How to manage a hectic editorial business schedule

We talk about tips to manage your editorial business life when the schedule feels just a little bit too hectic!

Listen to find out more about

• Is the problem short term or long term?
• Identifying what absolutely must get done
• Extending a deadline: When to ask, how long to ask for, and what's realistic
• Seasonal overbusyness and clearing your schedule
• What does 'fully booked' mean to you?
• Brainstorming long-term solutions with a friend
• Introducing efficiencies
• Outsourcing business tasks
• Adjusting your schedule
• Cancelling editing work: A last resort

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Music credit

'Vivacity’ by Kevin MacLeod

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