Permanently Closed Marketplace Sales Thread
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firstpage
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Hello,
Please PM me your email address so I can send over some sample sites from our web developers and let you know once we have Web Developer VA's available.
Thanks.
toysonline
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wow...looks great. im interested on this...
does it have any limit for number of sites per VA? or i can enroll several sites for one VA?
does it have any limit for number of sites per VA? or i can enroll several sites for one VA?
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firstpage
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wow...looks great. im interested on this...
does it have any limit for number of sites per VA? or i can enroll several sites for one VA?
Hello,
Thanks. You can have one SEO VA work on many sites. There is no limit.
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I need some info on your developer VAs too, send more details and i would like to hire one when there's staff available.
Black-Hatter
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Just noticed this thread, so thought I'd comment.
I have 5 VA's with FPW, and have had them for the last 5-6 months. Jake who runs the firm is a straight guy, and the VA's deliver what's asked of them.
The VA's will likely need some training from you to get them up to speed, but all in all it's good value for money.
I have 5 VA's with FPW, and have had them for the last 5-6 months. Jake who runs the firm is a straight guy, and the VA's deliver what's asked of them.
The VA's will likely need some training from you to get them up to speed, but all in all it's good value for money.
ExtraWinner
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Hi firstpage.
Sorry for not getting back to you earlier.
Drop me info when you will have those writers/seo guys available again.
I could try one.
Thanks,
EW
Sorry for not getting back to you earlier.
Drop me info when you will have those writers/seo guys available again.
I could try one.
Thanks,
EW
firstpage
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firstpage
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Hello,
Please let me know your email so I can notify you. We really have limited availability of our SEO/Content and Web Developer/SEO VA.
But I will keep this thread updated if we have new VA's.
Thanks,
Jake
firstpage
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Alright here is my honest review. I have been given a one week trial. A SEO VA called Ian was assigned to me and started working 3 days ago. Today after 3 days I have cancelled the free trial as I am not happy with the work Ian has supplied me.
First of all I was told that the SEO VAs were trained in Keyword Research. I gave Ian a simple research task. I asked him twice whether he understood everything and he said yes. At the end of the day I was given a report and it turned out that Ian did not know the difference between EXACT and BROAD searches. This then ended up in the report being worthless and 8 hours being wasted.
If you tell people that the SEO VAs are trained in keyword research then you should train them well enough that they know the difference between those two.
Alright I've showed him the difference and let him wor kon that research for 2 days. The combined keywords of those two days he came up with I could have personally done in 3 to 4 hours. So the speed was very low.
Hence I decided to give Ian a different task. I asked him to search google for certain keywords and record the name, postal address, email address and phone number of the businesses ranking on certain sides (so that I could easily contact them later to sell SEO services and advertising to them).
To say things short, his report was a total mess. Absolutely not what I had asked for or expected. I am not going to waste any more of my time to try to teach him the easiest things. His Excel Skills and his presentation skills are also horrible. These were very simple tasks and he wasn't able to perform them. I don't want to know what would have happened if I had let him loose on the SEO on my sites.
This however is not 100% indicative of the services of the VAs firstpage is providing. A business partner of mine has also taken up a one week free trial and was given a VA called Airen. As he ended up not having enough time fully use his trial I have given Airen some work to see how she copes in comparision to Ian.
Airen has been delightful to work with. Though she has not always followed my demand to be on skype at all times while she works her work itself has been great. She has been given the same task as Ian, to collect data from google, however hers was slightly harder as she was researching German companies. Her reports were absolutely great and she did a great job on that. She has also been given some very simple link building task which she has done very well. We have kept her one week trial and will most likely keep her after the trial.
So the conclusion of my review: 1 great VA and 1 not so great one. You will have to monitor the VA that will be given to you closely so that you don't end up with one that cannot full-fill your tasks.
First of all I was told that the SEO VAs were trained in Keyword Research. I gave Ian a simple research task. I asked him twice whether he understood everything and he said yes. At the end of the day I was given a report and it turned out that Ian did not know the difference between EXACT and BROAD searches. This then ended up in the report being worthless and 8 hours being wasted.
If you tell people that the SEO VAs are trained in keyword research then you should train them well enough that they know the difference between those two.
Alright I've showed him the difference and let him wor kon that research for 2 days. The combined keywords of those two days he came up with I could have personally done in 3 to 4 hours. So the speed was very low.
Hence I decided to give Ian a different task. I asked him to search google for certain keywords and record the name, postal address, email address and phone number of the businesses ranking on certain sides (so that I could easily contact them later to sell SEO services and advertising to them).
To say things short, his report was a total mess. Absolutely not what I had asked for or expected. I am not going to waste any more of my time to try to teach him the easiest things. His Excel Skills and his presentation skills are also horrible. These were very simple tasks and he wasn't able to perform them. I don't want to know what would have happened if I had let him loose on the SEO on my sites.
This however is not 100% indicative of the services of the VAs firstpage is providing. A business partner of mine has also taken up a one week free trial and was given a VA called Airen. As he ended up not having enough time fully use his trial I have given Airen some work to see how she copes in comparision to Ian.
Airen has been delightful to work with. Though she has not always followed my demand to be on skype at all times while she works her work itself has been great. She has been given the same task as Ian, to collect data from google, however hers was slightly harder as she was researching German companies. Her reports were absolutely great and she did a great job on that. She has also been given some very simple link building task which she has done very well. We have kept her one week trial and will most likely keep her after the trial.
So the conclusion of my review: 1 great VA and 1 not so great one. You will have to monitor the VA that will be given to you closely so that you don't end up with one that cannot full-fill your tasks.
firstpage
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- Apr 23, 2009
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Hello,
Thank you for the honest review. I understand your frustration and we could have helped you and replace your VA if you have just emailed me with your concerns.
That is why we have the 1 week and 2 day trial to test the VA if they fit with your needs, if you like the VA work or not. For your VA we will definitely be sending them over for retraining, keyword research is part of their SEO training before they are sent to operations.
We would really appreciate if you can email us first so at least we can resolve the problem as soon as possible.
Thank you for trying our service.
Cheers.
CraigsMyBtch
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Any problems working with adult content?
firstpage
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DanDanger
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is this service still running? I've emailed twice in the last few days about hiring a part time content writer VA and had no response.
i've also taken on too much freelance work as of late, so i'm also keen on hiring a full time SEO VA although now slightly dubious due to lack of communication.
i've also taken on too much freelance work as of late, so i'm also keen on hiring a full time SEO VA although now slightly dubious due to lack of communication.
firstpage
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- Apr 23, 2009
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Hey, Yes the service is still running. Unfortunately, we have not receive any email from you. Can you please PM it to me, or email me at [email protected] or add me up in skype for fast reply. Thanks.
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