The Confident Freelance Editor

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Featured editor: Olivia Wroth, SuperScript Writing and Editing and Accessibility Matters Over the years, your editing business might change in structure, while you try out different projects or…

050: I’m not really one for celebrating the numbers in business but this one seems significant. I’ve now recorded 50 podcast episodes, being a mix of solo shows, coaching calls and expert interviews.…

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Featured editor: Kerry Murphy, Kerry Murphy Editor  When you’ve come from a high-pressure work environment where multi-tasking was the norm, it’s not unusual to carry through those work habits …

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Featured editor: Glenda Cohen, GCC Editing  Glenda is wondering when will be the right time to take the leap from her teaching job into full-time freelance editing. While no-one can tell someo…

047: Today’s episode involves me musing about my business. I hope that it will show you the power of self-reflection in uncovering why we don’t do the things we say we want to do. The lightbulb mome…

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Are you feeling like social media is a waste of time for generating leads? Are you lacking confidence to start posting?

If you’re not being purposeful about it or taking consistent action on soc…

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Featured editor: CaTyra Polland, Love for Words CaTyra wants to be earning a full-time income from her editing business. She knows she can’t do it all herself, so she’s brought on a proofreader…

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Featured editor: Eve White, White Editing

Thank you to our featured editor Eve who has opened up to the challenges so many of us experience in the search for clients. This is the episode we all …

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Featured editor: Belinda Pollard, Small Blue Dog Publishing Is your overflowing inbox taking up precious time in your day? Belinda is rather like me, a multi-passionate editor with many differ…

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It’s time for you to do the work!

I know many editors find promoting their businesses challenging. While there’s no shortage of marketing training and even the most basic marketing action – putt…

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Many times, and not just with editors, I see websites and social media content that appears to be directed at industry peers rather than clients. It’s easy to think only about what we ‘do’. Edit…

040: Featured editor: Hilary Cadman: Cadman Training / Cadman Editing Emerging from behind the work we love, to promote it to get more clients so we can do more work we love … it’s always a challeng…

039: Featured expert: Yael Keon https://yaelkeon.com/ Have you thought about doing email marketing for your editing business? Perhaps you’ve subscribed to a heap of newsletters and wondered whether…

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Today I’m talking about what I consider to be the three pillars of business:

• money
• messaging and
• marketing.

Working on these pillars to grow our editing businesses is always underpinned by min…

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Featured editor: Carly Catt, Catt Editing 

Do you feel compelled to behave a certain way to please your client? Wanting to be seen as helpful and approachable, you’re responding straight away to…

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Are you making progress with consistent action on the small things?

Or is it the small things that are tripping you up?

When you’re feeling stuck with achieving the goals you’ve set for your edi…

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Featured editor: Liz Charpleix, Iris42 Editing Services Finding those first clients is always challenging. And when you do start engaging with new prospects, how can you seal the deal and lock …

034: Featured editor: Laura Portwood-Stacer, Manuscript Works 

Are you getting more enquiries than you can handle? It’s a good problem to have! But it can be a real drain on your time and energy. Lau…

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In season four of the Edit Boost Podcast, I’m looking forward to a mix of solo shows, interviews with other editors and talking to guest experts on marketing, money and mindset.

I’m starting wit…