Joshua Monen | Direct Response Copywriter

If you’re considering hiring a freelancer for a project then this post was written for you. 

Small business owners come in all shapes and sizes but there’s a common experience every business owner can relate to…

Unfortunately that experience is known as “chaos.”

And freelancers can be an effective way to reduce the amount of chaos in your life and business. Finding the right freelancer is a dream come true for a business owner. But hiring the wrong person will only make matters worse.

So here are seven questions to ask a prospective freelancer BEFORE you hire them. These are questions you MUST answer if you want to find the right freelancer.

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Excellent customer service. We all want our customers to experience it. But if you’re not careful you may be going about it the wrong way. First let me ask you a question:

Do you know who your most important customers are?

It’s your employees.

That’s right. The ones who collect a paycheck from you are more important than all those people paying you money.

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I have so much to share with you. Where do I start? Well, let me tell you what I’ve been up to the last few weeks.

Launched a Hyperlocal Website

Yesterday I officially launched my first hyperlocal website  for Battle Ground, WA (my hometown). The site is called The Battle Ground Buzz and features all things local. It’s not a news site, although it includes that, it’s more of a resource for my fellow citizens. The purpose of newspapers is to inform. I want to inform and empower people.

So in my quest to provide the people of Battle Ground with valuable, local information I decided to interview local business owners. The small business owners were happy to be interviewed for the Buzz and I’ve spent the last two months meeting owners and getting to know them. It’s been great and at the end of my interview I always ask them how they currently advertise and what their experience has been with that.

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