Written by Ilene Watson, CET, CER, CDR and Lisa Luciano, CET, CDR, NJ AD/T, co-founders of Access Transcripts LLC and the team behind Access Transcripts Pro.
You can be an excellent transcriptionist and still struggle to build a business. The skills that make you great at the transcribing may not the same skills that make you good at running a company. Pricing, client relationships, contracts, cash flow, workflow systems, and knowing when to walk away from the wrong client, none of that comes automatically. It has to be learned.
The Freelance Edge is the business book for court transcriptionists who want to do this for real. It covers how to set your rates without leaving money on the table, how to find and land the clients worth working for, how to protect yourself with contracts and payment policies that actually hold up, and how to build systems that let you handle more volume without burning out. It also covers the hard stuff such as difficult audio, impossible deadlines, late-paying clients, and how to grow a team when the time comes.
Everything in here came from building an actual business, the slow way, the right way, through every mistake and every hard-won lesson that comes with it. If you're ready to stop piecing together a freelance practice and start building something that lasts, this is where you start.
Written by Ilene Watson, CET, CER, CDR and Lisa Luciano, CET, CDR, NJ AD/T, co-founders of Access Transcripts LLC and the team behind Access Transcripts Pro.
You can be an excellent transcriptionist and still struggle to build a business. The skills that make you great at the transcribing may not the same skills that make you good at running a company. Pricing, client relationships, contracts, cash flow, workflow systems, and knowing when to walk away from the wrong client, none of that comes automatically. It has to be learned.
The Freelance Edge is the business book for court transcriptionists who want to do this for real. It covers how to set your rates without leaving money on the table, how to find and land the clients worth working for, how to protect yourself with contracts and payment policies that actually hold up, and how to build systems that let you handle more volume without burning out. It also covers the hard stuff such as difficult audio, impossible deadlines, late-paying clients, and how to grow a team when the time comes.
Everything in here came from building an actual business, the slow way, the right way, through every mistake and every hard-won lesson that comes with it. If you're ready to stop piecing together a freelance practice and start building something that lasts, this is where you start.
