<p>2/2/15</p>
<p>Submitted by: Amber Shulman, APR &#8211; <a href="http://www.candidvirgo.com/">Candid Virgo Communications</a></p>
<p>The Public Relations Society of America’s <a href="http://www.prsa.org/Network/Communities/IPA/">Independent Practitioner’s Alliance (IPA)</a> held its first Indie 12/60 teleseminar series with a discussion about starting a business as an independent practitioner. The event featured three panelists, each at a different stage in their independent practice.</p>
<p>Panel members:</p>
<p><strong>J.W. Arnold</strong>, principal of <a href="http://prdconline.com/">PRDC</a>. For 16 years J.W. has worked as independent practitioner in Washington, DC, and Ft. Lauderdale, FL. He has mentored many professionals as they transitioned to a solo practice. He currently serves as the IPA executive committee’s membership chair.</p>

<div class="post-teaser-block">This is a preview of <q>January 12/60 a popular topic!  Am I ready to hang up my own PR shingle? Eight questions to ask before going solo.</q>. <a href="https://ipa.prsa.org/?p=193" title="Permanent Link: January 12/60 a popular topic!  Am I ready to hang up my own PR shingle? Eight questions to ask before going solo." rel="bookmark">Read the full post (230 words, estimated 55  secs reading time)</a></div>{"id":193,"date":"2015-02-02T19:27:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T00:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipablog.prsa.org\/?p=193"},"modified":"2015-04-03T16:02:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T20:02:57","slug":"january-1260-a-popular-topic-am-i-ready-to-hang-up-my-own-pr-shingle-eight-questions-to-ask-before-going-solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipa.prsa.org\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"January 12\/60 a popular topic!  Am I ready to hang up my own PR shingle? Eight questions to ask before going solo."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2\/2\/15<\/p>\n<p>Submitted by: Amber Shulman, APR &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.candidvirgo.com\/\">Candid Virgo Communications<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Public Relations Society of America\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prsa.org\/Network\/Communities\/IPA\/\">Independent Practitioner\u2019s Alliance (IPA)<\/a> held its first Indie 12\/60 teleseminar series with a discussion about starting a business as an independent practitioner. The event featured three panelists, each at a different stage in their independent practice.<\/p>\n<p>Panel members:<\/p>\n<p><strong>J.W. Arnold<\/strong>, principal of <a href=\"http:\/\/prdconline.com\/\">PRDC<\/a>. For 16 years J.W. has worked as independent practitioner in Washington, DC, and Ft. Lauderdale, FL. He has mentored many professionals as they transitioned to a solo practice. He currently serves as the IPA executive committee\u2019s membership chair.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"post-teaser-block\">This is a preview of <q>January 12\/60 a popular topic!  Am I ready to hang up my own PR shingle? Eight questions to ask before going solo.<\/q>. <a href=\"https:\/\/ipa.prsa.org\/?p=193\" title=\"Permanent Link: January 12\/60 a popular topic!  Am I ready to hang up my own PR shingle? Eight questions to ask before going solo.\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the full post (230 words, estimated 55  secs reading time)<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":2572,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipa.prsa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipa.prsa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipa.prsa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipa.prsa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipa.prsa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ipa.prsa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/ipa.prsa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipa.prsa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipa.prsa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipa.prsa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}