Stephanie Zvan

Here are a couple of my satisfied customers. Please e-mail me if you would like phone numbers or e-mail addresses to contact anyone directly.

I have worked extensively with Stephanie for over two years and would recommend her as a writer and editor without hesitation. She is both talented and productive, and she has a far better grasp of business essentials than any writer I have ever worked with. She always makes sure that she understands why she is writing what she is and usually has suggestions that improve the content or the organization of her material or both.

Stephanie has a particular strength for writing proposals, even for what are sometimes highly technical services. She can take material from many sources and compile it into a coherent whole that addresses all of a particular customer's stated questions and suggests and answers more without being wordy or obtrusive. Her talent is enough that I have asked her to edit proposals prepared by our corporate proposal team. The last proposal she wrote for me helped us to land a $2.5 million account.

I have also routinely had Stephanie edit my correspondence. Having been in one business for a number of years, I have had a tendency to adopt the jargon of the industry, and Stephanie is very good at translating jargon back into plain English or at making the meaning of specialized or technical terms plain from their context. Needless to say, her vocabulary, grammar and organizational skills are excellent.

Anyone hiring Stephanie's services as a writer or editor should find no cause to be anything other than completely satisfied.

Mike Harris

I hate to admit it, but since I've started working with Stephanie, I really haven't done any writing on my own. It isn't all laziness, though. Stephanie has a knack for taking, "I need a letter for so-and-so to show them how much better it would be if they bought this from us" and, with a couple of quick questions, turning it into a beautiful document. She can address concerns I hadn't even told her they had, and she can do it in my voice. I don't need to write when she does it so well for me.

Stephanie is very good at understanding the purpose of anything she's writing. She knows why it's being written and what a reader is looking for. It shows in her choice of style, her choice of words, and in what she leaves out of a document. She can lay something out so that the really important points are highlighted and remembered. She has written correspondence, proposals, and copy for products and services for me and has designed several very effective presentations and flyers.

I have no intention of ever doing without Stephanie's writing skills if I can help it, and I would recommend her to anyone looking for a writer who can communicate truly effectively.

Lance Ortlepp

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