On this episode of The Editor Life Podcast, Jaclyn DeVore and Angela Houston talk about the three essential business practices for the modern editor. We give you some stepping stones and a few valuable tools to jumpstart your business to success, so that you have the confidence to market to your Ideal Client in a way that compels them to work with you as opposed to ego-based selling practices.

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Today we follow up our discussion about identifying your Ideal Clients, and we talk about the three essential business practices the modern editor needs to start, build, and grow their thriving editing biz. 

-Essential Business Practice #1: Set your frame. [06:02]

-Essential Business Practice #2: Polish your process. [36:25]

-Essential Business Practice #3: Revise every time. [54:55]

 

Resources mentioned in this episode: ​    -Our fabulous Truth Work Media producers at TruthWorkMedia.com [03:18]

-Our friends at Purity Coffee are giving you 10% off your order when you use the discount code EDITORLIFE. Visit puritycoffee.com [04:21]

-Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown [08:57]

-DeVore Editorial's Client Welcome Packet template, available at DeVoreEditorial.com. Use code EDITORLIFE to receive a 10% discount. [35:01] 

-DeVore Editorial’s Sample Contract, currently only available as a bonus for DeVore Editorial’s Dream Biz Academy, launching August 2020. Sign up for the waitlist HERE [50:06]

-Use this referral link to check out the invoicing software DeVore Editorial uses at 17hats.com [54:03]

-Best Business Practices for Editors resource, currently only available as a bonus for DeVore Editorial’s Dream Biz Academy, launching August 2020. Sign up for the waitlist HERE!

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Calls-to-action:​

  Are you interested in establishing or growing a thriving editing business in the Shining and Abundant Land of Ease, Fun, and Satisfaction? Subscribe to future episodes of The Editor Life Podcast and rate and review. Send us a message at [email protected] to let us know what you think of the show, to ask us your questions, and to tell us what you’d like to hear discussed on future episodes. 

To start building that thriving business, check out our resources at DeVoreEditorial.com/editorlife.

In the second episode of The Editor Life Podcast, DeVore Editorial’s Jaclyn DeVore and Angela Houston have an enlightening conversation about identifying your Ideal Client. So often, editors are going into their businesses with a general and vague sense of who their Ideal client is, when they should be truly focusing on their Ideal Client's inner desires, their wants, their ambitions, who they are as people, and not just their demographics like their gender, their age, and their education level. Jaclyn and Angela talk about the ins and outs of who your Ideal Client is and why it's so important for your editing business. 

 

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Today we address the first step every #editorpreneur should take to build a thriving biz: Identifying your Ideal Client. We talk about thriving within your zone of genius as an editor, and how doing what you love intersects perfectly with compelling your Ideal Client to work with you. 

-Identifying your Ideal Client [08:23]

-Working within your zone of genius [08:39]

-Your Ideal Client is a version of you [37:36]

-Your content as a love letter to your Ideal Client [43:07]

-Ethical obligations to refer out when a potential client isn’t Ideal [48:34] 

 

Resources mentioned in this episode: ​  -Free Dream Biz Essentials Checklist at DeVoreEditorial.com [02:49]

-Purity Coffee at PurityCoffee.com; Use code EDITORLIFE to save 10% on your order [05:47] 

-Ideal Client Workbook available at DeVoreEditorial.com. Use code EDITORLIFE as a thank you for listening to The Editor Life Podcast [53:06]

 

Calls-to-action:​

  Are you interested in establishing or growing a thriving editing business in the Shining and Abundant Land of Ease, Fun, and Satisfaction? Subscribe to future episodes of Editor Life Podcast and rate and review. Send us a message at [email protected] to let us know what you think of the show, to ask us your questions, and to tell us what you’d like to hear discussed on future episodes. 

To start building that thriving business, check out DeVoreEditorial.com/editorlife to purchase and download our Ideal Client Workbook.

In this, our first episode of The Editor Life Podcast, we introduce you to Editor in Chief of DeVore Editorial, Jaclyn DeVore, as well as Senior Copyeditor & Query Coach, Angela Houston. We believe your editor life gets to be easy. You get to enjoy the work you do. You get to be so fulfilled by the way you serve others that there’s no room for self-doubt or limiting beliefs. We’re here to demonstrate that there’s no such thing as competition in the editing industry. There’s only community. 

We also recognize that the publishing industry is continually shifting, and the modern editor has to keep stride alongside it. If you’d like to build a better editing business, expand your skillset, and learn to solve the unique challenges that come with being a freelance editor, Editor Life is here to help you, the modern editor, thrive—even amidst the swiftly changing tides of our industry.

 

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Today we address the number one limiting belief we hear from #editorpreneurs: Being a freelance editor is hard work that doesn’t pay well, and I could never successfully make it my full-time career.

- Who we are as DeVore Editorial. [06:17]

- What it’s like to be a new editor in the ever-changing publishing industry. [07:00]

- A few steps that new and established editors can take to expand their skill sets and to discover who their Ideal Clients are. [13:16] 

 

Resources mentioned in this episode: ​  -Truth Work Media at TruthWorkMedia.com [01:42]

-Comma Masterclass available at DeVoreEditorial.com [11:48] 

-Ideal Client Workbook available at DeVoreEditorial.com [19:00]

-Editing Mentorships opportunity by emailing [email protected] [32:10]

 

Calls-to-action:​

  Are you interested in establishing or growing a thriving editing business in the Shining and Abundant Land of Ease, Fun, and Satisfaction? Subscribe to future episodes of The Editor Life Podcast and rate and review. Send us a message at [email protected] to let us know what you think of the show, to ask us your questions, and to tell us what you’d like to hear discussed on future episodes. 

To start building that thriving business, check out DeVoreEditorial.com/editorlife to purchase and download our Ideal Client Workbook.