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By Sandra Gurvis
While publications and even blogs are paying less these days, resulting in even more emphasis on content writing/provision, yet another stream of income for writers is gaining momentum. Known as the side hustle, it was a hot topic at this year’s conference, and the source of this lucre can be as varied as writing genres themselves.
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Looking to supplement your freelance writer income with other work? Damon Brown's panel discussion on "side hustles for writers" at the recent ASJA annual conference was a big hit. He'll share with us techniques successful writers are using to diversify their income, build their brands, and make a serious profit. Learn how to apply skills you've acquired as a freelancer and author to a variety of ideas outside of traditional journalism and books.
That’s what we’ll talk about in this month’s “Shop Talk” event.
Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Time: 1 pm. Eastern (calculate for your time zone)
Cost: Members — free / Non-members — $19
Register here!
About our guest expert:
Former ASJA Board Member Damon Brown helps potential and current entrepreneurs make their mark without sacrificing themselves. He co-founded the popular platonic connection app Cuddlr and led it to acquisition within a year, all while being the primary caretaker of his infant first son. He now guides others through his consulting, weekly Inc.com column, and public speaking on platforms such as TED. Damon’s most recent book is The Productive Bite-Sized Entrepreneur: 24 Smart Secrets to Do More in Less Time, the latest in his best-selling Bite-Sized Entrepreneur series. To join his exclusive better business discussions, click here.
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By Sally Olds
Thanks to ASJA’s membership in FEN (The Free Expression Network), we have been kept in the loop about the First Amendment case of “The Slants,” on which the Supreme Court just ruled.
The Slants is a small Asian American band from Oregon, which describes its style as “Chinatown dance rock;” its case began in 2010, when the U. S. Patent and Trademarks Office denied permission to register the band’s name because the office alleged that the name disparaged Asians. However, the band had chosen the name specifically to remove the derogatory connotation from the term and take it back, as older women have done for “crone” and gays have done for “queer.”
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ASJA
Following on the wonderful success of the 2014 Content Connection in Chicago, ASJA is organizing another Chicago event. The event will take place on the campus of Columbia College, and include presentations on creating corporate content and custom publishing for both novices and veterans.
The two-day event includes AuthorCon, November 17, a whole-day workshop designed to help experts, executives and others who "have a book inside" develop a plan for hiring the ghostwriter to help that book come out. The workshop will help aspiring authors shape their topics, understand today’s publishing spectrum and how to navigate it, and meet ghostwriters and services who can help turn their ideas to reality.
The November 18 event will include a pitch slam competition, which provides writers the opportunity for one-on-one meetings with companies and agencies who need professional writers and freelancers to tell their stories, whether online or elsewhere.
A return engagement in Chicago! Rev up your referrals; sharpen your pitching and proposals; cross-sell on your content strengths; and meet a new crop of content marketing clients.
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Learn about ASJA’s plans for the future, its financial overview and more by joining ASJA’s State of the Association webinar at 1 p.m. Eastern on July 18. Pre-register for the event here.
“We want to give ASJA members an overview of activities underway within the organization and a preview of the exciting calendar of events planned for fiscal 2018,” says Sherry Beck Paprocki, ASJA President. “With ASJA’s 2018 fiscal year beginning July 1, the time is right to review the past and talk about the future.”
Among items on the agenda are: a review of ASJA’s recent financial audit, a membership update, insight about ASJA’s partnership with its association management company, an overview of new programming and advocacy that’s underway, important events during fiscal 2018, as well as activities involving ASJA’s Charitable Trust, which oversees WEAF and the Educational Foundation.
For those unavailable to listen in that day, the webinar will be recorded for later viewing.
Poynter
Stories fill social media platforms in a continuous stream, so drawing readers to your work gets more difficult every day. Cutting through the social noise starts with sharper headlines that resonate with audiences. Here are eight tips for stronger headlines on social media.
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New York Daily News
A new law designed to ensure that New York City freelancers are paid for their work may not accomplish what its proponents intended.
In fact, it could make finding work more difficult for the very freelancers it's supposed to protect.
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Business 2 Community
You put out a call for proposals ... and so far have received little more than the frustrating sound of silence. Was it something you said — or didn’t say? Here are five ways to help troubleshoot your neglected job post, so it can be easier for freelancers to find and harder to overlook.
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Creative Boom
An illustrator, designer and lettering artist, Lisa Maltby is an award-winning freelancer from Sheffield who went solo after many years working for agencies – mainly because she wanted to have more freedom to be creative.
Certainly, if you browse her website, you'll see there's a diverse range of projects, spanning everything from editorial and design to advertising and publishing, with notable clients including Topshop, Waitrose and Weightwatchers.
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Columbia Journalism Review
The hasty effort in New York to pass a right-of-publicity bill ended — for now — last week after the state assembly sponsor pulled his bill and the senate appeared unwilling to advance its own version until the assembly acted.
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