Men With Pens

MARCH 25, 2012

Here’s your 7-day plan to writing an ebook for your business: Day 1: Think Up a Great Ebook Topic. Think about questions that come up constantly in the comment section of your blog or problems that all your clients seem to have. Often, writing your ideas helps you come up with new ones. Give an example or mini case-study.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Instead of building themselves up, they started tearing their clients down. No telling them that they’re wusses, or cowards, or anything of the kind, even if it’s supposed to fire them up. Go read my blog for a few hours and get psyched up. I like your before/after examples that light up the point. Yes, even in jest.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 6, 2010

Here’s how it works: Go gather up all the books on the subject you need to be better at if your business is going to succeed. Right now I’m ghostwriting a western novel, studying up on “soiled doves,&# horse markings, Texas landscapes and stagecoach construction. We saved that one for the end because it’s hard.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2010

I showed up for the job. I certainly had a good dose of it by now, knowing my blog posts weren’t up to snuff. I should close the blog, give up my career and walk away from it all. So I gave up. And truthfully, I didn’t really care anymore – I had enough blog posts banked up to cover my ass for a while.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

That inspirational pat on the back shows up from time to time in my work, and it’s posts like this one about losing everything and this one about finding faith in your dreams again that leave me feeling good just for reading them. Our blog archives are our history, in more ways than just which post went up on that day.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 8, 2010

Do you want to leave it to your children and have them continue operations or close up shop? Write something up, just in case. June rolls around, someone else snatches up that name, and the whole situation just became complicated and difficult. Are You A Buttoned-Up or Buttoned-Down Freelance Writer? So go ahead.

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

When Justin Lambert sent me this follow-up post (you did read his first post , didn’t you?) And what if you’re allowed to hand out anything you want, give away whatever you’d like, sell them what you’ve written, pitch them any product or service, go over case studies… WHATEVER YOU WANT.

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Men With Pens

JULY 29, 2012

While it’s often discouraged (especially in academic writing) there’s nothing wrong with “I” in blog posts or web copy – and if you try to avoid it altogether, you might end up writing weak, passive sentences. Here’s an example: The tests were conducted on several websites… (passive voice). Writing Trick #5: Use Examples.

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Men With Pens

JULY 11, 2010

People like to be cheerleaders with inspirational rah-rah-stick-with-it-good-things-will-come-chin-up encouragement. This doesn’t mean you should give up on blogging. Once that’s up and running a blog gives an extra insight into the website, but shouldn’t be at the expense of quality on the main site.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 20, 2011

Even though the articles were on specific topics, I could take one or up to three sentences from one article and morph it into another article on a different topic. Tip #2: When writing for others, be sure to retain copyright. The script is then broken up into parts and as relevant, each is posted to the appropriate blog.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

We work tirelessly to put up good content that people can use to improve their income, and we don’t get paid a penny for it. That’s our goal with each and every post we put up on this site. There’s a new free post that goes up every day.” Having said that, it could be worth a case study.

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