Professional Rates + Stop Undercharging Bundle + One-Year Mastermind (Tier 3)
You Have Been Doing Serious Work. It Is Time You Got Paid Seriously for It.
Welcome to the most complete pricing resource ever created for African editors, ghostwriters and publishers. It is not adapted from a UK guide or borrowed from a US freelancing blog but built from the ground up for your market, your clients, and your continent.
If you have ever finished a project and quietly wondered whether you charged enough …this is for you.
If you have ever lost a client over your rate and did not know whether holding firm was the right call … this is for you.
If you have ever taken on more work than you could handle just to make the numbers work …this is for you.
You have a pricing problem, not a skill problem, and that we can completely fix.
Professional Rates fixes it.
What You Are Getting Here
When you order Tier 3, you are not just buying a book. You are investing in a complete, structured, supported transformation of how you price, quote and protect your professional work with a physical book on your desk, five practical tools in your hands, and an entire year of community and guidance behind you.
Here is everything included:
1. Professional Rates (Hardcover Edition)
Shipped directly to your address within Nigeria, Ghana, and Namibia in Africa. A professionally printed and bound hardcover copy of the book Professional Rates: How Business-Smart Editors Calculate, Quote and Attract Serious Client, will be delivered to your door. This is the book you will keep on your desk. The one you will reach for before every new client conversation. The one colleagues will notice and ask about.
Inside the book, you will find the following:
A step-by-step system for building your rate from the ground up using your real cost of living, your actual market and your income goals. Not a number copied from someone else's reality. Your number, calculated correctly, for the first time.
How to pivot to professional rates. It covers the mindset shift, the portfolio positioning and the internal preparation that makes raising your rates sustainable rather than terrifying. Most editors skip this step. That is why their rate increases do not stick.
Exactly how to quote your rate with confidence, what to say when a client pushes back, and how to close a quoting conversation without apologising for your worth.
Exactly why foreign rates do not translate to your market, what African clients and publishers actually budget, and how to position yourself as the premium choice without pricing yourself out of your own industry.
Exactly how pricing changes when you scale beyond yourself. How to quote for a team, structure editorial packages and build a business that does not depend entirely on your own capacity alone.
Exactly how your rates signal your positioning and how to use that signal deliberately to attract clients who value professional editorial work and pay for it properly.
2. Professional Rates (Online-Reading Edition)
The complete digital edition of Professional Rates, which you can read from the website from anywhere and at any time when your hardcover is not close by. You will find yourself searching, making mental notes and returning to specific chapters whenever a new client situation requires it. This digital edition is your working copy while the hardcover is your reference copy. Together they give you the book in every format you need.
THE STOP UNDERCHARGING BUNDLE
This is a bundle of five practical tools for immediate implementation. Reading about professional pricing and being able to implement it the same week are two different things. The Stop Undercharging Bundle is the bridge between these two.
3. The Manuscript Pricing Calculator
A structured, ready-to-use tool that walks you through calculating your personalised rate using the exact framework from the book. Fill it in once, understand your number completely and you will never guess again.
4. The Client’s Script Pack
Word-for-word language for presenting your rate to a new client, including exactly what to say when they tell you that you are too expensive, that their budget is smaller, or that another editor quoted less. You will never be caught off guard in a pricing conversation again.
5. The Client Red Flag Checklist
Know before you quote whether a client is likely to respect your rate or spend the entire project trying to renegotiate it downward. This checklist protects your time, your energy and your peace of mind before you invest any of them.
6. The Pricing Diary (Printable)
This is where you implement everything. Track your quotes, reflect on your pricing and build your professional system.
7. Freelance Book Editing Business Toolkit
A start-up companion as an editor.
What you need to get, what you need to buy, what you need to know and what you must invest in to carry on the business of editing sustainably.
8. Ghost-writing Income Guide
A PDF guide to making multiple 7-figures.
It opens your eyes as an editor to the opportunities that abound. Guides you to understand the unfair advantage you have for ghostwriting and adds it to your services. It also shows you where the money is.
9. The Editorial Boardroom - One Full Year
This is your community, your accountability, and your direct line to accessing 16 years of industry experience.
The Editorial Boardroom is where everything in the book gets implemented with people who understand exactly what you are building and why it matters. This is not a WhatsApp group with occasional voice notes; it is a structured, intentional, one-year professional community for African editors, ghostwriters and publishers who are serious about changing how they price and position their work.
Here is what your year inside The Editorial Boardroom looks like:
Monthly Board Meetings via Zoom
It is for twelve months with the Author - Chisom Utibe Akah and other facilitators, covering pricing, client management, positioning, business growth and the real conversations happening inside the African publishing industry right now. These are working sessions. You come with questions, situations and quotes and leave with clarity and direction.
A Private Community of African Editing Professionals
A dedicated space where members share wins, ask questions, review each other's quotes and build the kind of professional relationships that change careers. Every person in the room is doing the same work you are doing and taking it just as seriously. During the year, bring your actual quotes, your actual client situations and your actual pricing challenges to a dedicated review session.
Direct Access to Chisom Utibe Akah
Throughout the year, Editorial Boardroom members have access to ask questions, share updates and receive guidance between sessions. Sixteen years of editing, ghost-writing and publishing experience are available to you for twelve full months.
First Access to Every New Resource
Every template, worksheet, tool and resource released during the year goes to Editorial Boardroom members first before it becomes available anywhere else.
Access to Register for the Boardroom Get-Away Celebration
This is a self-funded celebratory milestone built into the one-year journey. Members get access to register for this, and it is a celebration with members who have implemented the Professional Rates and Stop Undercharging framework. Members bring their wins to the table, such as raised rates, new serious clients, agency milestones, ghost-writing breakthroughs, and pricing conversations they finally felt confident having. Transformation deserves to be marked, not just completed. This African tour getaway is not an add-on. It is built into the Tier 3 journey intentionally.
Everything at a Glance
✅ Professional Rates (Hardcover Edition)
✅ Professional Rates (Online-reading Edition)
The Stop Undercharging Bundle containing:
✅ The Manuscript Pricing Calculator
✅ The Client’s Script Pack
✅ The Client Red Flag Checklist
✅ The Pricing Diary (Printed)
✅ Freelance Book Editing Business Toolkit
✅ Ghost-writing Income
The Master-mind
✅ 12 Months in The Editorial Boardroom Mastermind
Monthly Board Meetings
Private Community
Direct Access to Chisom Utibe Akah
First Access to All New Resources
✅ Access to register for the Boardroom Get-away & Celebration.
This is for you if:
You are an editor – developmental, copy, or proofreader – who has never had a formal system for calculating and presenting your rates.
You are also a ghostwriter whose invisible, high-skill work has never been compensated at the level it deserves.
You are also a publisher or book consultant who wants to understand pricing from both sides of the table.
You are an African creative professional who is done using foreign benchmarks that were never built for your reality.
You are ready to raise your rates, attract better clients and build a sustainable editing business with support.
You want twelve months of community, accountability and direct guidance to make sure the knowledge in the book actually changes how you work.
Words by Chisom Utibe Akah
I have spent 16 years in this industry. I have edited thousands of manuscripts that went on to reach wide audiences. I have ghostwritten books that were published. I have sat on the publishing side of the table and seen exactly what clients’ budget for editing work is and what they expect when they get a quote that reflects that budget. I have also watched talented editors undercharge for years. I have seen ghostwriters accept rates that did not come close to reflecting the skill, the time or the emotional investment involved. I have watched publishers set editing budgets based on what they thought editors would accept, not what the work was actually worth. I wrote Professional Rates because that conversation needed to happen in a book, written for African professionals specifically, and in a format that travels across the continent. I built Tier 3 for the professional who is ready to go all the way. If that is you, welcome. Your seat at the table is waiting.
What Pre-Order Buyers Are Saying
"I want to increase my rates professionally and confidently."
- Elizabeth Sam
"I want to learn how to price my work and worth more professionally. Secondly and more importantly, because I know everything from you is GOLD. You walk the walk and I believe you’re the most qualified person to talk about this because you have decades of experience as a professional editor and have worked with different clients across diverse industries and continents."
- ChinyereDistinguished Chimezie
"I invested in professional Rates to get acquainted with current pricing structures, as it concerns manuscript editing. More importantly, I made the investment because I believe the book is written by an author who has specialised knowledge and experience in the subject matter."
- Victor Eyo
“I paid for this book to enable me to charge professionally without having to battle indecision.”
- Sonnie Nkanu
“I ALWAYS receive questions from my mentees and many others who are building, so I need this. More so, I love what this author represents."
- Ijeawele Chiamaka Ogbonna
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Where is the hardcover shipped?
Hardcover copies are shipped to Nigeria only. Ordering from outside Nigeria, we advise arranging for shipping with us before placing orders.
When will I receive the hardcover?
Your hardcover will be shipped 48 hours after purchase, and you will receive tracking information as soon as it dispatches.
What if I am not in Nigeria and not in Africa?
Your digital edition and all bundle bonuses are delivered immediately. Your Editorial Boardroom access begins after 48 hours. If you are outside Nigeria or outside Africa and want a hardcover copy, contact [email protected] to arrange shipping at your own cost.
When does The Editorial Boardroom begin?
Your onboarding information and community access details are sent before the Cohort begins. Your first board meeting date will be confirmed in your welcome message. The first cohort begins in September 2026.
What happens at the Boardroom GetAway and Celebration?
It is a fun, and relaxation retreat where members share their wins and the community celebrates together. No new content, just recognition of the transformation that has happened over 12 months of implementation.
Can I upgrade from Tier 2 or Tier 1?
Yes. Contact [email protected] and the amount you already paid will be credited towards Tier 3. You only pay the difference.
I have more questions before I order.
Send your message to +234-803-899-4417 or email: [email protected] and you will receive a personal response within 24 hours.
Price
The price for this Professional Rates (Complete Experience) is $97.
You Have Read This Far.
That Means Something.
It means you recognise that how you price your work matters. That the African publishing industry deserves a better pricing structure. That you are ready for something to actually change.
This complete experience is the highest level of support available for Professional Rates. It puts the book in your hands, the tools on your desk, and an entire year of community and guidance to make sure the knowledge becomes a permanent shift in how you work and what you earn.
Your seat at The Editorial Boardroom table is waiting.
Order Now — $97
ORDER NOW — $97
Hardcover book shipped to your address in Nigeria, at no extra cost. Outside Nigeria, shipping must be arranged with us at +2348038994417 or [email protected].
The digital edition and Stop Undercharging Bundle are delivered immediately.
Editorial Boardroom onboarding is before September 2026 for Cohort 1.
Questions?
WhatsApp +234-803-899-4417 or email [email protected] with your query as every message receives a personal response.