A little homework help TEF

[BANGKOK RED]

A know that there are a few tech-heads here and so I need to consult the oracle that is the TEF on a job that I have.

It is a writing job on tech type stuff and it is all going a bit above my head. Could somebody please just give me a brief run down on the points below.

The company is a business process and information technology consulting services company
The company profile will be comprised of 4 sections.

First profile is for Business process optimization solutions like BPM, Business analysis, . I want to target companies as contractor/business partner, or provision of managed servvices for short term/long term projects and can provide manpower for any size and level of expertise and cover most ERP Technologies.

Second section will concentrate on Software QA, targeting corporate and consultancy/implementation projects. This will be only an introduction to Software QA and services explaining the importance.

Third section will be software development and bespoke implementation, here we will mostly discuss our SAP Hr capabilities, the projects

Fourth section will be Project management highlighting certifications like PMP, Prince 2 and the need for structured project management methodology in delivering projects
 
We want to be able to use all this material in both printed material(brochure) and website.  Contents need to be written with SEO in mind.

Just a few pointers on the tecchy stuff and terminology please chaps as I am at a bit of a loss and researching myself is only confusing me more

Thanks

[Samdy Gray]

Business process optimization = getting rid of all unnecessary processes and procedures, making everything slicker & smoother i.e. get more work done with less effort/in less time.

[Barry Scott]

It all sounds like dutch to me. Do you write articles for websites BR?

[BANGKOK RED]

Yes I do Barry, articles and content, amongst other things.

[suttonred]

What exactly do you need for the project management stuff? I'm a PMP, but know Prince too (see what i did there)

[BANGKOK RED]

I don't really know Sutton, that's half the problem. He hasn't really given me much to go on.

I think some shizzle about how the company does PMP and are certified and how it benefits the client, I guess.

this is a freelance job, I should have known better to take a job from an Abdul.

[Barry Scott]

Yes I do Barry, articles and content, amongst other things.

Cool, i've had my dealings with them in the past, all the copyscape rubbish and 50% spun malarkey to escape dupe content rules and what not.

Do you spin them or do you do them unique? Do you tout for business on the big forums?

[BANGKOK RED]

I've always done them 100% original, but for the most part my main employer gives very good direction and so there is little need to spin. I am considering spinning this Abdul mother but I can even seem to find anything to spin.

I've only just started touting on the web because work from my main employer has almost ground to a halt and I get paid by the piece, not a salary.

I have been touting on odesk, elance and freelancer. What one's did you work from and what did you find were the better ones?

[Barry Scott]

I didn't deal with any of the proper places like you mention, although obviously quality and price is higher with those sites and in reality they're where you get the best innit. I used Digital Point on several occasions. I didn't pay much, hence the work wasn't great, but at the time is was just junk to fill a pointless site.

I note that on some of the other forums i use that they have a lot of article writers. Their prices are likely lower ($0.60 or so per 100 words), but then so is the cost of acquiring business i suppose. I've heard the best are the ones you mention along with Guru.com, but i've never actually bought any content from any quality sources.

[BANGKOK RED]

You get what you pay for.

Some web developers etc go on the site demanding that any writers they employ must be native speakers and then go on to say that they will pay $2 for 500 words which is usually about an hours work. Needless to say they end up with Indian's and Filipino's who work for peanuts and THEN they complain about crappy grammar etc.

The bear minimum that I will work for is $5/ hour/500 words. This is still cheap as chips but once I have built a reputation I will be whacking that price up somewhat. Bearing in mind the cost of living here $5/hour is not exactly terrible in itself.

They have online tests to add to you profile which is why I started that grammar test thread the other day. Although I did hit the top 10 percentile in basic English on one site which gives me a flashy medal on my profile.

Some writers on these sites appear to make some very tidy sums indeed and for not that many hours. Quite a bit of potential there, it's just a matter of getting experienced enough and good enough.

[Barry Scott]

You get what you pay for.

Some web developers etc go on the site demanding that any writers they employ must be native speakers and then go on to say that they will pay $2 for 500 words which is usually about an hours work. Needless to say they end up with Indian's and Filipino's who work for peanuts and THEN they complain about crappy grammar etc.

The bear minimum that I will work for is $5/ hour/500 words. This is still cheap as chips but once I have built a reputation I will be whacking that price up somewhat. Bearing in mind the cost of living here $5/hour is not exactly terrible in itself.

They have online tests to add to you profile which is why I started that grammar test thread the other day. Although I did hit the top 10 percentile in basic English on one site which gives me a flashy medal on my profile.

Some writers on these sites appear to make some very tidy sums indeed and for not that many hours. Quite a bit of potential there, it's just a matter of getting experienced enough and good enough.

Some of the people that want articles though, especially in properly competitive niches, are thick as fuck though aren't they? They seem to think they're gonna be able to get 20 articles for less than a dollar a piece, then someone provides and they whinge about the quality...

I know on digitalpoint, years ago, you used to be looking at $5+ per 100 words for keyword rich content, but nowadays that site is just full of the great illiterate and those with decent spinners.

With regard to their earnings, just going on Guru's figures yeah, tidy earnings indeed.

[BANGKOK RED]

I can't help but read this and think that it sounds like an exam question:

and the need for structured project management methodology in delivering projects

I am tempted to just send it back and tell Abdul that he is talking nonsense.

[Barry Scott]

Or just do something that was not uncommon a few years ago. Search Ezine Articles for articles, then copy and paste it into Google Translate to translate to French or something, then copy what it creates and translate that to English. Job done like a good spinner.

[BANGKOK RED]

Some of the people that want articles though, especially in properly competitive niches, are thick as fuck though aren't they? They seem to think they're gonna be able to get 20 articles for less than a dollar a piece, then someone provides and they whinge about the quality...

I know on digitalpoint, years ago, you used to be looking at $5+ per 100 words for keyword rich content, but nowadays that site is just full of the great illiterate and those with decent spinners.

With regard to their earnings, just going on Guru's figures yeah, tidy earnings indeed.

I love some of the Filipino's and Indian's profile's. Along the lines of.

"I am being the best in the language of the English and the best of the English writters (sic) on the internet. If your are wanting of the best of the writters of the English articles then I am your best for the job of the writting"

And so on.

[jonny72]

You should be able to sort the SAP stuff out with a quick Google.

SAP make Enterprise Resource Planning software, basically there is a base system with various highly targeted modules to provide specific and comprehensive functionality for business. So SAP with the HR (Human Resources) module will provide a business with a software package that does everything they will ever need to do within HR.

There is a massive and very rich market for SAP services (installation, customisation, support etc), sounds like that is what they mean in the third section. It really is big bucks though so not sure why they'd be farming the work out like this if they were active in that market, and I mean really big bucks. Not the sort of services you'd Google for either.