To be a successful transcriber you don't need to be the best transcriber. What you need to be is, the best-selling transcriber!
Selling is the only skill you need to become a successful freelance transcriber. This is also true for transcribers working for a company.
If you have the skills of negotiation, salesmanship and marketing, you will get better benefits, faster pay raises, better positions.
Successful freelance transcribers know this. They know where to get free publicity. They know where to advertise and how. They know how to communicate effectively with others; especially with their prospects and speak their language.
I'm sometimes amazed at how very skilled transcribers are only moderately successful or happy in their jobs. Some transcribers don't mind giving a 3-hour overtime every week in office; but spending 1-hour a week on their own business is unthinkable to the same transcribers. That is unthinkable to me.
So start selling.
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