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"Oh how I wish TEA had been available when I started my freelance editing business! It would have saved me ten years of mucking around with inefficient business-data and project tracking. Admin is the least favourite part of my job, but TEA has made it so simple, even fun.
I breathe a sigh of relief when I open these spreadsheets (and as someone who never used Excel before, that's a sentence I never thought I'd say). I can't recommend this product highly enough!" Rachel Small Editor |
The Editor's Affairs (TEA)
Capture, Report and Analyze Your Business Data, so You're Always in Control
The Editor’s Affairs (or “TEA”) is designed to help you keep your affairs in order – your financial records, your project schedules and your client relationships. It’s an integrated system of Excel tools for self-employed editorial professionals, allowing you to easily manage your income, expenses and project data.
A cup of tea can offer you a moment of calm during a stressful workday. Likewise, TEA offers you a chance to step back from whatever deadline you’re hurtling towards, reflect on the health of your business and take pride in what you’ve accomplished thus far. Take your TEAtime in the morning, to start your day with a boost, or in the afternoon, when you’re battling a post-lunch slump. And if you work from home, you might even want to invite colleagues over for an occasional TEA party (or have a virtual one, while you’re practicing physical distancing)!
TEA is your project manager, HR team, payroll department and business data analyst all in one. It can show you how much you’ve earned on each project and what your expenses were each month. Even more importantly, it can be:
TEA is your project manager, HR team, payroll department and business data analyst all in one. It can show you how much you’ve earned on each project and what your expenses were each month. Even more importantly, it can be:
- A pat on the back for successfully negotiating your hourly rate and meeting your deadline this week.
- The mounting pile of evidence that a client is habitually paying their invoices late.
- The nudge you need to take some days off because you’ve been working 60-hour weeks all month.
- The rock-solid case for giving yourself a raise and increasing your rates.
Your Business Admin – Streamlined
With TEA, you can track your business data easily and comprehensively. And your business data remains in your control. TEA stays local on your computer, and you are the only user of your TEA spreadsheets.
Automated formulas mean you can put away your calculator, reduce the likelihood of human error and spend more of your business hours on the editorial work you love.
Automated formulas mean you can put away your calculator, reduce the likelihood of human error and spend more of your business hours on the editorial work you love.
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Thank you so much for TEA! This is an incredible system. I’m usually all over the place when it comes to keeping my freelance work organised, but TEA has made the process so much easier. I especially love the summaries tab! I didn’t know how to track my progress and felt a bit lost, so this tab is just *chef’s kiss*. The hourly estimates and actual rate columns have been really useful, too – they’ve helped me understand what I need to work on to improve my income.
Taliha Quadri Editor and Proofreader |
"I'm so thrilled with TEA! For the first time, I'm seeing solid data about my work as well as logging the actual money and it's been a huge help in pricing some jobs."
Louise Bolotin Editor |
Data-Informed Quoting for your Editorial Projects
You enter: The total word or page count, your desired hourly rate and your estimated editing/proofreading speed for each project.
TEA displays: An estimate of the total number of hours you’ll need for each project, an estimated rate per 1000 words or per page and a suggested total amount to quote for the project.
TEA displays: An estimate of the total number of hours you’ll need for each project, an estimated rate per 1000 words or per page and a suggested total amount to quote for the project.
Summaries of Your Income and Hours Worked
You enter: The total amounts that you invoiced and received for each project.
TEA displays: The total amounts that you invoiced and received added up and broken down by month and by client in ready-made summary tables, including the percentage of your income that each client represents.
TEA displays: The total amounts that you invoiced and received added up and broken down by month and by client in ready-made summary tables, including the percentage of your income that each client represents.
You enter: Your start and completion dates and the number of hours you worked for each project.
TEA displays: The total number of hours you worked added up and broken down by month and by client in ready-made summary tables.
TEA displays: The total number of hours you worked added up and broken down by month and by client in ready-made summary tables.
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Never Miss a Late Client Invoice
You enter: Each project’s payment due date and payment received date.
TEA displays: A flag if a payment was made late or is overdue.
TEA displays: A flag if a payment was made late or is overdue.
Customizing The Editor's Affairs
TEA can be personalized in hundreds of different ways to reflect how you work. Check out the Customize Your TEA page to see some of the most popular customizations, and get in touch for a chat about your specific business admin needs.
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"As a newer freelancer, I think TEA would set me on a more solid, informed track to grow my business further. I really like the Clients Summary Table as a single place to track my client interactions and gain a sense of how they contribute to my annual income. It was very satisfying to input lines of my own data and see them pop up in the calculations on the Summaries tab!"
Leona Burlew Editor |
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Want to hear more from other TEA users? Check out the TEA Case Studies page to see how freelance editors use TEA to manage their business affairs. |
