testimonials
Testimonials
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
www.norfolkfoundation.com
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
www.robertashton.co.uk
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
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