How to Start a Home-Based Editorial Services Business (Home-Based Business Series) 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. This book guides the reader through the steps needed to set
| TITLE | : | How to Start a Home-Based Editorial Services Business (Home-Based Business Series) |
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| RATING | : | 4.70 (503 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0762778822 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 240 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2013-05-07 |
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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.
EDITORIAL :
About the Author
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.
REVIEW :
If we were looking at leaders who had made great transformations, we would also be reading about Millard Fuller at Habitat for Humanity International, Jack Bogle at Vanguard, Mike Ruettgers at EMC, Richard Reese at Iron Mountain, Rob McEwen at Goldcorp, and Bernard Liautaud at Business Objects. And those writers are gone because their publications' ownerships lack the business sense necessary to build a following (or the attention span to appreciate any article which does not end on the same page upon which it begins).
And as sure as these bean-counting bottom liners have no business being publishers, any editor who hasn't read this book shouldn't be editing anything.. The book and Bob are awesome! This is a must have if your role is to lead and develop people (including your family!).. I couldn't put it down. This book might be helpful if you are just starting out trying to p
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