Becoming A Freelance Editor: 8 Simple Steps To Success

Everyone loves the idea of just sitting at home working and making money, right? That’s basically the dream and that can become a reality if you work hard enough. You need to become a freelance editor and that’s certainly not the easiest job in the world. The beginning will be rather difficult and you will probably not enjoy it. However, once you survive that stage, you will start loving life and your newly earned freedom! This guide is written for you to become a successful freelance editor.

Never oversell yourself

The last thing you want to do is to oversell your own service. That’s really bad and nobody likes that. It’s like offering something you can’t do! So you must be honest and truthful to your clients. Make sure you can meet the requirements!

Don’t set your rate too high

The last thing you want to do as a freelancer is to set some crazily high rates. Your clients hate being charged too much (just put yourself in the client’s shoes). That means you should set your rates to a reasonable one (check with other people).

Don’t miss deadlines

This is probably why most people quite freelancing and that’s because they can’t meet deadlines! Meeting deadlines should be a given thing and you must be able to do that! Otherwise, you would look really unprofessional and you wouldn’t want that.

Make sure you are editing properly

You must be able to edit properly. Your job is to make your clients’ points clearer and make sure their choice of words is good. That’s your job and you should be able to do that!

Communicate

One key thing that you need to do is to communicate constantly with your client. It doesn’t matter how, but you just need to. Perhaps an email once in a while would do!

Don’t take on too many jobs at once

This is certainly not ideal! Taking on many jobs may seem appealing because you would be making more money (theoretically!). However, the workload would drive you insane. It’s not worth it!

Show your qualifications

If you want to stand out from other candidates, you must be able to show your experiences and qualifications to your clients.

Don’t be shy!

You got to tell your clients what you are good at. It might seem like you are blowing your own trumpet, but that’s what you have to do. You must be confident and clients love that.

I hope this guide is helpful and wish you a successful freelancing career!