
A home for marketers questioning the traditional 9-5 and designing a career on their own terms.
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Today, I’m thrilled to introduce you to Nicole Luli Weill, the former Meta strategist turned founder of Practica, a consultancy that makes sense of complexity with creative, strategic, and operational solutions.
I met Nicole mid-March whi...
Basically my biz dev cheat sheet for freelance marketers.
I started the year with one client. Since then, I’ve signed nine new brands. Now, I want to tell you everything I know about finding new work.
If you’re a marketing generalist and you want to go freelance, you don’t need to niche down — but there are many reasons you might want to.
Today, I’m sharing my decision to narrow my focus (and scopes) alongside three other marketers who...
Every single rate I've charged in six years of freelancing, and how I landed my biggest retainer yet.
Some people think it’s gauche to talk about money. I am not one of them.
A few months ago, I put out an open call on LinkedIn, looking for marketers who have reinvented themselves.
To date, most of the people I’ve featured on False Start have pivoted to some form of self-employment: consulting, opening a cafe,...
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