Editors, Your Website Doesn’t Find You Clients
If you want to market your editing or proofreading business, you need a website. But simply having a website isn’t enough. After all, ...
Read moreI started my editing business over ten years ago. This is the first time I’ve ever taken some extended time away from it. Which feels weird. Lots of people go freelance because they’ve had children and they need the flexibility. Instead, I went freelance simpl...
Read moreIf you want to market your editing or proofreading business, you need a website. But simply having a website isn’t enough. After all, ...
Read moreWhen people ask me what I do for a living and I tell them I edit novels, they usually follow up with ‘anything I’ll have read?’ My ans...
Read moreOnce you’ve finished writing your novel and you’ve decided to hire an editor, you then have to find the right editor for you. Just as ...
Read moreI run my own business. I employ myself – and no one else. And so I want my business to reflect my personality and values. To me, it’s ...
Read moreOn the last day of 2016, I published my Year in Review and Goals for 2017. Since then, I’ve been doing quarterly reviews to keep track...
Read moreYears ago, I was staying in a tiny traditional guest house in South Korea for a few days on my two-week journey around the country. Wh...
Read moreA client has approached you to help them with their novel manuscript. They either don’t know about the different stages of editi...
Read moreI wonder if the following scenario sounds familiar. You know a writer who has self-published several books. They bashed them out at a ...
Read moreIf you’re an author of fiction and want to follow the traditional route to publication, you’re probably going to need a literary...
Read moreEven though we work with words, why is it so difficult to nail the copy on our websites? As editorial business owners, it’s literally ...
Read moreNot so long ago, there weren’t many resources available that would enable an author to self-publish their writing. As the technology e...
Read moreAs a freelance editor, do you absolutely need to have a website? The short answer is no. Yet I’m going to argue why ...
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