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...
by Lisa W Roe | Jan 30, 2021 | advice, Austin, career, ethics, Event, Freelance Austin Blog, Freelance Tips, Resources
We’re freelancers because we like having more freedom – or maybe we just wanted to opt out of the corporate world. But the best part of freelance life may be that we can choose who we want to work with. Yet sometimes that choice comes with nagging questions: Am I OK...
by Meredith Hunt | Dec 24, 2020 | Event, Freelance Austin Blog, Meeting Recaps
Even if you are a one-woman (or one-man) show and receive most business through word-of-mouth, you still need a strategy for getting new business and generating buzz. Let’s face it, even “tiny businesses” need to grow. At the December 9 Freelance Austin meeting,...
by Meredith Hunt | Oct 16, 2020 | Faces of Freelance Austin, Freelance Austin Blog
Name: Gail Gonzales Business/organization name: Evolve Your Brand Email: gail@evolveyourbrand.online Website: https://evolveyourbrand.online/ No. of years freelancing: 5.5 full-time Located: Austin, Texas Accepting new work? Yes Superhero power:...
