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JUNE 24, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs WordPress 2.8 This cleaned up the admin panel, but the visual editor was still inoperable. This is a good learning opportunity for me when I’m working with my own site. Comments: 0 Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change?

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DECEMBER 16, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Updating to WordPress 2.7 Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Updating to WordPress 2.7 I used the auto update option to bring Loosely Speaking up to date yesterday. Updating to WordPress 2.7 [.] Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs After the dance is over Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 4:13 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Business Strategies/Perspectives , Virtual Assistant Resources Whew and Wow. Next up : marriage of great minds and birth of dynamic new projects and partnerships.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Blog Action Day 2008 Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 1:00 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging As a participant in Blog Action Day 2008, I asked everyone I know for information on programs (actual or planned) which combat poverty. Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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JANUARY 2, 2009

Perhaps you lack the tools or know-how for working on your vehicle or plumbing, but anyone can learn to darn a sock. see photo below ) Now you’ll create a series of long stitches that go from one side of the hole to the other (like setting up one of those potholder looms when you were little). Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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JANUARY 13, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Can Virtual Assistants provide social networking support? As a hot new niche market, it’s natural that training programs have sprung up for VAs who want to offer this service. Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change?

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JUNE 9, 2010

So you decide you’ll just work longer hours and beat yourself up a little bit more. 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. Over to you!

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AUGUST 6, 2009

We’ll post the names of the companies offering these goodies and they are firmed up. This needs to be written up for IVAACast, too. I think we’ll easily find a laptop user that you can buddy up with during the event to access the sessions that are being presented. It might encourage other areas to do the same thing.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Here’s a tip: make a 48-hour waiting period the standard policy in your business for all incoming requests. The bonus of a 48-hour policy is that your schedule is smoothly planned out in a way that lets you pay attention to all your clients so that each person gets the best of you. If it ever comes up, I will be prepared!

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APRIL 6, 2010

Here’s how it works: Go gather up all the books on the subject you need to be better at if your business is going to succeed. 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? This isn’t like that.

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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. When I was a graduate student, I was mildly surprised to learn that a thesis statement could expand into an entire thesis. Never Throw Anything Away!

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MARCH 21, 2010

There’s a lot more to writing web copy than that – and you’ll learn it from cars. It’s kind of like matching up a Mercedes engine with a Toyota Corolla’s exterior. Want to learn how to write better copy? You’ll find those articles right here on Men with Pens, actually. It’s good advice. Ragnar´s last blog.

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APRIL 18, 2010

If you’ve been around for a few years and you enjoy even moderate popularity, it’s almost a guarantee that newbies show up, all wide-eyed and open-mouthed, to gape at your brilliance. The problem with that logic is that some new up-and-comer is going to steal your show. Even if it’s nowhere near as brilliant as it was two years ago.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Working with other people opens up vast potential and plenty of windows to better opportunities. Want an added bonus of teaming up? It’s easy to find people you could team up with. So why aren’t you? Here are a few: When you have too much work, you can offload it to willing hands and get some breathing room.

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MAY 11, 2010

Allow me to tell you: We’ve overhauled, revamped and created a truly extraordinary resource for fiction writers everywhere, and we’ve packaged it up into a very entertaining and useful book called How to Create Believable Characters. I agree with you that 2010 is looking pretty up for everyone! We’re hiring.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2009

We have learned nothing since then. 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. Who comes UP with this stuff? It’s all lies, we tell you. Vicious lies.

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JANUARY 17, 2010

Someone’s going to come up with a brand new game changer. Winning in a competition is not the same thing as being creative and innovative and coming up with new ideas. It sounds cliche, but I just learned to out-hustle my competition. Competition is a scary thing. When you have competition, you have to improve.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2010

So you sign up for courses. You try to learn the secret , because there’s obviously something you haven’t figured out yet. Customers end up with spiffy businesses that rake in clients and money, and the freelancer goes barefoot, with a neglected business that’s falling apart. Keep it up and thanks.

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MARCH 28, 2010

It could even end up causing damage to your business as you try to fit the square-shaped suggestions into your round-shaped business. 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.

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JUNE 23, 2010

I’m not going to say that thing I’m not supposed to say , but I might as well give up on calling Ali Hale a guest poster. I mix up left and right. I make up the world and I decide the plot twists. For many others, it’s a way to deal with the ups and downs and dark comedy of life. Who makes up this nonsense?

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APRIL 4, 2010

And what’s holding you back from finally deciding to fix it up better than ever? I’ve been calling on outside help for different aspects of setting up my business. There’s a hell of a lot to learn about setting up an online biz. The sky’s the limit. That’s another freelancer myth.

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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). By the time you lift your head up, you might be mightily surprised to realize you need to check your speed or make a sharp turn – and you aren’t ready. But I digress. The result?

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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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JULY 25, 2010

All sorts of people are cropping up with posts of deep, meaningful wisdom or challenging views on their blogs, profound personal philosophies delivered with grave sincerity of a Hindu guru scattered across the internet. We like authority and people who have conviction, who stand up and speak their mind with confidence.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Instead of building themselves up, they started tearing their clients down. No telling them that they’re wusses, or cowards, or anything of the kind, even if it’s supposed to fire them up. Go read my blog for a few hours and get psyched up. I like your before/after examples that light up the point. Yes, even in jest.

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MARCH 14, 2010

You’re all set and teamed up with professionals, right? So they try to be do-it-yourselfers, learning from blogs, ebooks, and other sources of free information. You also don’t actually have the expertise you need to figure out the best way to use that information, and you’re likely to screw it up. Those screw-ups cost you money.

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

If you shortchange yourself and have ask for a second extension because you aren’t quite up to snuff yet, your clients aren’t going to be nearly as nice about it. It’s not like you’re having some sort of emotional trauma because your girlfriend just broke up with you and you wish you could just curl up into a ball.

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APRIL 20, 2010

We like people who can acknowledge their imperfections, people who admit they screw it up not just sometimes, but often, and the people who can say, “Yeah, I’m really scared too, but I’m going to do it anyway.” Human beings who get knocked down and have to get up and try again. If anything, perfection kind of pisses us off.

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MARCH 23, 2010

You can explain that a few of the things they tell you will wind up in their actual web copy, so you’d love their help to create tone and a realistic voice. Hear a Voice The other option is to call up your client and ask that they talk to you like a human being. No problem, we say. You aren’t a scary HR person. Make it fun.

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DECEMBER 13, 2009

You put hours of effort and study into learning a certain subject inside and out. 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. You’ve probably forgotten half of what you learned, too. Is Your Degree Useless?

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APRIL 15, 2010

And I’ve been soaking up advice from sites like Copyblogger and Men with Pens as well as material from some other excellent writers in the blogosphere. No one assigns you experience points or notes when you’ve leveled up. Let’s face it, you’re always going to be learning, just by being engaged with words.

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MARCH 8, 2010

Do you want to leave it to your children and have them continue operations or close up shop? Write something up, just in case. June rolls around, someone else snatches up that name, and the whole situation just became complicated and difficult. Are You A Buttoned-Up or Buttoned-Down Freelance Writer? So go ahead.

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APRIL 11, 2010

Even if he never made one sale through his website, he still needed to have one up there. So the CEO toys with his pen, glances up from the contract and says, “What’s your website again?” He could put up a darned snazzy website that reflects just how successful he is. It’s the way professionals operate.

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MARCH 25, 2010

It proved successful right up to the time when it entered the Chinese market, where it took a nasty left turn. 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. Baby food” took on a startling new meaning.

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JULY 14, 2010

Remember what Woody Allen once said: “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” You should become an authority in your field, deliver outstanding service with every project, and stay up-to-date in your chosen specialty. I know stay pretty scheduled up, versus when I was trying to do everything for everyone.

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MAY 2, 2010

Words are nearly omnipresent in our lives, from the features listed on the tube of toothpaste we pick up in the morning to the last sentence of the testimonial on the back of the novel we set down at night. Lessons Learned from Steve Pavlina Reply Ed Gandia ( @EdGandia ) May 3, 2010 at 10:51 am Excellent post, James! Good post James.

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MARCH 2, 2010

We live in a world of rising costs, and almost everyone expects prices to go up a little each year. After thinking about this client and the work he offers you, you’ll probably come up with your decision. These past customers might come back to you after having learned your true value to them. Go UP, people!

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