Article: Call them freelance secretaries (just don't say 'stenographers'). (The Secretary provides secretarial and word processing services) (Special Report: Business Services) (company profile)

Call them freelance secretaries (just don't say 'stenographers')

Many people would call a secretarial service only if their resume needed updating or they had a doctoral thesis to be typed. Yet many small businesses, self-employed individuals and entrepreneurs see their secretarial service as a valuable business partner that completely takes the place of a regular secretary.

Secretarial and word processing services, unlike personnel services or temporary agencies, do their work in their own offices, often delivering the final product to their client.

"We are not the stenographer of the past," said Ruth Spiering, co-owner of The Secretary, a ...

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