Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Another discussion was with an associate who said he saw freelance projects on Elance with bids of $50 for sales letters and $5 for blog posts. Charge hourly for long or uncertain projects. The uncertainty can take many forms: l You don’t know how long it’ll take you to complete a project. Working for $5?

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 19, 2012

During the holidays, most freelancers let their business fall off the priority list. Freelancers have a common problem that contributes to slow, struggling sales year round, and I see happening every day. Most freelancers have a terrible website. Most freelancers have a terrible website. Maybe the copy is terrible.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 10, 2023

There are rumours this is called Project Nile, and Jo Lambadjieva outlines what it might mean on AI for Ecommerce and Amazon Sellers. 2) Readers will be able to discover cross-genre and niche books more easily In 2006, Chris Anderson published The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 18, 2012

There comes a point in every freelance writer’s career where he simply can’t take it any more. All freelancers, at some point or another, deal with cabin fever. In my years of freelancing I’ve tried many of them and have found the ups and downs with each. It’s enough to make anyone go a little nuts.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 18, 2011

You pick your hours, your clients, and your projects. First you need time to develop your projects, work for your clients, create new ideas and grow your business. You also need money to invest in your projects and business. Copyright 2006 - 2010 30 Sous Zero Inc - All Rights Reserved. Fun times, eh? The solution?

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IT Freelance Projects Creativity 55

Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Each day this week, I’m going to write about how you can get more money, better clients and the work you really love to do – all it takes is the magic words, and you’ll be enjoying a freelance business that really rocks. You were supposed to deliver this project at 5pm and you’re almost finished but… A new email comes in.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Many people believe that businesses and freelancers should be as accessible as possible and in every medium that any client could ever want. That’s how hiring a freelancer works. I’m taking her call as a friend and as a favor, not as a colleague or a boss or a freelancer. I’m too busy or I don’t have the necessary skills.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 25, 2010

Ignorant of the purpose of your copy. In other words, even beautifully-crafted copy can go bad when you pay too much attention to how you say something and ignore the meaning of what you’re saying. However, they show what happens when you’re crafting copy for an audience about which you’re ignorant.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 25, 2010

You want to get it out of the way so you can start your writing project. Tweet about your writing project. He stays busy writing for his many clients and providing copywriting tips for smart copywriters at Pro Copy Tips. I find this easier then setting myself a deadline for the individual project. Could have been a dream.

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Men With Pens

MAY 11, 2010

Any projects you’d like to drop hints about? Consulting promotion in June, but our biggest project delivery to date will be the birth of our first child scheduled for June 19th…all go! For freelancers, that’s prime to do some marketing, make some tweaks and changes, build an info product and all kinds of good stuff.

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Copywriter Copywriting Entertainment Projects 43

Men With Pens

APRIL 6, 2010

Most freelancers have enough trouble scrapping together money for the rent without having to worry about paying another couple of tens of thousands. You’re a freelancer. If you keep seeing clients come to your sales page and run off without buying, you probably want to take a class in writing killer sales copy that converts.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 27, 2010

If you’re like many freelancers, you’re probably not sleeping well at all. We’re freelancers. The problem is that we freelancers all know healthy sleep habits are good for us. But many freelancers just don’t follow that oh-so-simple-and-sage advice. We’re supposed to be able to handle it.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 11, 2010

By offering guest post services to your clients, they’ll enjoy benefits such as: Their name on the lips of their competition Content that will be syndicated across MANY blogs More page views direct to their sales copy, higher conversions and targeted visitors There’s more you can offer your clients instead of blogging services.

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Men With Pens

MAY 26, 2010

While total writers’ block may be a reality for some individuals, for most of us we’re just stuck on a particular project. If you write for a living, you may well end up writing on projects that aren’t exactly thrilling to you. So far, I’ve never miss a deadline and I come up with a copy that my clients love.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 8, 2010

You may not think that your website, your blog, your freelance business, is something you need to think about in your last will and testament, but it is. Keep a copy handy and let executors know how to access this information so they can post it if they need to. Are You A Buttoned-Up or Buttoned-Down Freelance Writer?

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Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2010

I wrote web copy and ebooks and taglines and fiction and all kinds of writerly stuff. One of the greatest help to me in breaking through my stiff, “this is business’ muse was participating over at Creative Copy Challenge. Freelance Writers — Niche Specialization is the Key to Success Reply Mark W. I couldn’t write.

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Make a Living Writing

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Authors or publishers may submit three copies of a book published in 2022, and any poetry collections must be at least 42 pages. #6 Deadline: 28th February 2023 Prize: The winner will be awarded $3,000 plus 20 author copies are given annually for a first or second poetry collection. #8

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

These are all extremely lengthy projects. In an online world, such projects are not exactly commonplace. Usually copy comes in nice bite-sized chunks: a webpage, a blog post, an article, a press release. Using the materials as a guide, write down everything that might need to go in this project. Little ebooks.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

I went out on my own as a freelance camera operator after graduating from college, and that didn't really work very well. Then comics are really expensive, and they take forever, so I started writing books in the interim between comic projects. Is that why you favored graphic novels and why you still do a lot of very visual projects?

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

Brin is working on other, more personal projects that reach beyond Google.Brin and Page are trying to help solve the world’s energy and climate problems at Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, which invests in the alternative energy industry to find wider sources of renewable energy. 5 Sergey Brin: Founder of Google is worth $136.6

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 10, 2010

A new freelancer hears that this guy is an expert. So he goes to the website and lo and behold, this expert claims he knows everything about freelancing. Rob Fleming – Freelance Writer for Hire´s last blog. As you say, small tests, little tasks, minor projects… this is how everyone should test the waters.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Or work on passive income projects. People don’t want to pay for the music or the words, but they do want the souvenirs, the deluxe edition, the signed copy – the happy feeling from remembering a great concert, owning something most people don’t have, (that certain je ne sais quois). You would just blog.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 13, 2010

James: Do you feel there’s an “ethical&# type of copy and a “snake oil&# type of copy? I think writing copy is a little like being a lawyer. Now, if you know something is a lie, you have to make a personal decision about whether you want to write the copy. Writing sales copy is noble and necessary.

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Copywriter Copywriting Copy Banking 57

Men With Pens

JANUARY 5, 2012

We tend to get caught up trying to get things perfect … but this results in copy that’s either bland or trying too hard. If you’re a freelance writer, you might not have total control over what you write about – but you can choose to specialise in something that’s important to you. Don’t get hung up on how to express yourself.

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Men With Pens

JULY 1, 2012

Customize the digital project on the site with live links, ads, meta tags, branding, etc. Since you’re free to produce a digital flipbook at any frequency you desire (weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually, special projects or reports only, etc.), EditionDuo. The procedure: Design your PDF(s). Upload the final PDF file to the site.

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Most freelancers complain about needing 40 hours just to get everything done. When I picked up a copy of 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think by Laura Vanderkam, I did so because a Canadian Business reviewer had written, “I hate Laura.” I didn’t have enough time to work on projects I wanted to start. What friends?!

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

It doesn’t matter if you’re writing a poem, a short story, a novel, an article, website copy, marketing slogans, pamphlets, brochures, press releases, daily newspapers, or the best goddamned literary porn of all time. 5 Reasons Not to Criticize First Drafts first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 15, 2010

When I started freelancing full time, I also started a Masters degree in Creative Writing. If you let weeks slip by without writing or without working on that one project that really interests you, find half a day each week when you can really dig into your writing. But as a freelancer, I find it impossible to focus on just one genre.

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Income Diary

AUGUST 29, 2023

But fi r st , g r ab ou r Step-by-step guide to using AI and ChatGPT P ROMPTS to create copy that converts! (no Back in 2006, I wrote newspaper ads in my favorite café. I’ve been doing Empathy Mapping ever since because to me it’s the quickest, easiest way to write sales copy. – Or a marketing agency. Empathy Mapping.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 30, 2012

This post is by Ash Ambirge of The Middle Finger Project. I also happen to run a six-figure blog and business called The Middle Finger Project. I also happen to run a six-figure blog and business called The Middle Finger Project. The Middle Finger Project started as just that—a platform for attention. The vulgar one.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

It has an appropriate disclaimer – visible on the website and clearly mentioned in all promotional copy – if the author is not qualified in certain areas. I have read so many articles about freelancing and blogging and they have an essential sameness to them. And it should always recommend that readers seek professional help.

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Editorial Freelance Copywriter Copywriting 49

Men With Pens

APRIL 22, 2010

They say that good marketing depends on catchy headlines, great copy, and solid branding , and it does. What “They&# Aren’t Saying Write headlines and copy. What does it take, mentally, for you to write million-dollar headlines , bold copy, and recruit affiliates? Get branding. Find affiliates. All of that, yes.

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Marketing Creativity Copywriter Copywriting 62

Men With Pens

MARCH 9, 2010

I would add that for freelancers such as guitar teachers, a lot of people don’t want to pay cash or (god forbid) by check anymore, they’d rather go to your website and hit the PayPal button. … How’d you manage to get two copies?&# They’re all small business owners. So yesterday my buddy holds up a package.

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Website Advertising Portfolio Consulting 66

Men With Pens

APRIL 11, 2010

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. In the days of brick and mortar a nice building projected the I’m here to stay message. Chris Mower ( @firesamurai ) April 12, 2010 at 1:34 am Spot on.

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Website Copywriter Copywriting Electronics 63

Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

We did try to tell you there was nothing to this vicious rumor of a new, updated, expanded and generally awesome upgraded version of Write for the Web, your guide to becoming a freelance writer on the Internet. How to get paid what you’re worth for every single project you write. • The Unlimited Freelancer half-price?

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Freelance Copywriter Copywriting Writer 48

Men With Pens

JUNE 20, 2010

It’s all over the place, because plenty of experts (and not-so-experts) suggest reading aloud as a way to improve your work for sparkling copy. I know I write well, my posts get attention, my web copy sells. Since then, I read all my copy out loud. I know you’ve seen this writing tip before. Or are you? Reply Mary E.

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Men With Pens

JULY 11, 2010

Here’s a thought: What if that dropping readership, that dwindling traffic and that lack of discussion lets you invest your time in better projects, ones that help you get closer to your goals? The bonus is blogging allows me to practice something worthwhile – writing copy-driven articles. Joe Joe Bulger´s last blog.

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