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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 17 September, 2010 Whats all the fuss about reading contracts? I knew we were going to go back to that city the next year so negotiated with the hotel that if I booked the next event at their venue would they waive the cancellation fee. Negotiation As you saw above, negotiation is possible.

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6 Reasons Every Serious Blogger Should Blog for the Big Dogs

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It looks good on a writer’s/blogger’s resume. Advance your blogging swagger : Use your writing experience of guest posting at top sites to negotiate a higher blogging rate when applying for paid work. With the fierce competition out there, anything that gives you a competitive edge is worth pursuing. I kid you not.

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Why You Need to Have More than Your Clients | Men With Pens

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What REALLY maddens me are my 20-something fellow karate dojo colleagues – they’re looking for jobs but tell them to put up a personal resume website to highlight their skills, and they react like a deer in the headlights. Reply Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach ( @barbaraling ) April 12, 2010 at 1:50 pm Totally agree with you.

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What to Do When Your Client is Boring | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

This sounds like the generic stuff you put on your resume when you’re just out of college and don’t realize that your resume shouldn’t sound like everyone else’s, and also that everyone in the world is lying when they say they are “goals-oriented.” No one is goals-oriented. Just be you. Let’s just talk. Powered by frugal

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