Hello Everyone
I am looking for freelancers helping me "clean up" company data in several Google Sheets.
However, this specific project deals with a single list of approximately 3,700 company names and their websites. My challenge is that these names are often not exactly the names the companies use for themselves.
Your job would be to:
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1.) open the website of a company,
2.) navigate to the website sections named "About Us" or "Company" or "News,"
3.) Find the exact company name used within those pages within texts: Not primarily in titles, but rather in the broader texts themselves; ideally like the employees of a company most likely call their company.
Example 1: Apple Inc. is a formal company name. But everyone uses only "Apple." That's the name I am looking for.
Example 2: Applied Optoelect calls themselves "AOI," not Applied Optoelect. "AOI" is the name I am looking for.
Example 3: Abbott Laboratories call themselves "Abbott", etc.
4.) Copy the exact company name used by the company itself. This step must be very precise, e.g., considering upper or lower case characters, abbreviations used, etc. – See examples above.
5.) Paste the exact company name back into the Google Sheet.
6.) Enter "ok" in a column that I added next to the name. If there is any problem or question, there is an option to enter "check" instead of "ok," and I will check later.
7.) In probably less than 1% of all cases, you may also need to correct the website (root URL) in step 1. This step is only a minor part of this specific research work.
Requirements
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A.) You need an own Google Drive Account so that I can share the Google Sheet with you.
B.) You must be able to work quickly and precisely at the same time. This requires a good/fast internet connection and good command of copy-paste skills on your PC/Mac.
C.) I have put together a trial excel sheet with 10 company names attached to this project. If you want to apply for this job, please complete this trial list and send it back to me via a PM (excel or Google Sheet). I will only consider bids that have done this trial well.
D.) We can define milestone payments if you wish so once you won the bid.
E.) I may select more than one bidder to speed up the research, as there are further similar jobs of this kind...