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Personal Branding: How to Market Yourself as a Publishing Professional

By Shalyn Schipper

September 10, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Personal Branding: How to Market Yourself as a Publishing Professional

At first glance, branding may not seem integral to book publishing. Readers are not likely to base their decision to buy a book on the publisher’s brand, but among publishing professionals, establishing a personal brand for yourself is crucial. Potential collaborators will want to know who you are, what you value, your level of expertise in relevant fields, and how to connect with you. You can control what they see by branding yourself online and within the industry according to how you want to be perceived.

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: branding, Business, Career, freelance, how-to, Marketing, Networking, professional, skills, Social Media

Finding Joy in Freelance Copyediting

By Shalyn Schipper

September 30, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Finding Joy in Freelance Copyediting

While most of the difficulties of freelance copyediting can’t be avoided, some of the stress they cause can be offset by making freelance work a joyful pursuit. Allow me to share what my part-time freelance copyediting experience over the past four years has taught me.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: copyediting, freelancing, Networking, professionalism

How to Build Community with Other Editors

By Olivia Rollins

July 27, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

How to Build Community with Other Editors

Although editors are a notoriously introverted bunch, we all stand to benefit from a little social connection. What happens when you run into a truly perplexing problem—be it a difficult client or a questionable comma—and you need to turn to other editors for advice? Where can editors go to receive mentoring and swap war stories? This post outlines some of the ways in which editors can connect with each other—virtually as well as in person—in order to grow as professionals and build a sense of community.

Filed Under: Editing, Manager Monday Tagged With: ACES, association, building, community, copy edit, Copy Editing, copy editor, copyedit, copyediting, copyeditor, edit, Editing, editor, editorial, Editors, Facebook, freelance, freelancer, freelancers, group, groups, guild, how to, how-to, isolated, isolation, loneliness, lonely, membership, network, Networking, organization, reach out, resources, Social Media, Support

The Next Page: How Kickstarter Bridged the Gap of Publishing Conferences

By Desiree Wilson @swindlesoiree

July 17, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Next Page: How Kickstarter Bridged the Gap of Publishing Conferences

Access to publishing conferences can be difficult, even when you snag an invitation to the often exclusive events, but in May 2019 Kickstarter changed the game with their two-part digital conference, The Next Page.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: accessibility, Amy Stolls, Brooklyn, decentralization, digital conference, digital solutions, DongWon Song, finance, Fireside Fiction, Joe Biel, Kickstarter, knowledge, Margot Atwell, Microcosm Press, Networking, Pablo Defendini, publishing, Publishing Conference, remote, representation

A Worthwhile Visit from the Author of Elephant Speak

By Julie Collins

November 11, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

A Worthwhile Visit from the Author of Elephant Speak

Fresh advance reader copies had their spines stretched one by one as Melissa signed first pages and gave copies away with her thanks to all the attendees, many of whom shared connections with the Asian elephants of Portland.

Filed Under: Start to Finish Tagged With: Author events, author visit, Authors, biography, book publicity, Collaboration, Elephant Speak, Networking, ooligan press, pnw publisher, project management, small press, student publishing, Teamwork

Five Important Lessons We Learned from Freelancing

By Adrian Burke & Jenny Kimura

July 18, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Five Important Lessons We Learned from Freelancing

Do you like making your own schedule and choosing your own projects? Are you someone who doesn’t mind being home all day and is probably also a night owl? Chances are you’ve thought about being a freelancer, perhaps for design, editing, or marketing. The publishing world, like many other industries, is increasingly relying on outsourcing […]

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: book design, book publishing, challenges, Design, ebook design, Editing, freelance, freelance design, freelance editing, graphic design, lessons, Networking, Oregon, Portland, publishing, remote freelancing, Social Media, tips, tricks, upwork

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