Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

On the one hand, you want your potential clients to think you’re savvy and cool, totally worth hiring, because that’s what you’re trying to accomplish with your website copy. 19 Responses to “Are You Too Tough With Your Website Copy?&# Are you making these 7 freelance website mistakes? How about your copy? Surprising, eh?

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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. Consider what you’d like for your website, your blog or your online business if you were to pass on. 58 Responses to “What Happens to Your Website If You Die?&#

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Men With Pens

APRIL 8, 2010

The Internet is home to many tools that will assist you in saving your favorite websites, keeping track of your appointments, making mind maps, taking notes and creating notes to keep you on track. TiddlyWiki Use this wiki as a collaboration tool, for taking notes, making websites or whatever else you need to do in order to stay organized.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 11, 2010

It’d be nice to have a website, but I don’t really need one. I’d like a website, but I’m having a hard time justifying the expense.&# He needed to know more about why he should spend money on a website he didn’t really need. Then he asks my client for his website address. Having a website?

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

You were supposed to deliver this project at 5pm and you’re almost finished but… A new email comes in. Hire yourself, and assign yourself a project. Pick a project that will help further your success. For example, you could redesign your website so it appeals to more clients and lessens your advertising costs.

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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. 5 Ways to Trim the Fat from Your Next Project Reply --Deb ( @__Deb ) April 25, 2010 at 12:43 pm Oh, this is just hilarious. I find this easier then setting myself a deadline for the individual project. Just relax.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 4, 2010

If you ever decide to take a break to work on a project or to get some much-needed rest, good freelancers like Joe could take over other projects you have on the go for a week or two. Let Joe take on all the coding that goes into a project while you work on the design side of things. Launch a new website.

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Men With Pens

JULY 14, 2010

That means specializing by industry (such as high-tech or health care), medium (such as websites or social media), or an area of expertise (such as education or publishing). You should become an authority in your field, deliver outstanding service with every project, and stay up-to-date in your chosen specialty. So, who are you?

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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! I’m now in the process of tweaking, rewriting, adding bonuses and doing a separate website to launch it in a big way mid-june.

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Men With Pens

MAY 19, 2010

They work on projects, they do their own customer service, their own customer management, their marketing and networking, their project scheduling, admin and bookkeeping. Perception is projection – people see us in the way we project ourselves to them. They have to stay on top of everything. Carl Johnson´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

JULY 7, 2010

And for the freelancer, a clear statement of the project that includes understandable objectives, requirements and specific deliverables, helps focus his time and resources on the task at hand, instead of trying to figure out what you need. Trust freelancers to see the project through. Let freelancers do their job. 6) Thank them.

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Men With Pens

JULY 4, 2010

You’ll know your own writing voice and you’ll also be able to take on several different voices easily, which lets you take on more projects and jobs. Nabeel | Create Your First Website July 5, 2010 at 3:19 am Great advice and points James. Finish the project!!!) Think of adjectives that define your personality.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 16, 2010

I took a break and made some food and thought about getting started on that new project. Now imagine this one: “I got up and immediately sat down and wrote down a bunch of new ideas that I had for that project. Two hours of work, and then you can get moving on that awesome new project that’s going to make you rich and famous.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 3, 2010

I just recently began turning projects down (and oh my – the stress relief!). repeatedly reschedule meetings, fail to send promised information) to bring the project to a grinding halt once you drop everything for them. I had a client who needed a website content update that was going to take 3 weeks. Powered by frugal

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Men With Pens

MARCH 1, 2010

If you don’t give yourself one, you’ll subconsciously start creating your own breaks – by cutting corners, skimping on quality, rushing projects. You’ll have more revisions than usual, and that takes time away from projects that earn you money. A MUST READ for profitable website designers WITH PRIDE!

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Men With Pens

APRIL 6, 2010

People want to see your portfolio, your testimonials, and your professional-looking website. Deadlines seem to be my best motivator and with a self-imposed structure, I’m not sure self-education would force itself into my schedule in the way that projects with due dates do. Especially since no one cares about your degree.

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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. But I managed to finish the project by self-discipline. Excellent post.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 25, 2010

When you write websites, ads, white papers, or other business materials, readers simply want information. For example, if you’re a liberal and you’re writing web copy for a conservative website, you have to abandon your own views and immerse yourself in the world view of people who think differently. How do you avoid this?

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 17, 2010

I can’t count the number of times over the years that someone else in my market space–a competitor, if you will–has approached me to work on a project with them or to take care of something for one of their clients that they can’t do. I’ve reached out to competitors to offer job opportunities, as well.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 13, 2010

I’ve turned down a few projects because I knew they were scams or they used unethical tactics. As a rule, I can work for about 3 hours on one project before getting a little loopy, so I move on to something else in the afternoon. James: Think back to a project when you’d done a really great job – an awesome job.

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Men With Pens

MAY 9, 2010

And we realized that we generally asked more or less the same questions for each type of project. Cancer Crab Reply Chris Mower ( @firesamurai ) May 10, 2010 at 11:16 am I’ll be honest, I don’t have a pre-project questionnaire, though I do have one for after the project is complete. Except the times when we didn’t.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 11, 2010

Rebecca hosts a community of writers with the Writer’s Round-About Collaborative Blogging Project and encourages writers to do less for more by creating efficient routines and eliminating unnecessary procedures. A MUST READ for profitable website designers WITH PRIDE! Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 20, 2009

How do you tell your clients that you need an extension on a project because you’re sick? They won’t be shocked and dismayed when you finally do announce there’s no way in hell you can get out of bed and that their project is going to be late. If a client gets sick, you can bet the project gets pushed back. Scheduling helps.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 14, 2010

It’s to get you new clients, new projects, new referrals and better success – quickly. A website critique , a business consult , or a copywriting audit gives you a substantial report packed with info and suggestions for improvements for one a flat fee. Start setting aside 10% of your earnings from every project you work on.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

How to get paid what you’re worth for every single project you write. • Spiritually, ecumenically, grammatically." - Captain Jack Sparrow Home | Services | About | Comment Policy | Disclosure | Contact Copyright © 2006 - 2010 30 Sous Zero Inc. How to land your first client, even if you’ve never written anything for the web before. •

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I have to keep accepting these projects!” 9 business-boosting benefits of a freelance website Reply Kenji Crosland ( @KenjiCrosland ) November 25, 2009 at 11:42 am I like the idea of communicating your business hours to people. Even after I decide I have all my projects lined up for the month, I still want to accommodate them.

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Men With Pens

JULY 21, 2010

Nabeel | Create Your First Website July 22, 2010 at 2:48 am Wow.Excellent article! It is exhilarating to finally be able to put a URL in the website box. I did NaNo in 2007, thinking of doing it again this year, depending what stage my other writing projects are at. You’ll soon be swinging blades along with her.

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Men With Pens

MAY 23, 2010

DON’T point to a really bad website. Speaking of links, if you have an ugly website with horrible copy that doesn’t reflect your skills, please don’t tell us. A poor-copy website with a tacky, broken design is kind of like pulling down your pants – at the wrong time. Request, that is. Powered by frugal

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 22, 2009

I come by regularly for a jump start to my daily blog, and I’m hoarding ideas for a big writing project I’m starting in January. 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

JUNE 9, 2010

If that overnight success has a website, look at his blog archives. But there is something sexy about completing a project that you’re proud of and that results in a happy client who refers you to someone else while you cash his cheque at your bank. Think back to that overnight success you envied. Thanks for the Stumble and Digg!

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 14, 2010

Website In A Weekend: Thursday evening – Get into the gate Reply Justin ( @justinmckean ) January 15, 2010 at 3:04 am Rush=win. Like my hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, I start a lot of projects and then get sidetracked. Not just emotionally, intellectually. Dave Doolin´s last blog. You’re dead on, man. Justin´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

You’ll work on a wide variety of projects for lots of different clients. You have to find a way to generate leads and close deals to get the paying projects. You will find yourself juggling multiple projects and clients. You can write for 2-3 hours a day and earn $100K. Variety is the spice of freelancing. Variety, yes.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 13, 2010

I have people following me on Twitter who say things like, “Hey, if you’re looking for new writing markets, you should try this website.” If someone finds my website, and OPT’S IN, then they are a warm lead. kind of the reason I didn’t provide my website address, links, etc… Thanks for reading!

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Men With Pens

APRIL 22, 2010

Confidence and the lack thereof play major rolls in business… one specific example is when determining a project bid or what to charge per hour. I love this website, one of my Favs. Chris Mower ( @firesamurai ) April 23, 2010 at 1:21 am Hey! Great post, seriously. You hit right where I am with your post. Powered by frugal

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Men With Pens

APRIL 15, 2010

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. I do try to keep big projects to a minimum: at the moment, a novel and my own blog Aliventures. Ali Hale´s last blog. Powered by frugal

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

They destroy websites, businesses and even lives. 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. Project Management and Editorial Calendars for Freelance Writers Reply Kathleen K. Those we can spot a mile away.

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Men With Pens

JULY 18, 2010

Sidebar 1 Reply Nabeel | Create Your First Website July 19, 2010 at 3:52 am Great comparison with Equestrians! Also makes you more likely to clear the jump (project) you’re going over because you’re not hyper focused on it. Rebecca´s last blog. I really liked all 4 comparisons and lessons. Yup, this is true. . #2

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