by Meredith Hunt | Sep 16, 2021 | advice, career, Event, Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, Marketing & Self Promotion, Meeting Recaps
Emma Siemasko started off Freelance Austin’s September meeting with a discussion about …wait for it, toilets. She explained that her friend raved about her recent purchase of a bidet, touting its life-changing qualities, to the point where Emma went and purchased one...
by Meredith Hunt | Aug 20, 2021 | advice, Austin, career, Event, Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, Marketing & Self Promotion, Pricing, Resources
As temperatures soared in August, Freelance Austin members met virtually to share their coolest tips for thriving during challenging times, the resources they find most helpful, and what they’d like to change about their freelance lives. Three breakout groups featured...
by Mardi Wareham | Jun 24, 2021 | advice, Austin, career, Event, Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, Marketing & Self Promotion
Freelance Austin hosted media specialist Rebekah Epstein of fifteen media on June 9, 2021 to share inexpensive ways to build credibility while getting the word out about your brand, or your client’s businesses. Rebekah has been working in public relations for about 10...
by Meredith Hunt | Apr 27, 2021 | advice, career, Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, Marketing & Self Promotion, Meeting Recaps, Resources, technology
As freelancers, we often turn to experts for answers about taxes, marketing, and technology, but when the topic is freelancing, we don’t have to go very far to get the wisdom we seek. During an unconventional monthly meeting on April 14, Kara Myers, VP of Freelance...
by Meredith Hunt | Apr 1, 2021 | advice, career, Event, Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, Marketing & Self Promotion
If you ask freelancers the toughest part of their job, many would say it’s getting new clients. Melanie Padgett Powers, owner of Mel Edits and host of The Deliberate Freelancer podcast, offered her tips and strategies for taking stress out of the process during...
by Meredith Hunt | Mar 3, 2021 | advice, Event, Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, taxes
Someone once said the only things that are inevitable are death and taxes. I’d add: they are also staggeringly complicated, especially for creative freelancers like me who majored in English (I know there are a lot of us out there). Plus, every year brings new tax...
