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Prepare now for when business picks up again

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Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Prepare now for when business picks up again Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 12:54 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Business Strategies/Perspectives Here’s a list of things to do now, if you are in a work slowdown, so that when things pick up again you’ll be ready!

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How to say no to clients | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

You try to learn the secret , because there’s obviously something you haven’t figured out yet. For example, you could redesign your website so it appeals to more clients and lessens your advertising costs. I like a little pressure, but stay far away from ‘frazzled’ at all costs. You buy books.

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Business Lessons from Equestrians

Men With Pens

While training for competition, I learned many valuable lessons (beyond the kind that made sure you didn’t canter off to your death). You just carried out a useless action that cost you the whole win. We can only learn from our mistakes, and move ahead. Once it’s in your blood, you can never go back. But I digress.

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Sleep your way to the top | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

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. Sleep is *extremely* important – I learned that the hard way indeed!

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Why Good Copywriting Goes Bad: Ignorance | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Later they learned that in Africa illiteracy is high, so companies put pictures on the product labels to show what’s inside. Recover from mistakes and learn from them. What separates good writers from great writers is that great writers learn from mistakes and become greater. Baby food” took on a startling new meaning.

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Say No to Rush Work | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

We can say “Sure, but it’ll cost ya&# or we can say “No&#. Although I learned long ago NOT to drop everything and do it. But something I learned long ago too was to charge for those rush jobs. We don’t have to do that anymore. No WE are the ones in charge. Wendy Wendy Sullivan´s last blog.

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5 Surefire Ways to Get Freelancing Clients | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

April 2, 2010 at 7:01 pm The only thing I’d caution readers on (and I learned this the hard way) is that you need to make sure you take advantage of paid work whenever it’s available; marketing is great, but don’t spend all hours marketing and not making immediate revenue. I think we’ve all arrived at a very special place.

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