Specialty Spam: Guest Blog Requests
It’s really kind of fascinating to see these adaptations and mutations of other scammy traffic practices. It’s like watching evolution in hyper-time.
Peri Pakroo
Peri Pakroo is the founder, Publisher and Editor of Pyragraph. Outside her work with Pyragraph, Peri is a business author and coach, specializing in creative and smart strategies for self-employment, small businesses and nonprofits. Her focus is on helping people build structure for their passions to find success on their own terms. Peri is the author of several top-selling Nolo titles on small business and nonprofits including The Small Business Start-Up Kit, The Women’s Small Business Start-Up Kit and Starting & Building a Nonprofit. From 2012 to 2021 she produced and hosted the Self-Employed Happy Hour podcast.
Peri accidentally started her first band The Moist Towelettes at the age of 40 with her husband Turtle O’Toole. Since then she has played in a number of bands including The Directory, Bellemah and her own downer-country project, Peri & the FAQs.
In 2012, Peri saw the need for a resource featuring the voices of a wide range of creative workers and the many different career paths they take. She founded Pyragraph to fill this need. Here’s the Pyragraph start-up story.
There’s No ‘Right’ way to be Self-Employed, Just Tradeoffs
Most people intuitively recognize that there are some real differences between being a freelancer and running a larger business operation.
How to Rehash Your Own Work
I almost wince these days when I describe myself as a writer because I’ve been doing very little of that, despite how much I really do want to be writing.
Burning Questions for Christina Kennedy
Christina shares how she uses Instagram as a creative outlet and how it differs from her work as a professional photographer. Gorgeous photos ahead.
3 Ways a Media Interview Can Go Wrong
The next time a reporter calls you, keep in mind that the glorious feature in your mind’s eye might not turn out exactly as you expect.
What’s Your Deal, Jason Ewald?
A few years back I tried to be more honest in my songwriting. Here’s to honesty. Not always easy.
Trying to Follow My Own Career Advice, Part 2
If I were one of my own small business clients, am I doing the things I would advise a client to do?
Trying to Follow My Own Career Advice, Part 1
It’s a reckoning of sorts between the types of work I knew I should be doing, vs what I was actually doing, in terms of rebooting freelance work and career.
What’s Your Deal, Hakim Bellamy?
Hakim’s performances and presence have been a phenomenon in Albuquerque and beyond, propelled by his wide-ranging talents in music, acting, and more.
What’s Your Deal, Kevin Herig & Kyle Ruggles?
We just keep moving around the stage until one of us gets dizzy and tangled in mic cords and falls down. This always disappoints the audience.
What’s Your Deal, Monica Demarco & Christina Cavaleri?
We do get crazy burns and bruises during rehearsal that are hard to explain later. So far all of our shows have been pretty bangin’.
What’s Your Deal, Hurdle?
“Just as Faye was about to get the party started and plunge a dagger into my bare chest, I said ‘I have a better idea. Let’s start a band.'”
What’s Your Deal, Sage and Jared’s Happy Gland Band?
Sage & Jared’s Happy Gland Band will be unleashing happiness upon Pyragraph’s ReLaunch party, and we’re feeling positively engorged.
What’s Your Deal, Cactus Tractor?
Cactus Tractor is a multi-person Bohemian Pop Folk Disco (beau-pop-faux-disc) band based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
What’s Your Deal, AJ Woods?
AJ plays folk rock songs that are somehow both timeless and evocative of an earlier time; I’m not sure how he accomplishes that.
What’s Your Deal, James Judd?
James Judd is a monologist (a fancy word for “storyteller”) who lives in Manhattan. Years ago he and I shared an office at a legal publisher in Berkeley.