Freelancing | Sandy Taylor

Seeing really is believing – why investing in headshots is money well spent

Dec 12, 2024 | Freelancing, Marketing Basics

The article that follows was written as a 5-7 minute prepared Toastmasters speech. A necessary evil When you run your own business or work in certain types of jobs, having your photo taken can be a necessary evil. This isn’t a problem for people who love have...

How to run a conference that doesn’t make people want to hide in the toilet and cry

May 8, 2018 | Copywriting, Freelancing, People

Having just come back from #CopyCon18, Australia’s only conference for copywriters, two days later and I’m still floating on a cloud of warm and fuzziness. Although the conference was held in Sydney, attendees came from all over Australia. Many are part of The Clever...

Five marketing tips for the bashful business owner

Jul 17, 2017 | Freelancing, Marketing Basics, Ripper Marketing

Effective marketing has the capacity to take your business from obscurity to unimaginable heights. The Oxford dictionary describes marketing as “the action or business of promoting and selling products or services”. Shy, small business owners might describe marketing...

Do you feel lonely sometimes ?

Jun 15, 2016 | Freelancing

I’m not sure whether humans were designed live in the isolated way we do now. It makes more sense to me that we should be squatting around cooking fires together, shoulder to shoulder with our sisters and aunties and mothers. We were meant to have a village to...