I looked hard for something like that (in Romanian, not English). What I found was either freelancers who offered to work for free (the job was small) but ultimately bailed, or big companies who didn't even want to talk to me. I ended up writing my own texts and feeling better for it. Anyways, I just want to tell the OP: if you're good AND professional, you should be rich soon :) Or at least too busy to care about money.
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#12I'm in a similar position to the author of this thread. I can hack well enough to set up and customize sites with open source CMS, but my strongest skills are copywriting and marketing.
I would like to collaborate with people with complimentary skills. Email or ping me at johncwesley@gmail.com, I'd love to hear about what you're working on and offer marketing advice if I can.
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#13Zacharye it sounds like you have a valuable skill and could get something out of this, go for it and grow your connections.
I have similar skills and would want to build upon them in a similar fashion so if you find yourself with more then you can handle let me know @ mattyfo@gmail
@yan ad-hoc sounds like an awesome way to get things off the ground and keep costs low...how to implement?
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#14This post couldn't have come at a better time. I really need your help with my elevator pitch/sign up frame.
My name is Tommy Nguyen, I'm the co-founder of a site called www.ratemyideas.com
Its a rating/voting where users submit made or market ready cool products/gadgets/inventions/ web sites etc.
We are not officially launching till next week but during testing people are confused at the purpose of the site. They think its "submitting ides that haven't been created yet" I wanna convey its a place to submit finished product that is new and undiscovered.
please advise thanks! Tommy
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#15I would love to hear an expert's (free!) suggestions on how we can improve our copy on decisionero. I believe very strongly that, especially on the web, short copy that gets the message across is crucial--and short copy is the hardest to write.
Our current home page is the one I'm currently most eager for suggestions about, particularly the two paras at the bottom:
There are two other pages that present our message in a little more detail:
http://decisionero.com/decisionero/about
http://decisionero.com/decisionero/origin
If you'd like to post here to HN to demonstrate your style of analysis and feedback for others to see, please feel free. Or, if you prefer, email me at bkovitz "at" acm "dot" org.
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#16I'd love to have help with our copy. More generally, our team lacks Marketing/BizDev expertise; perhaps you'd be interested in more than just editing our copy. Contact me at zhyder AT dabbleboard DOT com.
The startup is at http://www.dabbleboard.com . We launched on HN 1.5 months ago.
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#17This would be extremely appealing to us. We actually hired a marketing copywriter but had to let her go due to price. How could we reach you? :)
Us too! (and I'm sure many others on here as well)
On a side note, a business idea could be simply to offer a "we review x for $y in 1 week" set price system. Marketing Express, like 37signals used to offer an express design service of 1 feature in 1 week for a set price. This would produce a tangible benefit/result for the startup or small business, while limiting their risk and investment, and likely it would cause them to bring in many more individual items over time.
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#18This would be extremely appealing to us. We actually hired a marketing copywriter but had to let her go due to price. How could we reach you? :)
Us too! (and I'm sure many others on here as well) On a side note, a business idea could be simply to offer a "we review x for $y in 1 week" set price system. Marketing Express, like 37signals used to offer an express design service of 1 feature in 1 week for a set price. This would produce a tangible benefit/result for the startup or small business, while limiting their risk and investment, and likely it would cause…
And our startup (that would be interested) is http://www.dojolearning.com/ :)
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#19I would love to hear an expert's (free!) suggestions on how we can improve our copy on decisionero. I believe very strongly that, especially on the web, short copy that gets the message across is crucial--and short copy is the hardest to write. Our current home page is the one I'm currently most eager for suggestions about, particularly the two paras at the bottom: http://decisionero.com There are two other pages tha…
Your service would be really cool if you structured it around the research that has gone into best practices for decision making. For example, James Surowiecki's book the wisdom of crowds is all about improving the decision making process.
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#20I would love to hear an expert's (free!) suggestions on how we can improve our copy on decisionero. I believe very strongly that, especially on the web, short copy that gets the message across is crucial--and short copy is the hardest to write. Our current home page is the one I'm currently most eager for suggestions about, particularly the two paras at the bottom: http://decisionero.com There are two other pages tha…
Your service would be really cool if you structured it around the research that has gone into best practices for decision making. For example, James Surowiecki's book the wisdom of crowds is all about improving the decision making process.
Thanks! I just ordered The Wisdom of Crowds on Amazon--been meaning to read it for a long time now, and needed a push.
The core idea of decisionero is based on methods like The Six Thinking Hats, the Creative Problem-Solving Institute's six-step method, SWOT analysis, and other structured methods--and, of course, personal experience seeing the structured approach work in person.
Can someone recommend other particularly useful decision-making research? decisionero is not about heavily mathematical approaches, like the simplex method to optimize a decision. It's about collaboration, where people combine their knowledge and insight. There must be plenty of research about that.