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©2005, ProofreadNOW.com, Inc. 1 Why Use ProofreadNOW? We have six great reasons, starting with next slide. Check out our guarantee. Compare our client list. Learn more from our online FAQs. View the demo screens. Become a user now!

©2005, ProofreadNOW.com, Inc. 1 Why Use ProofreadNOW? l We have six great reasons, starting with next slide. l Check out our guarantee. l Compare our client

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©2005, ProofreadNOW.com, Inc. 1

Why Use ProofreadNOW?

We have six great reasons, starting with next slide.

Check out our guarantee. Compare our client list. Learn more from our online FAQs. View the demo screens. Become a user now!

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Reason #1

Overhead is expensive.• What do your proofreaders do when they’re not working on

critical documents?• What does it cost to house, insure, train, motivate, and

advance your proofreaders?• Our model calls for none of those expenses, since you are

paying only for the actual task of proofreading.• Bottom line: ProofreadNOW is a classic outsourcing solution.

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Reason #2

Time is critical.• When you have four proofreaders and four jobs in the

queue, your model works great.• What happens when you have four proofreaders and

eight jobs that need to be done immediately?• What happens when you have four proofreaders and

only two jobs in the queue?• Bottom line: ProofreadNOW can handle hundreds of

jobs concurrently.

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Reason #3

People come and go.• What do you do when your proofreaders take

vacations, or call in sick, or have medical appointments, and you have jobs in the queue?

• ProofreadNOW never takes a vacation, never goes to the doctor, and never calls in sick.

• Bottom line: ProofreadNOW is available in an instant, with no advance notice needed.

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Reason #4

At the end of the day, is your work really getting done?• Your proofreaders have been on the job all day.

It’s now five o’clock, and they have to go home to their families. But your job needs to be finished by the time FedEx comes by. What will you do?

• ProofreadNOW works 24/7 to get the work done.• Bottom line: Our office never sleeps.

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Reason #5

We have excellent technical support.• We are available by telephone at a moment’s

notice.• We even offer 24-hour emergency support by

telephone.• Bottom line: We are here to help you get your

questions answered and your work done.

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Reason #6

Our service is extraordinary.• Every document gets proofread by TWO expert

proofreaders working separately.• Our service is available 24/7.• No advance notice is needed. We are available

immediately.• Bottom line: Nobody else has taken proofreading

to the limits we have.

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Our Guarantee

Your satisfaction is required. If you are dissatisfied, we will refund your money.

If we miss a mistake on a page, that page is free. We’ll let you know after our spot-check, or you let us know if you find something.

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Uh oh...You know that press release we just sent out? Somebody left the “l” out of “Public Service”

and it went to 2,000 press contacts.

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We proofread:

Newsletters Annual reports Business plans Analyst reports Letters from the

president Brochures Advertisements

Web sites Training material White papers Business letters PowerPoint jobs Magazine articles Business proposals

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We also do press releases!

-Atlanta, June 12, 2002.

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XYZ Corp also produces all Public Service Announcements (PSAs) sent to the major networks..

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Partial Customer List

Harvard Business School Publishing Kronos Mercer HR (Marsh & McLennan) Manatt Phelps Phillips LLP Agnes Scott College Liberty Mutual Insurance The Advertising Council Kendall College Fish & Richardson Columbia Books LLC Legend Advertising Turner Broadcasting

American Cancer Society World Wildlife Fund DBC Pri-Med Day Pitney LLP Loeb & Loeb Corning Cleveland Clinic Cramer Productions Lahey Clinic American Nurses Credentialing Center The Motley Fool Princeton Review

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FAQsQ: Are you secure?

A: Yes. We use 128-bit encryption to move your document to and from our limited-access server, which is equipped with all the modern safeguards available in the industry.

Q: Can I set up an account with you?

A: Yes, we can set you up for monthly billing. It’s easy! You can also use a credit card.

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More FAQsQ: Who does the proofreading?

A: We have a worldwide army of gifted, highly trained experts who know how to proofread, and what needs to be done to make an ordinary document shine.

Q: Can I set up a relationship with the same proofreader(s)?

A: Yes! We can establish your own team at no extra cost.

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More FAQsQ: Is your server itself secure?

A: We use SSL license technology from Thawte, a veteran in the secure Web business. See them at www.thawte.com.

Q: Are documents safe enroute to your server?

A: We use the latest in 128-bit encryption technology for document transfers in both directions.

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More FAQsQ: How do I know when my document is ready?

A: Our server will notify you via e-mail when your document is ready to be retrieved.

Q: How do I retrieve my document?

A: You can have it mailed to you as an attachment and you can retrieve it directly from our secure server. We store it for 60 days.

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Q: How many languages do you work in?

A: We are currently proofreading in English, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese.

Q: What about translation?

A: We translate between the languages we proofread in, and English, going either way.

More FAQs

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More FAQsQ: Do you just proofread?

A: At level one, we proofread for grammar, spelling, typos, punctuation, and clarity. At level two, we actually reconstruct and improve the style of the writing, if possible. You choose between levels one and two. Level two includes level one.

Q: What about specialty areas?

A: We have specialists in medical, legal, engineering, and financial writing, at your request.

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More FAQsQ: What style guide(s) do you use?

A: We defer to the Chicago Manual of Style for most jobs, but upon request, we can also use the AP Style Guide, AMA, Gregg, APA, Garner, or NY Times.

Q: Can you use my house style guide?

A: Yes, you can register and store a copy on our server, and have it used for any or all of your documents.

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You are in our market if...

…the quality of your printed material reflects upon your firm’s image.

…your four-color, ten-page brochure came back from the printer, and then you saw the goof…in all 10,000 copies.

…your proposal was FedEx’d to the client, and then you saw the three critical typos in the introduction.

…your writing is read by anyone important.

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They are in our market

Advertising firms Brokerages Catalog developers College presses Copywriters Financial printers Foreign businesses Law firms

Investment banks Magazines Marketing departments Newsletter publishers PowerPoint users Web site developers Anyone doing strategic Anyone doing strategic

writingwriting

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Formats

MS Word PDF PowerPoint Web sites Plain text

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Give Us A Try!

In the two minutes it takes to set up an account on our server, you can have your own proofreading

department, fully staffed, operating 24 hours a day.

Next time, please let us do the proofreading.

We’re ProofreadNOW.com, the very careful people who make sure your work is picture-perfect before you send it to your clients. We find and fix your mistakes…the big ones and the subtle ones…that could otherwise ruin your lovely day.

Cheer up. We’re on the job.

www.ProofreadNOW.com