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Content is king. And while it may sound as cliche as it can be, it becomes a cliche for a reason: it speaks of an absolute truth. Content marketing is booming and you need an excellent creative talent to level up your game in the digital marketing scene. Whether you’re in the B2B or B2C space, it’s necessary to upgrade your content into a consumable commodity that will enthuse your target consumers. So how do you do that? What’s the recipe for a good content? HOPLA has all the content-related secrets you need to know so read on to get some more tips! A Creative Talent such as a Content Writer embraces challenges HOPLA has gathered a pretty good number of wordsmiths in the team who came from different fields but aspire to achieve a common goal: produce quality content that will attract returning customers. Our creative talent and content writers follow an SEO-friendly writing and editing standards that match the needs of a business who want to rank on top search engines. Assigning...

The way that social media has changed the global business landscape and customer engagement is undeniable. Across different industries, it is now difficult to think about setting up a business without a clear social media strategy. Every business, large or small, must be ready to support how people form opinions about their brand. One way of doing exactly that is to hire a social media virtual assistant. Certainly, if you want to expand your online reach, let a virtual personal assistant take on the challenge . The Prevalence of Social Media Social media use is widespread, thanks to the ever-changing developments in technology. People browse their Facebook, consume 280 characters on Twitter, and share images on their Instagram all day and night. In fact, most consumers nowadays rely on their social media connections to find products and reviews before making a purchase. Market research company GlobalWebIndex illustrates how 54% of social browsers use these platforms to research prod...

We are living in a world where technology is integrated with everything that we do and wherever we are. With the rise of the internet, the world we are living in is becoming more “social”. Thanks to social media platforms, it feels like the world is within our reach.  The chances of being able to interact with people from all parts of the world grew higher. Likewise, the chances for marketers to engage potential customers also increased through Social Media Marketing. This paved the way for Social Media Moderator jobs to surface in the business industry. But, have you ever wondered what can a social media manager cost your company? If yes, then let’s find out. Hiring a Social Media Manager Hiring a social media moderator is yet the best way to utilize the use of social media platforms, most especially if you are launching a new product. This also works if you are trying to promote an existing product to a wider range of prospect customers. Social Media Moderators help a lot in the...

Community moderation outsourcing has been exclusively helping businesses bolster their online presence and brand identity in previous years, especially in this community-driven digital era.  Community moderator job is more than just answering queries from the audience and potential customers. It requires building a unique online personality which your potent ial customers will love to interact with. Community moderators need to be energetic and always-on-the-go brand representatives who will magnetize a wide variety of market that can be converted into loyal, paying customers. More than interaction, community moderation outsourcing also aims towards creating a fun and safe online environment by watching over behaviors taking place within your brand’s online territory. If you’re a content creator or a business owner who lacks the time to go through small, delicate, but impactful details like this, you definitely need a community moderator who will do all the smart and witty work f...

Successful business owners smartly delegate data entry tasks. That’s not just an opinion or speculation. The facts and numbers do bear out that the entrepreneurs who made it big or at least made their business sustainable are those who know how to delegate. Gallup Poll did research on CEO of companies that had become market leaders. What they found out was telling:  the company heads that regularly delegate their more mundane, but still efficient tasks surpassed their colleagues who were unable to do so by a whopping 112 percent increase in productivity. Over a three-year span, they grew their market — and with it, their profits — by 1,751 percent.  What does this mean to startups and business owners? The answer is obvious: delegate! Delegating data entry tasks You can start with data entry tasks. These are the duties that have to do with a lot of the encoding and documentation of all the information that is present in the organization. They are fairly simple to do and will not requ...

Is it popular and being used —  the phenomenon or trend is now known as work from home for a company on top? It is also called by another term:  ‘remote work for a company.’ It simply means that companies are resorting to remote workers who perform their tasks at home while remaining virtually connected to their clients at all times. Remote work has arisen in leaps and bounds over the last few years because of the skyrocketing increase in smart devices and improvements in internet connection. The workforce has become more mobile. They can work in a variety of locations without reporting physically to their brick-and-mortar office. They collaborate using various software to make sure that they are on the same page, and that deadlines are met. More important to companies that do hire these remote workers, they help their clients save expenses that would otherwise have been spent on employee benefits or added infrastructure. Accounting, transcription service, customer service , editoria...

Live Chat Services has been a part of the business industry for quite some time now. In fact, it is one of the features of many websites that are soaring high nowadays. The reason behind it is simple. Quality customer service plays a vital role in the long-term success of your business. Your ability to  create a personal, and real-time interaction with your customers  is a way to get a higher conversion rate. This is because, the more they feel valued, the more likely they are to purchase your products and services.  Lives Chat Services and Chatbots The technological revolution has indeed changed the way people do their business. The internet provided companies with a wider range of target market with the way it revolutionized marketing . As a result, they get higher conversion rates and more traffic. One of the many features brought about by digital advancement is chatbots.  The chatbot is used to interact with customers 24/7 via chat interference.  However, despite the large avail...

Hiring people from different parts of the world serves a great purpose in keeping your expenses at a minimum. However, all great things must come at a price. In this case, the price may be your sanity! Remote team management is not an easy task and as an entrepreneur with already so much on your plate, managing your team should be the least of your troubles. Here are some of the most common issues faced by businesses with remote employees. In this article, we will provide you some tips on how you can effectively diminish these ongoing problems and develop a more sustainable process for the long term. Problem # 1: Time Zone Difference When you have an employee from the other side of the world, communication will be tougher. You may not get immediate response for when you have to clarify something. Computing the hours, your project’s progress will be slower than when you are working with an in house team. But, with all the amazing benefits of having a virtual team ,  a little adjustm...

There are many ways as to how VDI benefits a remote company . VDI means virtual desktop infrastructure, and this is the process and/or software capability that enables workers to have access to and to use all their apps and their documents, without having to rely on the hardware or device that stores them. Think of your laptop right now, and all the apps, files, folders, and data that you have stored in it. Many computer users still think of the hardware and the software as bundled inseparably into one. They think that to use their virtual working space, they need that specific laptop on which everything is stored. That kind of working arrangement and mindset that supports it are now things of the past. A VDI makes that same virtual landscape available and functioning in any device that you would want to use it in, such as your smartphone, tablet, or even another laptop. If you decide to work while mobile, and you can’t bring your probably heavy laptop at all times, a VDI can allow yo...

“Emergency mode:  virtual desktop online to the rescue!” That might soon be the battle cry of many team leaders, project managers, and their remote workers who are encountering tough challenges and problems that they need to solve ASAP. Retrieval of files from a distant or another location, file sharing that has to be done with a very little warning, and even fixing software glitches are just some of the solutions that can be provided and/or performed during a crisis situation. For example, a worker is about to present a very important document or presentation to a client outside of his home. Another situation is that he has to work on it while he is out of the house. But he forgot the laptop where he stored that document. A few years ago, as a back-up, he would have to find that document in the google drive and access same through the smartphone or laptop that he brought with him. Another recourse would be to call a colleague and ask him to email him the document. Go back several mo...

A bit of good news for business owners and entrepreneurs looking for creative talents to hire: the net is buzzing with remote hiring websites that can make their jobs easier. In this modern age of recruitment, scanning for these talented virtual workers is becoming a specialty. No need to scroll down the bigger job sites which tend to mix remote workers, freelance workers, and full-time employees. Instead, there are actual remote hiring websites that can offer you specifically remote talents who work at home. You can contract them various ways — part-time, project-based, per-hour, contractual, and even full-time. But one thing that makes them stand out is that their talent pool is primarily filled with virtual workers . So let’s take a look at these popular, remote hiring websites for creative talents.   Hubstaff Talent Hubstaff is one of the remote hiring websites that have been getting the attention of employers and company heads because it enables you to track down employe...

Home-based companies need not be defined as the act of working from your own territory. In previous years, the drastic growth of co-working spaces in various countries has contributed to the possibility of an out-of-office working setup. In relation to this, home-based companies gained a wider option for when it comes choosing a working location apart from their homes. For the record, getting a seat in a co-working space can be a lot cheaper than building a conducive working space at home not to mention the presence of distraction that might sometimes get out of control. A previous study by the International Workplace Group (IWG) states that there’s a significant correlation between flexible working options and productivity and business growth. Here’s a breakdown of how co-working spaces work to the benefit of home-based companies. Benefits of co-working space to home-based companies Co-working appeals to small business owners and startups like digital marketing agencies and most c...

One thing that makes doing business today more urgent, more demanding, and yes, more stressful, is the on-demand economy. Customers want their products delivered almost as soon as they see it on the net. They want a smart reply as soon as they click on an app. They want videos, images, and music about the brand streamed to their phones once they see it on YouTube . If a company delays its delivery, or the website chatbot does not shoot off a reply ASAP,  the customer becomes dissatisfied and literally walks or clicks away. All that pressure can load an immense amount of stress on the business owner. Yet, interestingly enough, the on-demand economy has also given rise to a solution that is being adopted by many business owners everywhere:   outsourcing customer support. There are many ways how outsourcing customer support contribute to a business owner’s physical and mental well-being. Forbes shows this crucial link between the on-demand economy and customer service outsourcing. It al...

Working with web content writers can speed up your hard day’s work and increase your website traffic. That can do you a lot of favor especially when you’re starting out and already have a lot on your plate. But, working with other writers also means having a different perspective on how you want your content to be expressed to the public. Sometimes, you end up wasting time and just revising and redoing their work altogether! Here are some of the things you can do to avoid the back and forth revisions and really maximize your budget for outsourcing freelancer writers . Brief them on who you are The advantage when hiring an SEO writer is that you get access to a talent who has experience in ranking blog entries . However, this does not exclude you from the fact that you have to orient them about the ins and outs of your company. Just like when hiring a bunch of website content writers, you need to be able to tell them the branding you’re going for to have a uniform voice and tone o...

We have seen how remote personal assistants has evolved from being a cheap-labor option to being an integral part of every business’ day to day operation. Often when a business is just starting, and you’re in that sweet spot of needing an extra pair of hands but also cannot operate yet as a multi-level company, the first to help you would be seeking is that of a work from home assistant. It is no surprise that every business’ first employee is almost always a VA as the scope of the job your remote, personal assistant can do is immense. They can handle menial tasks of filing, scheduling, booking your business, and even personal itinerary, data entry and the like. They can also act as your salesperson by answering client queries, and sorting orders, sending out marketing campaigns, managing your email and website, or sometimes even do cold calling. Your work from home assistant can also act as an overall manager of your business as she handles the most delicate information and decisions ...