Guru.com vs. Skyword

VERY useful for small companies where one person does an entire job/task. May be less useful for larger companies, as it would be difficult to maintain, and there are usually teams to cover the slack. Also good for tech purposes. Our tech people constantly create Guru cards in order to help us learn to do back-end things.

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It's a great platform for freelance writers to use because everything - the brief, deadline, notes, edits along the way etc, are all in one handy location; which is easy to access. It's great to get picked up by one client, following the recommendation of another too. It's almost like a networking site in this respect too, where companies get matched or paired with the right writers.

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• Shows you WHO made the Guru card.
• Easy to access.
• Gives you topics to help organize.

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• SEO
• Editorial Calendars
• Analytics

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• Relatively high fees taken out of earnings
• Fake clients still get through, which causes a headache
• Having to pay to get your bid higher up in the list of freelancers makes it even more costly

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• It would be useful to see historical versions of copy that you have uploaded rather than the latest, edited version.
• In some programmes the rules are a bit too prescriptive ie set word counts with not too much variance. Similarly, sometimes you have to almost 'shoe horn' key words into the copy in order to hit the number required. This can make the text sound repetitive and less creative journalistically.
• Not quite sure what the readability scores bring to the party?

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Very responsive to our requests. Always make themselves available. We also have a standing weekly status with their team, which keeps us on the same page.

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SkyWord distinguishes itself by its efficiency and the capabilities it has with web design and management. It also has a strong variety of content production capabilities like video, social media, etc. Our procurement team has found SkyWord to be fair when it comes to prices, and this showed when we evaluated them against competitors.

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• 100 times better than writing up and printing multiple training manuals & presentation handouts!
• Team members know they have easy access to any and all knowledge so they can refresh at their own pace without the need for repeat training sessions/presentations.

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• Significant month-over-month organic traffic growth
• Elevated click-through rates from email marketing
• Increases in site visits from social

Incentivized