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5 Surefire Ways to Get Freelancing Clients | Men With Pens

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Second, it looks good to have a couple good causes on your resume. I’ve been silently stalking your community the past few weeks, reading reading learning learning and waiting for my resignation notice to take effect… Now that I’ve worked my ass off to get things wrapped up at the former job, I’m out on my own!

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

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Many freelancers don’t have to send their resumes to people anymore, so those degrees don’t see a lot of action, but they’re there, collecting dust on our walls. You put hours of effort and study into learning a certain subject inside and out. You’ve probably forgotten half of what you learned, too. I wanted to learn why.

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How to Wow Blog Editors (and Get Published) | Men With Pens

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Reminds me of people who send in resumes that are full of spelling mistakes or printed on pink paper. Oh well, mistakes happen, it’s all a learning process Joseph McCullough´s last blog. It seemed like common courtesy to me. Guess it’s not so common after all. Jodi Kaplan´s last blog. Lamborghini or Hyundai?

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Three Reasons You Need to Convince Newbies They Need a Website.

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We want to learn more about the people we’re going to hire services from. Reply David Wilcoxson March 11, 2010 at 11:53 am Another reason to have a website is that it can answer a lot of FAQ’s, so that you don’t have to, which saves you time. We want to see a website that shows us pictures. Powered by frugal

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Why You Need to Have More than Your Clients | Men With Pens

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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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Fear of Success | Men With Pens

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That’s why I’m learning not to look at the end product (at the goal) but focus on the steps to get there, picturing the actions I’ll take to reach the success and that way I’m already successful because I’m acting and living out my dreams. Yesterday I learned it’s not going to happen any time soon.

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How NOT to Get the Freelance Job - and What to Do | Men With Pens

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In most part, I had a lot of fun reading through applications and learning more about people. That said, don’t apply for internet jobs when you just came online, have no skills, no experience, but can definitely learn everything as you go along. People were really excited to have the opportunity to work with us. DO take a chance.

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