Loosely Speaking

JULY 26, 2010

Contents: Tara and Katie’s discussion on networking/prospecting as distinct from developing true relationships. Karen Richmond , owner (pictured at right), opened the doors of her inviting historic downtown Prescott location in January 2006 and since then has won six awards for Best Coffee and Coffee House in the Prescott area.

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Loosely Speaking

JUNE 2, 2010

Contents: Discussion on the challenges and changing definition of professionalism whether in or outside the office. To receive an announcement by email when a new podcast is available, email ktcosmos@LooseEnds.net. Contents: Discussion on the challenges and changing definition of professionalism whether in or outside the office.

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The Small Business Blog

JULY 20, 2010

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? You want the whole tree." " 1 week ago Be a likeable person to be successful at being self employed or a freelancer. 1 week ago More updates.

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Service Untitled

JUNE 30, 2010

Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives Customer service procedures and social media preparation Cheryl June 30, 2010 Customer Satisfaction , Little Things, Big Differences , Proactive No Comments You wouldn’t jump into a swimming pool if you didn’t know how to swim.

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 29, 2008

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? You want the whole tree." " 1 week ago Be a likeable person to be successful at being self employed or a freelancer. 1 week ago More updates.

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? This liability includes all your personal belongings, your house and all it’s contents, talk to your partner about this, it will effect him/her too.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2012

You know that writing content – no, writing great content – is crucial to your business success (no matter what business you have). Write email pitches. Social media updates. All the pros tell you to write – and write lots, too. Write compelling website copy to land clients and sales.

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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 3, 2010

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? Then again I’m in a situation where it doesn’t really matter when I publish my content. You want the whole tree." 1 week ago More updates.

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OCTOBER 17, 2007

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? For the financial year 2006-07 the basic package for non vat registered business is available at just £9.99 You want the whole tree."

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? This content had really help me for my case study. You want the whole tree." 1 week ago More updates. Thank you for giving us a bit of advice.

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Men With Pens

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. No problem: Spend time preparing sample works for your portfolio and show them off through social media. Send them an email, sing laurels about their work and suggest ways to make their content more effective.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? With a staggering 70,000 pages of quality content and over 7,000 maps, mapsofworld.com delivers over 10 million page views a month. You want the whole tree."

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 4, 2010

If you don’t hear back within two or three weeks, follow up with a brief email or telephone call reminding editors of the query and asking them to respond within two weeks’ time. Attach a copy of the original query to the email. If your article is posted online, link to it from Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts.

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Service Untitled

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Based on statistics, 29% of users will leave their phone numbers when submitting feedback, and 60% will give their real email addresses. Huge companies like BP with diverse operations with clients using 50 different languages would have a difficult time analyzing content. So how do structured data analysis feedbacks work?

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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 16, 2007

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? Lifestyle Management companies will do just about anything from sending out emails to flowers! You want the whole tree." 1 week ago More updates.

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Men With Pens

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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Brilliantly Better

AUGUST 30, 2010

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. Shared Content Products Another way to interact with your peers is to create shared content products. Hosting Guest Posts This is the obvious counterpart of the one above. Truant Jam Sessions.

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Brilliantly Better

AUGUST 25, 2010

Traditional media is a one way communication process. Blogging (and social media) is a two way communication process. 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. And that’s social media.

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Men With Pens

JULY 11, 2010

I started a thread on LinkedIn last week asking, What is the best answer to the question How do you measure ROI from social media? I was quite surprised to get back a slightly patronising answer that explained I needed to understand that social media was social. Thanks for raising the tough questions.

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Men With Pens

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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Men With Pens

APRIL 25, 2010

Check your email. You’ve been ignoring your social media accounts. Look at your email. Read that long chain email someone forwarded to you. Forward that chain email to all your friends. Send an email to your client. Ask how to get that round floss out of your teeth. Check your voice mail.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 18, 2010

Producing Lackluster Content This is perhaps the most common problem among longtime bloggers. This is also true for different kinds of layouts, better ways of getting in touch with you, and social media tools. Getting Repetitive I know it’s hard to come up with new content, but that’s no excuse to start repeating yourself.

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Men With Pens

JULY 14, 2010

That means specializing by industry (such as high-tech or health care), medium (such as websites or social media), or an area of expertise (such as education or publishing). Yes, you have to manage your time and you can’t email all day, but don’t get so efficient that you become unreachable and aloof.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 11, 2010

I have a Web site, a blog, a few social media profiles and clearly recognize the value of all these tools. Some of the most brilliant and successful professionals I know are nowhere to be found on the Net: no Web site, no social media profile, no Skype account, nothing. Unique content? “Having a Web site?

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Men With Pens

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. Miroff Quick – look around you. What do you see? Reply Go ahead.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 4, 2010

You have social media friends, people you’ve met on blogs, your chat buddies or people you see regularly on forums. You can even send an email just to say hi. 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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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 8, 2009

My mother always told me that people who cussed were ill-bred and not to socialize with them. Oh, and she told me that if a blogger starts to charge for their content, he’s a greedy, money-grubbing Scrooge. Betrayal is the breaking or violation of a presumptive social contract, trust, or confidence, says Wikipedia.

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Your email opt-in area is looking outdated as well, and it’s just too quiet to be drawing any kind of attention or sign-ups right now. Your email list is one of the best for pitching people interested in your products, so it should be working much harder for you. Copyright 2006 - 2010 30 Sous Zero Inc - All Rights Reserved.

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MAY 19, 2010

Limit your social media activity and try not to be omnipresent all the time. No matter how good you are at multi-tasking, you’re going to get a lot more done in a single hour of uninterrupted work than you would if you answered an email every five minutes and picked up the phone halfway through your 60-minute time frame.

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Brilliantly Better

JUNE 15, 2010

As of January 2009 I started to actively promote the blog, becoming active (some say that I become even too active ) in social media outlets like Twitter , FaceBook and StumbleUpon. Prior to Twitter and microblogging authority was derived from creating high quality content containing authoritative links that got backlinks.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 30, 2010

Sure, it’s great to hit the snooze button and give yourself an extra hour of R&R once in awhile, but before you know it, you’re getting up at noon and puttering around before you answer your customer emails. Tell me, would you consider social media with its rich conversations to be getting out and being around others?

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Men With Pens

MARCH 3, 2010

A client emails you in a panic and the tone is so urgent that you feel the need like it’s your own. Is that what you want this person to go tell his friends, his associates, his social media buddies? I had a client who needed a website content update that was going to take 3 weeks. Ah, the rush job. You drop everything.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 23, 2010

So for those of us that don’t do telephones, does the same thing work with emails? See a flash of something interesting in an email and by the time they get your reply, they’ve forgotten their train of thought. Is Social Media Marketing Right for Your Business? I blame high school. And the commies.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 22, 2009

What’s Your Social Media Plan? Get RSS right here Get email updates here Recent Posts What to Do When You Feel Like You Can’t Catch Up How to Take the Next Step in Your Freelance Career What To Do When Clients Haggle Which Type of Entrepreneur Are You? For all the words of wisdom and support. Meier´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

We work tirelessly to put up good content that people can use to improve their income, and we don’t get paid a penny for it. Set aside the services we offer, strip away the great ebooks, the recommended resources, everything but the content. Charge for premium content? Time to think about the retirement fund.&#

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Brilliantly Better

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. Two of the most used applications on my iPhone (apart from all the social media apps for Twitter and Facebook ) are iBlueSky and Voice Recorder. That’s all.

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Brilliantly Better

AUGUST 6, 2010

Many of them are blogging buddies, met through social media. More than 800 pages of self-improvement content. Most of this content is based on previously published articles at Celes’ blog, but I don’t see how this could be a problem. Today, I think I have a close blogging friend in every country I would like to travel to.

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