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How to best use LimeExchange: SMBs, SMEs get more business!

As we discussed in our previous blog about how Individual freelancers can ‘Best use LimeExchange’ to get more work opportunities by completing their profiles similarly, small medium businesses (SMBs) & enterprises (SMEs) can also reap the benefits by providing detailed profile at LimeExchange.

Profile Completeness, is a must for all service providers to acquire more freelance jobs and to become an established workforce at LimeExchange. After creating an account on LimeExchange, make sure that you have filled up all the required fields as given below:

1.General Information- Provide correct details such as Company Name, complete address, the country /countries your offices are located in and the contact details. By giving accurate details, you increase your chances of attracting more buyers from your own preferred location of work. Do not forget to mention that you are a SMB or SME. SMB1

  • Profile type- If you are a SMB or SME, select for business type. Fill in all the necessary details for e.g. in which year your organization was founded and the current number of employees working in your organization. Be upfront in giving all the information as this will help you build credibility among the buyers and other communities at LimeExchange.
  • Overview- Provide short, precise and complete details about your company, this will help buyer know you better. You can also give URL of your company’s website and also have SEO keywords listed to derive benefit of the traffic and your profile to highlight your company.
  • Educational background- Provide details on academic qualification (school/ University) of your top executive management as this will enhance company’s credibility in this cut-throat freelance market.
  • Skill set – Add your employees’ expertise, services and strengths. This will help you acquire best projects at LimeExchange, To see some examples, check out some profiles on LimeExchange who have already got hold of many good projects owing to variety of skill sets of its employees.
  • Work experience- Here you can mention the work experience of your top- level management and experts, their clients and the number of years they have spent in a particular business domain.
  • Upload / link your certifications, the issuing “Institute” and the year in which it was attended/ awarded to your outstanding employee or a top-level executive. Sometimes a good certification can bring an impressive project in hand.

2. Company info- It includes all important information regarding your company, its infrastructure, about your employee strength, number of offices and its branches. If you have dedicated QA labs, mobile testing labs or other specialized services, clearly mention in infrastructure section as this will prompt buyers looking for such service stations outside their country to land up on your profile and award you the projects.

3. Portfolio – Create an effective portfolio to get maximum projects to work on LimeExchange. If you have designers/ software developers or any other professional in your organization, you can provide links of your past successful assignments or upload any non-executable file up to 10 MB. The file may contain an image, audio or video. Also, upload writing samples of writers/ bloggers with their portfolios and get awarded with more projects.

3. Connections- connect with your old trusted network with which you have worked in the past, build Company’s network to obtain better projects.

4. Limestand- If you are a company which provides graphic design category professionals, upload their work samples for e.g. Design, Illustration, Print Design, 3D Modeling/CAD, Blog Theme Design, etc. design logos, banners and creative using our Limestand feature. The community votes for the best and enhance your chances of getting great work opportunities at LimeExchange.

We encourage, all our providers to work actively on completing their profile to get more number of project(s). And continue reading our blogs as there is lot more to come in our next blog on “How to best use LimeExchange- Notifications”

Enhanced Bidding Workflow

Automated Intelligent Bidding workflowWe have received a lot of feedback from buyers that they would like to see more details about the providers profile, execution strategy and a tentative plan for the project along with the Bids. It’s important for the providers to understand what’s involved while bidding to win a project.

We’ve implemented an improved & more intelligent bidding workflow for all LimeExchange users.

Now, providers with incomplete profile would automatically be guided through an intuitive wizard to complete their profile. Bid description has been made mandatory, and we recommend that providers should use this to answer the following questions:

1. How you plan to complete the project? – A basic delivery plan.

2. What tools/strategy you plan to use to complete the project timely? – Any particular technology/tool/methodology that you think would be helpful for this project.

3. Why you are the right provider for this project? – Samples of similar past work

4. How do you justify your bid? – how the amount is derived from effort involved, try to justify the bid amount.

Please feel free to write to us in case of any feedback/suggestions or just leave a comment on this post.