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Looking for a Subcontractor for HTML Ezines and Blog Postings

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I am looking for a sub (or two) to take over some of my clients’ HTML newsletters & WordPress blog postings. All content is provided – NO WRITING NECESSARY.

You must be able to comfortably work with HTML. Nothing “fancy,” but basic knowledge is a MUST. CLEAN HTML templates are provided as a starting point for my clients’ ezines. Someone with Dreamweaver, CoffeeCup or the like is preferred. If you can code using a plain text editor, that’s fine – just no visual editors – I’ve had too many nightmare issues with the code when people have used visual editors.

Currently, my clients are using either iContact or 1SC for their ezines. Knowledge of sending ezines via these mediums is a plus, but not necessary. (I can show you how to set up the ezines & send tests and I would do the final launch.)

I’m spending about 7-10 hours per month on blog posting & ezines and I would prefer to sub these tasks out.

Please reply via email only to rfp@qualityva.com with your subcontract rates for this type of work as well as your usual turn-around time once content has been provided. Be prepared to provide samples of ezines you’ve done in the past if requested. Do not send samples with your original response.

The subject line for your response should be:

HTML RFP – First Name Last Name (or your company name)

Please be sure to put YOUR first and last name or your company name in the subject line.

Responses that have not provided a subcontract rate, turnaround time or proper subject line will not be considered.

Response deadline: August 4, 2010

Don’t Make this Mistake When Responding to Proposal Requests

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I recently posted a request for proposal on one of those on-line freelance sites to have a very large Word document with table information converted to an Excel spreadsheet.  Generally it’s a straightforward issue that I would have no problem completing myself.  However, this particular table had a trait that made it just a bit out of my league (I know bupkus about scripts) – but someone with more advanced Excel skills would have no problem with, which was confirmed by some of the responses I got for my request.

Now, on to what annoys me…

Do not make the person requesting the proposal look in different places to find your bidding information.  Please just respond to the proposal in the designated proposal area.  Don’t make me go to the stinkin’ private message board to see what you have to say.  I’ve got 50+ proposals to look through and I DON’T want to have to track down your response.  Needless to say, those who responded with “See my response in the PMB”, or even LESS professional “pls see pm” didn’t even get a second look – and barely got a first one.

I DID however, appreciate those who attached a sample of how they converted the sample page I attached to my proposal.  That showed me they actually looked at what I put out there and thought about what I needed.

The “canned” responses that had absolutely no reference to what I needed done in the first paragraph of their response also did not get a second look.