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Is Your Work Priceless?

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You can’t compete with your peers on price anymore – you all cost the same. No more discounts to fill up those lulls in your schedule. If clients didn’t have to worry about cost, they could choose anyone they liked to get the job done. Confidence? That means there’s one rate to rule them all and one rate to bind them.

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Say No to Rush Work | Men With Pens

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Henry Bingaman ( @henrybing ) March 4, 2010 at 3:05 am Saying no takes confidence… but the act of saying no also builds confidence. It makes you feel more confident and it makes you look more professional. We can say “Sure, but it’ll cost ya&# or we can say “No&#. No WE are the ones in charge.

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Business Lessons from Equestrians

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That’s a good way to build confident success so that you’re always ready for what’s coming at you – before you get there. You just carried out a useless action that cost you the whole win. Horses (clients too) can sense when your worried about something, when your confidence is lacking. Never look back.

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Work More Earn Less Doesn't Pay | Men With Pens

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If I didn’t love my job then ANY time doing it would be costing me more than it’s worth. But having the self-esteem, confidence, and finding the balance is hard. Mary – But having the self-esteem, confidence, and finding the balance is hard. How much worth do you put on that? Each comment builds on the other.

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Should Bloggers Charge for Posts? | Men With Pens

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Betrayal is the breaking or violation of a presumptive social contract, trust, or confidence, says Wikipedia. The cost of everything else in our lives is going up and up, but we expect bloggers to sacrifice hours every week or every day to provide us content for free? Let’s talk about that word betrayal for a moment.

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Are Your Friends Sabotaging Your Business?

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So when she sent me this guest post that outlines some of her learning curve lessons as a new freelancer, I was thrilled – here was someone who’d gone from zero to being a confident writer who could stand up for herself, and for her business. If 2 out of those 6 hours are given away, it just cost me 33% of my potential income.

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Sleep your way to the top | Men With Pens

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It only takes a few seconds to curse under your breath and fix the little ones, sure, but those wasted moments add up to big costs over the year. And you might make a big mistake one day that costs you a lot, like deleting a critical file by accident. Check out these fast examples: You’ll make mistakes. Powered by frugal

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