Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

An even HUGER section on how to handle your clients, including how to write a proposal that gets accepted , how to give the perfect quote, how to nail that first draft, and how to handle clients that are straight-up jerks. No one is going to go through all the skills and tools you need to set up the business. No excuses. Carry on, now.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Are you staying up until all hours burning the midnight oil? And you can’t keep it up. The most important part of what happens if you say, “Not right now,&# is that you’ve stuck up for yourself. DO NOT look at a single work email after that. You’re full up and booked solid because you’re that good.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 20, 2009

If you shortchange yourself and have ask for a second extension because you aren’t quite up to snuff yet, your clients aren’t going to be nearly as nice about it. It’s not like you’re having some sort of emotional trauma because your girlfriend just broke up with you and you wish you could just curl up into a ball.

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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

MARCH 11, 2010

Free information doesn’t pay for health insurance or holidays. You don’t have to give up on blogging. You can spruce up the conversion rate of their existing site content and sales copy. For most businesses I’d argue they should see if the owner or someone on staff has it in them to keep up with a blog.

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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

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

DECEMBER 1, 2009

You see, celebrity-stardom aside, Kevin Parent is just a guy who lived through many of the same struggles you’ve had (or are having), from pursuing a creative career to building an audience to despairing you won’t make it to rejoicing you will to contemplating giving it all up. I may as well put it right up front.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

And then you graduated, spent some time in the real world and ended up working in a field that was wildly different from the one you’d studied. That’s what you should be playing up. Of course my on-the-job experience was invaluable too, but the things I picked up at University are embedded in a different way.

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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?&# 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. How could they not know?

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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. What am I doing here? It looked enormous.

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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.” Holiday Season Kicks Off – 2 Weeks in Review! Why the hell not?

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