The November 16, 2011 chat was sponsored by PitchPen, a new service for consultants to pitch companies actively seeking PR help: http://www.pitchpen.com. Consultant participation in PitchPen is invite only- email membership@pitchpen.com with your name/experience/links to request an invite.

During the October 12 #solopr Twitter chat, independent PR pros discussed new business for 2012, working from a home office, charging for trade show work, and renegotiating client contracts. Specifically, the following questions were addressed:

1. What are you doing right now to get more business for 2012?
2. If you work from a home office, are you pleased w/the set up and how it looks?
3. Client is trade show. How do you charge for three 10-hour days?
4. Client recently hired someone, now says out of money- seeks to renegotiate contract $, w/same responsibilities. What to do?

Be sure to check out the transcript in PDF for the full discussion. Note that the transcript is in reverse chronological order.

If you weren’t able to join us this week, please let us know how you’d respond to the chat questions below!

The #solopr chat – held each Wednesday from 1-2 p.m. Eastern – is a weekly ritual for some of the most savvy Solo PR Pros on Twitter. Anyone with a Twitter account is welcome to participate – see Join Us for the #solopr Chat on Twitter to find out how!

Thanks to Jennifer Spivak for compiling this post.