BetterEdit.com

Our goal is to improve the quality of university students English writing and ultimately help them to achieve better grades. BetterEdit links students with a team of hand-picked academic specialist editors via the Internet, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.

What you sell / services you offer (brief description of your company):

In a nutshell we edit term papers, essays, theses and dissertations that students submit via email. Our editing process includes tracking changes which allow our clients to view what words we delete and insert in to their writing.

We also provide a critique letter which is written by the editor that worked on the paper. The letter explains why changes were made and also provides tips and advice to help the student improve their future writing. In this way our service goes beyond editing to include a tutoring element.

We have two core business strengths – the quality of our editing and the speed at which we provide it. Generally we receive about 50 applications every time we recruit new editors and through a testing procedure are able to pick the best from the best. Because we operate completely online and use email for service delivery we can meet even the tightest of deadlines. We have even been known to turnaround a job in under two hours for students that write last minute essays.

Have you always wanted to run your own business? What were some of your previous jobs / companies?

I have always wanted to run my own business. The problem was deciding what to run, gaining the confidence to go for it and proving that I could make a living doing it. Even as a child I was buying and trading toys like a young businessman.

I never had a full time job growing up and went straight into my own business after finishing university. I did have casual jobs as a teenager and probably the most relevant to learning business skills was working at markets. At one point I worked weekends for a guy that operated a stall selling belts and belt buckles. I also had various hobbies growing up that encouraged me to play with commerce. I always enjoyed buying and selling to make a profit or trade up.

Have you got any qualifications? Please tell us about yourself academically?

I have a Business Management degree from the University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia. I would like to say that my degree was helpful in terms of educating me to run a business and it some ways it was, but really studying a degree helped me to develop as a person and gain in confidence more than provide any practical skills for starting a business. I have fairly sound IT skills, nothing too technical, I’m certainly no programmer but I pick up software skills quickly. I'm always eager to test out the latest in web technology especially if I see if becoming important to business in the future. I keep up to date with the tech trends.

Most of the education I receive nowadays is from books. I'm an avid reader and I especially enjoy reading Internet start-up biography books. I find I learn a lot from the story of the growth and development process of the biggest Internet companies. I’m a big fan of education and learning from other people’s experiences so I think it is vitally important to keep educating yourself as you develop your business.

How / when did the idea of your website / company come about?

The idea for my business came about when I was in university around 1999-2000 completing a group assignment with some other students, including international students from Asia. One student in particular had problems with English since it was his second language. I was up late one evening combining his writing with the work from the other group members into a single assignment. I ended up rewriting much of his work because it was of such poor quality. I was curious how a student like this was managing to make it through university with such poor English skills.

It was the dot.com boom at the time and I read in a Yahoo! print magazine article about a guy that had started an essay editing business from his dorm room in Harvard University. His business was slightly different because it targeted students writing entrance essays to get into university but I thought the idea could be adapted to the Australian student marketplace to service international students with English difficulties. This led to the creation of BetterEdit.com.

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