by Reija J Roberts
“When you’re self-employed, you are always selling yourself. You should be able to say what you do in fifteen seconds.” Preparing her “elevator pitch” is only one key to success for freelance writer and editor Christina Newberry. Her website, which boasts glowing testimonials and tangible work samples, ranks high in a Google [...]

Here’s link to an interesting blog post from the folks at 37signals about hard-copy markup using copy editor’s marks vs. electronic editing using track changes in Word. The post and most of the comments lean towards hard-copy editing being superior. My experience is that electronic editing is far simpler, faster, and easier for authors to [...]

For small businesses — in fact, even for large ones — free publicity can be a golden ticket to name recognition, increased web site traffic, and more sales. But to get it, you have to make nice with journalists.
Take a look at this article from Jakob Nielsen that’s packed with really great tips on [...]

I posted a new page today with some tips for anyone who wants to increase traffic to their web site without an expensive and confusing “search engine optimization package” and without any black magic.

The Editor’s Association of Canada has opened a cafepress store featuring some cheeky-cute editor gear. The taglines on the items include:

Line Tamer
You write it. We right it.
Message Therapist

… and my favourite: May I heighten your textual pleasure?
Check them out at: http://www.cafepress.com/eac_acr