Resources for Editors New to Setting Fees

For editors who are new to self-employment and who have difficulty with setting their fees, here is a list of resources that I culled from the "Business Tools" page of my Copyeditors' Knowledge Base:

• "The Great Freelancer Pricing War" (blog post)

• Instant Estimate (a free online widget for calculating a project fee estimate)

• Pricing a Project: How to Prepare a Professional Quotation (booklet)

• Quick Guide for Freelance Fee Setting: When a Client Demands a Price NOW (booklet)

• The Science, Art and Voodoo of Freelance Pricing and Getting Paid (book)

• "Talking Fees with Colleagues" (blog post)

• Value-Based Fees: How to Charge—and Get—What You're Worth (book)

• "Value-On or Money-Off? Putting a Price on Your Editorial Services" (blog post)

• "What If You Doubled Your Fees? Tomorrow?" (blog post)

• What to Charge: Pricing Strategies for Freelancers and Consultants: e-book or paperback

If you have favorite resources that aren't listed here, please share their names or titles and links to them.

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