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keen.co.uk |
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21.03.01 (438 review reads) |
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Get paid for your best advice and feel as good as I do knowing that I have just helped someone. There are lots of you here writing about a specialist subject that we all can benefit from for free. How would you feel if you could get a few quid for giving the same advice to others that request that information? If you do have a vast knowledge of a topic, item or subject, and you feel that you can give expert advice on it then you will be happy to know that this is possible. Just think by giving advice to others you can earn yourself £6.47 in ten minutes.
At www.keen.co.uk you can add yourself to their directory of people who can give answers or advice to others who are asking on the telephone. For example, if I wanted some advice on 'diet' then I could enter 'diet' into the search engine on their home page or, look through the various categories and topics listed on the home page. You will then be taken to a list of available advisors.
I think maybe at this stage I will need to describe to you how it all works.There are three options that people use to gain the answers to the questions that they have. First is live answers which is obviously talking one to one with an advisor on the phone. Second is e-mail and third is the recorded answers. You can list yourself in the directory as to how you would like the consumer to connect to you under one or all of the above options. If someone clicks on your live call button then they make the call through keen.co.uk to you thus keeping both phone numbers personal.
At www.keen.co.uk you can get advice on business, entertainment and arts to money and careers or even shopping, travel and romance. Whatever the topic you choose to give advice on you will need to set out a short description, for example, 'diet' are you giving advice on nutrition, carbohydrates or are you a children's dietician? maybe you have advice on a weight loss programme.
Your next job is to set a
per minute fee. For this you will need to set your price per minute higher than that of the set minimum fee. This is 20p for the live advice and 50p for the recorded advice. There is a standard connection fee of 5p, then there is the charge that keen deduct which is 30% + (VAT) this is for live calls. So if you want to charge say £1.05p per minute and you get a 10 minute call, keen will then collect £10.50 from the caller and deduct 50p, this is the standard connection fee of 5p x 10 minute call. Keen will then deduct their 30% + vat = £3.53 leaving you with a total fee of £6.47.
The big question is how much can you make, this will depend on how many listings you may have set up. You are allowed to have as many listings as you want but it does also depend on how well you market yourself, how interesting you make your listings (topics) and how you set your availability to receive calls. They do provide help pages that give you tips on how to create great listings, and on how to market yourself. Getting paid is simple, all your earnings go straight into your keen.co.uk account and cheques are sent out monthly as long as you have in your account a minimum of £15.
Another great way of earning some money would be to refer a friend. You can refer as many friends as you like but remember to make sure that they join using their 'tell a friend' programme, this will send your friend a link in an e-mail. When your friend makes or takes two successful calls, after joining using the link, then you will then receive a £5 referral bonus. Plus, the friend that you refer gets £5 in their account.
They have done as much as they possibly can to help you market yourself by offering advice and by way of a link that you can add to your e-mail and homepage. They also provide you with your own topic homepage that you can customise, maybe by adding a message or photo, or you might want to alter the price per minute, you can place small symbols which will
tell everyone that you can give 'live advice' or 'recorded advice' or 'mail', an option to add a 'busy' symbol also is provided. Your url would be : "http://www.Keen/YourMemberName".
They have a simple but effective rating system which is based on quality, reliability and service that is given. The rating achieved for each listing/topic you have will then be displayed for all to see and will move up or down the scale after each call. So for each of your missed calls you will get a minus reading of two points, this then determines how your topic is displayed on the site. The higher the rating is the more of a prominent position on the site your topic will be placed. All topics are displayed as 'new' for the first two weeks, and people will rate your topic each and every time they call.
The 'My Customers' page helps you manage, sort, and arrange your list of customers, it will allow you to assign different action buttons. You can even block out certain customers.
A new section on keen is their 'My Groups' feature that lets you create a group. As a group manager you could build up a business based around a certain topic and have several keenspeakers who also share your expertise. You will earn an administration fee which will be a share of the revenue generated by your groups topic. As a group manager the use of plain text and HTML will be made available to help you build up your group homepage.
At www.keen.co.uk you will be pleasantly surprised at the ease of use, the speed and the quality of the site. The potential for making some extra pocket money by helping others is huge.
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