Direct Mail Best Practice
Creating a great direct mail piece takes time, effort, and skill, here at Fingertips Typing Services we pride ourselves on delivering exceptional direct and email marketing campaigns for our clients that engage their customers, create desire, and ultimately deliver sales.
But what does a good
Our Top Proof Reading Tips
Getting your copy mistake free essential for good communication, regardless of what you are writing, be it an article, a white paper, website content or client proposal.
Many people just do a spell check or grammar check and leave it at that but it is
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Getting the most from focus groups
Focus groups are a straightforward way for organisations to research new projects or understand the needs of the customer.
They have proved to be a highly insightful, bringing together a group to discuss a topic providing a more natural setting than one-to-one interviews. They are
The importance of eye care
Typing and transcription is not all about getting your fingers moving or your ears listening, it is also about using your eyes to focus on the content that you are typing
We all know that eye care is important, but we usually push it to
Phonetics – Part One
This week I have been doing some reading up on Phonetics. It was a subject that I knew very little about (in regards to the alphabet) and it got me wondering whether there is still a need for a phonetic alphabet and indeed phonetic transcription.
Outsourcing Your Data Entry Requirements
Data entry is the standard and core requirements of the modern world. By outsourcing your data entry requirements, you can save your organisation a great deal of expense with hiring data entry resources and back office operations salaries. Reduce your administrative burdens and save time.
Tips on Understanding Accents and Dialects
One of the hardest things for a transcriber is deciphering different accents and dialects. As the world becomes more multi-cultural and the lines between countries and regions blurred, understanding new people can be hard and sometimes confusing.
Accents vary greatly. According to Expedia there are
How to turn an interview into something meaningful?
There are many different types of interviews conducted every day; job and university, celebrity and sports personalities, police and legal interviews. Although each of these has different requirements for what the information gathered is going to be used for, each is using same underlying technique
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Our Tips For Using Your Phone For Dictation
Using your phone as a recording or dictation device is smart, just like the apps and programs that are on it. Recording audio with your smartphone isn’t always straightforward and although mobile phones have advanced a lot over the last few years the microphone on
What are the benefits of outsourcing secretarial services?
Over the last five years the UK economy has been somewhat challenging and the need to streamline resources and minimise overheads has been vital to helping ensure business remain profitable. For many small and medium sized businesses obtaining services such as secretarial from an outside
Copywriting Tips
Every organisation large or small is looking for quality content that will attract visitors to their site, convert leads to customers and share their stories of success, producing high-quality, interesting and powerful copy consistently can be hard, especially if you run out of steam.
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The Future of Dictation
The digital age has moved dictation forward leaps and bounds.
Dictation and speech recognition started over 50 years ago by Alexander Graham Bell, whose wife was deaf and experimented with transmitting speech taking words and turn them into a picture that a deaf person could