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- Affiliate Contractor Qualification -
Vetting:
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TAD Affiliate Contractors are highly
qualified professional writers and publication professionals.
Many come to the freelance life through work in the media, government,
associations, advertising, public relations, or technical professions.
A number are published book authors. 
Before acceptance into the TAD program,
each Assignment Desk contractor is extensively
vetted. Their body of work in each discipline is
evaluated by both TAD personnel and outside evaluators. Business
references are checked. An in-depth interview is held.
Personal references are double-checked to assure that this is someone
with whom you will be comfortable working.
- Affiliate Contactors participate in the bid process.
They guarantee that the agreed to time estimate is accurate within
10% of the final billing (barring substantial client changes to
the original order).
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- Projects:
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The Assignment Desk works on a wide
array of finished products. Simply, phone, fax, or email
our offices and an Assignment Desk representative will work with you
to define the specific work you need done, estimate your cost, and the time
frame within which you project can be completed.
Once your
project is defined, the
preliminaries are out of the way, and you have retained The
Assignment Desk, TAD will search its extensive stable of
qualified professionals to locate exactly the right person to
accomplish your goal. TAD maintains access to over 1500
writers in a wide variety of disciplines.
Writing projects can be very complex and
frustrating. The Assignment Desk serves as a buffer to smooth out some of
the rough spots in the writer/client relationship. TAD backs up the writer to
assure support and checks on the project for the client to report back progress.
TAD realizes that some revisions in
any written material are inevitable. At least a second draft
is included as part of all TAD contracts. Also included is use of an independent
additional set of eyes to do a first edit before you ever see a draft. TAD
believes that among the worst things that can happen in any project is for there
to be dumb grammatical, typographical, spelling, or style errors.
The extra set of eyes helps to reduce these kinds of
problems.
- Periodicals:
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 Need an article on a specific topic
for your publication? Give us the assignment. TAD probably has a
contractor who
has special expertise in that topic or subject area. Your story
assignment will be finished with style, expertise, and on time.
All Assignment Desk stories
for publication are delivered after a second set of eyeballs has done a
first edit and eliminated
the most glaring, and frustrating errors.
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