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People Round-Up, Mid-April 2023

Publishing Trends

Ritsuko Okumura has been promoted to senior director and will sell foreign rights for Putnam, Avery, and Portfolio, reporting to Khan. Brittany Vibbert has been promoted to associate creative director, calendars & gift. John Aardema has been promoted to senior art director.

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The Copywriter’s Journey: Charting a Successful Copywriting Career Path

Copywriter Collective

Also, it allows you to start building your portfolio. The typical progression is junior copywriter > senior copywriter > Creative director. The next step is the creative director and then the marketing director. Within seven years, you can make it to the top spot as the regional marketing director.

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People Round Up, Early April, 2024

Publishing Trends

She was most recently executive director at Tarcher Perigee and Avery. She was previously senior editor at Portfolio. Podium Audio has named Kate Runde head of acquisitions and Shannon Frost has been named director, growth marketing. At Basic Books Group , Jessica Breen is promoted to executive director of marketing.

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How 3 Serious Brands Engage Humanly on Social Media

Content Marketing Institute

Leaf through a portfolio of social media award winners, and you’re likely to see entrants from the tourism, cooking, and fashion industries. CalSTRS is well known as the largest educator public pension; it provides benefits for more than 914,000 California educators and their families and has an investment portfolio worth over $213 billion.

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People Round-Up, Early March 2023

Publishing Trends

Most recently she was Assistant Editor at Portfolio. At Workman , David Schiller moves up to VP and Creative Director. Moira Kerrigan is now Senior Director of Marketing for Workman, Workman Kids , Workman Calendars , and Algonquin Young Readers; Nicole Higman becomes Director of Digital Marketing for the same.

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Full-time Freelance Writing Jobs | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Copywriters can advance to Creative Director positions, for example. The creative director took me aside to talk about my fee. Before I could open my mouth, the creative director said, “Dean, we have a budget of $9,000. You have the possibility for rapid corporate advancement. Is that going to work?&#

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Using AI Images In Your Book Cover Design Process With Damon Freeman

The Creative Penn

You can support the show at www.patreon.com/thecreativepenn Damon Freeman is the founder and creative director of Damonza.com, creating custom book cover design and interior formatting for authors. If you support the show, you also get the extra monthly patron-only Q&A audio — and my tutorial on how I use Midjourney.