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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Any Solo PR Pros out there?
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I have a BA in advertising and PR. Right now, I'm doing customer service just to pay the bills, but within the next few years I would like to branch out and start doing some PR consulting on the side and maybe eventually turn it into a full-time gig.
I have a few years of PR experience and have done some PR consulting in and out of school. I was just wondering if anyone on the around here had some advice for either starting your own business or doing PR on a freelance basis?
Thanks in advance! 
Re: Any Solo PR Pros out there?
Hey there - I started my own advertising agency last year and love it! It's definitely taken off. I will say it's a LOT (times 1000) of work, but for me it's been worth it. You'll have to be really open minded about what your business is going to end up being - we're different in many ways (because we grew so fast) than how I started the company - but for me I think that's good! You can check our our FB page/website which has our history from the past year etc... and if you get any questions from things you see I'm happy to answer them!
https://www.facebook.com/ItsaHappyMedium
Yea! Go women business owners! I love it!
I'm not one, but hire freelance and solo practioners somewhat often. We hire freelance folks with some experience for specific projects -- often doing events or promoting programs or market research. In these instances, we almost exclusively hire people we know -- most of them I meet through networking, many from cold calls for informational interviews even.
For the larger efforts, we almost exclusively hire a firm or someone with expert firm experience that has gone solo as we need the media & legislative connections and expertise.