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	From its founding, John Mercer Associates has supplied editorial services to businesses, sometimes to individuals and sometimes to departments, divisions, or entire corporations. Often it is simply more efficient for an organization to hire an outside consultant to edit work produced within the organization. Since an outsider can bring along the most essential tool in the consulting tool box -- ignorance -- he or she can often see what those too close to the writing cannot perceive. John Mercer has supplied editorial services in three general areas: Sets of Customer Service Form Letters Procedures and Manuals Articles and Books for Publication In all cases, the outsider brings a fresh view, untainted by special knowledge of the industry. The outsider can more easily take the position of the actual reader of such material and, thus, can make reader-based improvements. For such consulting services to be most effective, the editor should be dealing with a work as complete as the initial writer can make it.