Men With Pens

APRIL 29, 2010

No emails from the site editor. Firing off a biting email demanding answers and an apology probably won’t win you repeat business. Write the email and then trash it. Get a Firm Commitment By this point, that nasty email is starting to feel like a missed opportunity. And then nothing happens. But God knows you want to.

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Men With Pens

MAY 11, 2010

Matthew : Big Red Tomato Company ( @Bigredtomato ) May 12, 2010 at 3:33 am Well, that’s an awful lot of awesomeness to deliver in a few short months and weeks! Matthew : Big Red Tomato Company´s last blog. It’s all good. Just drop us a comment and let us know. 14 Responses to “Want a Peek Behind the Scenes?&#

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Men With Pens

APRIL 27, 2010

His emails are usually brief, casual, and mention something like, “Have a nice weekend,” or “Hope everything’s good with you.” So it was weird to get an email that was so stilted and formal that it sounded like it was written by the Queen of England’s chamberlain to someone she was too polite to outright call a waste of space.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 18, 2010

Between them, they’ve founded a role-playing gaming company, written for gaming publications like Wizards of the Coast and Dragon Magazine, written nine books, and host three incredibly popular websites, RolePlaying Tips , Campaign Mastery and Dungeon Mastering. Leave a Comment! Click here to cancel reply.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 25, 2010

Written by Agent X - 25 Comments When I get an email from pro copywriter Dean Rieck , I’m always happy. Later they learned that in Africa illiteracy is high, so companies put pictures on the product labels to show what’s inside. A costly mistake – in time, money, and damage to the company’s image and reputation.

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Men With Pens

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. They’re all small business owners. Most people would.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 4, 2010

You can even send an email just to say hi. Reply Matthew : Big Red Tomato Company ( @Bigredtomato ) March 5, 2010 at 12:23 pm I Like this. We respect your email privacy Well never rent, sell, or otherwise share information we collect, because thatd be a violation of everything we believe in. "I Amber Weinberg´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

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.&# DON’T show you’re lazy. DO follow instructions.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 28, 2010

Since consultants are going to be behind the scenes of your company, they’re going to be privy to a lot of sensitive information or business plans. We respect your email privacy Well never rent, sell, or otherwise share information we collect, because thatd be a violation of everything we believe in. "I Marketing With Alex 3.0

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Men With Pens

MARCH 8, 2010

That means possibly posting something to your blog, sending out a press release, tweeting a public notice or emailing clients. Twitter,Facebook, your project manager, your to-do list app, Google Analytics, your bookkeeping software, or your email accounts? Then email (a client) and ask him to help you sell my sites.&#

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Men With Pens

MARCH 21, 2010

Otherwise, it’ll be revealed through your copy and you cannot play the role of an entrepreneur running a company with 35 staff. We respect your email privacy Well never rent, sell, or otherwise share information we collect, because thatd be a violation of everything we believe in. "I Reply Go ahead. Leave a Comment!

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Men With Pens

APRIL 1, 2010

You could try cold-calling (or cold-emailing), knocking on doors or praying to the freelancing fairies for some work, but there are some better techniques you can use that will be sure to get you clients in a hurry. Just send an email, comment on someone else’s blog, make a cold call, ask someone to recommend you.

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Men With Pens

MAY 2, 2010

Or which company made it. Companies market their brands, freelancers market themselves, during elections the Government markets the common man and a few states even market their weather. Words are everywhere. All these words are there for a reason. They’re trying to reach us in some way, to give us a message. Or how great it is.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 11, 2010

The people who hire him have large companies that bring in millions of dollars and a lifestyle that makes most of us drool. Now, let’s say my client is in a business meeting pitching a new company. Having a website is just a part of being in business, just like company letterhead and professionally printed business cards.

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Men With Pens

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.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Emails bombard you. You were supposed to deliver this project at 5pm and you’re almost finished but… A new email comes in. The cobbler’s story reminded me of a company I just heard about: tom’s shoes. You’re running against deadlines. It’s a rush. Just like pay yourself first if you want to save.

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Men With Pens

JULY 7, 2010

It comes from experience and knowledge, gained from many assignments for many companies, and it can shed new light on your business. I dropped a client who whined all the time, made it sound like he was on the verge of needing public assistance when he just bought out another company and it wasn’t for cheap. Reply Go ahead.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 14, 2010

They’re experts, they know how to apply the principles to different companies and different people, and they can make sure you don’t make any costly mistakes. If you’re a small company you don’t want to go to the biggest accounting firm in the world, stick with someone who has lots of clients that are of similar size to you.)

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Men With Pens

MARCH 23, 2010

Reply Jake Johnson March 24, 2010 at 9:52 am Good points…but what if you’re writing copy for a monolithic company and interfacing with multiple people who all have a different opinion and view point on what the company’s personality is or should be? I’d love to see you do a follow up blog on that topic.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 4, 2010

I’m sure the CEO of Nike doesn’t know how to do every single tiny task involved in his company. 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?

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Men With Pens

MARCH 11, 2010

But then the question is, where could a waste removal company submit guest posts? Because a waste removal company is generally local-focused you might want to look out specifically for locally-focused blogs, write in the places your potential customers may be reading. As you can see, the ideas are limitless. Reply Go ahead.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Many people take advantage of that openness on another level, which is to say we’ve all had trouble with copyright law and keeping our work our own. How do you deal with copyright infringements and people stealing your work? The rising stars in my company take the minimum allowable vacation, come in to work sick (and infect all of us!),

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Men With Pens

APRIL 18, 2010

Sometimes I think it is easier and more cost effective for a company to outsource blog articles and ensure the standard is kept high. We respect your email privacy Well never rent, sell, or otherwise share information we collect, because thatd be a violation of everything we believe in. "I Reply Leslie A. Reply Go ahead.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 23, 2010

There’s a lot of money in those billion-dollar companies, and I get to keep learning. 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? Leave a Comment!

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Billing, answering emails, and little tasks are usually not a problem unless you have one of those “oh god please let me die&# type of sicknesses where you just don’t care what gets done. If you can’t work, you can’t work. If a client gets sick, you can bet the project gets pushed back. Leave a Comment!

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

If you want to make a career of writing, should you look for a full-time job in a company or strike out on your own as a freelancer? I know plenty of people who prefer having a writing job working for one company. If you work at the right company, that is. Enjoy – it’s a good one! Good question. But that’s just me.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 27, 2010

Things I didn’t get done that day, emails I meant to send, bills I haven’t paid, posts I haven’t written, product launch process – they all keep me awake in the wee small hours. The good part of waking up then is that I’ll often write whole blog posts or emails in my head, and they’re generally quite good.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 20, 2010

Just think of where software companies would be if they got it right the first time… They rely on people to tell them what they are doing WRONG and then come out with the 2.0s We respect your email privacy Well never rent, sell, or otherwise share information we collect, because thatd be a violation of everything we believe in. "I

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Ordinarily we wouldn’t want to see a site name that’s not the same as the company name, but in this particular case, search engine optimization has to rule. He used to work for the big insurance companies, now he works for you. The domain name, denver-motorcycle-lawyer.com , is tricky. Call for a free consultation.&# I wish you well!

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 15, 2009

My mother was always the main breadwinner in our family, and her male peers (and all of her peers were male, because female company owners are still rare even in liberal places like the Bay Area) respected her immensely. She didn’t have her own company yet, and she had been handing out resumes not that long ago herself. Not nearly.

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Men With Pens

JULY 25, 2010

The medium-size company I worked for at the time was encouraged to be one. There's nothing quite like waking up to the smell of money in my email in the morning. We respect your email privacy Well never rent, sell, or otherwise share information we collect, because thatd be a violation of everything we believe in. "I

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Sonya – I do have to admit that most people who email me their resume and quote an English degree tend to have some of the worst writing in the world… Not sure why that is, actually. But I did end up as a public school music teacher for nearly 7 years and now I’m working as a copywriter at a super geeky/creative company.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 5, 2010

Some are professional – “I will be successful when I get to be vice-president of the company.” 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?

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2010

It can be just a “regular&# email or it can be a PDF (I tried to one like that and couldn’t keep on schedule and canned it—I’m considering private feed aggregation instead). And yet these companies de-commoditized themselves and make sooooooooo much money doing it. Has it worked? Look at Dyson. Look at OXO.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 10, 2010

It didn’t work at all as described and I emailed him to ask “did you actually use this or are you just selling it for the affiliate income?&# I may buy from someone or some company I don’t like–or don’t even trust in certain arenas–if I trust that what I’m buying will satisfy a particular need.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

On a side note, my inbox is always open, if you’d prefer to take this to email – ’cause I’d really like everyone to enjoy the discussion and not feel like they should stay away, you know? We didn’t say, “Friar is an angry person.&# We said he *sounds* angry. That’s all. Leave a Comment!

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 19, 2010

“I’m on the Brute Squad.&# “You ARE the Brute Squad.&# – It’s often better to look like you are a small company, than look like you are one guy scrambling to cover everything. It’s always possible to overdo anything. “Go easy on him. When I got to Inigo Montoya: Fezzik, tear his arms off.

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