Do:
Add a link to your personal LinkedIn or Researchgate profile
Make full use or your Peerwith profile by adding a link to your personal profile on LinkedIn or ResearchGate. This allows clients to investigate their preferred expert even further and make a well informed decision for their task.
Make sure to have all communication through the Peerwith platform
Peerwith encourages to have all communication through the Peerwith system, so we can mediate in case of any disputes
Provide a quote for the entire task
After gathering all the information you need from the client, you can provide the client with a customised and personalised quote by using the quotation tool on the website. It is not recommended to communicate a price per word, page or hour. The reason for that is to prevent any miscommunication about the final price. We recommend using the quotation tool on the website, which includes the Peerwith service charge as well when communicating your price to the client.
Don't
Add a link to your commercial website OR
Add an email address/contact details in your messages to clients
Peerwith is a market place where academics and service providers can find each other and work together under safe conditions in an interface we provide. We allow our users the option to communicate and exchange documents in all formats without any restrictions or obligations, which is a great mutual opportunity we would like to maintain. To enable this, we trust our service providers to work via the Peerwith platform instead of directing the clients to an external website or an email address.
Impolite behavior
Peerwith is an open, transparent academic market place. We connect clients & experts directly. Please be respectful in your communication. Other users might not be as experienced as you, or simply unaware of common behavior on a market place like Peerwith. We cannot prevent any impolite behavior from our users, so we ask you, if confronted with it, to contact us and ignore that person.
Unethical requests
We have a strict rule against unethical requests like ghostwriting, plagiarism, etc. If you see this in a service request or conversation, please tell us about it, so we can take action. We suggest you simply don't ask for it in your requests.
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Why not suggest that experts (service providers) interact directly with potential clients over a videotelephony service (e.g., Skype or possibly an embedded/piggybacked teleconferencing service directly embeded in or linked to from the Peerwith site) at the initial stage of assessing what a new project entails? I've found this to be extremely time-efficient with my own (previous) long-time clients and have recently begun using either face-to-face or videotelephony meetings (when they're too far away to meet in person) to clarify project requirements/expectations between myself and my clients before we firm-up our business agreements and launch new projects. This mode of rapid, interactive negotiation shields me from having to say "no-go!" when I finally receive a manuscript after a lot of negotiation about timetable and price and see that it is, for example, so poorly organized or is so lacking important results that I have to decline to accept the project.
Hi Carville, thanks for you suggestion. That would indeed be great. What do you think Skype is the best option? The problem with video conferencing is that it would always require something "installed" on your computer. Have to think about that.
Also, I didn't expect our users to use this commenting function to suggest features! Thanks for the eye-opener. I immediately opened a new section in our support to cover this and also tell more about our roadmap. See https://peerwith.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/sections/201724449-Requested-features.
DEAR PEERWITH TEAM: I REQUEST YOU TO PLZ START A "WHAT'S APP" SERVICE IN ADDITION TO YOUR FORMAL PLATFORM DUE TO THE REASON THAT I WISH TO AVAIL YOUR DISCOUNT OFFER OF 100$ DURING BLACK FRIDAY AND ITS LAST DAY TILL 23.59PM ON DATED: 27.11.2017, BUT UNFORTUNATELY ON THIS SHORT DURATION I AM UNABLE TO SELECT THE RIGHT EXPERT WITH WHOM I BARGAIN THE PACKAGE FOR GETTING NEEDFUL ASSISTANCE ABOUT REVISION OF MY MANUSCRIPT. SO IF YOUR WHAT'S APP SERVICE IS THERE THEN IT IS VERY EASY TO APPROACH THE CONCERNED EXPERT AROUND THE GLOBE INSTANTANEOUSLY. AND WHEN DEAL IS SETTLED THE OTHER FORMAL PROCESS MAY BE PERFORMED THROUGH YOUR PLATFORM ON PEER-WITH OFFICIAL DOMAIN. I REQUEST YOU EITHER TO EXTEND THE DATE OF THIS DISCOUNT OFFER SCHEME OR START A WHAT'S APP OR SKYPE SERVICE PLZ. REGARDS. ALI BAIG, PHD SCHOLAR-BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, SUPERIOR UNIVERSITY, LAHORE, PAKISTAN, WHAT'S APP ID: 00923214548929
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