LISTINGS TUTORIAL FOR OUTSOURCERS

Step 1: Logging In Go to www.FunState.com ex. www.FunNewYork.com OR www.FunPennsylvania.com. Click Login at the top of the screen

Log in with the Username and Password provided to you via e-mail. Please note that there are 13 sites that we have writers for. An editor will register you as a writer in our system, do not register yourself.

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Mouse over My Account and scroll down to Add Listings

Once you know the category youll be writing about (indoor sports, museums, restaurants etc.), start your research. For this example Ill be doing laser tag in New York.

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Step 2: Research In a separate window, do a simple Google search of laser tag in ny. This will yield many results. Read around and find one you want to write about. *Listings must have their OWN website* Ive chosen the business Indoor Extreme Sports.

You will also need to locate the business contact information for the next section. This includes address, and phone number. If the website doesnt have a contact page, Google will usually have this information readily available for you. As an absolute last resort, if you cannot find a phone number leave it blank. If you cannot find an address simply write, Servicing the Greater X Area i.e. Servicing the Greater Long Island Area

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Step 3: Image Selection and Editing While on the website, youll need to find an image to go with your listing. Generally, websites will have a heading at the top of the page you can screenshot and crop to use as your image. If you cant find a picture with the business name on the website, a picture of the activity will work just as well. *Images are 200x200 pixels for the New York website, and 200x150 pixels for Pennsylvania website* You may use any photo editing software you would like, but I recommend downloading the free, easy to use program Paint.net.

Be sure to save your cropped image somewhere you will remember it. Save the images as a lower cased hyphenated title relevant to the listing, i.e. laser-tag-ny OR indoorextreme-sports-ny. *If youre doing several listings for the same category, I suggest making a folder titled with that category name i.e. Laser Tag Pictures NY.*

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Step 4: Building Your Listing Now go back to Add Listings window to begin entering the basic data Input the categorical information. *Street, Drive, Avenue, etc. are written out* *State is abbreviated to two capitalized letters* *Phone numbers are hyphenated* Section Title Description
Write the name of the business

Example Indoor Extreme Sports

Image

Upload your cropped picture

Image Alt Display URL URL Geographic Area Address City State Zip Phone Category

Write the business name hyphenated, and lowercased. Copy+paste the URL of the website (keep it free of additional characters if possible) Copy+paste the URL of the website Select the geographic location from the drop down list. (If unsure, Google search the county the town is in) Write in the street address Write in the city Write in the state Write in the zip code Write in the phone number Select the category from the drop down

indoor-extreme-sports www.indoorextremesports.com http://www.indoorextremesports.com Long Island 47-11 Van Dam Street Long Island City NY 11101 646-397-5416 -Laser Tag NY

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Before writing the descriptions, skip ahead to the last bit of information youll be filling out, starting with Activate Detail Page Description
This activates the page for approval Name/description of the business + State Variations of the business name separated by commas (include state). Capitalization is not required.

Section Activate Detail Page Meta Title Meta Keywords

Example Active Arena Laser Tag NY

Meta Description Page Alias

indoor extreme sports, arena laser tag, laser tag ny, laser tag long island Looking for safe fun with A few short sentences describing the your friends? Try Arena business using your keywords. Less than Laser Tag at Indoor 50 words. Extreme Sports! Hyphenated version of meta title arena-laser-tag-ny

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Step 5: Writing Your Description(s) Now youll be writing up the descriptions. This is the FUN part! If you are writing for New York, a description and Geographic Area Description will be written. The regular description is written for just the state, the regional description is specific to the Geographic Area you selected earlier, i.e. Long Island. If you are writing for Pennsylvania, disregard the Geographic area description and just write the description. Descriptions are between 75-150 words long, should be creative, enthusiastic, have an interesting title, and include 1 or 2 Meta keywords that youve written earlier. Try to split it up into 2 individual paragraphs. Include hours and pricing of the business, when applicable. Weave the keywords into your description; try to make them as incognito as possible. The two descriptions must be unique. Dont simply copy and paste the description and change the location.

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Step 6: Finalizing Your Listing Titles should be highlighted and then bold faced, and selected with black for the New York Website OR bold faced and red for the Pennsylvania website. You have to select black color even though it looks like it already is. You do this by clicking on the palette, and then selecting the black color as shown below.

Review your writing for grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors. When you are completed hit Submit Link at the bottom of the page.

YOU MUST ADHERE TO THE GUIDELINES SET FORTH ABOVE IN ORDER TO RECEIVE PAYMENT.
o SEE ADDITIONAL ATTACHMENT CHECKLIST TO MAKE SURE YOUVE DONE EVERYTHING!

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You can keep track of your listings by mousing over My Account and then scrolling down to My Listings

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Step 7: Pending, Aprroved, or Rejected Listings will fall under 2 headings; Approved Listings OR Pending Listings. After you submit a listing, it will automatically be under the Pending Listings heading on My Listings. Listings with the yellow bar underneath stating, This listing is waiting for editors review. simply means that an editor has NOT yet reviewed the work done.

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Listings with a red bar underneath stating, This listing is rejected. means that an editor HAS reviewed your work BUT found one or more things wrong with your listing. Rejected listings show up under the Pending Listings heading. o SEE ADDITIONAL ATTACHMENT REASONS FOR REJECTION Errors that need to be corrected will be written at the bottom of your listing, asterisked, in all caps, and blue font. You may edit and resubmit rejected listings by hovering over the rejected listing and clicking Edit. You may edit as many times as it takes to get approved, BUT listings you do not correct will NOT get approved will NOT be paid for.

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Listings with a green bar underneath stating, This listing has been approved! means that an editor HAS reviewed your work AND found nothing wrong with your listing. Approved listings show up under the Approved Listings heading. Listings that have been approved will be paid for shortly thereafter.

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Once approved, your listing will be live on the website and you can find it by searching the category you put it under. In this case: Fun with Kids in NY > Laser Tag NY > Indoor Extreme Sports.

GOOD LUCK!