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Hide your project from Search Engines!

Published
by
Product Team
on September 22, 2008
in Business, Freelance, Freelancing, LimeExchange, Person to Person Outsourcing, Product Update, SMB, Security, Service Providers, Small and Medium Business and outsourcing
. 0 Comments

Hide from search engine, Privacy, COnfidentialityWanted to hide your requirements, project from search engines?

Wanted to ensure your project requirement remained private but you received competitive bids?

Had some confidential, important requirements, but did not want others to know?

Now users have this flexibility provided within LimeExchange project posting.

At LimeExchange Buyers always had the flexibility of posting a project as either Private, which meant that though the project would not be visible to public view and also not search-able by search engines, buyers still had to invite known providers to bid and execute the project. Or as Public, which meant that the project was visible in public view, to all users and outside world and also search-able by search engines.  Or as Premium, which allowed all premium providers, who have clearly shown their intent of executing projects via LimeExchange by opting for a premium package, to bid on the projects, thus restricting competition on such projects to only definitely interested providers. Private project had the advantage of ensuring that any discrete requirements were maintained as discrete, while Public projects ensured competitive bidding from around the globe and Premium projects ensured that the buyerwith the requirements was assured of quality bids from serious providers.

Realizing that Buyers wanted a middle path available to them as well, where their requirements were maintained as discrete and not visible in general public view but still benefitted from having users participating competitively and vying for this business.

At LimeExchange now Buyers have the flexibility of ensuring that their requirements (Confidential, Private requirements), posted as a project, are visible to all LimeExchange users only, so that while they benefit from active participation from all users, the requirements are hidden from the world and all the search engines, RSS feeds.  Buyers do not need to invite providers to bid and LimeExchange registered providers can bid freely on these projects, while Buyers maintain privacy of their requirements to within LimeExchange.

All LimeExchange users would be able to see these projects after logging into LimeExchange only and not from simple project search and these projects would not be visible to the outside world.

We invite all users to post their comments and provide feedback.

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Update: 10 Things to remember to Improve your Online Visibility & Earnings

Published
by
Pawan Agarwal
on July 7, 2008
in Freelance, Freelancing, LimeExchange, Person to Person Outsourcing, Product Update, SMB, Security, Service Providers, Small and Medium Business and outsourcing
. 1 Comment

Identity, ProfileLimeExchange understands the nuances of a highly competitive Freelance & Online Services Outsourcing market and calls out the following 10 steps from its experience and feedback, to help you differentiate yourself, gain better visibility/responses and better your chances of sharing & earning via LimeExchange:

1. Create your Detailed Profile - “Your Profile represents your online Identity“. Try and provide as much detail as possible about yourself, your experience, skills, certifications and education to help users gauge your competencies realistically.

Profile, Online portfolio

2. Profile Portfolio - Emphasis should be given in attaching a detailed portfolio of your past work, certain references, which would help increase your credibility. Invite Friends, Colleagues to create your Business Network to provide credible references.

3. Profile Image - It always helps for a online user to relate with a Photograph/Picture and put a face to a name. A Picture speaks a thousand words, so rather than using Icon’s use your profile photo and help establish a credibility to your online user name.

4. Profile Video - Very relevant to SMB’s (Small Medium Business) to showcase their office, Infrastructure and Team. Showcase any Corporate Flash Video (If published on YouTube) helps you provide any user with attractive medium information about your organization

Rating, Feedback, Profile

5. Rating & Feedback - Use Profile: ‘English Fluency’ self rating to provide a clear picture, to users who want to exchange information/services in English, and enable them to understand your communication abilities better and early and create a valued relationship. Provide references & candid feedback to ensure you serve the community and the community is enabled to serve you.

6. Relate to Categories - If you require or provide services in more than one category, then update your profile and add all relevant categories to your profile. This helps you participate in your relevant service categories.

7. Detail your Requirement/Bid - When posting a project or bidding on a project, provide as much references, relevant information to enable either party to understand each others requirement better. Try and answer the questions on What? Why? When? How? How Much? within the content of your post. Just having this information reduces the overhead communication, builds a level of confidence in one’s abilities to collaborate and enhances everyone’s experience.

8. Define Business Agreement (Terms of Engagement) - At any time during Bidding stage, try and provide as much detail on Scope of Work, Cost and Timelines. Create a Draft in LimeExchange and tailor it for every Bid to relate to the project requirement. Any Buyer of services wants to ensure first hand information about Cost & Schedule and this goes a long way in establishing trust with the Buyer.

Business Agreement, Milestone, Terms of Engagement

9. Define Milestones - Within Business Agreement or Terms of Engagement, ensure along with Bid, Milestones are clearly defined with corresponding schedule and payment terms. Again as much information to a Buyer on Cost and Schedule implications involved helps build a mutually beneficial relationship.

Business Agreement, Milestone, Terms of Engagement

10. Rely on PMB - Using ‘Private Message Board‘ ensures that users engaged in a discussion are alerted early via email, alerts about messages, responses. Your messages are kept confidential within parties involved and ensure provide the right level of trust to the Buyer & Service Provider about you.

Once engaged in an execution providing candid feedback about either party only enables the community know about the users via Live Experience and Feedback, which is much valued by one and all.

Help LimeExchange platform, Help Us Help you. Provide any feedback by leaving a comment here or write to us on support.

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Update: Payment Methods Verification

Published
by
Abhishek Gupta
on July 1, 2008
in Business, Freelance, LimeExchange, Payment methods, Product Update, SMB, Security, Small and Medium Business, Technology and outsourcing
. 1 Comment

Internet revolution and technological advancements have given way to ready access of private information, leading to Identity thefts and online fraudulent transactions. This scenario poses an obvious serious risk for Companies, Merchants and End Users.

Online SecurityWe, at LimeExchange, are committed to provide a secure platform to our users so that they can freely transact, minimizing the risk of Online Fraud. We have introduced a robust online verification process for Credit Cards and PayPal accounts.  Only users with a verified payment method would be able to make payments at LimeExchange.

  1. Credit Card Payments: It’s a simple 2-step process to confirm that you own the card you intend to use for payments. This mitigates the risks of Fraud from stolen credit card or credit card details.

    2. Credit Card verification process

  2. PayPal Express Payments:  We support PayPal express checkout payments, but to keep the bad guys away we need to ensure that you are a legitimate owner of the account. A simple 2-step process can verify your PayPal accounts and use the express checkout to make payments.

    3. Paypal Account verification process

Just reiterating on the widely discussed and publicized tips, following are 5 things to remember as an avid Internet user, to maintain sanctity of your Identity:

  1. Play Safe when online: Use a smart password, which cannot be guessed easily.
  2. Play Safe always: Ensure that your username(s)/password(s) are unique across all the important sites/accounts to minimize exposure in case one of the accounts is hacked. General human tendency is to maintain the same account/password across accounts, as it is easier to remember. We highly recommend that you change that habit and set separate passwords.
  3. Get Organized:  For all important transactional sites, ensure you have set enough alerts to be informed via email/sms of any transactions or any change of private information, as soon as they happen. If you do not remember making a transaction or change, never hesitate to call.  All businesses value customer satisfaction first.
  4. Never Share you passwords with Anyone: At LimeExchange, your password is stored in encrypted format and even we do not know your password. We will never ask you for your password. Maintain the same trust with other online sites and never give any of your account passwords to anyone, even if it’s a representative of the company you are dealing with.
  5. Stay away from Phishing Sites and emails: Think twice before clicking on a link contained in an email. Even if you click, please ensure that the url appearing in your browser starts with http://www.LimeExchange.com or https://www.limeexchange.com , before entering your LimeExchange username and password. You should follow this as a practice for every site you transact on.

Privacy In our endeavor to constantly improve your secure experience with LimeExchange, there may be occasions when our customer support executive would call you or email you (but never to enquire about private information/or account password) to confirm certain transactions. We would Hope we will have your support in making LimeExchange a Fraud Free community.

We welcome any candid feedback on the LimeExchange Platform and it’s processes/workflow.

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