by WCA | Jan 24, 2025 | advice, Ask a Mentor, Blog, Freelance Tips
What do experienced consultants and freelancers recommend as the best ways to develop new business? Everyone tells me to tap into my network but what does that really mean? Dear Mentors, After 10 years of working in corporate communications teams, I’ve made the...
by WCA | Aug 1, 2024 | advice, Blog, career, Guest Posts, Networking, Student Spotlight
My name is Hope Capwell and I’m a Communications intern for Women Communicators of Austin. I’m a student at Sam Houston State University studying mass communication and beginning my budding career. At the start of my senior year, I had a difficult time finding...
by Meredith Hunt | Feb 27, 2022 | advice, Event, Freelance Austin Blog
Fayruz Benyousef’s first taste of adversity started when she was eight. Born in Tripoli, Libya, she moved to the US with her parents so they could attend graduate school when her father was diagnosed with leukemia. Living in a foreign country, facing complicated...
by Meredith Hunt | Jan 25, 2022 | advice, career, Confidence, Event, Freelance Austin Blog, Pricing
When I started freelancing full-time in 2016, figuring out how to charge clients fairly for my services at a rate that would allow me to live comfortably was a mental hurdle. It almost made me run back to my cushy corporate job, tail between my legs. If I started out...
by Meredith Hunt | Nov 18, 2021 | advice, career, Event, Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, Meeting Recaps, Productivity
As Maura Nevel Thomas noted during November’s Freelance Austin meeting, “Empowered Productivity: Win the War Against Information Overload,” most of us start our days simply by looking at what’s in front of us. But according to Maura, if our goal is to increase...
by Meredith Hunt | Oct 20, 2021 | advice, career, Confidence, Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, Marketing & Self Promotion, Meeting Recaps
Christina Glickman – a Chicago mom of four and self-described “Type A hustler” – has a stock reply when her kids complain they cannot do something. “Tell me what you CAN do, not what you can’t.” It is this philosophy that helped Christina – after 15 years in...
