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Should editors offer free discovery calls?
Good-fit editing collection Episode 12826th June 2024 • The Editing Podcast • Louise Harnby (fiction editor) and Denise Cowle (non-fiction editor)
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Should editors offer free discovery calls? Our three-step discovery process will help you deliver the process effectively.

Listen to find out more about

  • What a discovery call is
  • Benefits of discovery calls
  • Time and money considerations
  • Managing unqualified leads
  • Scope creep
  • Emotional labour
  • Three-step discovery process: Web page, email, call

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'Vivacity’ by Kevin MacLeod

  • Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4593-vivacity
  • Licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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