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Buyers:How to best use LimeExchange?

Published
by
Product Team
on September 15, 2008
in Business, Freelance, Freelancing, LimeExchange, Person to Person Outsourcing, Product Update, SMB, Small and Medium Business and outsourcing
. 1 Comment

With this post we are only trying to bridge the gap for our users on how to best use LimeExchange for their outsourcing needs and offer some guidelines, which they should consider before jump starting a project.

Tips for all Buyers

1.   Who to select, In doubt? Get a sample assignment conducted!
• Use ‘Proof Of Concept’ feature to get a Pilot/sample assignment executed
• Provide details for POC project, at time of project posting, and define your expectation on deliverables
• Shortlist from providers and award POC
• Collaborate and communicate using IM, PMB for getting POC executed
• Evaluate POC submissions based on Quality of sample delivered, communication and collaboration

2.   Minimize my Financial Exposure and risks? Go ahead, Define delivery milestones with payments!
• Provide complete details while posting a project
• Define a comprehensive Terms of Engagement (TOE)
• Divide your requirement into Milestones
• Attach payments with Milestones
• Set expectation in terms of deliverables for each milestone.

3.   Manage my project? Use LimeExchange tools to effectively manage!
• Use Project Kickoff Checklist (PKC) and tell your provider your expectations
• Communicate risks/issues using Issue Tracker (IT)
• Insist on Status reports to get progress update on milestones, project
• Communicate & Collaborate using Private Message Board (PMB), Instant Message (IM)
• Schedule a session to have a dialogue

4.   Utilizing Business Network? Provide feedback and ratings!
• Release final payments from Escrow
• Provide feedback on your experience with provider
• Provide and use published rating, to take help and help your network

5.   Safeguard me against Non-service? Use Mediation and Arbitration services!
• Funds are safeguarded by our Escrow services, they get released only when you want them to be released.
• Escalate issues to provider using Issue Tracker (IT)
• If nothing helps, log the requirement in the Dispute Assistance workflow, use provided services

Just apply these simple guidelines while outsourcing and get a positive experience.

Provide us with your valuable feedback on our enhanced features specially designed to make outsourcing the easiest and simplest job for you.

We are with you at every step of the way, so let us know at any time in case any assistance is required on support@limeexchange.com

We’re 5000!!!

Published
by
Product Team
on September 9, 2008
in Business, Freelance, LimeExchange, Product Update, Small and Medium Business and outsourcing
. 0 Comments

We are 5000, Growing, PositiveLimeExchange believes in the theory that “Sky is the Limit” and has achieved what had been aimed for…

Our next generation online services marketplace has reached its first milestone; we are now 5000+ successful users. Our user database is expanding every day; we are reaching out to different geographies, various languages and variety of businesses across the globe.

Narrating a success story on how have we grown to 5000+ in a span of six months…
Six months back when we took the first step to this marketplace, no one knew about us. We developed a product, a web platform for various businesses around the globe, where the exchange of services and businesses can be done instantly and simply. We strive hard to deliver the best while meeting the standards of our global users. Step by step we achieved the milestones, and over the period of time people have understood that LimeExchange is the most ingenious online services marketplace to outsource work. Be it a core or a non core function of a company, it could be easily outsourced to the experts from their relevant area of business. We have an average of 100 projects executed in a month, with more than 50 getting posted week on week, on various categories such as web programming, graphics arts & design, software programming + mobile and writing & translation etc.

In comparison to our contenders we have attained far more than what they did in decades. They are old and established in the market; but we are moving faster leaving them behind by progressing in our product, quality and delivery standards. We have initiated one- its- kind user-friendly features, and enhanced delivery management tools which help them maximize earnings and minimize risks and issues involved in online outsourcing. Our alluring features are bringing us 1000+ unique visitors every day from various trades and converting them to proud registered members of LimeExchange.

Countries like Russia, Philippines, Ukraine, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, India and China which are better known as great hubs for vast resource pool are also rising with the emergence of this global platform. Now it’s easy to have access to their skilled labor to get work done cost-effectively and proficiently. In very less time we have become the most talked about site across the world; our corporate blog section is widely read by people from outsourcing industry. US being the major player in outsourcing, gets more than 100 freelancers reading our blogs on a monthly basis.

We encourage our privileged users to expand their trusted network by using our Affiliation Program by inviting friends, colleagues from various businesses and let them experience the benefits of the marketplace while getting an equal opportunity platform to work and rise together. Your valuable feedback and suggestions are also requested to help us serve you well at all times.

Online Services Marketplace - Further Considerations #2

Published
by
Product Team
on July 14, 2008
in Business, Freelance, Freelancing, Innovation, Knowledge Networking, LimeExchange, Person to Person Outsourcing, Product Update, SMB, Service Providers, Small and Medium Business, Technology and outsourcing
. 2 Comments

Question & Answer, Ask, QuestionThe vision of LimeExchange is of building a focussed Knowledge Sharing & a Business Networking platform. Our vision has made us realize that for business proliferation, a greater need exists for sharing of knowledge via dedicated medium. Internet penetration has provided real time access to information and knowledge sharing, but with the amount of information getting published, figuring out forums, which share your passion and relate to your business need and has become more pertinent.

This is where a platform needs to adapt and solve to the process of Information problem solving:

  • Recognizing that an information need exists and to define that need.
  • Find the right information medium
  • Evaluating the information
  • Using and Communicating the Information

In a Knowledge for Business environment, having Information at hand as sharing of Tips, Experiences from global entrepreneurs, testimonies from subject matter experts would definitely provide valuable first hand knowledge to make an informed decision.

So, What if there was a dedicated forum to provide feedback and share global experiences, from mission critical queries on Whether setting up a captive in China was better than Outsourcing To whether choosing and Open Source Technology is better Vs a Proprietary technology for a particular business application? & What if you were able to get Industry experts to provide early market feedback or opinion-ate on your soon to be launched product, services, strategy, campaign etc, getting realtime advice should only help hone and adapt better to prevalent market needs.

Is there a need for such a medium or is Internet already crowded with such forums and now the need is for a secondary classification of information? Is this going beyond Knowledge Sharing and becoming a Knowledge Networking medium?

As James Surowiecki amply stated in his book ‘Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations’, a focussed community would benefit immensely from active participation of its users to effectively utilize the Wisdom of Crowds and provide a natural medium for access to On Demand information.

What would set a platform apart would be Information in Context and solving the Information problem process. The information need will always exist, the key is to provide a platform as the medium for context and a platform providing credibility of the Information giver as Subject Matter Expert, to easily evaluate and consume the information. This would be a natural extension of a Socio-Business networking platform to provide avenues to all its users to freely exchange thoughts, ideas & knowledge and create a Focussed Knowledge Networking platform.

We encourage all our readers and users alike to actively suggest and participate with feedback on what would be best suited for solving this challenge. We dedicate ourselves to create LimeExchange as the platform of choice for its users driven by its users.

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
. 0 Comments

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.