Administration
Most small businesses are swamped with administrative tasks that do nothing to generate profit. You may spend much of your time updating databases, writing to customers, preparing marketing projects, processing orders or making customer serive telephone calls. If you have a task that you think could be handled externally, let us take care of it for you. We are happy to provide quotations for both one-off and regular assignments.
Copywriting and Desktop Publishing
We can write copy for advertising and marketing material.
Our desktop publishing services can produce flyers, newsletters, menus, promotional material, leaflets, posters, invitations, cards and templates for company letterheads and other branded material.
Amendments and Reprints Service
Businesses do not stand still for long—we appreciate that changes to your prices, services and ways of doing business happen all the time. We can keep the cost of making those changes to your business documents to a minimum with our amendments and reprints service.
When we have typed a document for you, it will be kept on our files (with your permission) for a period of six months, or longer if you wish to pay a small retention fee. Then, when you need any amendments or reprints, all you pay for is the cost of making the amendment and reprinting he document, rather than having to pay for the whole document to be retyped from scratch.
If you would like The Office Elf to undertake any other office or secretarial service, please do not hesitate to contact us for a quotation.
Word Processing
The Office Elf can help you with any type of business document from a letter to a corporate manual. Specify you own layout or leave the choice to us for a professional look to your finished document. We can print the document for you (save money on printing costs when you supply your own headed paper if you wish) or we can forward the work to you via email, c.d.w or post.
Proof-reading
The office Elf’s founder, Mandy Cochrane, is trained by The Publishing Training Centre as a fully qualified proofreader. She is also an Associate of The Society for Editors and Proofreaders. This means that you are guaranteed that professional standards are met when you need a fresh pair of eyes to proofread a document or website. In business, first impressions are so important and mistakes can damage your reputation.
In brief, we can check for spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors; impose consistency of style, typography and formatting; cross-check headings, page numbering and references; mark up the proofs and liaise with you to resolve any queries.
The type of documents that can be proofread are almost endless but examples are: annual reports, books, essays and dissertations, letters, magazine articles, manuscripts, marketing materials, newsletters, product manuals, reports and briefings, sales proposals, training manuals, user guides, c.v.s and websites.
Invoicing and Credit Control
This is a task that can be safely left to The Office Elf. We can issue invoices promptly and keep on top of those initial reminder letters and telephone calls to customers who are less than prompt in paying! This removes you from any unpleasantness or embarrassment associated with reminding your valued customers of their obligations.
You can rely on The Office Elf to be professional, tactful, courteous and discreet.