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

10 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Eric Deeran (Oct 10, 2024) advising freelance/video editors on shifting from technician to business owner. The speaker emphasizes recruiting editors of equal skill to delegate editing work, releasing hands-on control, and focusing on client acquisition and scaling the client base to pay hired editors. The clip frames this as an early strategic decision: remain the sole technician or step back to hire and grow the business.

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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.