The Small Business Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Nevada ranks as second-best for small businesses : Nevada has the second-best public policy climate in the nation for small business, a report this week shows. Concentrate on your business, not your office. External Links External Links SynergyOne.co.uk — ST.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 13, 2010

Well, Dean came through with flying colors and sent me half the interview – by the time I hit the end, I couldn’t wait to read the rest. And you’ll learn why right here in this valuable interview with a pro copywriter. But you can’t personally be responsible for whether your client is truthful or not.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 20, 2011

Tip #2: When writing for others, be sure to retain copyright. Don't Write Your Book. Turn your favorite tips into posters, greeting cards, stickers, activity books, T-shirts, jewelry, painted rocks, mugs and you've got product to sell!! None are guaranteed. These thoughts are in the order they were received.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 1, 2009

And today, we have something very special for you here at Men with Pens – please enjoy my interview on creative careers with Québecois singer/songwriter Kevin Parent. You can’t live on thin air. I don’t feel guilty that I’m selling my soul. It doesn’t embellish. Wait, what?! Not at all.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

One was a conversation with James, who commented on one of my blogs that many copywriters aren’t good with numbers. I know that many writers aren’t great with numbers or comfortable talking about money. I know that many writers aren’t great with numbers or comfortable talking about money. Working for $5?

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Men With Pens

MARCH 23, 2010

They don’t know the reasons, or they don’t have the ability we have to work them into their own web copy. It Isn’t an Interview You’re all savvy readers, so I’m sure you recognize the problem here. You aren’t a scary HR person. Stands to reason. Oooooookay. Team player?

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Men With Pens

MAY 9, 2010

Yeah, okay, so using a questionnaire to gather information from a client isn’t a mystic legend, but it does work. Why You Should Use a Questionnaire Questionnaires don’t just work for web copywriting services. Sometimes we’d word our questions in a way that the client would give us an answer we couldn’t use.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 14, 2010

No, really, I don’t. Listen to Picasso After the release of his fourth book Roadshow: Landscape With Drums , I listened to an interview with Neil by original MTV VJ Mark Goodman. And isn’t that part of why you read this in the first place? You won’t. Yes, I’m dating myself again.) Am I off base?

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Men With Pens

APRIL 11, 2010

It’d be nice to have a website, but I don’t really need one. I’m not here to push people into doing something they don’t want to do or don’t need to do. That wasn’t the case here. But he didn’t have the right motivation to make the decision to get online. Having a website?

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Men With Pens

APRIL 4, 2010

The Business Consultant A business consultant’s job is to look over your whole business and see 1) what isn’t doing so well, 2) where you could be doing better, and 3) what you can do to improve your business to get more sales. Sometimes the little tweaks make a huge difference. We can help. A consultant for consultants?

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 21, 2010

Exhibit C: Too Smart Mike T. Unfortunately, his subject is complicated, and most people don’t understand terms like “sensorimotor amnesia” or “neuromatrix” or “proprioception” or “nerve glides.” 43 Responses to “Why You Don’t Need to Mimic Someone Else’s Fame&# Comments Read below or add a comment.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 27, 2010

Admitting that your sleep patterns are all screwed up and that you can’t hack it? Kind of stupid, don’t you think? But many freelancers just don’t follow that oh-so-simple-and-sage advice. But don’t take my word for it. Doesn’t work? Yes, it hurt. And stop grinning at me.

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Men With Pens

MAY 23, 2010

It isn’t just there to look snazzy. A job ad is there to give you useful, helpful information so that you can see if you’re a good match and to help you apply in a way that doesn’t annoy the hell out of us. DON’T show you’re lazy. If you can’t do as we ask, why should we do as you ask? .&#

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Men With Pens

JUNE 30, 2010

Your mind isn’t a computer, and treating it like it can process data endlessly is a great way to ensure brain drain. Don’t underestimate the effect of socialization on your psyche, and the subsequent effect of your attitude and mental state on your writing. For starters, institute a schedule and stick to it.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 8, 2010

Things weren’t so simple. It didn’t even list the same executor. Most people reading this right now probably have a will that leaves their house to their spouse and their insurance money to their children, but they haven’t covered what happens to their virtual lives and businesses after they die. Whoops sorry.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 11, 2010

Free information doesn’t make money. Free information doesn’t pay the lease on their brick-and-mortar store. Free information doesn’t feed their employees or put dimes and dollars into their 401k plans. Free information doesn’t pay for health insurance or holidays. What a great idea.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 22, 2010

They say that you need to find affiliates to promote your work so that you don’t have to work as hard, which is also true. 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. Get branding.

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Men With Pens

MAY 26, 2010

So I won’t say it. You can’t make me. But self-discipline only gets you so far, and it isn’t going to make you a great writer. If you write for a living, you may well end up writing on projects that aren’t exactly thrilling to you. Until then, read and enjoy. I love the magic of words.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 20, 2010

And what makes them especially great is that sometimes, they don’t know all the answers. We do love to feel that we’re in in together don’t we? Look at the people who have almost obsessive cult-followings. The people who have started their own movements and revolutions. The unicorn says, “Look at me! Go unicorn!”

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

It’s like dating – don’t make a move for a home run when we haven’t even gotten to first base yet. “I don’t GET why you want to guest post – my readers aren’t even your target market. In short, I couldn’t figure out his angle, his game, and it bothered me.

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Men With Pens

JULY 11, 2010

Well, you can, but you’ll soon find that your readership drops, your traffic dwindles and people don’t talk as much about your blog anymore. They’re constantly changing their game to see what works and what doesn’t. I think too many people don’t realize, forget, or ignore the pain of blogging.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

If you’ve realized that you’re okay with not reaching 50,000 words because just finishing wasn’t your only goal, then you can stop right now and be happy with the knowledge that you’ve not wasted your time. And just finishing doesn’t mean you’ll get published. So How Do You Get There? Surprise us.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Female names are less likely to get called in for interviews than male ones – to the extent that some resume experts often give the advice that women applying for jobs in a “male-dominated” field should consider going by their initials. We’ve passed the “resume” stage, and entered the “interview” stage. Makes sense.

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 4, 2010

We can all spread gas on other people cars, so to speak, and the worst thing is we don’t even realize how toxic we are. Doesn’t matter if this emotional pollution comes, most of the time, from people who don’t even realize they’re toxic, like the driver of that truck. Just say what you want.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 8, 2009

To hear them tell it, bloggers who don’t give it away have turned positively abusive. It’s certainly courteous to inform readers it’ll happen, and of course if the reader doesn’t want to play by those rules, then that reader doesn’t have to. They are really quite unfriendly about it. Such uncouth behavior.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 19, 2010

Then I realized that this is because James doesn’t do anything but work. His most common response to analogies of mine is, “What’s that? Then, a moment later, rather timidly: “Should I?&# Oh, my poor, sweet James. Like a NORMAL person. Without further ado, allow me to introduce The Princess Bride Guide to Copywriting.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

After all, you don’t need it, right? I didn’t pay attention to what I’d learned. Henri ( @henrijunttila ) December 14, 2009 at 3:33 am I don’t even have a degree, but after reading this it feels like I do. You’ve probably forgotten half of what you learned, too. Is Your Degree Useless?

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