Men With Pens

MAY 11, 2010

Jeff (the gentle, kind soul that he is) pointed out that fact to me recently during a conversation on future goals, amazing plans, business ventures and ultimate world domination involving oceanfront property, beach houses and frosty daiquiris sipped to soft jazz playing in the backgr-… Sorry. Well, have fun changing things up a bit.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 18, 2010

Johnn and Yax have upped the ante quite a bit – and we were pretty impressed, because we frankly couldn’t see much to improve. New Dynamic Checklist System We all know how hard it can be to keep on top of our goals if we can’t see our progress. And you can do it for free, if you’re one of the first five people who sign up.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 13, 2010

I’m on a bunch of lists I never signed up for. I’ve happily signed up for all kinds of email lists. I get lots of coupons in the mail for companies I frequent, because I signed up to receive those coupons. It’s way easier to just buy a list or automatically sign people up without their express opt-in. They didn’t.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 28, 2010

It could even end up causing damage to your business as you try to fit the square-shaped suggestions into your round-shaped business. Contact us today – we’ll help your website make your life more efficient, more productive and more lucrative so you can reach your goals of success. That should go right up there with Niebu.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I could throw the text book definition of project management at you… Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. … Quite often projects overlap, in that you are winding one down, while starting one up.

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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. Learning how to learn was my goal. Right now I’m ghostwriting a western novel, studying up on “soiled doves,&# horse markings, Texas landscapes and stagecoach construction.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 23, 2010

I’m not going to say that thing I’m not supposed to say , but I might as well give up on calling Ali Hale a guest poster. If you want to make money writing, you’re far more likely to achieve the goal through non-fiction. I mix up left and right. I make up the world and I decide the plot twists.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

So you sign up for courses. Customers end up with spiffy businesses that rake in clients and money, and the freelancer goes barefoot, with a neglected business that’s falling apart. If you never work on improving your business, it’ll never be able to help you reach your goals. You must be missing something.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 25, 2010

It proved successful right up to the time when it entered the Chinese market, where it took a nasty left turn. Be willing to change your copy to meet a goal. Sometimes I write a post weeks before I post it, but when I re-read it I find its not achieving the goal I want. And when you think you know it all, keep digging.

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Men With Pens

JULY 18, 2010

By the time you lift your head up, you might be mightily surprised to realize you need to check your speed or make a sharp turn – and you aren’t ready. Most people need another rider to take the course first before they’ll step up to the gate for their turn. There’s a whole course to complete. The result?

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Men With Pens

APRIL 25, 2010

Anyways, he sent in this great guest post, and I wanted to post it up on a Friday, but then there was… that… thing I had to do. And… well, it’s a bit late but… I finally got this post up for you to read (to the end) and enjoy. Draw that 3-D box where you can’t tell whether the open end is pointing up or down.

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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 1, 2010

Run a contest This is a great way to drum up interest in your services. Just make sure you pay up in the end. It does help to build up your audience a little before you try it though. The last time I used that technique, I uncovered about 50 potential clients and ended up working with 8 or so. Joshua – Yes!

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 16, 2010

Now James stood in the doorway, the mud spit up by the old bike’s back tire forming grey-brown clumps on his white t-shirt. When people type what they’re looking for into Google or another search engine, keywords may help your site show up in the returns for their search term. Now he’d have to set things up far too publicly.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 16, 2010

So you’re up there on a cloud or something and some other spirit-guy, maybe your friend, comes by your cloud and says, “Hey. If the world had ended and you were up on a cloud right now thinking about it, would you have been proud of yesterday? Especially since I have to get up early and get back to work. I went to sleep.”

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Men With Pens

MAY 26, 2010

You bashed monsters by hitting keys on your keyboard whilst wondering if you could hook up a nodding bird à la Homer Simpson. Hey, I’ll spent all evening hitting some buttons so that a number in a database somewhere slooowly goes up.) Having accountability in that way can definitely help drive us towards our goals.

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Men With Pens

JULY 4, 2010

It’s important to remember that the goal of writing is to have the words read and get the message across. Sounds a little crazy, but when you know your perfect writing voice is smooth like cognac or bright like strawberries, it opens up a whole new world of style. Statements. Why Are We Writing in the First Place? A stripper.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 20, 2010

We like people who can acknowledge their imperfections, people who admit they screw it up not just sometimes, but often, and the people who can say, “Yeah, I’m really scared too, but I’m going to do it anyway.” Human beings who get knocked down and have to get up and try again. If anything, perfection kind of pisses us off.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

I earn good money, set my own hours, and I don’t have to deal with the stress of traffic, corporate politics, and an office full of idiots and suck-ups. You’re going to need it someday when the smoking and fatty deli sandwiches catch up with you. Oh, and no ties. I hate ties. I work in jeans and Hawaiian shirts.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 21, 2010

The fact that he is still slightly amazed about his fame makes his posts interesting, in that he brings up questions that I think we should all ask ourselves. I really can’t screw up too badly. One thing I’ve seen is that it’s imperative to have your own voice, but your own voice may be out of sync with your own goals.

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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

JULY 11, 2010

People like to be cheerleaders with inspirational rah-rah-stick-with-it-good-things-will-come-chin-up encouragement. Here’s a thought: What if that dropping readership, that dwindling traffic and that lack of discussion lets you invest your time in better projects, ones that help you get closer to your goals?

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Men With Pens

APRIL 4, 2010

If you have trouble knowing what your five-year plan is, sit down with someone who can help you discover your true desires, develop a milestone plan and get you progressing towards those goals. And what’s holding you back from finally deciding to fix it up better than ever? The sky’s the limit.

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Men With Pens

JULY 25, 2010

All sorts of people are cropping up with posts of deep, meaningful wisdom or challenging views on their blogs, profound personal philosophies delivered with grave sincerity of a Hindu guru scattered across the internet. We like authority and people who have conviction, who stand up and speak their mind with confidence. I like that one.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 9, 2010

Should you ever be in a situation where you’re trying to explain to someone why getting online is a really, really good idea, tell that person this: People Don’t Use the Yellow Pages Anymore When was the last time you hauled the business directory off the shelf and looked up a business when you needed one? I’m betting it’s been a long time.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 29, 2010

There are dozens of reasons why writers wind up in this content limbo. Heh reminds me of the first time I hit up James… “I wanan write for you.&# “But WHY!? Be patient, don’t be an ass, and follow up kindly. Some people appreciate follow up, as long as you’ve waited and don’t pester them.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 14, 2010

You’re all set and teamed up with professionals, right? You also don’t actually have the expertise you need to figure out the best way to use that information, and you’re likely to screw it up. Those screw-ups cost you money. A consultant’s job isn’t to soak up your cash. It’s better to hire a consultant.

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Men With Pens

MAY 30, 2010

This post is about why you need to use clear, tangible, emotional benefits to get your consumer to buy, join in, sign up or attend. Let’s use my teen as an example and see what we can come up with. Imagine their reaction when you say, “Come on, let’s hit up Roxy’s Pizza – my treat.&# They’re broke.

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Loosely Speaking

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I left the corporate world late 1993 and began my homebased secretarial business in March 1994 with the goal of just taking in typing and being home for my 5 daughters. I had a chat to my accountant and we decided setting up a network of homebased secretaries would be the best way to assist those asking for help. Loose Ends.

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Men With Pens

JULY 7, 2010

that have helped me be more successful in reaching my goals each time I worked with a freelancer. beating freelancers up says volumes about the client and their own feelings of business self-worth. Show up on sites and blogs and forums where your ideal target market hangs out. Here are 5 best practices (and a bonus!)

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Marc and I realized, though, that this ebook was just one case amongst several where people (often innocently and unwittingly) end up damaging someone else’s life – by trying to help. We spoke out in public about it, of course. This is a reminder for all of us that it’s not just buyer beware – it’s writer be careful, too.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 15, 2010

And I’ve been soaking up advice from sites like Copyblogger and Men with Pens as well as material from some other excellent writers in the blogosphere. No one assigns you experience points or notes when you’ve leveled up. How to Improve Faster Want to speed up? We stare at blank screens. We chew pencils.

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Men With Pens

JULY 21, 2010

Insightful contemplation on my part also pulled bravery up to be examined – I’m glad to report I pass the test with flying colors. Every single time you start your piece, you’re at ground level, gazing up at the words yet to be written. There’s a journey ahead, a challenge, and you’re up for it.

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Andrea Kalli

AUGUST 12, 2010

Can have up to 10 separate incidences of individual coded areas Facebook Notes – the only place to put blog rss feed where it updates the Page Wall. A bit tricky to set up, but the most beneficial app to eliminate unnecessary double work to post information. . set up an FAQ page for questions you get asked most often.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2010

We need to listen to one another and see if those new ideas have merit, or if they open up any other possible courses of action. It’s up to us to stop allowing others to make decisions for our industry, our careers, and our lives, both as a group and as individuals. We Can Wake Up a Bit It’s not like we have a choice, you know.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

This is a harsh truth, and the sooner we all own up to it, the better. STEAMY) and he mentioned that his parents were wishing he’d leave LA and take up elsewhere. And then one day we grow up and allow life, negative people and bad situations to stop us from dreaming. We’re afraid of success. Think about it.

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Brilliantly Better

JULY 17, 2010

The Set Up Warning : this is going to be a highly technical post, so if you’re unfamiliar with terms like compiling, backtrace or ViewControllers, you shouldn’t read it. I’m not up to this challenge. Each improvement was the result of hours of falling down and getting up again. Program received “BAD_EXC” message. Wow, really?

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