tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81279290111238678812009-04-16T00:09:02.900-07:00do work the easy way...Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17414030633863359407noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127929011123867881.post-4691812057156685642008-07-09T06:57:00.001-07:002008-07-09T07:07:09.518-07:00Do you want to get your new business off the ground with the least cost possible? That would be nice wouldn't it? - reducing your startup costs by at least 10k...<br /><br />Starting a new business will involve a substantial cost for business software which for obvious reasons must be legal. I can show you how to do this with NO cost at all. I offer a full suite of business technology consulting services to the startup / entrepreneur. <a href="http://cookand.googlepages.com/theserfsstuff">Contact me here</a> for more information.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8127929011123867881-469181205715668564?l=www.passiveserf.com'/></div>Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17414030633863359407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127929011123867881.post-63134492499045838112008-07-07T10:44:00.000-07:002008-07-07T10:52:20.228-07:00Have you written a cool tool, a killer app? But you really don't feel like writing the user manuals and help files even though your investors and clients are insisting on it. Dufii like me specialise* in that boooring user stuff and we do a really good job of it too!<span style="font-weight:bold;"> If you need a good technical writer</span> please contact me <a href="http://cookand.googlepages.com/theserfsstuff">here</a>. <br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><br />*References available on request</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8127929011123867881-6313449249904583811?l=www.passiveserf.com'/></div>Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17414030633863359407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8127929011123867881.post-31180775418052644002008-06-25T08:51:00.000-07:002008-06-25T08:58:09.269-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_RZlKRUzOQ5I/SGJq7hWZDnI/AAAAAAAAAGs/nU_L9VjD_uQ/s1600-h/ACF7981.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_RZlKRUzOQ5I/SGJq7hWZDnI/AAAAAAAAAGs/nU_L9VjD_uQ/s320/ACF7981.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215848889245568626" /></a><br /><br /><br />Any business professional who is in a business or IT consulting job knows just how hard it is to get quality resources [people] even more so, we all know how hard it is to get quality documentation out of said people and usually we end up pulling all nighters having to rewrite specifications and business briefs ourselves because the documents we were handed a day before the deadline look like a 5th graders English assignment.<br /> <br />There are some sites out on the Internet that have a dedicated following to website / blog templates, be they for Wordpress, Blogger or Typepad. These sites espouse a fundamental design philosophy when it comes to how a website or blog should look and some serious effort is put into UX design in order to make these entities not only atheistically pleasing but also USABLE. (OK, no comments about my site please!) If only business people had the same mentality towards the documents they use on a daily basis.<br /><br />Most large corporations push to be ISO 9001/QMS compliant or are in the process of obtaining the rating and this means that time and energy needs to be spent on documentation standards and ISO consultants don't come cheap these days. Freelancers like us [who are cheaper than ISO consultants] also need to ensure that the documentation we generate is of the QUALITY variety, that means we stick to the 3 golden rules of <span style="font-weight:bold;">Readability, Relevancy and Format</span>:<br /><blockquote><br />The document is readable (duh!) - grammar, spelling etc.<br />The content is relevant to the subject at hand (big duh!) <br />Formatting standards are adhered to - this is very important, especially in the case of annual corporate reports and other documents that are open to public scrutiny. </blockquote><br />Besides being 100% in terms of content and relevancy, a document generated by yourself should be as aesthetically pleasing to the reader as the Wordpress Design blog you were reading last night [while you were supposed to be working]. <span style="font-weight:bold;">The old adage of “first impressions count” really is true. </span><br /><br />There are a ton of websites out there that offer free business document templates but unfortunately quality costs...a little bit.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8127929011123867881-3118077541805264400?l=www.passiveserf.com'/></div>Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17414030633863359407noreply@blogger.com0