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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

Branding for Authors: Is It Authentic?

By Sadie Verville @sadieverville

July 17, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Branding for Authors: Is It Authentic?

Authors are, in a sense, a business unto themselves. In a digital age when personal presence is what sells the book on social media, it is critical for authors to have a consistently branded page or account for users to follow and engage with. But this consistency, this need to post only certain tweets or pictures, might be considered the epitome of the “social media as a false reality” argument. Does having a consistent brand make someone inauthentic online?

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: authenticity, blogging, branding, freelance, ghostwriting, Marketing, Oregon, Portland, publicity, Social Media, twitter

Behind the Scenes with Ooligan Press at the Portland Book Festival

By Kristen Ludwigsen @kludlitup

March 25, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Behind the Scenes with Ooligan Press at the Portland Book Festival

The Portland Book Festival, formerly known as Wordstock, is Oregon’s biggest literary event of the year, featuring panels, vendors, speakers, and lots and lots of books. Every November, the day-long event attracts authors and publishers from near and far, and last fall, Ooligan Press was proud to be included yet again. The festival drew its […]

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: Abbi Jacobson, book launch, Elizabeth Acevedo, Emily Suvada, event planning, event promotion, grand ballroom, launches, Lauren Groff, Literary Arts, Manager Monday, mark building, Ooligan at large, operations, Oregon, oregon historical society, Overcup, PBF, Pomegranate, Portland, Portland Art Museum, portland book festival, Powells, publisher's assistants, the old church, Tom Hanks, Winningstad theatre, Wordstock

Celebrating Action: How Ooligan is Responding to Crisis

By Monique Vieu

November 9, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Celebrating Action: How Ooligan is Responding to Crisis

We need to be setting an example for future publishers—to strive for imperative community-building values that promote action and advocacy. If we’re not giving back to the communities that allow us to thrive, exciting children about books, helping provide them with the resources they need, promoting literacy, and, more importantly, giving them characters they can connect to on a deep and personal level and live their lives by—then what are we doing?

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: activism, book launch, community outreach, Eugene, Food for Families, homelessness crisis, I-5, Multnomah County, Ooligan, Oregon, Oregon Public House, Portland, publishing, SiMJ, volunteering, west coast, YA

Try New Things

By Brittney Finato @finatography

November 5, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Try New Things

I’ve only ever applied to two colleges in my life. Which, if you know me at all, will seem like a drastic deviance from my general personality. You might say, based on this knowledge, that I’ve “always known what I want to do” or that I’m “really good at making decisions.” The first one less than the second but really, neither apply.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: grad school, graduate school, masters, Ooligan, ooligan press, Oregon, pdx, PNW, portland state university, program, PSU, publisher, publishing

Marketing Yourself First

By Taylor Thompson @taylormegon

October 26, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Marketing Yourself First

While Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook are quick ways to get short announcements out, they are also heavily trafficked sites—it has become much harder to find content on those sites unless you are specifically looking for it. But if social media isn’t the answer to your marketing dreams, then what is?

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: author page, Authors, blog, books, branding, Marketing, newsletter, Ooligan, Oregon, website, writing

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