September 29, 2026
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Make ‘Em Laugh: How to Use Humor in Writing and in Life
with Melissa Yi, NAIWE’s Medical Crime Expert
Cost: $30
Writing can transform a book into a bestseller. It eases your way through life and makes you more resilient when things invariably/incessantly go south. Or to paraphrase Mary Pettibone Poole, “She who laughs, lasts.” Join Melissa Yi, medical crime and award-winning author, for a humor workshop brimming with writing tips, samples, and hands-on exercises.
October 15, 2026
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: The Changing Nature of Organic Search: What Freelance Writers and Editors Must Know in 2026
with Jeanne Grunert, NAIWE’s Branding & Marketing Expert
Cost: $30
Organic search has undergone an enormous change over the past several years, and it’s vital for independent writers and editors to update their approach to SEO to be found online. AI Overviews, zero click results, and generative search engines are reshaping how clients discover us, and traditional SEO tactics are no longer enough. For freelance writers and editors, this new landscape presents both challenges and opportunities.
This webinar is designed specifically for independent professionals who rely on their online presence to attract clients. You will learn how search has changed, why broad keyword ranking is no longer realistic, and what practical steps you can take to strengthen your visibility in 2026. We will cover how to position your niche clearly, optimize your website and service pages for modern search intent, create authority-building content that AI systems can easily interpret, and use platforms like LinkedIn to reinforce your expertise.
By the end of this session, you will know exactly how to adapt your marketing strategy to today’s search environment so clients can find you, trust you, and hire you.
November 17, 2026
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Operating Your Business Through Major Life Changes
with Rachel Bradley, NAIWE’s Copyediting Expert
Cost: $30
Let’s face it. Life isn’t going to go as planned. Curveballs, unexpected challenges, and even unforeseen blessings can majorly derail the ideas you had for your business. But these don’t have to obliterate your joy or wreck your peace. Even in the midst of juggling government paperwork, taxes, family obligations, and social commitments, it’s possible to stay grounded and successful in the publishing world.
This webinar provides a faith-based approach designed for anyone who is currently facing or who wants to prepare for life’s significant surprises. Rachel Bradley shares proven strategies for maintaining a successful business while navigating major life changes such as the death of a spouse, cross-country relocations, unexpected pregnancies, and newborn seasons.
At the end of this webinar you will be equipped with a greater level of peace, a hopeful expectation for the future of your career, and confidence in your value, worth, and significance.
December 3, 2026
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Making Every Conversation Count: Turn Your Networking into Life-Changing Success
with David Radin, NAIWE’s Time Management and AI Expert
Cost: $30
Professional relationships don’t die. They just fade away from lack of attention and follow up.
Many of the factors that obstruct a mutually beneficial relationship show up early in the networking process and are so sticky that they plague you throughout the relationship. Yet in most Salesforce related roles, whether at a Salesforce using organization or at a consultancy or service provider, professional relationships matter – a lot.
In this session, you’ll learn the top tricks of master networkers and how to make your professional networking a success every time . . . from the initial prep and conversation to the signing of the contract.
- Learn how to prep well as a foundation for better actions
- Discover the art of face-to-face with less stress and more achievement
- Incorporate the next steps that make you come out on top including more effective Salesforce data entry
Attend this session and leave with the skills and tools you need to enhance the way you create and nurture your interactions with your most important business customers and colleagues.
January 7 – February 25, 2027
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Course: Macros 101
with April Michelle Davis, NAIWE’s Executive Director
Cost: $199
Do you often perform the same tasks in Microsoft Word? How much time do you waste doing repetitive tasks at the beginning of each project? At the end? How about just in general throughout the editing process?
In this 8-week course, you will learn how to maximize your time by putting those repetitive tasks in a macro, allowing you to push one button and they are all done!
Some of the tasks that can be put into macros to speed up your process are auto formatting documents (font, size, color, margins, spacing between paragraphs, and double or single spacing documents), find and replace, adding comments, deleting comments, exporting comments, and other advanced concepts.
In addition, you will learn more than one way to create macros so you can create them in the way that is easiest for you!
Class Overview
- Macro Basics
- Find and Replace
- Introduction to Visual Basic
- Formatting a Word Document
- Find and Replace Macros
- Comments
- Combining Macros
- Advanced Macros