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How We Work with You
Polished Prose is in the Santa Cruz, California area, about 40
minutes from Silicon Valley and 90 minutes from San Francisco.
Judith and her associates are all long-established independent contractors,
so we do most client work from our own offices, other than meetings with
clients and occasional partial days onsite.
We still believe that people do business with people, not computers,
phones and fax machines, so we meet with you when we can, at least
to get acquainted. Yet we've worked quite successfully with clients
in South Africa, London, The Netherlands and throughout the United States.
Each of us has a well-equipped, high-tech office (you can see
a photo of Judith's at the bottom of this page), and we've all been freelancing
long enough to understand the necessity of backup plans ready to
kick in if the printer fails, the Internet connection goes down, or a
storm knocks the power out. Judith, for instance, has two printers, two
monitors, two computers, two ISPs and arrangements to go work in an alternate
office whenever anything could interfere with meeting a deadline.
You don't
thrive 20 years as a freelance or contractor unless you reliably meet
deadlines. We do. No one who tells the truth can say they've never
missed one, but if there's going to be even a day's delay, we promise
that you'll know ahead of time unless it's an act of nature that we couldn't
anticipate. In all the years Judith has freelanced, she recalls missing
only two deadlines, and both of those were by less than 24 hours.
Judith keeps her software and hardware up to date, too, so what
we use is compatible with what you use. She's proficient or at least productive
in all of the software applications businesses typically use, plus quite
a few more. Here's the latest list,
if you want to check, and she learns another program or two every year.
This year, so far, she has taken classes in Dreamweaver, FrontPage
and EndNote, the software to search and catalog citations and articles
from MEDLINE, PsycINFO and other major online bibliographic databases.
If you'd
like to schedule a no-obligation, get-acquainted phone call or in-person
appointment, just call 831.336.4232 or send
an e-mail message. Now here's that photo we mentioned, so when
we talk, you'll have a picture in mind.
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