I have written an article about creating account at Odesk. I hope you have opened account and made your profile 100%. If not then please see my article. Now it’s time to work. The aim of today’s article is to show you a way to complete web research job at Odesk. Here we will show some tips. This article will teach you how to do web research job at Odesk. We will see an example today.
Apply for the Job:
Go to your odesk account and select administrative support. You will see web research sub category. Only select this to see only web research job. Now click the apply button.
Now set your hourly rate. And write a cover letter. Don’t copy others cover letter. Your cover letter should be unique. Give some time to write. See the picture what I have written. You should give your previous job history and portfolio. Don’t forget to tell him to call you interview. According to my opinion cover letter should not be big. Client has not much time to read all cover letter. Try to summarize the whole thing within 2-3 sentences. Now click apply.
Start working:
Suppose you have got the job. You may have to give interview before getting job. If it is a hourly job then you should download Odesk Team Room Software. No need to open this software in case of fixed job. We will see details in another article.
Example of Job at Odesk:
Job Title: Collect 500 Business details at Sydney.
Details: I need details of at least 500 Electronic companies at Sydney. I will need the following details presented in an Excel file Business Name, Business Owners Name (if able to find), Phone number(s), Website, E-mail, Operating hours,
I need this done within 2 days. Only apply if you can start now.
How to complete:
Now we have read the details, we have only 2 days 2 complete. We can’t get huge information by google search. Here I am giving tips to complete.
First we have to go to yellopages It is a business directory. Here many businesses are listed. After going there you just put search terms in the fields. It will show you thousands of website. See the picture below.
From here you will get business name, website link, phone number, email, address. You may not get owner name or some information. To get this information I will suggest you to go their website.
Other business directory:
There are many websites like Yellowpages. I am giving few of them.
- Yelp
- Whitepages
- Manta
I will make a tutorial of how you can work here and talk about its features.
Tips for finding email address and owner name:
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1. Open the website and try to find “contact us” page. You can find it in the footer, or in the side margins or in the header area of the page. If you can’t find the page then try to find page that says “Feedback”, “About Us”, “Our team”, “Where to find us”. You can find email address and owner name of that business. - 2. If you can’t find these page then check “Privacy”, “Disclaimer” or “Terms and Conditions”. You can find these page in the footer area. Finding owner name is difficult in my opinion.
- 3. Sometimes client give sheet where name of person is present you just have to find email. For example the name of person is “Hasim Amla” In that case you can search for Hasim Amla @domain.com
- 4. You can use the public WHOIS database when the above procedures are not useful. Here ‘s how to do it. Go to http://www.whois.com/whois/ type the domain of the website by removing "http://" part.
Well you will not be an expert in one day. Try hard and practice more. I am also learning, I will share more tips in near future. If you know some techniques then please share with us.
