes.com to get a feel for the
work we will be looking for.
Here is another example. Their rate?
"Compensation TBD based on your quote provided." I guess
it is true that everything nowadays is negotiable up front, after you sign on,
and after you leave. It's all negotiable.
We have an
exciting position for an IT person to create and manage a website for a
mid-sized company and become a partner in the success of the company.
This website
will be created and managed by you!!!
This would not
take a lot of time for someone who has expertise in this line of work, but
could have a huge payoff.
If interested,
please reply with a resume with experience and we will call you back with the
details.
So there it is--such a little promise to pay. For
compensation, it reads "Depending on Experience."
___________________________________________
9. Here is one out of Beverly Hills, calling for "SEO for my site."
I want to offer 10% equity for you to give me insanely good SEO and a
small marketing budget for something.... Details to follow after you sign an
NDA.
I prefer you to be crazy and/or ambitious.
Wow! This one is even more vague than
many and most of the others.
__________________________________________
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
10. This may be withing my reach.
And I am linking their email
address for their post here. Title for the position read
"WordPress updates and maintenance."
Word Press help needed. We need some general maintenance, updating and
corrections as well as a re-direct. You must be reliable, efficient and
available. Must have good attention to detail, able to follow direction
and check your own work. Must have references. Do not need creative help. ________________________________________________ Thursday, October 20, 2016 11. Here is the ad I found this morning:
Short term position available helping me organize my contacts and sales leads using "Salesforce" software.
I did not know that Salesforce was used to organize contacts or lists. Why not, don't they all do this? What is Salesforce exactly? It is a CRM, a customer relationship management. Okay, so that explains how it can be used to compile lists. It sounds like Salesforce would be the very thing you'd need if you're organizing business contacts. Wikipedia has this on Salesforce,
Salesforce also capitalizes on commercial applications of social networking through acquisition. As of early 2016, it is one of the most highly valued American cloud computing companies with a market capitalizationabove $55 billion,[5] although the company has never turned a GAAP profit in any fiscal year since its inception in 1999.
This is quite a statement
Salesforce is the primary enterprise offering within the Salesforce1 Platform. It provides companies with an interface for case management and task management, and a system for automatically routing and escalating important events. The Salesforce customer portal provides customers the ability to track their own cases, includes a social networking plug-in that enables the user to join the conversation about their company on social networking websites, provides analytical tools and other services including email alert, Google search, and access to customers' entitlement and contracts.
Looks like there is a suite of services or software within the Salesforce platform. Just so that I know, Salesforce1 (pronounced as salesforce one) is salesforce's mobile application forAndroidandiOS.
IoT stands for the Internet of Things. What it is, who uses it, for what, I have no clue. Too much to know in the tech world. _______________________________________________
This is a decent video. There are exams one takes to demonstrate proficiency with Salesforce? Wow. There are individual Salesforce Editions. 1) Salesforce Pro is the stand-alone edition. It allows you track deals, opportunities, and products. It's a starter version of Salesforce. 2) Enterprise is the most popular edition within Salesforce. Workflow rules. Robust security. Built out something on your own or in the cloud. 3) Unlimited Edition--higher limits, multiple sandbox. More tabs. Additional data storage. ________________________________________________ 12. Sunday, October 23, 2016 Here is another job. It asks for knowledge of Duplicator. Job description writes
We are looking for an experienced WordPress CMS user to complete our E-Commerce website. Must be able to use "Duplicator" and be living in the Denver area and have your own transportation. Email us your credentials.
What is next?
__________________________________________________ 13. Sunday, October 23, 2016 Here's another that asks for knowledge of Squarespace, which looks like another web builder site.
Looking for a website to be built for a small business I own. We sell high end art, furniture and other things. Have some pictures of items (100+) to get started. Looking for someone who can work with me to get this setup through squarespace. Would like to pay hourly for this gig but am open to taking quotes on this too.
Next? ___________________________________________ 14. Monday, October 24, 2016 SQL Server, 2016. Business analytics and management platform.
Next. ____________________________________________ 15. Monday, October 24, 2016. A South Denver-based corporate company is looking for a Front End Developer with UX skills to join their in-house creative team on a freelance to full-time basis. den10@jobalert.creativecircle.com.
Proficiencies: Deliverables will be 50% Front End Development / 50% everything else from rich media banner ads, prototyping, and animation - everything from small to large projects.
- 5+ years of agency or in-house experience - HTML, CSS & JavaScript - Edge & Rich Banner Ad Experience. Edge is an Adobe product.
Adobe Edge Animate, formerly known as simply Adobe Edge, is a web development tool developed by Adobe Systems that uses HTML5, Javascript, and CSS3 functionality. It is now a part of Adobe Edge suite, and is available as a free 30-day trial download from Adobe Creative Cloud.
This video is good.
Here is what you can do with Adobe Edge.
_____________________________________________________________________ 16. Monday, October 24, 2016 Looking for simple html templates, Graphic Design, also more complex asp.net sql server websites.
These guys are out of Los Angeles. They're Craigslist contact number is spjjt-5843369677@gigs.craigslist.org. ________________________________________________ 17. Thursday, October 27, 2016 Break this job down. LoDo IT is a full service IT outsourcing company located in the heart of Denver. We are looking for a Jr. Admin for 2 major clients in Arvada and Golden. Looking for around 25-30 hours a week to start but can easily turn into full time.
An IP address is an address used in order to uniquely identify a device on an IP network. The address is made up of 32 binary bits, which can be divisible into a network portion and host portion with the help of a subnet mask. ... The value in each octet ranges from 0 to 255 decimal, or 00000000 - 11111111 binary.
- Windows desktop support - Computer builds - Dell Servers, Laptops and All-in-Ones - Microsoft Office - Mac OS X support - Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions - Spyware/Anti-Virus software and remediation experience - iOS & Android configuration and troubleshooting - Great software and hardware troubleshooting skills with ability to quickly track down and fix problems - Ability to provide telephone and remote support - Current Microsoft and Apple certifications desired, but not a requirement
- Superior writing and communication skills* - Excellent customer service*
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
One of my all-time favorite commercials.
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
A job from Creative Circle popped up today, called Digital Asset Manager. It's a real thing. It even has a Wikipedia page. From that Wikipedia page we read
Digital asset management (DAM) consists of management tasks and decisions surrounding the ingestion, annotation, cataloging, storage, retrieval and distribution of digital assets. Digital photographs, animations, videos and music exemplify the target areas of media asset management (a sub-category of DAM).
So, based on that definition, do you know it is and what they do? That's what I thought.
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Position: Web Designer (Marketo, marketing automation software) Location: Orange County (Central) Status: Freelance Estimated Duration: Ongoing Starts: Within the Week Rate: Up to $27.50/hr Depending on experience. Companies choose Marketo to provide solutions in the following areas: Lead Management Email Marketing Consumer Marketing Customer Base Marketing Mobile Marketing
Job Description: Web Designer
Our client, a mortgage company is looking for a Web Designer to build landing pages.
The Web Designer will be designing and coding landing pages. Also will be deploying the campaigns through Marketo.
Web Designer Requirements: > MUST know Marketo. Here are some Marketo tutorials. > Adobe Creative Suite > HTML and CSS
See
the link here.
For more business ideas, see this list. I can tell that me just posting this sentence, link, and idea that I am not serious about starting a business. I don't have the energy. Not any more. People have beat the shit out of me. Literally. And then those that have not, are dismissive, rude, losers.
The
question arose, "What are some good businesses to start in
2016?" (Aren't we a little late for that? I am being
cynical.) Looks like the guy who created this post was James Comptom. I don't know who he is. In his About page, he writes that he's a father of three and he loves travel and freedom. Okay. And that is new or helpful how? His Landing Page has a video where he talks about how to sell drone services with energy companies who will pay lots of money to have their energy plant structures inspected via a drone. I don't know. Didn't finish watching all of it. Maybe. But he lays out no plan, just an idea.
Then he offers food delivery service as a business to start. Why? He says you can "net" over a $20,000. Do these guys just make these figures up? Where does he get this number? Then he qualifies it, "In the right market" without identifying the right market. I am beginning to sound like John Spangler from my real estate days. He does say that he's "personally setup some companies like this and here’s how it all
works step-by-step. I’ll do my best to take all the confusion out
and answer all questions" offering up his landing page at James-Compton.
What about proof? We all need proof, right? Well here he is offering up his Quora post. That post was titled "What is the best business to start with the lowest overhead?" I copied the contents of his post and reprinted them below. I don't know whether he still subscribes to the points he committed to digits. He even provides steps. Here it is:
To
be clear, what I’m talking about is a website, that essentially
connects all the restaurants in your city, which also dispatches
orders to drivers via their mobile phones. Sound too good to be true?
You can easily set this up for under $500.
So, wait, create a single website from which residents can order from all restaurants? That just does not make sense. At all. But here is his plan:
Step
1 - Website + Restaurant Menus. You’ll want to drive
around to all the restaurants who you want to work with and grab
their menus. Next you’ll input these menus into your website. There
are several companies offering a turn-key SAAS solution [software as a service] for this
starting at $99.00. This includes website and phone apps
for both owner and delivery drivers. Next you google the
name of the restaurant and locate their logo. Then you’ll upload
that logo to the menu.
Step
2 - Delivery company name + domain. You’ll
want to find a cool name for your delivery company. For example, if
I’m in Chicago, I could name the delivery service “Windy City
Delivery”. Next, you’ll search GoDaddy or some other domain
service to check name availability. Doing so you’ll
see http://windycitydelivery.com is
available. So it’s a $2.99 charge and you’ve got (1) your company
name, and (2) company domain name.
Step
3 - Your delivery logo. You’ll obviously want a business
logo for your delivery company. Get one of these from Fiverr or
99designs.
Step
4 - Form a legal business organization. Simply go to your state
website and fill out the required paperwork (LLC, INC, etc). Some
states charge as little a $70 for this others charge a couple
hundred.
Step
5 - Business pitch for the restaurant. Essentially, you’re
going to be bringing them extra customers the restaurant wouldn’t
ordinarily have. So you’ll have to agree with splitting a certain
percentage of the orders with the restaurant. Sometimes it’s 15%.
It all just depends on your negotiating skills.
Step
6 - **Big Bonus Tip** - On your website, you’ll create
what’s called a “General Store”. For example, if my delivery
service is called “Windy City Delivery” (for Chicago), I’d
create a place on the website called “Windy City Delivery”. And
this store would provide all kinds of different goods such as Red
Bull, toilet paper, Cokes, Water, diapers, gum, etc. You get the
drift. This serves to act as a type of Walmart, or Amazon delivery.
The more services and goods you offer the better :-)
Step
7 - Marketing. Market your new company like crazy across all
social media sites. Visit places like school, hospitals, any big
company that employs a lot of people and hand them your business
cards telling them about the service you provide.
Step
8 - Sit back and watch your delivery biz grow. Note
on Markets - the $20,000 net per week figure comes from a population
of about 220,000.
Starting
something like this offers a lot of benefits, namely: speed of
creating and opening it, making big net revenue in a short amount of
time < 6 months, and a hook (general store) that keeps people
coming back for more (returning customers).
Above
all of this, a delivery company offers the ability for the owner to
make income all while not really doing much of anything save for
making sure the website is up and running and the drivers are doing
their job correctly.
Collectively, the 77 information and cybersecurity certifications tracked by Foote Partners have outperformed all other categories, rising 4.4 percent in value between January 1 and June 30.
“Security has moved from a compliance expenditure to a discretionary expenditure,” Foote explained. “Companies are willing to invest more as the threats intensify and expand, and that’s driving up the value of certifications. If you look across the category, penetration testing was the biggest winner.”
The premium pay that employers are willing to shell out for the following three security certs rose 40 to 50 percent:
While these certs may not have experienced some of the largest increases in value over the last six months, they registered noteworthy gains of between 18 to 26 percent; Foote believes they will continue to increase in value going forward:
PMI Program Management Professional (PgMP)
Certified Cyber Forensics Professional (CCFP)
Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE)
GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java (GSSP-JAVA)
Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Black Belt
IT Certifications: Market Value Decliners
Foote attributed the drop in market value for the two certs from Juniper Networks to the maturity of the programs, allowing the supply of certified talent to catch up with demand. The surprising decline in an associate level PM certification is due to the growth of more challenging roles that call for far more experience. The decreases for these five certs ranged from 25 to 37.5 percent:
Juniper Networks Certified Internet Professional (JNCIP)
Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
CompTIA Network+
Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE)
Non-Certified Skills: Market Value Gainers
The following skills experienced an increase in market value ranging from 28.6 to 50 percent over the first six months of the year:
SAP MII (Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence)
SAP FI (Financial Accounting)
SAP SRM (Supplier Relationship Management)
EMC Documentum
Complex Event Processing/Event Correlation
J.D. Edwards (Oracle)
Google Cloud Platform
Front End Development
Long-Term Winners
If you’re looking to boost your market value, Foote is also bullish on the following noncertified skills that have been rising in value. In fact, he predicts that their value will continue to grow for the rest of this year and into the first quarter of 2017.
Prescriptive Analytics
Predictive Analytics and Modeling
Apache Zookeeper
DevOps
Apache Spark
Cloudera Impala
Six Sigma/Lean Six Sigma
Amazon RedShift
Redis
Non-Certified Skills: Market Value Decliners
These non-certified skills posted declines ranging from 25 to 37.5 percent since the start of the year:
