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***PLEASE NOTE THAT THURSDAY IS NOT CURRENTLY TAKING SPEAKING GIGS IN PERSON, ALTHOUGH SHE IS STILL ACCEPTING SOME ONLINE SPEAKING GIGS.***
Thursday Bram educates freelancers on how to improve their businesses, increase income and decrease the number of hours worked. Her speaking style focuses on providing actionable steps that audiences can follow up on immediately, as well as explaining how a technique or tool fits into the real world. Thursday is a master story-teller, sharing anecdotes from both her own freelancing experience and from the writers she’s worked with over her eight years in the business.
Thursday will work with your organization to make sure that each presentation is relevant and entertaining for its audience. She customizes each presentation as necessary and can adapt to an audience’s needs on the spot.
Email Thursday (thursday at thursdaybram dot com) for her speaking fee, availability and other information.
Biography
Thursday Bram is a full-time writer and president of Hyper Modern LLC. She has written for both print and web publications, including CNET, GigaOM and Envato. Thursday has also appeared in a number of publications geared towards writers, including the 2010 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market, FreelanceSwitch and Funds For Writers.
Thursday’s freelancing career started in high school and she’s been writing professionally ever since. After graduation from college, Thursday landed a day job and managed to keep it almost two weeks before turning in her resignation and heading back to freelancing full-time.
Speaking Topics
While Thursday is comfortable talking about a variety of topics related to freelancing and writing, she does have a few suggestions. These can serve as a starting point to find the right topic for your audience, as well as stand on their own. If you’ve got an idea in mind, email Thursday to discuss it.
Blogger For Hire: Blogging and online content are the fastest growing opportunities for freelance writers these days. But landing a blogging gig isn’t just a question of writing skill — audiences will learn about the social media requirements for blogging, how to build up a portfolio and what clients really want when they ask for promotion. They’ll also get important information on how to negotiate a blogging opportunity, what to look for in a contract and even what pay rates are reasonable for different gigs.
The Business of Freelancing: Freelancing is a type of business, but many freelance writers aren’t as comfortable as they could be with business tasks like marketing. This presentation focuses learning to see a freelancing career as a business, as well as discussing how that business can grow. It includes tips for bringing marketing, taxes and other tough tasks inside the comfort zone.
The Social Media Crash Course: Social media makes for a great way to land freelancing gigs — if you know what you’re doing. This presentation offers a crash course for writers new to social media on how to create an online presence, connect with editors and clients, and market themselves through social networking sites. This presentation isn’t just a run-through of Twitter and similar sites. It digs deep, beyond popular sites, to create a lasting strategy that a writer can use on any social networking site.
