Today we’re going to work on the virtual welcome mat for your business: your opt-in. (Click here for a list of important email marketing lingo and a simple worksheet for planning your email strategy.) While your mom and best friend might sign up for your list just because they love …
Learn the Lingo of Email Marketing
If you’ve been avoiding setting up email marketing because it all sounds like Klingon, fear not! Today I’m going to go over the basic terms of email marketing and also help you start planning your email setup. Here’s a handy Google Doc worksheet you can download and fill in as …
Pricing Your Work as a Creative Freelancer
View PostBook Review: Repentance by Andrew Lam
I recently received an advanced review copy of Dr. Andrew Lam’s forthcoming historical novel, Repentance, which I promptly devoured in less than 24 hours along with his nonfiction book Saving Sight. Summary Repentance tells the story of one Japanese American family processing the trauma of internment and combat during World …
10 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Long-term Partner
I spent most of my pre-married life wondering, “How will I know if someone is THE ONE?” Particularly after I did not, as was promised by my highly misguided youth group, marry my first boyfriend, or my second, or any number of subsequent beaus. (Thank you, Jesus and/or venerable Chinese …
Book Review: The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
To compare Ken Liu’s The Grace of Kings with Game of Thrones would be so obvious as to be a little lazy on my part. Both are sprawling fantasy epics with dozens of major characters prone to dying with little fanfare. Both fantasy worlds have seven kingdoms with parallels in …
Please Just Be Normal
We had noodles for New Year’s, even though that’s technically a tradition for Chinese New Year. I’m not complaining–Dad makes really good beef noodle soup. “Hey guys,” I said about halfway through dinner. “When we go back to Columbus next week, I, um, I think I’d like you to meet …
How to Build a Creative Freelance Portfolio Without Giving All Your Work Away
View PostBook Review: Diamond Head by Cecily Wong
I picked up Diamond Head by Cecily Wong on a whim at the library a few weeks ago and ended up inhaling the entire thing over yet another quarantine weekend. (I seem to be getting a lot of reading done during cold and flu season! But I would really prefer …