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. I’ll go check out that post now; you have me curious. (PS Rahman Mehraby | Online Marketing Blog´s last blog.

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APRIL 25, 2010

Reply Maranda Gibson ( @accuconference ) April 26, 2010 at 12:51 pm Haha — I’m laughing out loud because I’m reading this instead of working on my next blog post, ironically enough about procrastination. Tyrean´s last blog. But now I really want to see that monkey video. Thanks for the laughs this AM.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

I normally take a week off from full client projects every couple of months to work on my own stuff, improve my blog, portfolio and marketing. Amber Weinberg´s last blog. It helps in the long run as I’ll often continue getting new clients, even when I’m swamped and not really marketing. Powered by frugal

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MAY 11, 2010

At my blog, I admit I use a less professional tone than Men with Pens, but I love to visit here to see how it’s done really well. For now, I’m just excited to have been blogging for a year, and improving a little each day on this adventure. I think we’ve all arrived at a very special place. Powered by frugal

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JULY 14, 2010

Robert July 15, 2010 at 2:56 am Great blog post. You can’t just wait for people to come knocking at your door and you know what they say about opportunity … Reply Sally B ( @snappysentences ) July 15, 2010 at 5:24 am Nice post Dean. Youll be praising the gods of great info! Powered by frugal

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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. Little ebooks. But we also get requests for huge ebooks – upwards of 50 pages. For publication. These are all extremely lengthy projects.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

MARCH 25, 2010

Reply Steve Logan ( @ImpactCopy ) March 26, 2010 at 11:02 am Great blog post. Matt Burgess´s last blog. Things that were delicious this week… 26 March, 2010 Reply susan ( @susanfinch ) March 26, 2010 at 9:02 pm I’ve never laughed so hard at a blog post. It can’t work miracles. I loved it!

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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

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 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 25, 2010

It’s great that blogs let people voice opinions and share them with others, but I think bloggers could use a good dose come-back-down-to-earth with a dash of humble tossed in. Posting opinions just make us people with opinions. Tom McCallum´s last blog. Not thought leaders. Now, opinions are good. I hope not.

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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. I think we have all experienced overnight success as bloggers. Keep working hard and with passion for your current clients and keep trying to find new ones.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 11, 2010

Melinda: It sounds like many of your friends are the people I work with; the ones who think because they have a website they’re supposed to have a blog but they don’t really want to be bloggers. You’re right, blogs aren’t right for every business. Kiesha @ WeBlogBetter´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 8, 2010

My husband and daughter wouldn’t know where to start in dismantling or maintaining my little portfolio of sites. Reply Kathy | Virtual Impax ( @virtualimpax ) March 8, 2010 at 1:14 pm James… Wow – talk about a well timed blog post… a client of mine just passed away last week after a prolonged battle with cancer.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

I love this blog and now I love the guest bloggers too… Laya Bajpai´s last blog. Keep Following Through Reply Stormy ( @storming ) January 19, 2010 at 2:49 pm I too think you wrote a great blog post! Earlier it was all of what Dean has listed in the cons section and I always wished I had other options.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Online Gratitude Journal November 2009 Edition #35 Reply James ( @MenwithPens ) December 1, 2009 at 9:57 am @ Akemi – Many, many websites have copy that talks exactly like that, or have blog posts with that bullying tone. Surprising, eh? Phil – Swingers and getting drunk… Well now. Weekend entertainment?

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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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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

APRIL 13, 2010

If you want to “Give Your Lizard Marketing Brain a Boost&# read my blog post at [link] Reply Ed Gandia ( @EdGandia ) April 14, 2010 at 4:27 pm I love it when I meet someone at a networking function, we swap cards, and next thing I know, I’m getting their newsletter. Occasionally the answer is No. Powered by frugal

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 15, 2009

The fact that I’m a woman is on my company’s website and all over my blog posts. Why Feminism Is Pissing Me Off There have been a few blog posts and articles out there suggesting that James should have taken one for the team. As a freelancer, I haven’t found it necessary to put any effort into keeping my gender ambiguous.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 27, 2010

Things I didn’t get done that day, emails I meant to send, bills I haven’t paid, posts I haven’t written, product launch process – they all keep me awake in the wee small hours. The good part of waking up then is that I’ll often write whole blog posts or emails in my head, and they’re generally quite good.

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Men With Pens

MAY 30, 2010

gets all excited* I’ll have to write a blog post on that!! (Or 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? Or with as much confidence.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 21, 2010

With the vast number of sites out there, the reality is that a blog post, regardless of how original the topic may seem, likely has already been written. Josh Hanagarne´s last blog. Much better for a blogger Annemieke´s last blog. I think we’ve all arrived at a very special place. Powered by frugal

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Men With Pens

JUNE 20, 2010

But, when I’ve been really excited about a blog post, a poem or a snippit of story I’ve always caught myself reading it aloud. Spiritually, ecumenically, grammatically." - Captain Jack Sparrow Home | Services | About | Comment Policy | Disclosure | Contact Copyright © 2006 - 2010 30 Sous Zero Inc. Powered by frugal

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 19, 2010

We are Men with Pens, bad blog posts do not become us.” Victory – You would not believe how many of my titles for blog posts James rejects because he has no idea what they’re referencing. Buttercup: “We’ll never survive.” Westley: “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.”.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Some of you are thinking that I am nuttier than a Planter’s convention, but I assure you that this blog post was not made on machinery containing nuts. It wasn’t meant as an attack on this post specifically. With SOME bloggers. The same way some (NOT all) bloggers aren’t necessarily telling the whole story.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 1, 2009

I could see the parallels and similarities between his life and my own – and that of writers, freelancers and bloggers everywhere. But for bloggers or singers or artists who have digital material, there’s no control. Bloggers and writers have some rigid schedules they have to follow. Time to pursue that conversation.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Akemi – Yes to Me´s last blog. Rebecca Leaman´s last blog. 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? Powered by frugal

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