For our latest episode of the Quill Collective Guest Expert Series, we had the honor of talking to Christina Willis of C. Willis & Co. all about Pinterest from the lens of a creative small business owner. Most of us lean heavily on Instagram or other social media platforms to get our brand out there […]

We’re back at it with another incredible creative and small business owner for the Quill Collective Guest Expert Series, a recurring series where I chat with inspiring business owners about how they got their start, their area of expertise, and valuable lessons they’ve learned along the way. In this episode we chat with the incredible […]

The Guest Expert Series in Quill Collective has easily become one of my favorite things, and it’s been a huge hit with members as well! So far, we’ve discussed being an authority on Instagram, packaging design, outsourcing work for your design business, and this week, mindset and confidence. We were lucky enough to have Cassie […]

Boundaries… such a buzzword, but an important one at that. Many of us have struggled at some point with setting and maintaining boundaries as creative service providers, myself included. It’s through those challenging moments that we learn the importance of boundaries in business and what that looks like for each of us. For our fifth […]

For many of us, using Instagram to market our creative small businesses is clearly a smart move. Where things get a bit hazy is how we want to best use the platform and develop our own Instagram strategy — how much do we want to be on it, how do we want to present ourselves […]

For our third episode in the Guest Expert Series, Morgan Moore gives us the scoop on working as a Virtual Assistant and how we should approach out-sourcing. In the designer space especially, outsourcing is oftentimes tossed around as a clear-cut solution to growing your business, but we often don’t talk about the details that go […]

January flew by in a flurry and with that we celebrated the first official month of Quill Collective, a new online community space for designers and creatives to create meaningful connections and learn from each other. It’s easily been my favorite part of the year so far. Part of the Collective includes bringing on guest […]

For 2021, a big business goal was to create a community space for designers and other creatives to connect, share, and collaborate and from this Quill Collective was born. Hosted on a platform called Circle which is essentially the hipper child of Slack and Facebook, Quill Collective now boasts nearly 300 members and it’s been […]