Proofread AnywhereReviews of proofreadanywhere.com

Don't waste your money on this course. It won't prepare you to be a better proofreader. Many of us students still bought books and took other courses from different programs because proofreadanywhere did not give us enough confidence, even after graduating. As far as teaching you how to find clients, I followed their tips such as: building a website, using social media (Facebook and LinkedIn) to promote my website, cold emailing companies, reaching out to bloggers, applying to job platforms like fiverr, upwork, flex jobs (some of these jobs they offer are scams and some job offers require you to have a certain degree and years of experience), I joined proofreading organizations, I offer to proofread for free to get testimonies, I joined their "Hireaproofreader" and two other directories, and tried other methods. After doing this for a year now I only found one client and it was only a one time job. I bought a book about how to market your proofreading business and the author said herself that it took her about a year to find her first client and than even longer to actually get her business rolling. In the secret Facebook group some of the proofreaders said the same. That it took them about a year to find one client and than several years to actually get regular work yet they still have to market themselves everyday. I wished I knew that from start so I wouldn't have bothered wasting my time.

The only reason I gave 1 star is because I could not write a review with none. This company does not teach anything that is not learned during high school English class. They do not refund your money for any reason. I requested a refund but because I was outside of their 14 day window, it was denied. They did not care that I had extenuating circumstances that caused me to go beyond the 14 days. I was told I would always have access. I do not want access. I want my money back! I learned everything you have to offer in high school as part of my educational process. Even those diet scams give 30-90 days and you can send the empty bottles back. Enjoy my money! Your company has no ethical or moral character!

This company can improve by not selling c**p. There’s nothing here worth the few hundreds of $$ they charge. As one reviewer put it, “the most I can make is $5.00/hr”. OK, I was scammed & that means I was stupid. My bad. Just a warning - scroll on by! Oh, I did get something. I got 17 emails in 4 days trying to sell me something else. DON’T DO IT!

I would suggest researching all proofreading courses out there. I once had my court reporter license in State of WA. I attended Bryan College, where Margie Wakeman from Margie Holds Court was our English instructor. I paid $397 for the PA course when they were having a holiday sale. I think it was the day after Christmas… regular price, if I recall correctly, was $1097. What a rip off. I didn’t work as a reporter but was a legal transcriptionist for 10 years. The course includes practice transcripts to edit. The answer key practice transcripts to compare our work were so fraught with errors that many students were openly complaining about it on the private PA Facebook group. There’s a midterm and a final. They give you a transcript to edit. You have to get 100% to pass. If you don’t pass the first time, they will tell you what your error is and what page it’s on and give you a second chance to pass it. If you don’t pass a second time, you start over with a whole new transcript, and they charge you $50 per grading thereafter. I know my stuff. I didn’t pass the first time. They sent it back with, I think, four errors? One of the errors they said I had was a missing comma on page 4. There was nowhere else on that page that I would put a comma. Two other students and I took our conversation off their Facebook group and were messaging each other for privacy. We actually shared our graded midterms with each other and discovered there were serious inconsistencies in their grading. One of the women with whom I shared my graded midterm told me that she passed, thanks to having it. By the way, this lady was an English teacher for 20 years. The other women had also shared their graded midterms with me. By that point, I had lost interest in the program and never submitted a second midterm. Those poor quality answer key transcripts really turned me off. That just killed it for me. A woman I met on a proofing and scoping group told me she had done research on the PA course and decided not to purchase it because she discovered the former owner “had some major issues and sold the business.” She took Proofreading Business Coach and is very happy with that. I start scopist training with BeST this fall.

I took the course, mostly for the support it offered for finding work. I could have taught the information provided on proofreading and editing myself, so that wasn't of value to me, and as far as showing me how to find work, the "support" was wildly disappointing. Who doesn't know to get business cards printed, build a website, and network for jobs? I'd have been way better off spending my money on social media advertising than on this course. Also, very dull presentation - just a series of text-only slides. Not at the level of a Udemy or similar. Buy a copy of Eats, Shoots and Leaves and ask ChatGPT how to launch a proofreading business. Edit: The response below talks about the “community” I could learn from. As far as I could tell, people had the same concerns as me. I’m not saying the course was worthless. I’m saying it was worth about 20% of what I paid for it.

Owner Caitlin offered a free course. After you read her long story , you find out that you have to pay. I am glad that it got better for her cats. She should not deceive people. I have contacted her several times. She still refuses to give it free.

You keep asking me to rate, so here it is. I passed the final four months ago and did all I was told to and have not secured even one proofreading job. I literally almost lost my life giving plasma to pay for this course, and for what? Sure, I can write better, but I have bills to pay, and this hasn’t helped that at all. The course itself is frustrating. There are no teachers or answer keys. You have to teach yourself and rely on other students in the Facebook group to hopefully figure out the right answers. That in itself is ridiculous. There is a key with “suggested” right answers, but a lot of those answers were incorrect and were changed midway through the course. A lot of students struggled with that. Also, there are additional materials most students need to supplement the course material that increases the expense. Rumor has it that some actually find decent gainful employment from this course, but many of us haven’t. So I have no other choice but to discourage prospective students from taking this course, unless you want to proofread for a hobby. Update In reply to Proofread Anywhere’s reply: You don’t know if I’ve added my profile to hireaproofreader or not. That’s number one. Number two, your reply to just about anyone calling you out on here is to point the finger back at the reviewer as if we haven’t tried hard enough. Per my original review, I’ve taken the steps your program guides one to take! It’s up to YOU to not false advertise that their are so many jobs, and that if we follow the program we’ll get hired! But nice blaming the customer for something that I already said in my review that I have done. And finally, it does not go unnoticed that you didn’t reply to any of the other honest remarks I made about your failure to actually teach and be organized in your program. In fact, you coming back on here to tell me to email you for an additional resource, which YOU should have already provided, speaks volumes on that and it’s only the tip of the iceberg. Every word of my original review still stands!

I get four emails a day from "Caitlin @ Proofread Anywhere." I have never taken a course and I do not know how they got my email.