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APRIL 29, 2008

Skills needed: You will need to have a background in personal training and nutrition or have experience of working as a fitness instructor. Because you will be in direct contact with the general public you will need excellent communication skills and an approachable personality. Sponsors Advertise Here? Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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JANUARY 1, 2013

You know that great content is key to engaging readers and bringing clients to your doors. Blog posts, newsletters, website copy, emails… you have to write a lot to achieve your business goals. But that’s just a basic skill, and you need far more than that to succeed with your words. It’s about writing great content.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Each time a new session of this writing course opens to new students, it fills up quickly, because it’s a big deal to business owners: It teaches you how to improve your writing skills with effective content-creation techniques. No private email entries will be accepted.). The Writing Course Contest Rules. Get writing!

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JANUARY 10, 2012

You’ll learn language skills as you write essays, sure, but no one’s going to ask you to write a 20-page screed on Proust in any marketing department. You might learn statistics skills or some algebra, but you won’t learn how to do your taxes. Here’s why: Online Courses Correlate to Your Business. Not sure how to market your business?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2012

No one needs to know you’re being paid $5 for the work or that you’re writing it for a content mill. Send them an email, sing laurels about their work and suggest ways to make their content more effective. Instead, become the person they think of first when they want to hire someone with your specific skill set.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Create epic content. Sure, we grew up and gained life experience, a few skills and some job history along the way, but that doesn’t sound like much to work with. I wrote it in about an hour, in between emails and phone calls and all sorts of distractions. I can’t stand that word. Think of epic ideas. That’s it.

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JUNE 30, 2010

You would take lessons, learn the skill, and try your newly learned abilities while accompanied by your coach or mentor. The plan includes teaching employees how to deal with customer support on a different and much larger scale, how to talk to people, create content and answer questions. Consider using social media the same way.

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MARCH 4, 2012

I’d have lots of luscious content full of smart advice from rockin’ writers with something valuable to share. And luscious content? These posts aren’t coming from people who feel they don’t have the skills, by the way. Last time I checked, though, the world isn’t perfect. Really, really sad.

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APRIL 14, 2011

Look for writer’s guidelines or study the content the editors wrote for the publication themselves. Editors are busy and read through mounds of desperate writer emails every day. If you don’t hear anything back in 2 weeks, follow-up with a short, friendly email and ask about the status. Don’t be one of them.

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MAY 16, 2010

It’s easy to fall into the trap of emailing off four, five, or more guest posts quickly and then expecting to see your work on the blog of your choice the very next day. If in doubt, a polite email to the site owner may be in order. It’s perfectly acceptable to email your contact and ask about the status of your post.

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MAY 2, 2010

Pierre ( @aulagneconseil ) May 3, 2010 at 6:05 am Hi there, Great article, apparently urging us from writing stuff that is dealt with differently from the toothpaste label… The content is all, which is why literature (without pics or SEO…) does the trick, maybe. Everyday I take time to study copywriting skills.

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MARCH 11, 2010

Blogs are loved by search engines for fresh content. Good News for Content Writers Don’t worry. In fact, you can make even more money as a content writer if you choose NOT to write blog content. You can spruce up the conversion rate of their existing site content and sales copy. Blogs build brand and trust.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Whatever you decide to do, you benefit from each other’s skill sets, experience, knowledge, marketing efforts and much more. You can even send an email just to say hi. Do they have particular skills that you feel would benefit your business? Each of us brought a different skill to the design table. Leave a Comment!

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MARCH 21, 2010

You’ll find lots of content out there telling you to use bullet points, short sentences, storytelling. Praise in order – Writing takes skill, time and practice too! MwP is Powered by… Sign up now and get access to exclusive content, deals and discounts, sneak previews and all sorts of secret stuff you wont want to miss.

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MARCH 28, 2010

Generalists tend not to be as skilled as specialists who do one thing, and one thing only. The essential skills that every thoughtwrestler needs Reply Michelle March 30, 2010 at 2:44 am I think it is the most important to have a consultant understand you and your needs. Mark Dykeman´s last blog. Vance Vance Sova´s last blog.

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MAY 23, 2010

Like, say, emailing us to ask if this is the right email to email us at, when the email you should use to apply is written on the job ad. When the job ad says email us with information and samples, don’t tweet us and say, “Just click here.&# Someone wrote an email to “Mr. Request, that is.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Yes, for you, the long time reader of this blog, the one who stayed behind the lines, never commenting, but always consuming the content, and sometimes sending me a short email like “thanks, Dragos, that helped”. Use the email address you used to buy the book so I can check out the sale. Rajesh : Very good list and i lked it.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Understanding that most of my fears in this area were irrational or exaggerated, seeing that my communication style basically made me invisible and was sabotaging any chance I had of getting ahead, I decided to develop the skills and attitudes that would allow me to communicate honestly. I now call this skill constructive communication.

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JULY 14, 2010

Some claim that absolutely anyone can become a successful freelance copywriter, even those without writing skills or special expertise. At the very least, you must be an above-average writer with some selling skills and a firm grasp of your specialty. They want your fees, skills, service, knowledge, etc. That’s bunk.

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JUNE 13, 2010

Dean: I start out with a little housecleaning, meaning I answer emails, approve blog comments, and check my calendar for meetings or tasks for the day. Of course, there are the phone calls and urgent emails from clients I have to field. I don’t know how anyone got anything done without a computer and email. Persistence.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

There are some unquestionable benefits like: increased exposure, enlarging your circle of influence, refining your writing skills and so on and so forth. Again, the visible benefits will be in the line of: more content for your readers, a little bit of diversity and so on and so forth. A certain degree of experience or skills.

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MARCH 2, 2010

You see, new freelancers don’t really know the value of their skills, or feel they can’t charge more because they don’t have experience, or they can’t figure out what the current industry rate for what they do might be. Many people underestimate the value of good skills and great service.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2009

We heard gossip about all kinds of amazing things in this fantastic second edition release of the Write for the Web ebook, like: • 85+ pages of brand-new, fresh, never-before-read-by-human-eyes (we don’t count James) content, all of it designed to help you become the biggest, baddest web writer the Internet ever did see. Leave a Comment!

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JANUARY 3, 2010

Should bloggers start charging for content? If you were, say for example, to add WishList Member to Men with Pens and offer a paid level of content, you would be, essentially, creating a product. I believe anyone who can build an audience for their blog in the first place can also offer paid content successfully.

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MARCH 18, 2010

You can find out how they did it, and you can ask them how to get your own skills to the point that they can support you in the gamer lifestyle. MwP is Powered by… Sign up now and get access to exclusive content, deals and discounts, sneak previews and all sorts of secret stuff you wont want to miss. We loved this course.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Basically, you can do whatever you want: put it as a free download on your site, send it by email to your friends, frame it and put it on your desktop, dip it into chocolate and eat it while pretending you’re dieting. So, pretty much everything. Rajesh : Very good list and i lked it. I have stared doing such activities in ly life too.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

In this rush for creating more and more content, their very own expertise is left behind. I’m not advocating more than 50% of a regular blog page content (including sidebars) to be filled with your expertise, because this will transform your blog into a huge selling page. There is something that they do better than anyone else.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

A project is not about checking your emails each day. A good definition of Project Management is “The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations from a project.&# (from the PMO and Project Management Dictionary ).

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MARCH 9, 2010

One friend refers you to someone who only has an email address, a generic address like annepottertherapist@mail.com. Would you search online for Anne Potter before writing her an email? Compounding the problem was the president giving me an @comcast.net email address. But that’s the assumption most people make.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

Email Strategy A good part of your interaction will be hidden from your blog. Namely, you will be contacted directly, most of the time by email. You should have a strategy for answering emails as well. Almost my entire business communication related to my blog is done by email. I think this is a mistake.

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MAY 26, 2010

A few months later, without even knowing how that happened, I realized we’re already talking by email. He described the project in details in one long email and at the end of it he was asking me what I think. Some times he was asking for my opinion, some times I was asking for his. A nice and easy opinion ping-pong.

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APRIL 22, 2010

What they don’t tell you is that in order to do any of these things you should do, you need to master something else first – something more intangible, something more than a skill. The Secret Marketing Skill that Packs a Punch That’s the secret – confidence. Get branding. Find affiliates. All of that, yes.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Simple, Workable Advice The second point the ebook wins is on the content layer: a part the content provided by those more than 20 bloggers, what Colin writes is not rocket science. Truant , Diggy from UpgradeReality.com and Oscar del Ben from Freestyle Mind. That’s the first big point that the ebook wins from yours truly.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

There are a few bloggers who are doing pretty well by selling podcasts, or special versions of their content. They do it only when they want to associate their skills with those advertisers. We often think and pay so much attention to the content that we forget, that the content, the blog and all things in it is actually just US.

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APRIL 19, 2010

Although it’s been more than 7 months since I’ve published it, I still get a few re-tweets per week and a decent number of monthly thank you emails. After I finish, I send the generated mind map as an email attachment. For that, I’m using Quicksilver, the MacJournal shortcut and self-addressed emails. That’s all.

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APRIL 6, 2010

But clients for my content marketing services? I’ve learned 99% of my real world skills on the job/desk. Learn some life skills. Written by Taylor - 22 Comments Don’t fret, good people. I’m not here to tell you that you should consider going back to school for a second degree. I have the growing Twitter community.I

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Receiving Out Of The Blue Thank You Emails This started to happen a year ago, and in the last few months has become more and more common. In the beginning I was getting a thank you email (or comment on the blog, for that matter) once a month. They are in need for attention and they’re trolling regardless of your content.

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