by When you’re outsourcing writing and editing, hiring a group-structured freelance collective can be a particularly smart choice.
Reading time: 2 minutes | By Lee Ellwood
Outsourcing the editing and writing tasks in your communications plan is smart and efficient. When deciding which freelancer to book, consider the advantages of a collective or group operation.
Many communications freelancers offer their services in a formal or informal partnership with colleagues who have complementary skills. This is a huge plus for overloaded people in communications, marketing, PR, research and reporting roles.
Why? Because collectives and groups bring you maximum availability, diverse technical skills, extra flexibility and optimum reliability—everything you need to support your upcoming campaign or deadline with good, effective writing.
The benefits of freelance collectives
- Our group structure brings together writers and editors with different backgrounds, experiences and specialised skill sets.
This means extra creativity, broader perspectives and more valuable input, leaving your content richer, higher quality and appropriately voiced for your sector. - Working as a group maximises our availability, so your project is more likely to get a ‘yes!’ from us.
The ability to co-work simultaneously (using collaboration tools like OneDrive and Teams) often means we can meet tight deadlines. - Your project is less likely to encounter delays due to illness, leave or workload bottlenecks, because our group always has a back-up writer or editor.
If one editor or writer is called away unexpectedly, another can pick up the work, supported by our internal collaboration processes such as Teams and Asana. - Having multiple sets of eyes on board means your written communication receives even more thorough editing, proofreading and fact-checking.
At EllWords, for example, we cross-review each other’s work to catch errors and inconsistencies and ensure high quality writing for our clients. - Working collectively allows for brainstorming, creative problem-solving and sharing of specialist skills and industry knowledge.
We can draw on our whole group membership to flexibly and creatively meet your communication needs. - As a group with an established cross-sector network, we can readily scale up or down to suit your requirements for any particular project.
The combination of all our separate professional networks means you have access to a very wide resource base. - Being a collective service means that more complex projects can be shared to leverage members’ individual strengths.
We can allocate different stages of your project to the best editor or writer for that type of task (think: research, evaluation, fact-checking, copywriting or editing). As well as delivering quality output, this keeps projects on the move and minimises bottlenecks in peak periods.
EllWords—your freelance collective
Choosing a collective gets you a higher and more reliable level of service with more expertise, broader availability, collaborative quality control, strong and diverse networks, and the flexibility to meet a wide range of communications needs.
EllWords is a case in point. Everyone in our group is an established solo freelance editor and/or writer, but pooling our skill sets, professional backgrounds, creative perspectives and availability translates into successful outcomes for our clients. Back that up with our commitment to your communication goals, and it’s a sure-fire recipe for success.
Get in touch today to find out how the EllWords ‘good writing’ group can support your communication, stress-free.
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