The afternoon slump is a tough problem for most of us, and freelancers are no exception. In fact, working from home can have its own post-prandial pitfalls — namely, the sofa. While there’s nothing wrong with catching a quick 20-minute snooze, especially when tight deadlines mean working late into the night, there are a few […]
Preventing and Handling Scope Creep
One of the biggest challenges in indexing services (and editing and proofreading as well, but I’ll focus on indexing for this post) is to accurately estimate the scope of a project in order to provide a flat fee or per-page fee that then translates into a reasonable hourly rate for the indexer. I’ll cover two […]
Indexing and Editing as You Go
At our 2017 ASI conference, I had so many great workshop choices that for once, I was glad to come home to an indexing project and put what I learned to practice. Usually, after a conference (and a 6 am flight home), I like to have a few days to recover and catch up on […]
Proofreading: More than Just Spelling
We recently finished a big handbook proofreading project, and it’s pointing up that the scope of proofreading goes way beyond simple grammar and spelling errors. We also check for consistency on a lot of other things besides these two. In this project, with almost two dozen chapters written by different authors, the issue of keeping […]
Negotiating Rates
Setting rates is often up to indexers — we get a query about a project and respond with a quote. Sometimes, though, it works the other way around, and we get approached with a rate from a potential client. When the rate is just fine, our answer is mainly determined by our schedules and our […]
PI Partner Profile: Jessica Freeman
We are happy to report that we have a new PI Partner in Jessica Freeman. We’d love to have you get to know her through this blog interview! Your Business PI: How long have you been doing indexing? I’ve been indexing since 2015. I started out indexing as a side hustle and transitioned into indexing […]
