Men With Pens

JUNE 30, 2010

Sure, it’s great to hit the snooze button and give yourself an extra hour of R&R once in awhile, but before you know it, you’re getting up at noon and puttering around before you answer your customer emails. This means getting up at a decent hour, working for a set amount of time, and taking breaks. So thats a problem for me.

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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. In fact, a friend of mine wrote out that last post by hand in blue and gold pen as a gift to me.

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JANUARY 10, 2010

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. In the past I have also seen people rise and fall, because they didn’t heed the saying “be nice to people on the way up because you might need them on the way back down&#.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 9, 2010

Should you ever be in a situation where you’re trying to explain to someone why getting online is a really, really good idea, tell that person this: People Don’t Use the Yellow Pages Anymore When was the last time you hauled the business directory off the shelf and looked up a business when you needed one? I’m betting it’s been a long time.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Just come up with 3 or 4 niches that you actually give a damn about. One of the best benefits of spreading into other niches is how you’ll come up with out-of-the-box ideas on how to one-up the value you offer to your existing customers in your main niche. Take @Pat (up there in the comments) for an example.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 29, 2010

There are dozens of reasons why writers wind up in this content limbo. Heh reminds me of the first time I hit up James… “I wanan write for you.&# “But WHY!? Be patient, don’t be an ass, and follow up kindly. Some people appreciate follow up, as long as you’ve waited and don’t pester them.

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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. You’re full up and booked solid because you’re that good. But I have to!” you wail. “I Stick to it, too.

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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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Andrea Kalli

AUGUST 12, 2010

Can have up to 10 separate incidences of individual coded areas Facebook Notes – the only place to put blog rss feed where it updates the Page Wall. A bit tricky to set up, but the most beneficial app to eliminate unnecessary double work to post information. set up an FAQ page for questions you get asked most often.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Even you – yes, you – the reader who never comments or says anything, but who still shows up all the time – you’re a part of this community, too. You’ve placed a profound trust in us to give you sound advice, and we try to live up to that trust every day. Reply Henri @ Wake Up Cloud December 23, 2009 at 5:18 am You guys rock.

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JANUARY 3, 2010

We need to listen to one another and see if those new ideas have merit, or if they open up any other possible courses of action. It’s up to us to stop allowing others to make decisions for our industry, our careers, and our lives, both as a group and as individuals. We Can Wake Up a Bit It’s not like we have a choice, you know.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 12, 2010

A fool takes in all the lumber of any sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or is at best jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has difficultly laying his hands upon it. But the only way it happens if you go up there and work on it. He’s been doing it for too long.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 19, 2010

He says it is inconceivable that said ship could catch up with them – and lo, the boat is gaining. He says it is inconceivable that the man in black could follow them straight up the cliffs while the man in black is demonstrably doing that very thing. You don’t want to end up like Vizzini, do you? Let me sum up.

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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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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 20, 2011

Even though the articles were on specific topics, I could take one or up to three sentences from one article and morph it into another article on a different topic. The script is then broken up into parts and as relevant, each is posted to the appropriate blog. Thanks to Marnie Swedberg of Gifts Of Encouragement, Inc.

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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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