Tutorial: How To Outsource Content to India
Lesson 14: What Information the Vendor Needs Before Estimating Your Writing Project
Questionnaire
To help us serve you better, please fill in this questionnaire so that we understand your specific needs. Please feel free to add information that is not in this questionnaire, if it is relevant to your project.
If your requirement is Editing, Proofreading or Manuscript Editing, please answer questions 1, 2, 10, 12.
1. What is the nature of your content development project? Click on the relevant project title(s).
- Business Writing
- Journalistic Writing
- Technical Writing
- Magazine Articles
- Newsletters
- White Paper Research and Writing
- Storyboarding
- Textbook Writing
- Screenwriting
- Creative Writing
- Editing
- Proofreading
- Manuscript Editing
2. Is this a one-time requirement or does it involve several projects/ projects at regular intervals (e.g. newsletters, editing)?
- One-time requirement
- Several projects
- Projects at regular intervals
3. Please give us details of the content required.
4. What is the target audience you are addressing? (Who are you talking to?) Demographics/Psychographics
You can give this to us in a sentence, for example: working mothers in N. America aged 40 and above, interested in child development, concerned about children’s values affected by TV.
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Or you can fill in the details below:
Age Group Below 10 years/ pre-teens/ teens/ twenties/thirties/forties/fifties/sixties/ seventies/ eighty and above
Sex Male /Female / Both sexes
Single/Married
Occupation
Income Range
Country
City
Hobbies
Interests
5. What would you want conveyed to these people? (What are you saying?)
6. What is the nature of your business? When was it set up? Who are your clients?
7. What is the product/service you are selling?
8. How have you promoted it in the past? Give us samples of work done.
9. Who are your competitors?
10. Tell us about yourself / the promoters of the company.
11.Please give us 2-3 samples of writing styles that you like. You may send these to us as email attachments, or paste below, the URLs of websites where you like the style of content.
URLs:
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12. What are you looking for in content development service?
- A holistic perspective to help me build my business
- Good writing standards to convey the central thought effectively
- Expression
- Flow
- Grammar
- Spelling
- Accuracy in editing
- Efficiency, quality and creativity
- Communication
- Quick turnaround and adherence to deadlines
- Responsiveness
- All of the above
Thank you for taking the time to complete the questionnaire. This will help us in understanding your needs better and in offering you content that meet your requirements.
If you do not have a specific project at present, please keep in touch with us for future requirements.
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