ACQUISITIONS
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Assess a book proposal to determine its potential as a signing (areas of experience: environmental science, modern languages, and psychology textbooks; mass market fiction)
Prepare the strategic plan for a successful signing: outline of steps, timeline for the steps, and special recommendations
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Rate: $125 / hour
Workflow DESIGN
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Design workflows for complex projects involving multiple authors, contributors, or vendors
Create project schedules with multiple stages and deliverables
Provide project-management consulting and tools
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Rate: $100 / hour
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Administer the schedule attributed to a project by:
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keeping in touch with the authors, contributors, or vendors
ensuring unforeseen contigencies are addressed (vacations, family emergencies, and other absences)
updating the schedule on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis based on the client’s preference
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Rate: $65 / hour
PRODUCT EVALUATION: FOCUS GROUPS & REVIEWS
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Recruit focus group participants, up to 10 members per group, with contact list provided by the client; if only adoption reports are available, recruiting requires building a contact list
Write and administer email correspondence with focus group participants, to include: initial invitation, participation confirmation with event details, and post-event thank-you note
Prepare focus group presentation with materials provided by the client in the timeline specified at the onset of the project
Conduct focus group, to include PowerPoint slides and videoclips if the videoclips are submitted by the client in the timeline specified at the onset of the project
Produce an executive summary of the focus groups within a week from the last event
Timeline typically is building contact list: 2-3 weeks; recruiting: 2-3 weeks; administering: 2-4 weeks; analyzing results: 1 week; with overlapping weeks
Time spent typically is 1.75 hours per participant to build a contact list and 1.75 hours per participant to conduct the focus groups and analyze the results
Same process and timeline for reviews; results include a cut-and-paste of the reviews and an executive summary
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Rates: $3,000 for results from 25 participants
[indent] $3,600 for 30 participants
[indent] $5,625 for contact list and results from 25 participants
[indent] $6,650 for 30 participants
