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APRIL 1, 2008

Skills needed: You will need to be very good at graphic design and it will help if you know how to print T-shirts already, although you could learn. We may send you a confirmation email to check you are a real person We are sorry but any violation of the above rules will mean an automatic removal of your comment.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’m on his newsletter. He discusses life and business lessons he’s learned the hard way (so you can avoid them), and he shares strategies and tactics to finding the right combination of freedom, money and time. Copyright 2006 - 2010 30 Sous Zero Inc - All Rights Reserved. Now Mark’s a very smart guy.

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

So today I’d like to share some of my launch experience and the lessons I learned with you, so that you can prepare for your own launch nightmare… and turn it into a sweet, dreamy day at the beach. If you think that promo email will take an hour to write, assume it’ll take three. That series of promo emails? Behind the scenes?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 22, 2010

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Basically, you can do whatever you want: put it as a free download on your site, send it by email to your friends, frame it and put it on your desktop, dip it into chocolate and eat it while pretending you’re dieting. I recently learned that Russia has 9 time zones in it, that means 9 happy hours on any given day. Well, I dont.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 13, 2010

I’ve happily signed up for all kinds of email lists. Just this: If you are trying to give yourself a shortcut by not asking for your clients’ permission before you sign them up for your sales list, newsletter, or any other form of unsolicited information, you’re shooting yourself in the foot. They could have asked.

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AUGUST 6, 2010

You can get this ebook completely free if you just sign up for his newsletter (which, to be honest, it’s an incredible resource in itself, if you’re interested about this). Just go to [link] , find the newsletter form and sign up. She is so insightful – every time I read her I learn a million new things! Well, I dont.

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Brilliantly Better

AUGUST 30, 2010

They can be collective newsletters, like the very fine SharingLifeSkills , of which I’m proud to be a part, or they can be magazine style, like The Daily Brainstorm. Learn how to assess imbalances, how to get rid of the deadlines (replacing them with livelines, that is) and how to create the life you want. Learning alot from you.

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OCTOBER 18, 2010

Email: Some of the people that I’ve followed for a long time have also becoming regular contributors to my email inbox. I currently contribute a monthly article to Jonathan Wells’ newsletter SharingLifeSkills.com , and with Steven I initiate all sorts of blogging challenges, or we brainstorm projects together.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

But from all these experiments, all this pushing and learning, only one thing came up really strong. You will learn how to wake up on something just before anybody else does. Learn how to assess imbalances, how to get rid of the deadlines (replacing them with livelines, that is) and how to create the life you want.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

You can offer some assets in exchange to some loyalty: the classical free ebook in exchange of a newsletter subscription. Learn how to assess imbalances, how to get rid of the deadlines (replacing them with livelines, that is) and how to create the life you want. Usually, sidebars are very good for incentives. Well, I dont.

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Men With Pens

MAY 6, 2012

But if you know you’re not sure what to write in emails to clients, if you’ve ever thought your website copy might not be very great, if you’ve ever noticed your blog doesn’t get many comments or that your newsletters never really get opened much…. You’re missing out. And you need to improve a critical business skill: your writing.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 15, 2012

If you want to learn how to write better web copy, register for the Damn Fine Words writing course. It’s open right now to new students, and you’ll learn all the ins and outs of concise, effective writing that brings your business results. From blogging to newsletter content to email pitches, learn the writing techniques that work.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 21, 2010

There’s a lot more to writing web copy than that – and you’ll learn it from cars. Want to learn how to write better copy? I learned the lesson of writing in the appropriate voice many years ago, when I wrote my first newsletter for a client. She said, “I hear you all over the newsletter.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

DO NOT look at a single work email after that. Your quick email check becomes a written response, some analysis, and finally that little voice says, “What the heck. Shutting down the site Reply Learn Creative Visualization ( @learnLCV ) November 25, 2009 at 11:47 am Good reminder, I am not exercising at all. great post.

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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. Want to learn more great tips on all things guest posty?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Send them an email, sing laurels about their work and suggest ways to make their content more effective. Unless you’re a pro at cold-calling, you’re going to want to learn how to network the right way. Sign up for her newsletter and get the first two lessons absolutely free. Just don’t phrase it like that! Introduce yourself.

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JUNE 13, 2010

And you’ll learn why right here in this valuable interview with a pro copywriter. 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.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2009

We have learned nothing since then. So What Do I Do With My Newsletter/Autoresponder Now? What you can learn about your business from being ill Reply Mary E. After all, we wrote Write for the Web years ago. And we’re certainly not sharing it with you. It’s all lies, we tell you. Vicious lies. We heard the rumors, too.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2010

We listened, asked questions, and learned more every time we did. Solomon – I feel that being able to discuss, talk and look at all sides of the coin is a gift, and yet so many people ignore the opportunity to ask questions, go deeper and learn more. I learned something new today. Barbara – It’s funny, eh? Has it worked?

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Men With Pens

MAY 19, 2010

Keep a steady schedule so that friends and families can learn which days you work, and when. No matter how good you are at multi-tasking, you’re going to get a lot more done in a single hour of uninterrupted work than you would if you answered an email every five minutes and picked up the phone halfway through your 60-minute time frame.

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