We're Different
Freelance writers come in all shapes and sizes. From the English major
working in his dorm room for a little extra cash to the
undiscovered author of the next great American novel, to
the person overseas looking to make an English education and
an Internet connection pay off, the field of freelance writing is composed of a
variety of figures. Each of them promises pretty much the
same thing: perfect grammar and spelling, and well written
documents. Whether they come through or not depends on who
you get, and maybe on what day you get them, which is why it is essential to work with high quality professional freelancers.
But, here's the thing. You need more than a grammar coach
and a spell checker. Ten pages of pretty words and
clever sentences are not likely to persuade the CFO to loosen up
thousands of dollars from the budgeting process to fund a
critical project.
That's where ArcticLlama comes in.
We're Different
None of of our freelance writers has an English major. We never interned for a newspaper, published a book, or wrote a thesis about Faust. (Ok, we admit, we might be working on a book idea or two.) So what have we done? We've been where you have. Fortune 500 companies? We've been there. Tiny two person mom and pop startups? Been there too. Government? Check. Compressed four months of research into a three page white paper to convince executive managers to pursue big money for a systems migration? Yes.
We are professional writers, but we're not just professional writers. We're also a professional lawyer, government insider, and legislative analyst. We're a professional financial planner with a CFP (Certified Financial Planner) designation, a professional computer systems administrator with a MCSE and a CNA, and a professional trainer (both finance and computers). On top of that, we are professional small business owners.
Professional writing isn't about getting something that sounds a little bit better than something you could have written if you had the time. Professional writing is about getting the right document, article, or manual to meet your needs. That isn't accomplished by meeting the rules of some style manual; it is accomplished by specifically tailoring the final product to the desired objective and audience. That is the kind of high quality freelance writing ArcticLlama provides.
A major corporation owns and operates hundreds of apartment
buildings across the
country. The Director of Operations has spent months
evaluating several systems to allow the home
office to better manage the cash flow and vacancy rate of
each property. However, rolling out such a system won't
be cheap, fast or easy. It will take commitment
from all levels of the organization, or it will just be a
highly visible failure. To pull it off will take several
documents. The documents need to be free of typos and
grammar errors to be sure, but they need to be so much more.
A few power words and a guarantee that none of the sentences
that end in a preposition are not going to cut it.
At ArcticLlama we're on the same page as you. You
won't have to explain to us how the engineering papers must
contain more technical information than the papers for
management. There may need to be summaries
for board members, detailed technical papers for the engineers, technical training manuals for the local administrators, not so technical training manuals for the
apartment managers, and maybe budget documents, and RFPs.
Look through our samples. We make sure you know what the objective was. After all, in the real world you judge writing based on how well it met it's purpose, not on if the grammar was solid.