FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
I charge $25 per page, plus $15 per hour for my time. Most letters will require only one page, but I also realized that I did not want to be spending all of my time on a one page letter for a potential client. This allows me to charge a reasonable fee taking into account both the time involved and the amount of tangible work performed.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
I am both an excellent writer and an excellent communicator. It was, therefore, a natural fit for me to decide to begin a business focusing on the skill of writing letters. I also realized that there was a need for such a service as the art of writing letters seems to be going out of favor, but the need for writing letters has not. If anything, the need for writing letters has grown a lot, especially in the highly competitive job market that exists at the moment. A resume won't be read without a cover letter, for example, and refusing to followup a job interview with a thank-you note is considered extremely poor etiquette. Nonetheless, a good cover letter is actually very difficult to write without a lot of practice. In fact, it is far easier to write too much than to write not enough. Realizing this, I decided that would be one area I was interested in focusing on.
- What types of customers have you worked with?
Resume cover letters and thank you letters seem to be the most common types of jobs I handle. For a resume cover letter, it is important for me to know something about previous job history and skills used at those jobs. A resume cover letter is a place to introduce yourself, describe how that previous job history will be applicable to the job currently being advertised, and conclude with a call to action to further along the hiring process. Once those three tasks are accomplished, it is time to conclude the resume cover letter. A thank you letter is a place to describe one's gratitude for something somebody else has done. These range from fairly short to quite extravagant depending upon how much gratitude you wish to show.