Improve your craft! Run your business better! Download task lists and templates to keep your business running smoothly and ebooks on writing and editing. Get book recommendations and find out where to purchase Erin’s webinars.
EDITING
Capitalizing Black and White
Different style guides have made different decisions on whether to cap these race terms. Find your favorite guide on this list! Last updated October 26, 2021.
EDITING
Style Sheet
Download this free template to create a style sheet for your next project!
EDITING
CMS and AP Stylebook Cheat Sheet.
Do you have trouble remembering which style uses the Oxford comma? Find out!
WEBINAR
Persuasion Wins!: Creating a Persuasive Website for Your Freelance Business
What should be on your editing business’s site? In this informative webinar, I show you how it’s less about what you say and more about how you say it. Learn how to persuade website visitors to become paying clients! Offered by Editors Canada.
EDITING
Web Editing Checklist
Download this free PDF checklist to ensure your writing is ready for the web!
EDITING
Web Editing Resources
Raise the professionalism of your client’s website with web editing. Download this free PDF of resources for web editors.
WEBINAR
How to Edit Marketing Copy
Do marketers have no respect for the English language? Of course they do. But they also must build trust to help close the sale. In this webinar, you’ll learn specific tips for editing marketing copy to be error free and trustworthy. Offered by the EFA.
EDITING
The Copyeditor’s Typographic Oath
Erin created the Copyeditor’s Typographic Oath to guide her and fellow editors in how to best balance the needs of the author, publisher, and reader. Download this image to keep copyeditors’ “10 commandments” top of mind!
EDITING
Resources for the Marketing Editor
Become a marketing editor! In this section, you’ll find a glossary, a downloadable reference list, and information on further training.
BUSINESS
New Freelancer’s Business Pack
There are so many little details to running a business. What did you do yesterday? And what should you do today? Get all kinds of tips and goodies to run your business better.
BUSINESS
Website & Social Media Dashboards
What patterns can help you increase your business? Download this worksheet to gather your website, blog, and social media data and answer your strategy questions.
BUSINESS
Digital Marketing Strategy Worksheet
Plan to increase your business. Download this worksheet to build a solid marketing strategy for your business.
BUSINESS
5 Steps to Adding Persuasion to Your Website
What should your business website say and how should it look? But there’s one thing all business sites need and it doesn’t take a lot to add it: persuasion. Learn to add persuasion to your pro site in five easy steps!
WEBINAR
WEBINAR
Over the Copyeditor’s Shoulder: 5 Approaches to Copyediting
Copyediting is copyediting no matter who does it, right? Not so fast. Hear how 5 editors approach copyediting, from accepting the job to sending the invoice, 5 different ways. You’re guaranteed to pick up some tips for your own business! Offered by the EFA.
