For the past six years, I’ve submitted speaking proposals to a small group of hand-picked conferences—ones I know will not only provide good exposure, but will also allow me to network with professionals in my field and learn something new and valuable. As I’ve discovered where my time and effort (and travel dollars) are…
Earlier this month, a friend of mine urgently texted me: “You do tai chi, right? A director is filming a movie in Stockbridge and she needs people to do tai chi at a cemetery. I recommended you.” Now, I do not, in fact, do tai chi, but I get this a lot because…
The term laser cut has become ubiquitous in fashion and home décor over the past decade, with everything from patterned earrings and handbags to wall art created with machines that can inexpensively, if generically, cut large quantities of materials in minutes. But in the hands of Sarah Pike, founder of FreeFall Laser, the often-untapped…
Some people know a lot about a few things. Others know a little about a lot of things. Rachel Reuben, a higher ed marketing consultant, is one of those rare professionals who knows a lot about dozens of topics, and is able to handle them all with equal skill. I met Rachel through…
If you have a writer in your life, you’re an uncommonly lucky duck. Beyond having someone witty and wise to banter with every day, you also have a person who’s ridiculously easy to please in the gift department. Think I’m exaggerating? I polled my writer friends—real, paid professionals who work the word nerdery all year…
Lauree Ostrofsky has a theory about entrepreneurs: they’re often lifelong A students, people who continually try to do everything “right,” sometimes to their own detriment. She explains, “Most of us found third grade really comfortable; we knew exactly what was expected of us to get an A or a gold star. That structure is…
What are you doing next May? If you’re a travel writer, a blogger (especially of the travel variety), or you want to be part of the travel industry, I’ve got your answer: going to the 2019 Women in Travel Summit, aka WITS19, in Portland, Maine, May 3 through 5. Hands-down, WITS is the best…
As a freelancer, you’ll have your own contracts for work you do for smaller clients. Larger clients, on the other hand, will have extensive and detailed contracts of their own for you to sign. These can be so lengthy that it’s tempting to give them just a passing glance, like you probably did when…
Because I have a website and blog that I update frequently, and I teach regularly at workshops and conferences, I’m pretty visible as copywriters and content strategists go—something of an anomaly for a profession that attracts folks who usually prefer to stick behind the computer screen, hooked up to an IV drip of…
Caitlin Blythe knew there was something better on the other side of the office door. An architect by training, she’d spent most of her young adult years in a traditional corporate environment, always knowing she’d rather be outside, traveling, cycling, and adventuring. For a study-abroad trip to chilly Scandinavia in 2015, where she’d…