Alison Smart | Editing for business
London
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- Organisation
- Smart Editing
- Job title
- Editor and proofreader
- Membership Grade
- Professional Member
About Alison
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Make sure your business presents its best face to potential customers. Does your message come across clearly? Do all your communications have a consistent style? Will they attract and hold the attention of your target audience? My previous career in marketing helps me to ensure your business has a voice that is clear, consistent and compelling.
I have twenty years' experience in both online and offline marketing in telecoms, media and technology, and I can help to enhance your brand with professionally edited, jargon-free copy, impeccable spelling and grammar, and consistent layout and style.
• market intelligence
• press releases
• presentations
• proposals
• standard letters
• training materials
• websites
• annual reports
• brochures and flyers
I also provide proofreading and copyediting services for independent writers, academics and postgraduate students.
Media
Company literature (B2B and B2C), market intelligence reports, annual reports, proposals, websites/blogs, tenders/bids, journals, theses and dissertations, newsletters, online materials, books.
Experience
I have been a freelance editor since 2014. Before that, I spent 20 years in IT and then new media marketing, project managing the development of websites for large multinationals in a variety of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and retail.
Training
Non-Fiction Developmental Editing, 2024
Copyediting 1 (SfEP), 2019
Getting Work with Non-Publishers (SfEP), 2018
Proofreading 2: Progress (SfEP), 2014
Basic Proofreading (Publishing Trading Centre) - Distinction, 2014.
Subjects
Business to business
Business to consumer
Computing
Telecommunications
All ICT and networking
Cybersecurity
Technology
Market intelligence
Marketing
Organisational behaviour
Profiles
Quality standards and assurance
Small business
Strategy
Economics
Administration and management
Engineering
Physics
Industry
Health and safety
Financial services
Public sector
European markets
Current affairs
Health and social care
Social policy
Sociology
Qualifications
BA in engineering management
Testimonials
Thanks so much for taking care of this ... it was great to know this epic project was in safe hands.
LB, editorial and production manager
Smart Editing is quite simply the best copy-editing service that I’ve used in a thirty-year writing career as a business academic. My documents have been edited accurately, insightfully and quickly – I can’t recommend this service highly enough.
MH, senior lecturer in management and marketing
Alison has done a spectacular job of bringing this up to standard!
BD, senior editor
Alison proofread my dissertation, and I can not recommend her enough. She paid attention to every detail, returned my work extremely promptly and helped me out tremendously. If you need proofreading, Alison should be your first point of call!
CL, postgraduate student
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Disclaimer note
The CIEP Directory of Editorial Services should be considered a point of first contact and prospective clients must satisfy themselves that members are capable of the work on offer. The Institute cannot be held responsible for the quality of work provided by any member listed in the directory. The members themselves are responsible for the maintenance and accuracy of their entries in the Directory and the CIEP has not made any attempt to vet them. The institute cannot be held responsible for any inaccuracies in the Directory. Inclusion in the Directory as a freelance does not necessarily mean that the member is self-employed as defined by HM Revenue and Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions.