Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Written by James - 106 Comments “I’ve been blogging for five years. We’re bloggers. We blog our hearts out, pouring creativity, knowledge and advice into each post we write. That reminds me – I have to go write my free blog post now or my readers will be mad.” “Charge for premium content?

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 26, 2012

I know this because I took the Damn Fine Words writing course, taught by A-list blogger and professional copywriter, James Chartrand. When I read the blog posts I wrote pre-Damn Fine Words, I’m surprised. Another rockin' post from Men with Pens! You just have to add a healthy dose of discipline to your craft.

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Men With Pens

MAY 5, 2011

You might be great at turning out 500-word blog posts or short articles. You’ve probably written blog posts that flowed from start to finish without needing to consciously think about them much. Seasoned bloggers can often whip out a post in an hour if they’re having a good day. Step 2: Create a Timetable.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Written by Taylor - 39 Comments This discussion we’ve been having about whether bloggers should get paid for their work is fascinating, and I think it’s pretty great that the whole MwP community here has been so level-headed and thoughtful about it. To hear them tell it, bloggers who don’t give it away have turned positively abusive.

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Men With Pens

MAY 14, 2012

It’s been even longer since you’ve actually ENJOYED writing a post. Writing a blog post shouldn’t take days. And there are fun, easy writing techniques that can help you feel inspired, motivated and even electrified to blog. One good blog post? Another rockin' post from Men with Pens!

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ProBlogger

MARCH 20, 2017

In today’s lesson, I want to talk about finding a job as a blogger – particularly how to apply for a blogging job. Back in 2006 I noticed I started getting a lot of two types of emails: People wanting to hire bloggers would email me asking if I knew anyone suitable for a blogging job that they had.

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Men With Pens

JULY 8, 2012

Most bloggers start because they’re looking for a get rich quick scheme, some illusory easy path to fame and fortune. After writing for a couple weeks, they grow frustrated by the slow results and turn to other blogs for advice. Maybe they learn about copywriting or buy a custom design template, but it doesn’t help.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 14, 2011

It showed in their blog posts that didn’t get comments. If you’re a start-up business owner, an entrepreneur, a self-employed freelancer, an in-house writer, a blogger, an editor… if you need to create effective content to market your business (or someone else’s), then Damn Fine Words is for you. They knew the grammar.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2012

Write engaging blog posts that compel comments. It showed in their blog posts that didn’t get comments. Post by James Chartrand James Chartrand is an entrepreneur, a pro copywriter and the founder and CEO of Men with Pens and Damn Fine Words , the game-changing writing course for business owners.

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ProBlogger

MAY 21, 2018

My name is Darren Rowse, as I said and I am the blogger behind ProBlogger, a blog, podcast, event, job board, series of ebooks, and courses all designed to help you to start an amazing blog, to create some great content on that blog, to grow your audience, and to build profit around it.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 23, 2010

She’s more like a Featured Blogger ’round here at the Pen Men Palace. Well, she would have been, except she called copywriters vanilla. So while I do that, you read this post, mmkay? So while I do that, you read this post, mmkay? It’s no accident that several great bloggers also write fiction.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 29, 2012

You can easily get away with admitting mistakes when you’re a small blogger or start-up business, but when you reach a certain level of success, your reputation is everything. I’m churning out blog posts like there’s no tomorrow. Another rockin' post from Men with Pens! ” But it’s not that simple.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 3, 2012

That’s probably as far removed from the subjects of entrepreneurship, copywriting, or freelancing as I could get. My blog posts, articles, and writing projects have all benefited from my fiction writing experience – that means I’m better at communicating with people and clients who bring me income. How to “chunk” tasks.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 6, 2011

The last time Men with Pens saw me, I had just written a guest post for them entitled Get a Rush from Your Writing. Since then, I’ve been running a copywriting business, become a regular blogger , and have had “>two “>books published , with a third “>just recently released. That was a year ago. Moderation?

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ProBlogger

MARCH 20, 2017

In today’s lesson, I want to talk about finding a job as a blogger – particularly how to apply for a blogging job. Back in 2006 I noticed I started getting a lot of two types of emails: People wanting to hire bloggers would email me asking if I knew anyone suitable for a blogging job that they had.

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Men With Pens

JULY 4, 2010

You find a voice that seems to work for a while, but then you can’t maintain consistency – a blog post you wrote last week sounds completely different from one you wrote yesterday. Great post – thank you. It’s a lot like standing on stage singing your heart out for all the world to see. Enjoy the cognac!

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Men With Pens

APRIL 25, 2010

Dean Rieck is one of America’s top copywriters and never, ever procrastinates. He stays busy writing for his many clients and providing copywriting tips for smart copywriters at Pro Copy Tips. He really wants you to visit his blog today. Tyrean´s last blog. Reorganize your GTD folder. Bloggerversary!

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Men With Pens

JULY 14, 2010

The world is full of dreaming writers who have heard golden stories of the great beyond (working full time as a well-paid freelance copywriter) but who have yet to make the mysterious transformation from mere mortal to freelance god. IDENTITY It’s not enough to be a copywriter. You can’t tell one from the other.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 15, 2010

A few weeks ago, my mother read and enjoyed a guest blog post of mine – The Missing Half of Productivity Advice: Why Women Need to Get Involved. It shouldn’t have surprise me at all, really – I’ve been writing six to ten blog posts a week, every week, for at least eighteen months. That surprised me.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

About the amount of information you’d get in five decent-lengthed blog posts. Usually copy comes in nice bite-sized chunks: a webpage, a blog post, an article, a press release. 18 Responses to “How to Organize Huge Copywriting Projects&# Comments Read below or add a comment. Little ebooks. For publication.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

The Pros and Cons Written by Agent X - 30 Comments Here’s a great slam-dunk post for you from my respected friend and international copywriting authority, Dean Rieck of Direct Creative and Pro Copy Tips. Copywriters can advance to Creative Director positions, for example. Hell yeah Nice post. Now I have them.

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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. All copywriters and graphic artists welcome. Karen Putz´s last blog. D ThoreyO Þórey Ómars´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 8, 2010

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? Nice list—there’s a couple on here I haven’t looked into so I’m headed off right now!

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Written by James - 19 Comments There’s a strategy used in copywriting, and it involves being authoritative, even aggressive. It’s unfortunate that so many new copywriters get sucked into writing this sort of thing and think it applies to any sort of copywriting. “You’re a worthless weasel! Your life is crap!

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Men With Pens

JUNE 9, 2010

It’s so easy to become addicted to RSS feeds, commenting, reading blog posts and spending hours running in circles and then panicking because you’ve got nothing done. Amy Harrison runs Harrisonamy Copywriting. Subscribe to her blog or follow her on twitter: @littleunred for more copywriting (and sometimes irreverent) updates.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 12, 2010

Blogging has provided my mind with the Spring cleaning it has been in need of for a long time. Roschelle´s last blog. Post-Avatar Depression – Why Am I Not Surprised… Reply Heather Villa ( @IAC_Heather ) January 13, 2010 at 5:23 am I think this holds true for ideas of any kind. Catherine Caine´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

JULY 21, 2010

Here’s why: Climbing Mountains Every piece you write – whether a blog post, a short story, an ebook, or a technical manual – is a mountain. A single blog post. Saralee Reply Saralee Etter July 22, 2010 at 9:56 am I loved this blog too! Don’t forget that. But you carry on. One day, you write something.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

As much as I was pleased to reread certain posts, like this one about my daughters , I was just as pleased to know that posts like this one would probably never see the light of day again. And you thought your first blog posts were bad. My old blog posts blew me away. Judy Dunn´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

JULY 11, 2010

Have all the posts you’ve written been worth it? And sadly, not many bloggers ask them. I know I can spend hours reading through old posts on this site, and I’ve been reading Men with Pens for nearly two years. There’s still posts here that I haven’t read. John Soares´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 17, 2010

Thank you for another great blog post. 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? There’s a thin line between confidence and arrogance.

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Men With Pens

MAY 26, 2010

Or are you just thinking about hitting your target word count, churning out that blog post, ticking off that task on your to-do list? We boast on Twitter about the number of blog posts we’ve written in a day. We post our novel word count on our blog or on Facebook. Yeah, I’m guilty of this).

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Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2010

Not blog posts, though. I had great ideas for posts , I’d sit down with full intentions of banging out the best blog post ever, get through a title and maybe a paragraph or two, and then… That was it. Those blog posts came hard. I knew I loved my blog, and I loved writing.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 29, 2010

Your guest post is being held hostage. Bloggers and site editors, especially at top-tier outlets, are generally busy people. Dozens of content requests and guest post submissions pour in each week. Reply Ami ( @amikimtweets ) April 30, 2010 at 9:55 am I recently submitted a guest post to a much larger blog.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 14, 2010

In this post, I share some of Neil’s writing tips that can help scribes of all levels. This is perhaps my most important rule of thumb, whether writing books, blog posts, or emails. Write down anything, and I mean *anything*, that would potentially be a new blog post, book idea, promotion, whatever.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 11, 2010

One of those old friends is Rebecca Laffar-Smith, who tossed me a guest post that I think carries a pretty cool message worth thinking about. We’ve all heard the hype that every business must have a blog. You’re right, blogs aren’t right for every business. Kiesha @ WeBlogBetter´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Like Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars, corrupted by what he fought against, bloggers and business hopefuls obliviously walk the same path as the fated Dark Lord of the Sith. 99% of LD bloggers are just making it up as they go along. The same goes for bloggers blogging about blogging. Nathan Hangen´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2010

Should bloggers start charging for content? So here are a few of the things we can do, as bloggers, to address this issue – and many more issues we all face together. As for a Blogging Revolution, I believe that change comes from within. Don’t turn your back on the name necessarily, but stop thinking of yourself as a blogger.

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