I will be teaching my next PEN Institute course, titled “Establishing Your Freelance Business,” for editors who need to learn the administrative skills necessary to run their business. In this ten-week course, we’ll cover:
- Is editing the right career path for you?
- Planning your business strategy
- Marketing your business
- Pricing strategies
- Potential clients, evaluating jobs and negotiations, and necessary forms and contracts
- Working with different types of clients and dealing with their idiocincracies
- Protecting your business and yourself
- Organizing your business
- The government and other authorities
- Balancing your life as a freelancer
The course starts on Sept 8 and runs to Oct 27.
For more information and to register, go to Establishing Your Freelance Business.
