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Finding a solution to help me do my work digitally is a necessity as I am lacking the hardware typically found in an office setting.
Industry: Freelancer
Location: NA
Lacey works as a freelance contractor advising companies marketing strategies, branding direction, and editorial production. Her clienteles are spread across the world in different verticals, different industries, and worst of all, different time zones. Skype calls and messages are common but with the time difference, work needs to be done through other forms of communication.
Lacey is a typical 30 year old renting an apartment and moving from place to place saving up for her own place in the next few years. With just her laptop, she keeps her spending minimal and personal belongings light and refuses to invest in a printer or a scanner. She acknowledges hardware cost, ink replacements, and possible maintenance costs can run her into the thousands which can all be substituted with a wise investment in a cost effective PDF editing solution.
The lack of ability to properly convey the message and communicate is by far the biggest challenge. Going through marketing materials, designs, and even a simple signature on contracts are a nuisance without a printer and scanner. The ideal workflow is for Lacey to print the material, use her pen to make changes, scan it back into the computer, and email it back to the team. Without a printer and a scanner she is left to communicate through emails and Skype calls only to have the message lost in translation.
Finding a solution to help me do my work digitally is a necessity as I am lacking the hardware typically found in an office setting. 
The ability to alter text, edit, annotate, and make notes on PDF documents allow Lacey to work more efficiently and effectively instead of wasting time emailing her suggestions, she can easily make notes and annotate what needs to be changed on the document. Unfortunately, prior to PDF element she wasted hours corresponding emails trying to explain what needed to be changed in figure 1 and why the bottom left corner of logo number 2 will not work when plugged into User Interface sample number 5. She now utilizes sticky notes with customizable colors to help clarify and correlate between documents what needs to be done by the office team.
PDF element’s price point also aligns with Lacey’s budget – instead of paying hundreds for a printer and a scanner along with the recurring costs of paper and ink, she has a cost effective solution that suits her working needs allowing her to be more productive in less time.
“PDF element is by far the best priced PDF editing solution. Being young and price sensitive, there are products that are out of my budget and the free software out there are not as comprehensive.”
Working as a contractor it’s a common practice for Lacey to sign digital documents from NDA to job offers where a simple 10 second signature can turn into a 20 minute ordeal scrambling to print, sign, scan. PDF element’s industry-standard encrypted digital signature easy-sign technology saved Lacey hours of wasted time scrambling to print and scan where she can do it all in a matter of seconds from anywhere at any time.
Becoming more efficient and smarter in the way Lacey work was essential considering her job description and living condition. Without the luxury of an office and proper supplies, she needed everything done digitally while managing her time juggling between projects for different companies.
Emails and time spent on Skype drastically decreased by at least 50% as communication between the groups are more effective. Projects are also completed faster where couple emails with proper annotated PDFs will be sufficient instead of a typical email chain of questions and answers. Disaster is when everything is on hold because she needs her questions answered but it’s the middle of the night in London when she is based in Los Angeles. On top of all the communication benefits with annotation and editing, she is saving hundreds to thousands of dollars on hardware and supplies.
