What are the costs and benefits of hiring a professional indexer?
To evaluate the cost-effectiveness for your particular project, request a bid from an experienced indexer and consider the benefits a professional can bring to your project:
Meeting strict production deadlines. Professional indexers are accustomed to working with strict deadlines and understand their importance.
Producing the index in the shortest amount of billable time. Professional indexers use dedicated indexing software and utilities to maximize productivity. Experienced indexers are knowledgeable about indexing conventions and usability issues. They have honed very specific analytical processes and can produce an index faster than a novice.
Producing a high-quality index. Indexing conventions are numerous and nit-picky, but for users they make the difference between finding information quickly and getting frustrated. Professional indexers know how to handle very specific situations for greatest usability. They also specialize in looking at text from the user's point of view.
Improving customer satisfaction. Readers come to associate index quality with the overall quality of an author's or publisher's books. Happy customers are repeat customers.
Reducing tech support calls. In the software industry, technical support personnel routinely receive calls and emails for questions that are answered in the documentation. If the index or search functionality are lacking, users become frustrated with the product and the company.
High quality indexes add significant value to a publication. Estimates are free, and you'll likely be surprised at the cost-effectiveness of a professionally produced index.
To request an estimate, call Carol Reed at BlueStem (248-736-9705) or click here to email.
Meeting strict production deadlines. Professional indexers are accustomed to working with strict deadlines and understand their importance.
Producing the index in the shortest amount of billable time. Professional indexers use dedicated indexing software and utilities to maximize productivity. Experienced indexers are knowledgeable about indexing conventions and usability issues. They have honed very specific analytical processes and can produce an index faster than a novice.
Producing a high-quality index. Indexing conventions are numerous and nit-picky, but for users they make the difference between finding information quickly and getting frustrated. Professional indexers know how to handle very specific situations for greatest usability. They also specialize in looking at text from the user's point of view.
Improving customer satisfaction. Readers come to associate index quality with the overall quality of an author's or publisher's books. Happy customers are repeat customers.
Reducing tech support calls. In the software industry, technical support personnel routinely receive calls and emails for questions that are answered in the documentation. If the index or search functionality are lacking, users become frustrated with the product and the company.
High quality indexes add significant value to a publication. Estimates are free, and you'll likely be surprised at the cost-effectiveness of a professionally produced index.
To request an estimate, call Carol Reed at BlueStem (248-736-9705) or click here to email.