How to Start a Home-based Editorial Services Business
1st Edition
Published on 7. May 2013
240 pages
978-0-7627-9530-7 (ISBN)
Description
Freelance editors with the right skills are in demand throughout the publishing industry, for other types of businesses, and for independent authors with publishing projects. This book guides the reader through the steps needed to set up a home-based business, from determining which services to offer to marketing and developing a fee structure. Chapters cover the different types of editorial services (including developmental editing, copyediting, proofreading, and indexing) and offer valuable insight to the business end of working from a home office, addressing overhead concerns, money matters, the advantages and disadvantages of freelance editing, and more. The book also explores strategies for working successfully with clients. How to Start a Home-based Editorial Services Business is the one complete resource for this line of work.
With more than a half million copies sold, Globe Pequot Press continues to grow its ever popular How To Start a Home-based Business series. Each volume includes worksheets, business and marketing forms, and everything you need to know about business start-up costs and strategies.
With more than a half million copies sold, Globe Pequot Press continues to grow its ever popular How To Start a Home-based Business series. Each volume includes worksheets, business and marketing forms, and everything you need to know about business start-up costs and strategies.
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English
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New York
United States
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2,06 MB
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978-0-7627-9530-7 (9780762795307)
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Barbara Fuller
How to Start a Home-based Editorial Services Business
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05/2013
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Barbara Fuller is currently the director of Editcetera, an association of freelance publishing professionals based in Berkeley, California. In that role, she has worked with hundreds of experienced freelance editors and their clients and also with novice editors through Editcetera's educational program. Through the years, she has worked as a home-based editor herself for a variety of clients. She has taught editing, writing, and editorial business classes and workshops for Editcetera, UC Berkeley Extension, UC Davis, and various government and private organizations.
