Whether you need to hone your editing skills or grow your freelance business, Right Touch Editing has some help for you! In our Editors’ Resource Library, you’ll find task lists, templates, and free resources to download. You’ll also find out where to purchase training from Erin.
Scroll through and find your new favorite resource!
EDITING
Capitalizing Black and White
Should you capitalize black and white? It might depend on the style guide you follow. Find your favorite guide in this free PDF.
EDITING
AI Help for Writers and Editors
Unlock the power of AI in your writing and editing! This guide explores cutting-edge tools for brainstorming, content polishing, and more. Stay ahead in the evolving landscape of digital content creation.
EDITING
CMoS & AP Stylebook Cheat Sheet
Do you have trouble remembering which style uses the Oxford comma? Whether AP puts spaces around an em dash? This cheat sheet addresses some common differences between CMoS and AP. Download it now!
WEBINAR
10 Strategies for Growing Your Editing Business
You’ve successfully launched your editing business: You have a few clients, you handle your business administration, and you even do marketing. How can you get to the next level? Learn effective strategies from freelancing veteran Erin Brenner. Offered by Editors Canada.
WEBINAR
Persuasion Wins!: Creating a Persuasive Website for Your Freelance Business
What should be on your editing business’s site? In this informative webinar recording, Erin shows 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.
WEBINAR
Increase Your Profits Using Business Data
With this webinar, you’ll look at three types of data that can help you evaluate the profit of different projects, target your marketing toward more responsive audiences, and discover which of your current clients deserve more love and which should be shown the door. Offered by Editors Canada.
EDITING
The Copyeditor’s Typographic Oath
Erin Brenner 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!
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Web Editing Checklist
Is your writing optimized for the web? Download this free PDF checklist to guide your writing in the right direction.
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Web Editing Resources
Raise the professionalism of your client’s website with targeted editing. Download this free PDF of resources for web editors.
WEBINAR
Copyediting for Readability
Help readers get what they need from a text by editing it for readability. In this 90-minute webinar with Erin Brenner, you’ll learn more about what readability is, how to measure it, and what you can do as an editor to increase readability in nonfiction work—think user directions, websites, and important communications. Offered by the EFA.
WEBINAR
Digital Marketing Primer
To grow your editing business, you’re going to need more clients. Good marketing will help make you visible to potential clients and create interest in your services—and digital marketing was made for solopreneurs like you. In this session with Erin Brenner, you’ll learn to craft a solid marketing campaign for your editing business that minimizes time and cost without sacrificing results. Offered by Editors Canada.
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
The New Freelance Editor’s Business Library
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.
TRAINING
Editor Training Offered by Editors
Looking for training or coaching given independently by fellow editors? Check out our database! Want to be included? Contact Erin with your training details.
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 business website in five easy steps!
BUSINESS
Digital Marketing Strategy Worksheet
to increase your business, you need a plan. Download this worksheet to build a solid marketing strategy for your business.
EDITING
Capitalization Policy Worksheet
Capitalizing the titles of publications and other works can quickly become persnickety: do you lowercase all prepositions? Maybe you have exceptions for compound prepositions. What about adverbs? What exceptions does your style have? Give yourself the perfect cheat sheet for capitalizing titles with this simple worksheet.
BUSINESS
Website & Social Media Dashboards
What business patterns can you discover to help grow your business? Download this worksheet to gather your website, blog, and social media data and answer your strategy questions.
EDITING
Style Sheet Template
Create a style sheet for your next project with this free template!
