By Ralene Burke After my last few posts (see links below), I hope you’ve now got your social media platforms up and ready to go! You’ve been posting content regularly that provides some sort of value to your target audience. Now it’s time to start building your online reputation as an expert editor. First, it…
By Ken Walker Last year marked my third consecutive year of increased business, a most welcome development after the bleak years of the Great Recession. However, until I stopped long enough to take a closer look, I didn’t appreciate the full significance of 2016. When I inspected my annual revenue summary recently, I was surprised…
By Christi McGuire Is your job complete once your client submits a manuscript? No, it doesn’t have to be! Unfortunately, it is not likely for an author to nab agent representation or a publishing contract in the first round of submissions. For most authors, it takes many submissions and much patience. Being rejected is difficult,…
By Karin Beery Like many new writers, I couldn’t wait to trade in my morning commute for a leisurely stroll to home office … in my pajamas and slippers. But it didn’t take long for me to realize the dark side of a home office. It’s at home. Do you know what else is at…
By Kathy Ide No matter how long you’ve been working as an editorial freelancer, you need to work at keeping your skills sharp and up to date. Here are some ways to accomplish that. 1. Read Read books on how to write as well as how to edit. Here are some suggestions: General On Writing…
By Rachel E. Newman In this age of information technology, it seems that a new thing comes out every day. If you’re anything like me, you shake your head and wonder, why can’t they leave well enough alone? I mean, Windows XP hit it out of the park. But no, they had to make things…
By Ralene Burke The perks of Facebook and Twitter are finding potential individual clients and keeping current ones engaged. However, they don’t offer much in the way of helping the business professional display individual skills and past work experience—which is why the third social media platform great for editors is LinkedIn. LinkedIn allows editors to…
By Karin Beery Are you looking to spread the word about your business or books? Are you trying to reach more people? A great way to get your name out there is to volunteer to write guest posts for other people’s blogs—you can share your expertise with someone else’s audience (like I’m doing here!). If…
By Ken Walker More than two years ago, I wrote a blog for my website about a particularly moving spiritual experience. It began with an insight I had gleaned while editing a book on various business principles for a client near Boston. Wanting to let him know the personal impact working on this project had…
By Kathy Ide Editors, have you ever given writing or self-editing tips to your clients or potential clients? The following article by Kathy Ide is a resource you can share to help writers clean up their manuscripts before sending them to editors! In Part 1 of this post, you learned the first three of Kathy…
