Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 2, 2010

Mentoring can be one of the most effective means of teaching: inviting someone to learn from the example of another with more experience. Even though things haven’t worked out as you’d hoped, what are you learning from that? Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting! Comments No comments yet.

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Decide on your guidelines and stick to them so you have part of your procedures for life balance. One of the lessons I learned early on was that it's easy to be busy and think you are being productive. One of the lessons I learned early on was that it's easy to be busy and think you are being productive.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 25, 2010

Here are some Guidelines for you to consider when Making Your Words Count: 1. Adapt Your Style to Your Audience : Prepare beforehand and learn what the audience wants to hear or not hear, and how to adapt your style so your message and how you say it connects with them.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 6, 2009

it requires a firm culture that discusses recovery openly and strongly support it -both in action and written policy. and hopefully, they have supportive procedures and policies in place to help them." This is usually a lot of "talk" in companies.but little real support for it. in my experience.

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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. See what you can learn from them to make your business better. 37 Responses to “Can You Learn How to Be an Overnight Success?&#

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The Marq

JUNE 7, 2010

If you’re interested in getting a copy, please follow the posted guidelines here. In other words, he promotes living a life free of fear of the unknown, where you learn what you want to do through trial-and-error of your business ideas. What Do You Think? Feel free to share your thoughts below.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

APRIL 14, 2010

E - Email and set up another appointment?   Find out your company’s policy before inviting clients to lunch.  4 -- D or E -- Depending on the communication preferences of the person you were to meet, you should either call or email and set up another appointment.  B - Send flowers?

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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. Look for a writer’s guidelines page. But, when a guidelines page is there make sure that you follow it to the letter. What guidelines do you have?

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

Learn about all the benefits of becoming a member or Sign up Now! More from this Topic Purchase Order Form Template (Excel) Receive this FREE Purchase Order Template along with complimentary, no obligation price quotes (via phone and email) from multiple quality & independent accounting and bookkeeiping service providers.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 27, 2010

His emails are usually brief, casual, and mention something like, “Have a nice weekend,” or “Hope everything’s good with you.” So it was weird to get an email that was so stilted and formal that it sounded like it was written by the Queen of England’s chamberlain to someone she was too polite to outright call a waste of space.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 3, 2010

A client emails you in a panic and the tone is so urgent that you feel the need like it’s your own. Here’s a tip: make a 48-hour waiting period the standard policy in your business for all incoming requests. Although I learned long ago NOT to drop everything and do it. Ah, the rush job. You drop everything.

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Men With Pens

MAY 23, 2010

In most part, I had a lot of fun reading through applications and learning more about people. 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. People were really excited to have the opportunity to work with us. We have this.

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Men With Pens

MAY 11, 2010

If you’re interested in learning what kind of person we’re looking for (and possibly becoming that new teammate who’ll rock our socks off), check out the job postings right here. anyone wants to be an affiliate and help promote, drop me an email via my site – shameless self-promotion happening here.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 6, 2010

Actually, we’re happy to put ourselves forward as the expert for anyone who wants to learn how to start your kick-ass web writer business. Who wants to learn about OIL RIGS? Learning how to learn was my goal. However, beyond a certain level, I think you really need to work with or learn from other people to progress.

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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? I learned the lesson of writing in the appropriate voice many years ago, when I wrote my first newsletter for a client. Click here to read our guest post guidelines , then show us what youve got.

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Men With Pens

MAY 19, 2010

Keep a steady schedule so that friends and families can learn which days you work, and when. 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.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 4, 2010

You can even send an email just to say hi. Kelly March 5, 2010 at 7:36 am James, This one is a lesson you never stop learning. Click here to read our guest post guidelines , then show us what youve got. Sign up for Twitter or Facebook and start talking to freelancers you like. Compliment their work and get the ball rolling.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 8, 2010

Use email, instant messaging and your mobile phone to submit your notes or you can clip content from the web with the browser toolbar. With Tomboy you can highlight text, check spelling and auto link web and email addresses. Jott takes the spoken messages and turns them into text. Makes editing, storing and searching data easy.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 29, 2010

No emails from the site editor. Firing off a biting email demanding answers and an apology probably won’t win you repeat business. Write the email and then trash it. Get a Firm Commitment By this point, that nasty email is starting to feel like a missed opportunity. Want to learn more great tips on all things guest posty?

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Emails bombard you. You were supposed to deliver this project at 5pm and you’re almost finished but… A new email comes in. You try to learn the secret , because there’s obviously something you haven’t figured out yet. It has been a very hard lesson to learn, but I am better for it. It’s a rush.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 13, 2010

I’ve happily signed up for all kinds of email lists. I recently had a discussion via email with someone regarding the CAN-Spam Act (US) and Anti-Spam Act (Australia). In the US it’s legal to sign someone up to your email list without asking their permission. They could have asked. I have a crazy-busy RSS feed.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

We have learned nothing since then. What you can learn about your business from being ill Reply Mary E. 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?

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Men With Pens

APRIL 1, 2010

You could try cold-calling (or cold-emailing), knocking on doors or praying to the freelancing fairies for some work, but there are some better techniques you can use that will be sure to get you clients in a hurry. Just send an email, comment on someone else’s blog, make a cold call, ask someone to recommend you.

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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. which most “Learn how to work at home programs&# fail to provide&# You will definitely fail. Vance Vance Sova´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 25, 2010

Check your email. Look at your email. Read that long chain email someone forwarded to you. Forward that chain email to all your friends. Write a detailed apology to the friend you sent that chain email to who asked you not to send stuff like that anymore. Send an email to your client. Check your voice mail.

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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

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

APRIL 18, 2010

Joy ( @leslieajoy ) April 19, 2010 at 2:06 am I think that in the same way it’s suggested that writers set aside time each day to write, everyone (bloggers or non-bloggers), should set aside some time each day for learning and keeping up on new trends. Afterwards, take the topics on that list and learn about them. Reply Go ahead.

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Men With Pens

JULY 14, 2010

You have many options: landline, cellular phone, texting, fax line (yeah, many people still fax), email, website contact form, Twitter direct message, LinkedIn message, Skype, and lots more. Yes, you have to manage your time and you can’t email all day, but don’t get so efficient that you become unreachable and aloof.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Lessons learned from breaking into your own car Reply LaTosha Johnson ( @TargetStars ) December 28, 2009 at 9:44 pm I truly enjoy this blog and look forward to hearing more from you in 2010. Click here to read our guest post guidelines , then show us what youve got. Mark Dykeman´s last blog. Happy Holidays! Meier´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

MAY 9, 2010

Sometimes we’d forget to ask a question and have to send a new email to confirm a detail – that wastes time. Do you simply direct them to the link on your site or do you email the questionnaire to them? We had a pretty good idea of what we needed to know in order to do our job well. Except the times when we didn’t. Thanks for sharing.

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Men With Pens

JULY 7, 2010

I know many people look down on them, but the truth is that they usually haven’t put in the time to make it work right or learned how to make the system work for them. Could easily be modified into a set of guidelines for Freelancers. However, you’ll have a huge learning curve in doing freelancing. Very nice list.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 20, 2009

I guess they’re still learning or I need to keep looking for super high-quality. CondoFinder – I think you should read our comment policy. I learned a while back that saying yes to yourself first is what really makes the difference between a healthy person and someone run down and tired. Leave a Comment!

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

DO NOT look at a single work email after that. Your quick email check becomes a written response, some analysis, and finally that little voice says, “What the heck. Shutting down the site Reply Learn Creative Visualization ( @learnLCV ) November 25, 2009 at 11:47 am Good reminder, I am not exercising at all. great post.

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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

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

APRIL 20, 2010

Those blogs are worth their weight in gold (unless you’re the kind who learns from the School of Hard Knocks). It’s hard to learn as much from the ‘perfect’ bloggers – and their message eventually starts to sound like a string of platitudes. However, it’s not a good thing either to be sloppy.

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