Why You Should Hire an Editor
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Are you a young professional seeking new opportunities or career growth, facing frustration with today’s challenging job market?
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Are you a publication seeking concise, relevant content that really speaks to your readership?
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Are you a small business owner seeking compelling, informative, and persuasive marketing content, and you’re low on time to write or edit it yourself?
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Are you representative of a large business seeking business, marketing, or technical editing, and/or localization editing, to streamline your operations across regions or subsidiaries?
The words we choose, how we string them together, and how they appear on the page, are a representation of ourselves or our business, no matter the type of content or the audience. Our writing—whether it be an email, a resume, business ad, technical document, college application, or book—has the power to persuade, engage and allure the reader.
Just as quickly as your words can resonate with the reader, they can lose the reader's attention. Why? Even one seemingly-small typo, inconsistency, or grammatical error can detract from your message—and harm your professional image, credibility and integrity. Hiring an editor helps you to succeed by maintaining credibility, and leaving an impression of excellence.
As the owner and editor of Up Style Editing, Jen Jilany has two decades of experience in marketing, corporate, and technical communications, having worked with clients across the retail, healthcare, agricultural and chemical sectors, both in Canada and the U.S.
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As a copywriter and editor for a small business, she strategizes, plans, writes, and provides copyediting services to drive her client’s marketing and promotional campaign content (email and web-based), resulting in increased customer awareness and website traffic. This allows her client to focus on growing revenue and scaling from one, to three, to five locations.
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As contributor to an online publication, she researched the audience, medium, and purpose of the magazine to create relevant, meaningful content for the editor-in-chief, and applied this equally to her copyediting work. She quickly adapted to the client’s unique editorial process, Canadian Press Style, and their style sheet, exceeding all deadlines.
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As a business leader at a tech (SaaS) company, she successfully bridged two cross-border teams (US-based Fortune 500-to-Canadian AOR) by developing a deep understanding of their day-to-day operations, key concerns, and technical terminology, to land and maintain a $1M annual project scope.
Our copyediting services are fast, accurate, and affordable! We can meet with you virtually, or in-person within the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.
"During her internship with Faze Magazine, Jen wrote and copy-edited articles for publication. Her pitches were relevant, her articles were well-written, and she exceeded all of her deadlines. She is an accurate, thorough and reliable copy-editor, as well as an excellent communicator. What stood out to me the most about Jen was the thoughtfulness and empathy she applied to her editing. It is so important for editors to show support, encouragement and collaboration towards the author in order to produce the best article possible, and Jen certainly achieved this."
- Lorraine Zander, Editor-in-Chief,
Faze Magazine
“I want to hug who edited this. Her queries and suggestions were helpful, her tone was lovely, and I kept most of the changes she made.”
- Jennifer Lamont, Faze Contributor
"Jen's support and leadership has been invaluable to our editorial and marketing efforts, including our SEO. In writing and editing our email and website content, including our promotions, she is organized, methodical, and strives for excellence in everything she does. We have seen over a two-fold increase in organic traffic to our website with her support. She is helpful and collaborative, and most importantly makes the effort to understand our business to ensure the content written is authentic and fits our customers first. We highly recommend Jen for any content development and editing projects.."
- TJ, CEO,
Transcend Golf Ltd.