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Author Archives: Bryn Mooth
Making time to work ON your business

This is a slow period for copywriter, Bryn Mooth, and she's using it to implement ideas she learned at CFC 2012. Here's what she's doing to build her business. Continue reading
3 Big Ideas from CFC
Three big themes or big ideas emerged from CFC and wove themselves throughout the different presentations. They are.... Continue reading
Where do you do your thinking?
I do my best thinking at the long end of the leash. For some people, it’s in the shower, or during the commute, or while they’re dreaming. I’ve always had mental breakthroughs when I’m out for a walk with the dog. Continue reading
A Real Community
As Ilise and I were having our many conversations over the summer about developing this new blog, one idea consistently got us the most excited. We wanted to make this more of a community, a meeting place, a space where … Continue reading
CFC Recap
If you're like me, your brain is still jam-packed more than a week after the Creative Freelancer Conference ended. For those of you who skipped the event, you missed a ton of really compelling info that was directed at helping … Continue reading
What's New for CFC
This year's CFC (that's #CFConf for you Twitter folks) will be, in most respects, the kind of small, focused, hands-on, connected event that creative freelancers have come to expect since the event debuted in 2008. But in Denver, it'll be … Continue reading
Workin' on contract
An article on MSNBC.com says that contract work may be on the verge of becoming the norm. From the piece: "Littler Mendelson, one of the largest employment law firms in the country, predicted in a report last year titled “The … Continue reading
An Interview with Steve Gordon
If you attended the first Creative Freelancer Conference in Chicago, you may have met Steve Gordon—one of the people who added a real spark of energy to the proceedings (I'm thinking of Kendall Ridley and Velvette Delaney here, too). Steve … Continue reading
Just Announced! Freelancer Bootcamp Series
As we speak with creative freelancers, we hear that marketing is one of the biggest challenges in running your business. You don't have time. You don't have money to spend. You get buried with work and lose track of your … Continue reading



