FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
EDITING/PROOFREADING/WRITING -- My pricing system is NOT Complicated. It is easy and straight forward: For Example: Current Rates $4.45 per page For example -- a 200 page Manuscript 200 X 4.45 = $890.00 I require no less than a 50% deposit. Full payment is due prior to me sending the Proofread/Edited/Written document back to you. If you desire me to return your manuscript back to you Chapter by Chapter then I require no less than a 50% deposit before I start looking at your manuscript; ¼ of the remaining balance is due Prior to me sending you your first Chapter back with the remainder of the ¼ balance due to me prior to Chapter Two being sent to the client. I accept PayPal payments most often. Rush Jobs welcome, but may cost extra. Clean copy jobs are billed at $7.50 per page. MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKING -- I charge per head of people you are looking to have me address, plus travel expenses. I require no less then a 50% deposit with balance due on that day/night prior to me speaking.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
EDITING/PROOFREADING/WRITING -- Typically I find out what author's need looked at, the length of the project - how many pages - and then calculate the price. I explain and make sure the client is clear on cost, payment and the time line they need this project returned to them by. I welcome speaking with clients on the phone/in person, getting to know them and their project a little. I await the arrival of their work and the down payment. Then I get to work for them. MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKING -- I like to chat a few minutes with the client, see what they would like focused on and then, once booked and deposit is received I look foreword to helping them pass on a good message.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
EDITING/PROOFREADING/WRITING -- After adding my formal Mass Communications studies at the University level, I stay tuned up on my craft by being an active member a Writer's Group in my home town and keeping employed as a writer and editor. In addition, in reading other writer's works and seeing the comments of others in our field, whether it is on our own work or on others around us is a great way to learn to "see" what the audience is getting. Furthermore, I continue to write and submit and, I am honored to say, get published. I regularly submit writings for review to the Writing Prompts - Creative Copy Challenge website. MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKING -- I took speech training in college and have studied some Grief Sharing subjects and Domestic Violence as well as learned to inspire and lift others up from my Pastor.