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Grow Your Editing Business: How to Delegate and Scale for Success

22 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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A short advisory segment where an editor (speaker) explains the transition from being a hands-on editor (the technician) to running an editing business. The speaker advises hiring other editors of equal skill so you can delegate operational work, focus on getting more clients, and scale the business. They highlight the upfront decision: remain the sole technician or step back, hire, and release control to grow.

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I'm an editor, and I'm trying to run a business. Yeah. So because you are the technician. Right. So you're a editor. If you want to be a business owner, you need to find other editors who are just as good as you. So then you can delegate that, and then you can focus on getting more clients and building more building more of a client base to then pay those editors. Right. And so I think that's another thing, is a lot of people want to be the technician, but you kind of have to make a decision in the beginning, like, do I want to only be the one doing this thing, or do I want to step take a step back, maybe, and start hiring and releasing control so other people can start stepping in and doing that for me? You know, that's true.