Chorus
We retained Alison's company to project manage and write content for the start-up materials for our company, Chorus Business Solutions, including the website, 8-page brochure and Trifold leaflet. All of these to be completed within one month.
Given the challenge of a month in the run-up to Christmas with a deadline of the first week in January for completion, all the work was delivered on time and on budget to a very high standard, despite seasonal breaks and a snowstorm or two, and we are happy to recommend her services.
Roy Compton,
Managing Director.
e-Logistics
Totally trustworthy and thorough, Alison has assisted in massively successful SEO work bringing my clients to the front page of Google in double quick time by the use of article marketing. Her creativity came to the fore in editing 'the boss from hell' a hilarious book of personal assistant experiences in the work place to raise funds for Cancer research.
Tim Meadows-Smith,
Managing Director at e-logistics
HomeStore
Alison is always pushing to get things done, which has been great to concentrate our (HomeStore's) focus! Always enthusiastic about everything she has been involved with for us, Alison never takes her eye off the goal.
Sarah Bliss,
Deputy Manager at HomeStore, Ipswich
Norfolk Community Foundation
Alison Withers provides a remote service to Norfolk Community Foundation writing and compiling our bi-monthly e-newsletter. Alison provides us with an excellent and cost effective service enabling us, as a small organization, to achieve a high quality and professional level of communication with our supporters
Kate Kingdon
Director
Norfolk Community Foundation
Newsletter Genie
Newsletter Genie is an online service which writes, designs and distributes email newsletters on behalf of a wide variety of clients. Those clients expect well-written, readable and effective copy that helps them to build and maintain a good relationship with their readers.
Alison consistently produces well-written, well researched and relevant copy to meet demanding deadlines. She also has the vital ability to coax and cajole our less organised clients into delivering their initial ideas on time!
Alison's experience and ability give her the perfect skill set for our work. She has quickly become a highly valued member of the Newsletter Genie team, and I am confident in recommending her services.
Allan Scott
Director, Newsletter Genie Ltd
Robert Ashton Website
Alison is a star. She provides the right mix of quality writing, nagging and web mastering to ensure that all I promise on my website is delivered. At times it's a challenge for us both, but Alison never complains, other than by reminding me how important it is to meet deadlines! The outcomes were quick to appear. My website now sits far higher up the search engine rankings and I have invoiced to new clients attracted by the website, around 5x what I've paid Alison for the work. Who else can deliver that kind of return on investment?
Furthermore she has a wicked sense of humour and bribes me with cheese straws! I commend her to anyone wanting to benefit from the enthusiastic support of an ethical, practical, e-savvy journalist!
Robert Ashton
The gap-year guidebook
Alison is not afraid of hard work, very knowledgeable and always puts in that extra mile for things to be right and look fantastic before scheduled deadlines.
Alison was originally approached to take on the consultant editorship of our best-selling publication the gap-year guidebook in 2004. We had decided to outsource editorship due to staff changes and the amount of research and knowledge required on gap years.
Alison took on the challenge for the 2005 edition, when the publication was re-launched in a new colour format. Alison's hard work, attention to detail, meeting the scheduled deadlines and actively promoting the guidebook have helped the continued success of the publication.
Since the 2005 edition of the gap-year guidebook Alison has worked on the last three editions of the guidebook, as well as creating news and website content for our gap-year.com site on a monthly basis.
David Ahier
Director - General Manager
White Digital Media
Alison is a very effective writer and communicator. She has written a large number of business case studies for our magazines, on an eclectic range of industries, and for these she has had to interview the chief executives of complex businesses, put them at ease and obtain from them the right kind of information - not an easy task.
On every occasion the research she has done has impressed the client and resulted in a first class article. Just as importantly, she has always delivered the commission within the scheduled time, and often well ahead of it. That amounts to an enormous benefit for a monthly magazine like ours, where a lot has to be accomplished in a short time, to a deadline.
I personally also appreciate Alison's willingness to get involved, to take responsibility, to share ideas and to suggest practical improvements that often end up saving us yet more time. She has a great sense of humour, allied to a thoroughly professional approach.
John O'Hanlon
Editorial Director, White Digital Media