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EOK Contract Gig Site

Let's build a local contract job posting/applying site for EOK. We can call it http://gigs.eokhq.com and make a little money in the process. This will be a for-profit model. We will charge local companies a nominal fee to post their contract jobs on the site. Members will not be charged to apply but non-members of EOK will be charged a fee or percentage of the job to apply.

I've started looking at some Open Source solutions and found a few. I think we can do this with a minimal amount of coding.

Anyone interested in helping with this? We'll need a programmer or two versed in PHP, MySQL, CSS, and a little java scripting. We'll need some Sales guys to make a few cold calls or presentations to local businesses informing them of the service. We'll need some marketing guys to build a marketing campaign to make gigs.eokhq.com the place to post your jobs in K'town. We need a couple of business types for due-diligence, business model, financial analysis, etc.

If you're interested, just post a comment explaining why and what you bring to the table. As soon as we have enough interest, we'll add this project to the private EOK project area and get the team rolling forward.

Tags: elance, job posting, job search

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Permalink Reply by Michael Berger on April 20, 2009 at 5:12pm: I'm in. I can provide some of the programming as well as hosting.

Permalink Reply by Leonard Knight on April 20, 2009 at 7:21pm: Cool. You should now have access to the eok project site http://eokhq.projectpath.com

Permalink Reply by W. Michael Baisley on April 21, 2009 at 10:17pm: I will be glad to help in any way that I can on the legal front.

Some initial thoughts and issues to consider:

1. Waiver and indemnity language to protect EOK is a must
2. Blind bidding vs. open bidding?
3. Maintaining anonymity of principal and/or contractor? (if requested)
4. Potential for abuse? (i.e., could it be used to advance fraudulent or deceptive business schemes)
5. Regulatory concerns regarding kickbacks or fee-splitting (i.e., are there types of contracts where EOK cannot charge a percentage)

Permalink Reply by Leonard Knight on April 23, 2009 at 2:07pm: Good point! I forgot about legal...we'll need help with everything you mentioned. Welcome to the team. I'll get you an invite to the project area.

Permalink Reply by Laurel Bowen on April 23, 2009 at 1:42pm: very much - I've needed this service myself as I much prefer to local resources for contracts. I'm really good with css, can make the site pretty, and like sales. Sounds like mainly we need some marketing expertise. Shawn and Jeremy are you guys in?

Permalink Reply by Patricia Bell on April 24, 2009 at 8:10am: I would like to help. I can type information into a jobs database or other structure stuff. You know my strengths. Just tell me how I can help.

Permalink Reply by Leonard Knight on April 24, 2009 at 5:14pm: You're already on the project site for this one. If you can't get access, let me know. http://eokhq.projectpath.com

Permalink Reply by Laurel Bowen on May 22, 2009 at 10:30am: Update: A team has been developed for this project and we are getting organized.

Permalink Reply by Patricia Bell on July 24, 2009 at 11:17am: Leo - did this ever get off the ground?

Permalink Reply by Leonard Knight on July 28, 2009 at 2:12pm: Yes, sounds like it's going gangbusters! We need to get an update from the team back to EOK members. I received an update today that sounds like they are very close to launch. I'm ready to be their first client...I've really wanted a service like this for a while now.

Permalink Reply by Wallace B. McClure on September 22, 2009 at 10:46am: Did anything happen on this? I wrote an application to do this, so I own all the source code, if its of interest.

Wally

Permalink Reply by Laurel Bowen on September 22, 2009 at 10:41pm: I'm in the process of putting together screenshots of the system we've been working on. Once I get them together, we can share notes if the rest of the team agrees.