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Improving your money mindset
If you’ve had a look around my website you might have noticed that I talk a lot about mindset, particularly money mindset. What do I mean by that? Well, your mindset is really just your attitude to things. By that logic, then, your money mindset is your attitude towards money. Why does it matter? Because…
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Should you charge clients for a sample edit?
There is a lot of debate in the editing world about whether one should charge clients for a sample edit. My view is that there is no ‘right answer’, only an answer that is ‘right for you’. It really depends on whether you look at the time spent on the edit as a marketing expense…
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What the client will pay
I used to try to second-guess what a client will pay, and because I’m quite careful with my own money, I ended up projecting my own view onto my clients and assumed that they wouldn’t want to spend significant sums of money on editing. The reality is that most of the time we have no…
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Are you running a business or a charity?
The purpose of a business is to make money. I know that a lot of people don’t like to think about money. In fact, there is an idea held by some editors that we should focus on being ‘kind’ and ‘helpful’ to our clients rather than being ‘greedy’ by focusing on money. However, to my…