Men With Pens

MARCH 1, 2010

You’ll have to apologize for mistakes you made or for something you forgot and that fell through the cracks or for being snappy in that last email. Everyone has invaluable self-worth and we’re all important, but our rates should be set according to our skills, talents, and the results we provide. Time is money.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 6, 2010

We talked about Extreme Skills Makeover (Work Edition), concerning the different opportunities available to people who want to continue their education: [link] Taylor’s take is quite interesting, though: formally set up your own curriculum, choose your own resources, and set your success criteria according to your goals.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 25, 2010

Written by Agent X - 25 Comments When I get an email from pro copywriter Dean Rieck , I’m always happy. Foreign language copywriters or professional translators skilled at intercultural communications adapt your key messages to targets whose cultural values and references can differ significantly. You’re Just Ignorant.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 23, 2010

J/K I believe that truly good fiction writing requires more than just writing skill. Get RSS right here Get email updates here Recent Posts What to Do When You Feel Like You Can’t Catch Up How to Take the Next Step in Your Freelance Career What To Do When Clients Haggle Which Type of Entrepreneur Are You? Exclellent article!

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 17, 2010

Even a skilled thief can only front it for so long before their incompetence shows through. Get RSS right here Get email updates here Recent Posts What to Do When You Feel Like You Can’t Catch Up How to Take the Next Step in Your Freelance Career What To Do When Clients Haggle Which Type of Entrepreneur Are You? Leave a Comment!

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

But it requires little skill and no finesse, so it’s easy and fun to write. Get RSS right here Get email updates here Recent Posts What to Do When You Feel Like You Can’t Catch Up How to Take the Next Step in Your Freelance Career What To Do When Clients Haggle Which Type of Entrepreneur Are You? It doesn’t.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 11, 2010

If you’ve got someone on staff with grammar beyond the fifth grade and you ever talk to each other or to your clients, you probably have plenty of material and the skills for a blog. We respect your email privacy Well never rent, sell, or otherwise share information we collect, because thatd be a violation of everything we believe in.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

You have to be disciplined with money, a skill many writers don’t have. I’ve also done the freelancing thing–learning to market myself, developing my money management skills and learned to juggle. There’s no paycheck. There are invoices and payments after you finish your work. Nathan Segal´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 27, 2010

Things I didn’t get done that day, emails I meant to send, bills I haven’t paid, posts I haven’t written, product launch process – they all keep me awake in the wee small hours. The good part of waking up then is that I’ll often write whole blog posts or emails in my head, and they’re generally quite good.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 20, 2010

In my old music school there were plenty of teachers who were incredible players and missed no opportunity to show their skills to their students. MwP is Powered by… Sign up now and get access to exclusive content, deals and discounts, sneak previews and all sorts of secret stuff you wont want to miss. Leave a Comment!

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Men With Pens

JULY 18, 2010

It takes skills to jump small – and to jump well. You have to always push yourself (and it) for more, and your goal is to eventually ‘outgrow’ your horse and need a new one that fits your skill level. But any fool can jump big – all it takes is reckless guts and the strength to hang on. Equestrian Horses´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Love the six core skills idea. Rose – Those six core skills really come into play in the FIRST draft. Come on, Ro-Ro!) @ James: Yes, the six skills need to come into play in the first draft, but the truth is that if you spend your whole time focusing on Writing With These Qualities in Mind, your novel will come out stilted.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 21, 2010

However, he isn’t stodgy, and his social skills are better than mine. Writing is a skill that I will be working on much more over the next several years to lifetime. MwP is Powered by… Sign up now and get access to exclusive content, deals and discounts, sneak previews and all sorts of secret stuff you wont want to miss.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 10, 2010

It didn’t work at all as described and I emailed him to ask “did you actually use this or are you just selling it for the affiliate income?&# However, being skilled at teaching a course on entrepreneurship, for example, can be very different from being an entrepreneur yourself. So, I appreciated your comment, James.

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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

MAY 16, 2010

It’s easy to fall into the trap of emailing off four, five, or more guest posts quickly and then expecting to see your work on the blog of your choice the very next day. If in doubt, a polite email to the site owner may be in order. It’s perfectly acceptable to email your contact and ask about the status of your post.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 13, 2010

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. I don’t know how anyone got anything done without a computer and email. Persistence.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 22, 2010

What they don’t tell you is that in order to do any of these things you should do, you need to master something else first – something more intangible, something more than a skill. The Secret Marketing Skill that Packs a Punch That’s the secret – confidence. Get branding. Find affiliates. All of that, yes.

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Men With Pens

MAY 2, 2010

Everyday I take time to study copywriting skills. Since this is the million dollar skill. The website lets freelancers use their work to market themselves, which in my opinion is great and innovative since now skill can rule over a marketing drive. Chat with you later… Josh Josh Garcia´s last blog. Reply Go ahead.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 9, 2010

One friend refers you to someone who only has an email address, a generic address like annepottertherapist@mail.com. Would you search online for Anne Potter before writing her an email? Compounding the problem was the president giving me an @comcast.net email address. They’re all small business owners. THANK YOU!!

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Men With Pens

MARCH 21, 2010

Praise in order – Writing takes skill, time and practice too! Get RSS right here Get email updates here Recent Posts What to Do When You Feel Like You Can’t Catch Up How to Take the Next Step in Your Freelance Career What To Do When Clients Haggle Which Type of Entrepreneur Are You? Ragnar´s last blog. Reply Go ahead.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

No one is going to go through all the skills and tools you need to set up the business. The skills you never knew you had that absolve you of the need for prior web writing experience. • (Ignore that pretty picture on the right.) No one is going to hold your hand. How to land the next client. Oh my lord, this is IT!&# Leave a Comment!

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Men With Pens

APRIL 15, 2010

Perhaps you have all of three readers right now – but this means it’s a great time to practice and hone your skills before you have thousands of fans hanging on your every word. Focusing on that genre and reading other people’s amazing writing developed my skills and made it easier to write in other styles as well.

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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. MwP is Powered by… Sign up now and get access to exclusive content, deals and discounts, sneak previews and all sorts of secret stuff you wont want to miss. I will let you know how it goes. Reply Go ahead.

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Men With Pens

MAY 30, 2010

There’s a hockey school near here – I wonder if those guys get bored and want to skip class to go read textbooks Reply Randy Cantrell ( @randycantrell ) May 31, 2010 at 3:39 pm James, my son has killer social skills, and always has. My wife and I recognized early that he had street smarts, so we never worried much about it.

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Men With Pens

JULY 25, 2010

There's nothing quite like waking up to the smell of money in my email in the morning. Lessons Learned from Dr K on Interpersonal Skills and the Art of Persuasion Reply Azstrel ( @Azstrel ) August 6, 2010 at 9:21 pm Freakin’ Fantastic, Mate! This thought leader stuff. Too much thinking. Rather go surfing. Reply Go ahead.

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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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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Email the owners and offer to guest post or to do an interview. Or maybe he knows someone who would…&# and then I’d email you and ask about options and you’d say, “Hey, I know someone&# and I’d be all happy and go over there and then three people are thrilled and I have a new roof and… YEAH!

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

However, if they go to develop skills like writing and critical thinking, to learn more about the world and to connect with future leaders, then university is invaluable. I have used those skills almost every day of my working life. And now I coach public speaking skills. I did an Arts degree (Modern Languages).

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Men With Pens

APRIL 11, 2010

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. Sad, really. Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach´s last blog. Ricardo Bueno´s last blog. Leave a Comment!

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Men With Pens

JUNE 20, 2010

&# @Thorey – I have to say that considering your first language isn’t English, and considering that it took me a long time to realize that fact, reading aloud has brought you some extreme skills. I often write late atnight, alone and even though the ideas are flowing, my typing skills diminish. Bits and pieces; getting there!) @Ed

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Men With Pens

JULY 11, 2010

It takes time, energy, skills, money, creativity and consistency to make it work. link] After writing 300+ blog posts, I decided to solve my “blogged out&# feeling by (DUH) starting a daily email instead – I figured the shorter post style would be just right for my busy life. Thanks for raising the tough questions.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 12, 2010

But then again, I know that my copywriting skills never seem to flag, and I credit that to the fact that I never have more than a few days go by without some sort of copy to write. MwP is Powered by… Sign up now and get access to exclusive content, deals and discounts, sneak previews and all sorts of secret stuff you wont want to miss.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2010

It can be just a “regular&# email or it can be a PDF (I tried to one like that and couldn’t keep on schedule and canned it—I’m considering private feed aggregation instead). Just like you never have to upgrade your Gmail, with a membership site, content can be updated instantly for everyone. Has it worked?

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 19, 2010

By that, I mean you should experiment and learn new skills. Day 3, 5 Ways to Enhance Your Writing Skills Reply Eric C ( @onviolence ) January 20, 2010 at 11:21 am I usually hate posts like these because they seem forced, but actually each one of these was right on. “Think outside the box&# is so trite. She kissed me.

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Men With Pens

MAY 23, 2010

Like, say, emailing us to ask if this is the right email to email us at, when the email you should use to apply is written on the job ad. When the job ad says email us with information and samples, don’t tweet us and say, “Just click here.&# Someone wrote an email to “Mr. Request, that is.

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Men With Pens

MAY 19, 2010

You have the resources and you certainly have the skills. 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. Go on a wild rampage.

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