Men With Pens

MARCH 4, 2010

Whatever you decide to do, you benefit from each other’s skill sets, experience, knowledge, marketing efforts and much more. You can even send an email just to say hi. Do they have particular skills that you feel would benefit your business? Each of us brought a different skill to the design table.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 28, 2010

Many business principles apply to any type of business, virtual or not, and what you learn from the expert who works for the store down the street can be just as valuable to your online storefront. Generalists tend not to be as skilled as specialists who do one thing, and one thing only. Mark Dykeman´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

JULY 14, 2010

Some claim that absolutely anyone can become a successful freelance copywriter, even those without writing skills or special expertise. At the very least, you must be an above-average writer with some selling skills and a firm grasp of your specialty. They want your fees, skills, service, knowledge, etc. That’s bunk.

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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. Later they learned that in Africa illiteracy is high, so companies put pictures on the product labels to show what’s inside. Recover from mistakes and learn from them. You’re Just Ignorant. We all make them.

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Men With Pens

JULY 18, 2010

While training for competition, I learned many valuable lessons (beyond the kind that made sure you didn’t canter off to your death). It takes skills to jump small – and to jump well. We can only learn from our mistakes, and move ahead. I also learned that goodie from my riding teacher and it has served me well.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 23, 2010

Like her, my appetite for reading fiction is much greater than for non-fiction and often the learning, insights and inspiration are just as great! There’s a lot of money in those billion-dollar companies, and I get to keep learning. J/K I believe that truly good fiction writing requires more than just writing skill.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 20, 2010

Those blogs are worth their weight in gold (unless you’re the kind who learns from the School of Hard Knocks). 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. However, it’s not a good thing either to be sloppy. and the 3.0s

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 17, 2010

I’d say the biggest lessons I’ve learned, both on the job and now in my post journo career as a writer/illustrator/etc…, is to accentuate what you do best and what makes you unique. It sounds cliche, but I just learned to out-hustle my competition. Nathan Hangen´s last blog. Leave a Comment!

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

If I’m pointing out my mistakes and how I learned a better way, it doesn’t come off as condescending. But it requires little skill and no finesse, so it’s easy and fun to write. Pointing out past mistakes and how you grew and learned from it exudes confidence. Arrogant copy drives me crazy. It doesn’t.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 27, 2010

Maquis June 28, 2010 at 1:16 am I’ll admit that I’ve definitely learned the hard way that sleep deprivation can be physically painful. 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. Lesson learned.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

It’s not all that bad once you learn how, but it’s not a job for wall flowers. 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.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 21, 2010

But what I tell people are four scenes from the last six months that sum up what I’ve learned better than I can spell it out: Exhibit A: The High Style The man I was listening to spoke with a strong British accent. However, he isn’t stodgy, and his social skills are better than mine. Live and learn. Exhibit C: Too Smart Mike T.

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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

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Especially if you’ve learned something along the way. But if your goal was to use the month to create something upon which you can build, both in terms of learning curve and raw material, then perhaps it’s better to stop right where you are. Love the six core skills idea. Learn something from the process. I had a blast!

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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. If we don’t learn how to use it and make it grow, there are plenty of people out there who would love us to part with it for their benefit.

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Brilliantly Better

JULY 17, 2010

Not only because I coded every single line of it, but because this app is the tangible result of more than 3 years of testing, learning and writing about personal productivity. Third: I am obsessed with learning new things. Learned how to create a project and what the folder structure means. Program received “BAD_EXC” message.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 10, 2010

Unlike the person who seems mentally permalinked to 1994, I’m constantly learning new things at a tremendous pace, mostly just because I love it. Too many want to turn this critical aspect of their business over to others, without learning even the slightest part of it. No, but I could give them better advice now.

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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

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. Where do you learn to get comfortable with all this?

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Men With Pens

JUNE 13, 2010

And you’ll learn why right here in this valuable interview with a pro copywriter. 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.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 9, 2010

We want to learn more about the people we’re going to hire services from. 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? They emailed me “You’ll have to buy from Amazon&#.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 15, 2010

Let’s face it, you’re always going to be learning, just by being engaged with words. 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. How to Improve Faster Want to speed up?

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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

MARCH 21, 2010

There’s a lot more to writing web copy than that – and you’ll learn it from cars. Want to learn how to write better copy? Praise in order – Writing takes skill, time and practice too! I learned the lesson of writing in the appropriate voice many years ago, when I wrote my first newsletter for a client.

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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. Lessons Learned from Steve Pavlina Reply Ed Gandia ( @EdGandia ) May 3, 2010 at 10:51 am Excellent post, James! It is important to write good copy on our pages it’s attracts people and people will share the work to others.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

You put hours of effort and study into learning a certain subject inside and out. You probably can’t remember when you last put the knowledge you learned in university to work in your everyday business affairs. You’ve probably forgotten half of what you learned, too. I didn’t pay attention to what I’d learned.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

We have learned nothing since then. 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. • What you can learn about your business from being ill Reply Mary E. It’s all lies, we tell you.

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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. There’s a hell of a lot to learn about setting up an online biz. Dave – Remember, too, that you don’t *need* to learn everything there is to run an online biz. Reply Go ahead. Leave a Comment!

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Men With Pens

JULY 25, 2010

To avoid the hypocrisy, whatever a person’s talk is, they should also be walking it or learning to walk it. Most of us teach what we needed or still need to learn ourselves. I agree that there should always be something to learn, take action on or gain enjoyment from with every blog post. I agree with Marian.

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Men With Pens

MAY 30, 2010

As for listening to parents, mine learned this weekend that a wise parent can actually prevent theft. Do we appreciate it because we’ve learned how to make it interesting to us, or because we can choose to work on what interests us most? What are you going to tell them?&# but it’s the crucial key to bringing in sales.

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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. Many people out there have learned their lessons the hard way, assuming that because it’s for sale, it must be accurate information.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 20, 2010

That means they’ll grasp your razor-sharp message perfectly, learn from it quickly and understand it clearly. You’ll learn more, understand it better and remember it longer. Once I learned that I was better at conversational writing I relaxed and found my voice. They might even tell their friends about it.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 11, 2010

I know whenever I’m looking to hire somebody for contract work or to share in projects I’m taking on I always check their website to learn more about them. I quickly learned that I was, to paraphrase your client, doing OK, I guess. I want to see what it looks like and learn more about them. Thanks for sharing.

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Men With Pens

JULY 11, 2010

We’re the early adopters of blogging, shaping it and changing it as we learn about its potential. It takes time, energy, skills, money, creativity and consistency to make it work. Heather p.s. Yes, I know you asked me if I was *sure* I wanted to start a daily email. Hey, you get the luxury of asking yourself that question.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 12, 2010

Your Questions: Amy, how do you learn? 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. These stories suck, and they’re amateur, and I didn’t learn my craft until a few years after them.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 9, 2010

It’s not a bad idea to keep an eye on what the success stories are up to today, but if you’re really looking to learn something useful (and reduce your stress levels), then you need to go back in time. He’s honed his skills, improved his business and had more than his fair share of bumps along the way. Over to you!

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2010

We listened, asked questions, and learned more every time we did. Solomon – I feel that being able to discuss, talk and look at all sides of the coin is a gift, and yet so many people ignore the opportunity to ask questions, go deeper and learn more. I learned something new today. Barbara – It’s funny, eh?

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