Creativity is a Core Freelance Skill

Creativity is a Core Freelance Skill

Creativity is a core freelance skill, even when your output is standardized. Running a small business requires creative self-promotion, troubleshooting, thinking outside the box and…

Using Storytelling in Content Marketing to Create Authentic Content

Using Storytelling in Content Marketing to Create Authentic Content

In 1998, I tackled my first freelance assignment. I was paid $50 to shoot one roll of film capturing the excitement, joy, and instruction of…

How Project Management Keeps Freelance Writers Organized

How Project Management Keeps Freelance Writers Organized

The topics of workflow and project management keep popping up at my desk. First, they were discussed on a recent #FreelanceFriends chat on Bluesky, and…

I Used AI (Gemini) to Write My Professional Bio. Here’s What It Generated, Alongside My Notes And Corrections

I Used AI (Gemini) to Write My Professional Bio. Here’s What It Generated, Alongside My Notes And Corrections

AI has many wonderful uses. I love how it troubleshoots my questions in chat boxes, helps me find missing commas in my writing and ideates…

How My Former Newspaper Career Helps My Current Content Marketing Career

How My Former Newspaper Career Helps My Current Content Marketing Career

I used to spend my workdays driven by deadlines and callbacks from sources as I crafted feature stories from my notebook scribbles and crackly audio…

Sources & PR Seekers: Here’s What to Put on Your Website Contact Page to Get More Journo Engagement

Sources & PR Seekers: Here’s What to Put on Your Website Contact Page to Get More Journo Engagement

As a full-time content marketing writer, with a background in print media journalism, I do interviews often. If my marketing client doesn’t supply a preferred,…