Guest: Conference Speaker Ruth Thaler-Carter

No matter what kind of freelance, consulting, entrepreneurial, or other business you’d like to have (or enhance), achieving success will involve many of the same techniques and processes. Find out what you need to know and do to get your business off to a strong start and keep it rolling.

Here’s what you can expect to learn in this class:

• The advantages of running your own freelance business

• Promotion and marketing tips

• Tactics for finding and responding to work

• Resources to support your freelancing career choice

Duration: 1 hour, 47 minutes

Ruth E. “I can write about anything”® Thaler-Carter started Communication Central in 2006 to serve and bring together colleagues at all stages of their freelance careers. She is the author/publisher of “Get Paid to Write: Getting Started as a Freelance Writer”; author of the original “Freelancing 101: Launching Your Editorial Business” for the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA) and co-author of the 2020 edition; and co-author of the 2020 edition of the EFA’s “Résumés for Freelancers.” She presents webinars and in-person sessions about freelancing, the basics of editing and proofreading, websites for freelancers, diversity, and related topics for the EFA, NAIWE, Cat Writers Association, ACES: The Society for Editing (she was one of the first ACES freelancers), Association Media & Publishing, Society of Professional Journalists, Writers and Books, International Association of Business Communicators, and other professional organizations, including the UK’s Chartered Institute for Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) and Editors Canada.