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All About Indexing #8: Starting An Indexing Business, Part 2: Marketing
All About Indexing #7: Starting An Indexing Business, Part 1: Training
Hi, everyone! For my last two columns, I would like to talk about how one goes about starting an indexing business. I believe that the skills needed to become a good indexer are partly innate and partly acquired. My indexing teacher, the great Kari Kells, says in the introduction to her Basic Indexing Tutorial that on her first day of an indexing class she took in library school, she knew she had found the perfect career as her teacher described the way she had always automatically sorted her photos by category, and Kari nodding and smiling as she recalled her own automatic sorting of M&Ms by color, and music by genre, then alphabetical,then chronological, etc. (Anyone out there nodding and smiling at this?)
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Saving Money (Mobile, Landline, Internet)
Haaretz recently posted an article Be in Touch, With Your Phone Company which can help you reduce your cell phone, telephone and internet expenses. For example,
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What Does a Shoe Store Have in Common with a Technical Writer?
Normally not much, but there is one shoe store in Florida that does. Technical writing is a niche business, and in Israel many of the more successful technical writers have created a niche-within a niche.
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Outsourcing - Which Writer Cost More?
September 5 2007
elephant (Svi Ben-Elya) under Doing Business | Comments (0)
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In theory, a technical writing company can provide clients with a wider range of expertise and save writers from business related tasks, such as marketing and billing. In practice, the structure of the industry has created a situation where most successful writers prefer to work directly rather than through technical writing companies.
More...How do you negotiate a contract; what should be in a contract; payment in dollars or shekels?
COandPI - Copyeditors and Proofreaders Israel will meet on May 27 (Tel-Aviv) and 30 (Jerusalem) at 7:30 PM to discuss "How do you negotiate a contract; what should be in a contract; payment in dollars or shekels?" and "How would different editors edit the same material?"
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Gratis Anyone?
March 8 2007
Stephanie Freid under Scribblin' With Steph | Comments (0)
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A popular writer's debate is whether or not to work for free. Should I pound out that article for nothing or next to nothing? Should I copyedit my friend's work just because? Do I help out with Acme Marketing Inc.'s campaign because they're starting up and they promise loads of future work?
It depends. On a number of things. But I've narrowed it to a few sorting criteria to help in the weeding process
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It depends. On a number of things. But I've narrowed it to a few sorting criteria to help in the weeding process
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Freelance Journalism: Taking the Leap
December 16 2006
Stephanie Freid under Scribblin' With Steph | Comments (0)
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Freelance journalist Stephanie Freid (Scribblin' With Steph) shares why and how she plunged into the world of freelance journalism, how she got her business going and why she isn't looking back.
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