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Why Freelancers Need a Consultant | Men With Pens

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What we get from that expense isn’t tangible. Some experts may want to tune in and adjust your strategy now and then, or check in to see how you’re doing and where they could suggest tweaks that create even more impact, but even that doesn’t need to be a monthly expense. It doesn’t sound appealing.

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Is blogging worth it? | Men With Pens

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Once that’s up and running a blog gives an extra insight into the website, but shouldn’t be at the expense of quality on the main site. I started a thread on LinkedIn last week asking, What is the best answer to the question How do you measure ROI from social media? Hmmm, think I need to move my focus for a minute!

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Three Ways to Start a Revolution | Men With Pens

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Alasdair McGregor: how to write non-fiction well Reply poch January 4, 2010 at 6:23 am This post reminded me of a wise advice from a site: Anticipate and watch social media trends. One on one consulting, seminars, meet ups are difficult to copy and expensive to hold. Maybe that’s a social media trend in itself…?)

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Six Ways to Get More Juice from Your Freelancer | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

By taking the time to write down exactly what you want to accomplish, you’re much more likely to get a good product and avoid expensive rework because of miscommunications. Failure to pay as agreed is a particularly bad form of feedback, but I’ve often seen clients use it that way. Use social media.

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Do Clients Need to Like You to Buy? | Men With Pens

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Listening to Experts is Expensive When new business owners believe faulty information they find on the web, it costs them a great deal. Every business owner should put all his energy into social media and making sure people like him. He buys courses in how to use social media because he thinks clients must like him.

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Free Blog Posts | Men With Pens

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It was free because it was idle; it wasn’t supposed to be the sort of business expertise that many companies would shell out good money for in the form of a consultant. The good stuff gets harder and harder to find, while the “same old stuff&# is repeated, in slightly different form, ad nauseum. Reverse order by date?

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

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Ulrich ( @maryeulrich ) December 14, 2009 at 7:29 am Last week I listened to Dan Zarrella talk about the science of social media. My Social Media Experiment Reply Jodi Kaplan December 14, 2009 at 9:59 am The degree is partly to put your knowledge to work, and partly to teach you how to think and to apply knowledge.

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