by WCA | Jul 22, 2024 | Blog, Leadership, Luncheon, Meeting Recaps
[WCA Leader Lunch Recap by Katiana Krawchenko] Since 2005, Texas has lost more newspaper journalists per capita than all but two other states and of Texas’ 254 counties, 27 no longer have a newspaper. The Lone Star state is the nation’s second largest with 30 million...
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...
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 | 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 | 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,...
