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Want to become a professional proofreader? Discover 6 more key pieces of information you must know before you embark on your new career.
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- How it requires a lot of hard work to build and sustain a proofreading business
- Why having periods of no work isn’t something you have to accept as given
- Why grammar- and spell-checking technology hasn’t made proofreaders redundant
- How it’s a myth that all proofreading work is done in-house
- How proofreading means the different things to different client types
- Whether word of mouth is a good enough promotion strategy
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‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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