Dear Editor | A curated mini course for freelance editors

Last updated October 2025 🎓

33 minutes of core content, with additional bonus videos included.

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This mini course brings together several articles and videos I have written and recorded to encourage small, manageable steps to help you build a better and stronger freelance editing business.

My advice focusses on the business of freelance editing, as opposed to how you conduct the editing process itself. Here’s an easier way for me to explain how I want to help you 👇

• I want you to be highly visible online when someone is searching for a manuscript editor.
• I want your website and other online profiles to be primed and ready to welcome new clients.
• I want you to know about the small and deliberate changes in your communication that can make a massive difference to how a client finds and then enjoys your editing process.
• I will leave the actual word magic involved in the editing process up to you 😊

1. Are you ready?

Before we get started, I want to mention something… much of my advice is going to feel uncomfortable.

Our first article introduces the editor to the concept of their brand. By understanding how your services are seen and felt by the customer, you will already be in a stronger position than your competing editors. Uncomfortable? Absolutely. Essential? You bet.

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➕ https://myebook.online/discomfort-of-branding/

1727 words in length, 9 minutes read time

2. Don’t be average

I want you to be more than just an average freelance editor. This article clarifies common habits that may be holding you back from finding and then winning new business. I touch on the importance of;

1. Understanding your first impressions,
2. Improving your online rankings in the search results,
3. Clearer communication during the editing process.

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➕ https://myebook.online/the-average-editor/

1,217 words, 6 minutes read time

3. Email that excites | Advice on winning more business from your intro emails

Before riches can flow from your editing talents, you first need to find and convert new leads into customers. This article is aimed exclusively at helping you win more business from your initial email sent to new leads. I detail the most common habits that cause me to ignore emails from new editors, explaining what would work better.

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➕ https://myebook.online/win-editing-business/

1,635 words, 9 minutes read time

4. About your website | What goes into a winning editing website?

Without getting too nerdy, I explain the basic elements that every editor’s website should contain. This advice will have the added benefit of boosting your editing website to rank higher in online search results, as well as convert new leads into paying clients at a higher rate. Grab your ☕, let’s take a look together.

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➕ https://myebook.online/the-editors-website/

1,627 words, 9 minutes read time

5. Bonus Content

Things editors do that make me give them less business.

➕ Stop Losing Editing Business! What I wish more manuscript editors knew

9 mins duration, from YouTube

Online presentation to the Professional Editors Guild on improving your freelance editing services.

➕ Better branding for freelance editors | A recorded PEG webinar with Dave Henderson

120 mins duration, from YouTube

Educating your customers.

Advice for a smoother and more enjoyable editing process for both the editor and the author.

➕ https://myebook.online/prepare-for-editing/

1,398 words, 7 minutes read time OR watch online

➕ 7 Powerful tips to prepare you for editing | Getting the most out of your manuscript editor – YouTube

27 mins duration, from YouTube