Brad Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 It's that time where we start looking for help for various Black Friday-related tasks on the site. Below you'll find some descriptions of things that we will need help with.If you want to help out, please PM me and let me know which of the items below you'd be interested in helping with along with any related experience/skills you may have. If you've helped in the past, let me know as well (although I'll be contacting most of you directly).We have 3 tasks that we need help with:Ad Posting: We need as many people as possible with excellent availability (primarily during the first 3 weeks of November including early mornings and nights) and who have above-average typing skills. You'll be taking the scans of the ads and typing up each item in the ad, selecting the appropriate category, entering price/rebate info, etc... This one requires a little more work but you'll get to see some ads before anyone else if you can do these things. We'll give you the exact format to use so you won't be totally lost. Ad Linking: We need people to help link the thousands of Black Friday ad items to the product pages on the store web sites. This involves looking at the BF ad and searching for the same item on that store's web site and pasting that link in a special form. You basically just need to know how to search a store's site using either the item number (if the ad shows it) or the product's name and then copy and paste. Content Writers: This is new for this year - we're looking for those of you who enjoy writing about Black Friday to write articles, guides, interviews, etc... Basically you can come up with your own ideas for pieces, pitch them to me and assuming we don't have something similar, I'll give you the go ahead and you'll see it posted on the site with your name (if you'd like) as the author. You can do as little or as much as you'd like.To make things easier so we don't have more than one person doing the same work, we have a private forum for us all to get together, so if you are chosen you'll get access to that forum where we'll assign tasks and post updates. You won't be alone or feel overwhelmed as we'll hopefully once again have a small army of volunteers this year.We don't expect you to do this work for free - you will be compensated for your time and efforts at the end of the year based on how much you helped out. We typically send gift cards, but if you'd rather have another type of payment, we can work something out. Those of you who helped with this the last few years would be very welcome to help again as you all have done a great job.So again, if you feel you could do one or more of these tasks, send me a PM. If you have any questions, you can PM me as well.Thanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riven3d Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 Content writing that sounds like a great new idea 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimpooh19 Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 And so it begins 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaymacfla Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 (edited) I would like to see the "Then and Now" ads and how they stacked up , held up or went bust over time. This year we have the opportunity to recap 2004/2014, or we can wait and do 2005/2015 for more relevance. Multiple people could sign up for their favorite stores (If they are still around) and use the adscans for comparative content. Every year, the same argument arises across the web that the sales are not good and that they were better back in the day. By bringing up the past, we can better see what stood out and what we once claimed victory on was just silly in comparison to today's higher quality items. Edited September 11, 2015 by jaymacfla 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bopeep Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 I would like to see the "Then and Now" ads and how they stacked up , held up or went bust over time. This year we have the opportunity to recap 2004/2014, or we can wait and do 2005/2015 for more relevance. Multiple people could sign up for their favorite stores (If they are still around) and use the adscans for comparative content. Every year, the same argument arises across the web that the sales are not good and that they were better back in the day. By bringing up the past, we can better see what stood out and what we once claimed victory on was just silly in comparison to today's higher quality items.That would be an interesting comparison, but in order to give us what we're looking for there we would need to know what the regular prices were in 2004/2005. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaymacfla Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Most of the adscans, especially Best Buy tell you what the savings are. Check out the one from 2004. Many televisions and other items were only marginally on sale, like $30 off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racerfan Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 I am looking forward to another great year!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted September 25, 2015 Author Share Posted September 25, 2015 Bumping this again for any of you who just showed up. For those who are helping, you'll be hearing from me next week to get things going 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanyon71 Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Ready for it to kick off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racerfan Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 YAY!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcwalker Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Looking forward to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgmckny Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Ready to go... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bstar0306 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I'd like to help with some content writing if you still need help. I have a blog but no one really cares about black friday that reads it. I'd love to write about black friday stuff to people that care. I wrote this post of tips last year http://bethannesbest.com/10-black-friday-shopping-tips-crazy-shoppers/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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