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Tag: freelance
How to Invoice Your Freelancing Clients
Invoicing might seem like an obvious thing, but there are actually choices, and very few requirements when it comes to effective invoicing. The first rule
How to Build a Waiting List
Everyone wants you at once. Can you get someone to move a deadline so you don’t have to turn down work? Today, in my How To column
Using Social Media to Promote Your Editing Services
Which social media you should use, and how you should use them, today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com.
LFMF: 20 Truths from 20 Years of Editing
You learn a lot over your career. I had a mentor save me from some of these fails. You can “learn from my fail” too:
Evaluate Your Networking Efforts
19 questions to evaluate the ROI on your marketing efforts, today in my special post on Copyediting.com. For more on marketing, join my 4-part in-Depth
How to Assess a Potential Client
These ten questions will help you figure out if a potential client (or assignment) is a good fit for you. More than just about the
Contract Samples for Editing and Proofreading Services
After you have chosen your editor (or agreed to edit a product) these sample contracts can be used by the editor or the writer (client)
How to Quote on Your First Job
So you’ve got your first inquiry for a paid gig. Con.grats! Now what? Ahhhh! Flail around in a panic!!! (Step 1 of editing) Step 2:
How to Manage Too Much Work — Surviving Crazy-Busy
How to manage too much work: strategies for surviving times of crazy-busy, as all feast-or-famine freelancers must, eventually. Today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com.