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I'm a student looking for something part-time I can do from home. The transcribing thing sounds good. The problem I am running into is that everywhere I look to apply has "Experience" as requirement. I have never transcribed before but I'm very good at typing and know my way around computers/software very well (I'm a computer engineering student). Does anyone have any advice for getting their foot in the door so to speak at transcribing?
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Focus Forward and Daily Transcripts will hire new transcribers on occasion, and check Craigslist for job postings. Most of the places you really want to work for will require experience, yes, but there are a few places you can get in the door without it.
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Oct 6, 2012 21:02
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Our company has two websites. Website A and Website B, website A sells phones, macs, tablets, ipads, cameras. Whilst website B specialises in the sale and trading of iPads only. Both sites have blogs, my question is: I've written an article on website A that could also go on website B very nicely, but my colleague believes that duplicating an article could affect our SEO. Is this the case? Also what are the potential issues if any?
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Oct 11, 2012 19:28
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Google looks at those two pages as separate websites. It will see the article posted on both of them and assume one of them stole the content. One article might not have a huge effect, but there's also the keyword focus issue. Each site presumably has different sets of keywords it focuses on, and all content on that site is optimized to take advantage of those keywords. So the duplicate article would need to be tweaked (and then look like spun content, which Google penalizes) or suffer from not utilizing the keywords it could be. Generally, copied content is a bad idea. You could just as easily have the article rewritten for the other site. I swear there was a dedicated SEO thread somewhere, but I don't see it. Maybe I'm just thinking of a defunct A/T thread about it. EDIT: There's this thread but it hasn't had a post since August, so no telling how active it is. (Also anyone here who is more of an SEO expert can contradict me, I'm not a guru in the field, I've just written about it a lot for Textbroker) Nighthand fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Oct 11, 2012 |
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Oct 11, 2012 20:26
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So I kind of got a more stable job than Lionbridge and don't have much time to do it anymore - how stringent are they with the 10 hours a week thing? The last time I was doing it, a week and a half ago, there were still task shortages, so I suppose they can't really cut you for not working enough?
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Oct 15, 2012 01:14
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I've been working 0 hours a week and they haven't said anything. Of course, I am probably out of a job at the 6 month mark. I think the most I've made in a month there was like 100 bucks.
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Oct 15, 2012 14:42
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They're not that strict. Half the time life kind of gets in the way for me and I only end up with 5 hours for the week even if there's not task shortages. I've been with LB over a year and they haven't said anything to me yet (knock on wood). But if you don't get at least 30 hours for the month you get paid later, just something to keep in mind if you need the money right away.
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Oct 15, 2012 14:44
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I have a handful of blogs that I'm always trying to find writers for, but I never seem to find someone who is passionate about the subject (cars mostly). So what I end up with is bland, sometimes overly cheesy, or keyword stuffed articles that might be nice for SEO but are almost painful to read, despite being grammatically correct. I'm willing to pay someone $0.05/word or more, if they actually care about the subject, or can at least fake it better than anyone else. So far I've just been posting jobs on Textbroker, Freelancer.com, and Scripted.com in hopes of finding someone I could consistently depend on, but that hasn't worked yet. Maybe I'm not phrasing my jobs well enough? Or maybe it would help to target writers in the automotive category on Textbroker only. Should I post a job on SA-Mart? Thanks for any advice.
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Oct 18, 2012 15:07
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Cars, you say? get at me
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Oct 18, 2012 15:10
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It's hard to tell if you're not phrasing your assignments well enough for the average Textbroker writer without seeing one, but keeping them assigned to the proper categories is never a bad thing. You could also create a team and set a sample assignment as the entry requirement, so you can see how your prospective writers write before you allow them into the team. 5 cents a word is 5-star level on TB, so even if you set the team at 3-ish cents a word its still more than a 4-star writer gets from open orders.
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Oct 18, 2012 15:53
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I have a ton of experience writing SEO optimized content. If you need any help I can provide links to some of my work. You can email me at automatica1947 at gmail.com Thanks!
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Oct 21, 2012 01:02
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Wow, DT has really picked up. They are handing out rush jobs like candy and I also got a raise.
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Nov 2, 2012 19:00
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Nice. I keep getting emails about rush jobs, but they keep hitting when I'm already swamped with other stuff. I always feel guilty when I have to pull back from a client a bit, but I'm just busy as hell. (DT isn't the only outfit who's on the feast side of the "feast or famine" dichotomy at the moment.)
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Nov 2, 2012 22:56
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I made about $170 yesterday. After all these months I can finally see how you're able to make a decent living doing this.
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Nov 3, 2012 12:57
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Spartan421 posted:I made about $170 yesterday. After all these months I can finally see how you're able to make a decent living doing this. Your next step (if you really want to do this full-time) is to pick up an ancillary gig or two. DT will pay the bills nicely when they're flush, but every production studio has lulls. You always want to have more options than you have time to exercise.
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Nov 3, 2012 13:14
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I'm sure this is mentioned somewhere in the thread but I haven't found it. Is the website for DT different than in the OP? The link goes to this Parallels Plesk program thing.
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Nov 4, 2012 03:59
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They may be having a problem with the site -- that's their address. (They did have this weird thing where they used to be at dailytrans.com and migrated over to the new domain, I see the old site points to the new address now, so maybe they were consolidating everything and something broke.)
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Nov 4, 2012 04:20
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Welp. Got a job that pays better than LB so I might quit. It was a nice run I guess, but the task shortages killed me. It's some nice cash but task shortages + incredible boringness made it hard to clock in 20 hours a week for me.
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Nov 4, 2012 04:23
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It already blows my mind that you managed to stick with it as long as you did.
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Nov 4, 2012 18:36
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OP asked for more information about Tutor.com, so here we go. Until a few months ago I worked at Tutor.com. I left when I was offered a full-time teaching position elsewhere. I can confirm that they're entirely legit. Requirements: 1) You must live in the US or Canada, but must not live in New York State. 2) You must be at least 18. 3) You must be attending college or have a Bachelor's degree (not necessarily in the subject you are teaching) 4) You have to pass a test in one of the subject areas they need. When I worked for them, their highest-need areas were Calculus, Statistics, Physics, and (especially) Chemistry. (They also were in need of bilingual tutors for students whose first language is Spanish or Vietnamese, but they don't teach languages; these tutors would help students with their ordinary coursework but provide that help in the student's language. I only speak English so I don't know much about that part of their offerings.) Application Process: You apply on their website and take tests to prove that you know enough to teach a subject. They get a writing sample from you to prove that you know how to communicate in text. Passing more tests makes them more interested; they sat on my application for months when I only had the Algebra Test passed, but as soon as I made it clear that I could do Trigonometry and Calculus they emailed me the next day. More subjects = More Students = More Hours. If you get selected they'll have you send in some paperwork, link you to some basic training materials, and eventually schedule you for an interview/mock session with a Mentor. The mentor will pretend to be a student with a typical problem from one of the subject areas you passed a test in. After the mock session the mentor will provide some feedback and helpful suggestions. For me, the entire process from passing the Trigonometry test to starting work took about a week. What it's like: You run a program on your side that matches you up with students requesting help in your subject area. You are paid an hourly rate. You can work in either of two different ways: you can schedule hours, for which you will be given priority as students connect, and you will be paid a (lower) waiting rate when not connected to students, or you can "float", which gives you lower priority as a tutor but since you're unscheduled if something comes up you can just go. Both scheduled and floating tutors get paid the same rate when they are connected to students. When I left, scheduled hours were exceedingly hard to come by. Even top-level tutors like myself would typically only be able to grab 10 or so scheduled hours per week. There is a hard cap of 30 hours per week. In practice this cap is difficult to hit; when schools were in session, as one of their most prolific tutors I typically only had about 20-25 hours per week. After every session, students are asked to leave feedback on how they felt the session went; this student feedback score is the most important number for you. Consistently high feedback with many sessions gives you promotions and bonuses. Consistently low feedback gets you fired. There's not really any way to communicate with your fellow tutors except your mentoring team, so you kind of feel isolated. I think it would have been great to have "tutor's lounge" forums or something along those lines. It probably would have kept me more focused on my job if I'd had something to do besides browse SA while I was waiting on kids to connect. All in all, it was a pretty decent job, and it got me to develop the skills that are now earning me a professional salary. I guess this turned into quite an info dump. Let me know if there's anything else I can share about my time there.
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Nov 5, 2012 07:52
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Excellent information. What were the pay rates? Does it cater mostly to high school level tutoring, or college level too? Like, what level of math was your most-called-upon skill?
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Nov 5, 2012 15:22
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DT is still down for me. LB seems to have a number of online positions. Are any of these better than the others?
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I tutored all of the maths, so my work had probably 60% high schoolers, 30% college students, and 10% middle schoolers. Algebra I/II were my most frequented subject areas, but it was pretty balanced overall between Calculus, Statistics, Trigonometry, Geometry, and Algebra I and 2. I honestly don't recall the waiting pay rate, as I almost always had students during scheduled hours. Active pay rate started at $9/hr when I was a probationary tutor. Your probationary period is over once you've got enough sessions turned in, and then your pay becomes either $10/hr if you tutor only low-need subjects, or $12/hr if you tutor at least one high-need subject (Note: if you've passed a test in a high need area, you get the higher active rate even when you're tutoring one of the other subjects). Regular active pay topped out at $14/hr for Tutor IIIs in high need areas. When I left there were incentive bonuses in Statistics and Chemistry of $.50 per session (most sessions are about 20 minutes long). There were also special programs for highly skilled and rated tutors that I participated in that had higher incentive bonuses. The bonus structure is a percentage of your base pay and rewards you for 1) Having high student satisfaction ratings and 2) Completing a high average number of sessions per hour. I believe bonuses ran from 4% up to 20%, and like everything else at Tutor.com was automatic and based on your performance metrics only. juche mane posted:Why not NYS? I honestly don't know. I suspect it has to do with falling under a different set of labor laws, since the company is based in New York. I didn't even know about this requirement until I referred another goon to work there and he was rejected because of his location.
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Excellent information, I'll add it all to the op.
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Nighthand posted:It already blows my mind that you managed to stick with it as long as you did. Haha you were keeping track? I was at it for about a year and a half. There were people in the last thread that did that much or more, I think.
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Nov 8, 2012 03:09
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I know there's not a lot of social/affiliate marketing talk in this thread, but given the lack of non-Warrior Forum places to go, I figured I'd give this a shot. Anyone else here do social media marketing or otherwise promote business online? What tools and strategies are you currently using?
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Nov 9, 2012 00:48
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Some guy put some pretty awesome public requests on Constant Content this weekend.quote:Request: sweatshirts for women quote:Request: hiking gifts for grandma quote:Request: chocolate cookies recipe
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Nov 12, 2012 16:44
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So I've been provisionally accepted by DT, which I'm super happy about. I know a few people were asking what they found acceptable for their test. I took verbatim to mean verbatim, so when I did my editing, anything which I knew was said during the tape, but that the checker got annoyed with I labelled as [SL] because to me, that's what they said. I actually didn't use the non-interview tag, which I was worried might irk them as they had bothered to mention it, but I guess it was fine. I only used phonetic once I think, on the one guy's last name, just because I didn't know the spelling. And I think I had one [INAUDIBLE] but I listened to that poo poo like way too many times through, via speakers and two different sets of headphones. But the flip side is every time someone made a noise, I documented it. The only thing I'm waiting on now is the right tax form. I'm Canadian, so I just need something which isn't a W-9 and I should be hearing back tomorrow hopefully, but the agent who got in contact didn't make it seem like it would be a problem. Can anyone recommend any Canadian transcription firms at all? I know a lot of us up north are struggling at this. I do have a question though, I'm currently training as a medical transcriptionist, and when looking ahead for jobs I'm seeing, of course, experience require. Is the general feel that transcription experience itself is alright? Or is it generally only medical transcription experience that counts?
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I've been doing shitwork on Mechanical Turk every now and then in the hopes of getting  money, but it doesn't seem like it's paying out at all. Does it usually have a delay between HITs getting approved and money appearing in the Amazon Payments account?
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Nov 19, 2012 02:52
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If I quit Lionbridge, is there any way to go back later? I just don't have the time now but I would love to have it as an option.
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Nov 19, 2012 02:54
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Doghouse posted:If I quit Lionbridge, is there any way to go back later? I just don't have the time now but I would love to have it as an option. You might just be able to hit the "Need to leave" thing on Geoworkerz. Then again, my friend hasnt done anything in 6+ months with them and is still able to work if he had to.
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Nov 19, 2012 22:36
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Lionbridge is awarding me for being a slacker by offering a 2 hours for the price of 3 deal if I come back to work. Too bad it's only 1 bonus hour max. Job is about as exciting as watching paint dry but I guess I'll cash in on that.
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Nov 20, 2012 14:16
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LB has been letting people work up to 30 hours these past few weeks. They must be hard up for raters, I bet a bunch of people left or went inactive after there were hardly any tasks this past summer.
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Nov 20, 2012 16:07
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I haven't worked much for LF this month since I've stayed busy with other clients but it seems there is a lot of work to go around. Some people are planning on hitting over 300 hours for the month.
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Nov 20, 2012 18:40
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Hey folks, I can confirm that Daily Transcription does hire Canadians, and also, that I'm now part of their fancy rear end pool of bitches. Thanks Kaz! I plan to make use of all your awesome tips and tricks :-)
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Nov 22, 2012 22:16
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Hi folks, Quick question, I know most of the content jobs seem to be written, but has anyone got any experience making money off creating video? I noticed Demand Media accepts filmmakers and I'm wondering if the payouts are worth the time it takes.
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Dec 11, 2012 18:58
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Pastamania posted:Hi folks, I'm making like 20 cents a day off of a single youtube video. it's not a lot, but all I did was take some audio that a guy sent me, turned it into a video and posted it.
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Dec 11, 2012 19:25
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Pastamania posted:Hi folks, Yeah, don't do video for Demand. Your payment for making the video is the video credits and nothing else. Nothing monetary at all.
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Writing an article on how cell phones affect people's lives: "Some employees feel like they can never fully escape work, since cell phones allow the office to follow them home or out on the town." Copy editor: "Can you provide a reference for that?" Never change, Demand Studios. (That's the only requested change. Seriously considering kicking it back with "YES IT'S CALLED REALITY YOU loving DOLT" and eating the reject.)
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