September 24, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Ghostwriting: Books and Beyond
with Jake Poinier, NAIWE’s Freelance Expert
Cost: $30
Not everyone has the time or talent to write for themselves — but that can spell opportunity for freelancers. In this webinar, Jake “Dr. Freelance” Poinier discusses how ghostwriting can open up new business avenues for you by crafting content in a client’s voice and style, in whatever platform they need: books, speeches, articles, blogs, and videos.
October 23, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Web Visibility in the Age of AI: SEO Strategies for Generative Search
with Jeanne Grunert, NAIWE’s Branding and Marketing Expert
Cost: $30
Generative AI is reshaping how people discover content online—and traditional SEO tactics alone won’t cut it. In this webinar, we’ll explore how AI-powered search is changing the digital landscape and what that means for your website. Learn how to optimize for AI-driven engines, adapt your web strategy, and stay ahead of the curve in a world where search is smarter, faster, and more conversational than ever. For independent writers, editors, and others, this is a must-attend webinar to learn the latest best practices for building your personal brand and attracting web searchers to your virtual doorstep.
November 6, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: “Smarter Workdays Start Here.TM How AI lays on top of a popular time management framework”
with David Radin, NAIWE’s Personal & Team Productivity with AI Expert
Cost: $30
In this session, David Radin, creator of “Time Management in the Age of A.I.TM” takes a look at how artificial intelligence can be effectively coupled with one of the world’s most popular time management techniques (the Eisenhower/Covey Matrix) to make both techniques more effective.
January 8 – February 26, 2026
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
March 5 – April 2, 2026
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Course: Marketing 101
with April Michelle Davis, NAIWE’s Executive Director
Cost: $124
Marketing 101 teaches the fundamentals and theory of marketing your business. The main topics to be covered include the following:
- marketing ideas
- setting business goals and obtaining them through marketing
- branding (create your brand and use it to the fullest)
- developing and limiting social network connections
- overcoming cold calling fears
- developing processes for success.
Class Overview
- Marketing Goals
- Marketing Activities
- Branding
- Social Networking
- Cold Calling