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Climb the career tree, all the way to the top!

Practically Perfect PA

I like colour in work clothes but go for powerful reds and jewel tones, no baby pinks. Absorb the information on your company’s website and try and learn new skills where possible such as reading balance sheets. Follow my simple guidelines to make your boss look at you in a different light. Pick a project or two.

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16 Business Owners Share What They Would Do Differently

Stephanie LH Calahan

Decide on your guidelines and stick to them so you have part of your procedures for life balance. Learning new skills by watching videos and interactive Power Point presentations is a widely accepted medium for explaining terminology and techniques - just look at the popularity of YouTube! Thanks to Sue West of Space4U Organizing.

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What's Under the Hood of Your Web Copy? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

If you write web copy that speaks of being good in sales but sounds like it comes from a casual, laid-back stay-at-home mom, your client won’t be pleased if she’s actually a businesswoman who wears upscale clothes to impress clients at high-profile meetings every day at her downtown office. Ragnar´s last blog.

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Full-time Freelance Writing Jobs | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Dress in comfortable clothes (I recommend Hawaiian shirts). You have to be disciplined with money, a skill many writers don’t have. I’ve also done the freelancing thing–learning to market myself, developing my money management skills and learned to juggle. You can enjoy a quiet, stress-free work environment.

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

However, if they go to develop skills like writing and critical thinking, to learn more about the world and to connect with future leaders, then university is invaluable. I have used those skills almost every day of my working life. And now I coach public speaking skills. I did an Arts degree (Modern Languages).

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Why Good Copywriting Goes Bad: Ignorance | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Foreign language copywriters or professional translators skilled at intercultural communications adapt your key messages to targets whose cultural values and references can differ significantly. Good copy will reveal that the emperor is has no clothes. Click here to read our guest post guidelines , then show us what youve got.

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Creative Mind Cleaning | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Possibly behind that couch in the corner, the one buried under boxes and old clothes. But then again, I know that my copywriting skills never seem to flag, and I credit that to the fact that I never have more than a few days go by without some sort of copy to write. That story you thought of in 1999 is still in there, somewhere.

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