Men With Pens

MARCH 11, 2010

And many online copywriters are thrilled to land a new blogging gig – so thrilled they rarely pause to wonder if writing for their client’s blog is really the best investment of that person’s marketing budget. Have you ever considered how your time could more effectively benefit your client by not writing for their blog?

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 1, 2010

As well, it’s always a good idea to budget more time and resources to a project than you think is necessary to lessen the stress of unexpected setbacks. Trust the skills and judgement of your team and resist the temptation to hover over people to ensure every little task or decision is on target. Set boundaries.

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 10, 2010

Maybe the trip turned out to be a fiasco because the budget exploded and now you have to do the dishes in a restaurant to pay for your plane ticket home (or, most likely, you ignored some very common sense rule and it turned out that rule was for real). Jonathan – Advanced Life Skills´s last blog. Amen to that! Keep writing.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 10, 2010

How To Promote Your Business On A Budget Reply James ( @MenwithPens ) January 11, 2010 at 7:06 am @Michael – I’m tossed up about that. However, being skilled at teaching a course on entrepreneurship, for example, can be very different from being an entrepreneur yourself. How could they not know? Now, the hard part.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 2, 2010

You see, new freelancers don’t really know the value of their skills, or feel they can’t charge more because they don’t have experience, or they can’t figure out what the current industry rate for what they do might be. Many people underestimate the value of good skills and great service.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 4, 2010

She seems like she really knows her stuff, and she has the right skills/experience to help me get where I want to go. As freelancers, we need to move away from that penny-pinching mentality and start budgeting EVERY YEAR for business-improvement materials and coaching/consulting. I will let you know how it goes. Powered by frugal

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

In fact, they seriously lack in professional qualifications, the kind required to be dispassionate and unbiased – essential skills if you truly want to help a person. People with low competency level cannot objectively estimate their low competency level as they lack metacognitive skills for it. Dunning-Kruger effect.

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Productivity Bits

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Copyright © 2011 Productivity Bits. But in all effective leaders, certain traits, skills and knowledge are common. A leader must be fully aware of policies and standards throughout the business and within the department. A leader also knows the limits of his operating budget and the status of his team’s expenses.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 15, 2009

So my name is Taylor, and if I had chosen to pursue a salaried job instead of a freelance career, I could have avoided the embarrassing situation many women find themselves in today – discounted because of their name, before their education and skills are even checked. I am well used to living on a shoestring budget. I am single.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

They have a budget. A chance to show off all of my skills and convey the sense that “hey, I can do this for you too.&# We just have to factor in a superannuation plan when we write up our business plans and budgets. It’s called a breach of Copyright. Most bloggers are cheap-asses. No way, dude. I think not.

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