Buying my services - remote access enabled
I have decided to make it easier to buy my services for those on a budget.Normally, my clients pay me a 'day rate' in order to work with me and I visit their offices and we work together on projects. Following the beginning of a project with a new client, Afia , I have decided to offer a new way of working using remote technologies.
If you have a biz dev project that can be briefed remotely, discussed using email and Skype, then this service may be of interest to you.
Ben Afia runs a "tone of voice" consultancy and has started working with me on this remote basis.
- He briefed me with a document detailing the particular circumstances of his business and his vision for building it into something larger.
- I read the brief and we had a Skype conversation to discuss the issues and questions raised and to decide on a plan of action.
- Ben is now activating most of the work himself - but has benefitted from introductions I make to other organisations who may help him achieve his biz dev goals.
- And he will come back for more advice when he has run out of things to do or encounters an issue or problem.
For this type of work, I require you to buy one half day (4 hours) of my time in advance. And the 'day rate' is substantially reduced to reflect remote access and the fact that you will be doing most of the activation work.
Ben has agreed to act as a reference for Rebecca Caroe remote services.
Do you have a service that can be offered remotely? Could this method work for you in order to widen the range of possible customers for your business? I am hoping that this will both bring my service into the price range of more organisations and also enable work with people not in my time zone.
Let me know what you think!
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Posted 26 May 2008
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1. At 26 May 2008 09:18, Philip Sheldrake wrote:
Sounds like an excellent plan Rebecca, one I'm sure will achieve your objective.
Just some quick feedback for Afia. Having visited their website, I can see they have good copy (which, as copywriters, one would hope they would!), but unless my Firefox developers toolbox is letting me down, it appears the text is completely invisible to search engine crawlers. This is not good news, as web copy must be written for humans first, but with search engines a close second for obvious reasons.
The content (ie, the words) should be broken out of the Flash in XML rather than embedded into it.
Here's two links. The first explains what I'm saying at greater length. The second is a link to our sister company whose website adheres to these principles (navigate to any page, then click View Page Source and compare this to doing the same for the Afia site).
http://blog.deconcept.com/2006/03/13/modern-approach-flash-seo/
http://www.ringleaderdigital.com
2. At 27 May 2008 05:08, Rebecca Caroe wrote:
Philip
Thanks for your support and comment here. Yes, the site is built in flash and, as you say, invisible to search.
The plan is to add in a blog onto the same URL which will help overcome this in the short term.
I will alert Ben to your comments - he's pretty busy (happy) having just won a huge job for a household name insurer!
Rebecca Caroe