When we hire professionals, we expect them to know their job and to do it well. For example, when we hire a contractor to do work in our home, we expect them to bring their own tools and to clean up after themselves. Supplying tools and cleaning up aren’t typically line items in the contract, they’re just expected parts of the job. Contractors are professionals, and as such they should know what is expected and deliver on those expectations consistently with every job. In fact, professionals who deliver on the details without ever being asked are typically the ones who are hired back again and again. The same thing goes for freelance medical writers.
Whether we’re newbies or seasoned pros, it doesn’t hurt to remind ourselves of the details that define us as professionals and make our clients glad to pay our fees and eager to hire us again. Here are just of few of the big details you don’t want to miss: (more…)