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It’s the oldest advice in the freelance book: treat your work like a business. That’s why we’ve pulled together some of the best freelance business advice around for ASJA’s NYC conference, and professional ASJA members can take advantage of a special add-on: “Grow Your Business Mastermind.” Plus, we’ve got a whole track devoted to the business of freelancing, with panels like “Use Facebook Groups to Earn More,” “Goodbye Email, Hello Slack and Trello,” and “Double Your Revenue (and Triple Your Number of Clients) This Year.” Ready to turn the corner in your business? Register for the conference today and watch for sessions for professional members. You don’t want to miss out!
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You won’t want to miss Client Connections, the popular event for professional members happening Monday, May 6, at ASJA’s conference in New York City. Writers sit down with publishers, editors and literary agents for nine-minute meetings to learn more about how they can work together.
See the full list of clients HERE and be sure to read the FAQs if this is your first time participating.
To enter the lottery to participate, you must register between 9 a.m. EST, April 17, and 9 p.m. EST, April 22. You MUST register in that time period, with no exceptions. So set an alarm, mark your calendar or tattoo it on your arm. Just do it. We don’t want you to miss out!
By Sandra Gurvis
Through use of effective Search Engine Optimization (SEO), ASJA member Tom Gerencer built traffic for a money site from 0 to 600,000 readers a month in 18 months and helped boost a career site from 1 million to 3.5 million readers a month. Gerencer, who is co-presenting on "Think Like Google and Amazon" at #ASJA2019, is the author of a soon-to-be released ebook, Think Like Google: How to Rank, Convert, and Profit No Matter How Much They Change the Rules.
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ASJA
If you can’t come to ASJA’s annual conference, May 5-6 in New York City, but still want to participate, don’t fret. You can make your influence known and build goodwill with your fellow members by participating in the Client Connections Recruitment Contest — and if you win, you’ll walk away with conference recordings or another valuable prize.
Here’s how. Take a look at your client contacts and identify any at publications, hospitals, nonprofits, universities or content marketing agencies located in the greater New York City area. Consider whether any would be a good fit to attend Client Connections, the afternoon of one-on-one, nine-minute meetings to be held Monday, May 6.
If so, send an email to contest coordinator Cindy Kuzma with their names, titles and email addresses. She’ll add your name to a tracking spreadsheet and send you an email template you can use to invite your contacts.
The member who successfully recruits the most clients to register wins their choice of prizes:
- A free day at the NYC conference
- A free day at the next regional conference
- A set of conference recordings
- A guaranteed pitching slot at either a Virtual Client Connections session or a Virtual Pitch Slam in 2019
Thanks in advance for helping make Client Connections a success for everyone involved! Email Cindy with any questions.
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Forbes
Today, more than 300 million people around the world live and work with depression. What’s more important is that one in six people have to deal with a common mental health issue such as anxiety, OCD, PTSD and depression at the workplace. Some of those suffering from the mental conditions often look into freelancing/remote work as an option to reduce some of the stress and burn-out.
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Writer's Digest
A book’s cover is a key marketing tool, reflecting the contents of the book. As you might guess, the typeface of your book title and other cover text (the style and appearance on the page) are just as important.
First impressions count. Even if you’re not likely to pay a lot of attention to fonts on book covers, they make the difference between a book that will be picked up and a book that looks unprofessional, cheap, or simply misleading.
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Poynter
When was the last time you felt like someone really listened to you and then asked you questions that helped you better understand yourself? You remember it when it happens.
When we talk about leadership with journalists at Poynter, we often ask them to identify the best boss they ever had and then share the traits that made him or her deserve the title. The exercise elicits an admirable list of attributes — more positives than can ever be attached to one person.
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Fortune
A year into a $300 million push to support journalism, Google is introducing new tools to fight fake news.
On Wednesday, March 20, the company unveiled a tool that helps news organizations tag stories that debunk misinformation so that Google News can more easily feature it. Another new tool provides journalists with a database of all stories with that tag so that they can find those fact-checking stories.
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Fox Business
With the changes made by the Tax Cuts. and Jobs Act not well understood by many Americans, taxes in the U.S. can be confusing enough for employees. Being a freelancer or independent contractor adds another layer of complication. For example, did you know there are three additional types of retirement. accounts available to self-employed individuals that are not accessible to employees?
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