Men With Pens

JULY 4, 2010

But figuring out your writing voice isn’t easy. It’s especially hard for new writers to find their writing voice, because they already feel awkward having their work in the spotlight and subject to public approval. Maybe you’ve struggled with finding your writing voice yourself. This doesn’t feel right.

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Men With Pens

JULY 1, 2012

One solution that many probloggers tout as the answer is to write an ebook. They’re also a great way to wow business clients with your portfolio. Customize the digital project on the site with live links, ads, meta tags, branding, etc. When she’s not doing that, she’s writing poetry or editing her first novel. EditionDuo.

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Men With Pens

MAY 26, 2010

If your writing ever starts to feel like a daily grind, it’s time to STOP. I’m not saying that you should stop writing for good. You’d lose a crucial part of your life (and your income, if your writing forms all or part of your paid work). When you sit down to write, do you feel excited?

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Men With Pens

APRIL 15, 2010

She’s perky, she’s a go-getter, and she’s all over the place in the blogosphere writing some great advice. She told me that my writing style had really improved over the past couple of years. Something similar has happened with my fiction writing. There are no clear measures of writing ability.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 14, 2010

Phil can write! As I began writing books and blogging myself, I developed an entirely new appreciation for Peart’s genius that affects my writing to this very day. In this post, I share some of Neil’s writing tips that can help scribes of all levels. Forget writing well. Just write, before it gets away.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

If you want to make a career of writing, should you look for a full-time job in a company or strike out on your own as a freelancer? I know plenty of people who prefer having a writing job working for one company. Let’s take a look at some of the pros and cons of employee and freelance writing. I know writing looks easy.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 8, 2010

FreeMind helps you to keep track of your projects using notes with links in what is called the knowledge base. Nozbe This is a web-based time and project management app that helps you get things done. Organize your projects and see what you have left to do. Makes editing, storing and searching data easy.

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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

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. And you get to take care of yourself.

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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. Write down boundaries that would help you get more work done.

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Men With Pens

JULY 14, 2010

And you can become visible by getting involved in your professional community, attending trade association meetings, entering industry contests and award shows, writing articles, giving speeches, publishing an informative blog , generating news about your business, and staying in touch with former clients. You have to be visible.

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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

MAY 11, 2010

What we write, when we write, how we write it and who writes it. 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! At least I’m writing something, right?

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Men With Pens

JULY 7, 2010

1) Write a brief. Writing a brief has a number of benefits. By taking the time to write down exactly what you want to accomplish, you’re much more likely to get a good product and avoid expensive rework because of miscommunications. Trust freelancers to see the project through. 2) Treat them with respect.

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Men With Pens

MAY 9, 2010

The never-fail secret to making sure your client is thrilled with the web copy you write 99.999% of the time. And we realized that we generally asked more or less the same questions for each type of project. Not only does it help me nail the project, but it also gives me ideas for other services I can offer to clients.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 17, 2010

Three Ways to Get a Rush from Your Writing Reply Carson Brackney ( @carsonbrackney ) January 18, 2010 at 10:31 am Reason #5: Competition turns into collaboration and referrals. Three Ways to Get a Rush from Your Writing Reply Offpeak Design ( @OffpeakDesign ) January 18, 2010 at 3:06 pm Just starting a business blog and appreciate the advice.

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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. Made progress tonight on the design spec… Want to write for us? Karen Marcus´s last blog.

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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. Made progress tonight on the design spec… Want to write for us?

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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. Don’t freak out that you don’t have a project to work on.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 13, 2010

I think writing copy is a little like being a lawyer. You have to rely on your client to give you the information you need and write on faith. Now, if you know something is a lie, you have to make a personal decision about whether you want to write the copy. James: Do you ever feel guilty writing sales copy? Dean: No.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 6, 2010

People want to see your portfolio, your testimonials, and your professional-looking website. If you want your blog to get a whole lot more readers, you should think about taking a class in how to write better articles and be noticed on the web. Writing has given me an advanced education. That’s right. You’re a freelancer.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 25, 2010

I’m happiest when he says nice things like, “It’s fun to write for your readers – I feel like I can let loose in a way I don’t in other places.&# One of the worst mistakes copywriters make is to assume their job is about writing. After all, the word “writing” is in the word “copywriting.” It’s not.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 9, 2010

Would you search online for Anne Potter before writing her an email? How to write your bio and About page without driving yourself crazy Reply Annabel March 10, 2010 at 8:04 am You hit the most important reasons, James. Wink wink ; ) James is the best- writing content for my site saved me. Most people would. URL please?

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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

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. After all, we wrote Write for the Web years ago. We have learned nothing since then. It’s all lies, we tell you. Vicious lies.

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Men With Pens

JULY 21, 2010

The writing life doesn’t come off as requiring courage. 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. You write a hundred words, five hundred, a thousand. You write more and more and more. Probably not.

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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. Start setting aside 10% of your earnings from every project you work on. Heather Villa ( @IAC_Heather ) March 15, 2010 at 7:08 am Thanks for writing this James. It’s called making an investment. That’s the big point here. Then hire one.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 22, 2009

My 2010 New Year’s resolutions include more writing. Thanks for all of your excellent advice on writing and blogging. 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. Thanks for making this a great year.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

I was having a conversation with Deb Ng of Freelance Writing Gigs on Twitter , and I smirked at her comment. We blog our hearts out, pouring creativity, knowledge and advice into each post we write. It’s the reason why we put in effort to write worthy posts that each take an hour or two to create. “We get to retire?

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I have to keep accepting these projects!” Even after I decide I have all my projects lined up for the month, I still want to accommodate them. It’s not pretty for anyone involved and ends up being a disservice to your clients when you’re rushing around trying to please and complete projects for too many people.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2010

I couldn’t write. I could write. I tried writing the mid-sections first, thinking I’d work on the intro after, but that didn’t help. I couldn’t write easily, and it felt like a dirty little secret. I couldn’t write easily, and it felt like a dirty little secret. Not blog posts, though.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 11, 2010

And many online copywriters are thrilled to land a new blogging gig – so thrilled they rarely pause to wonder if writing for their client’s blog is really the best investment of that person’s marketing budget. Have you ever considered how your time could more effectively benefit your client by not writing for their blog?

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Men With Pens

JUNE 30, 2010

Thomas was one of those people, and he wanted to write for the introverts amongst you. Freelance writing requires you to take responsibility for yourself in a way that other jobs don’t. And you went the whole week without an ounce of inspiration to fuel your writing. The result was some pretty good advice.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 8, 2010

Most of us don’t write out information like, “Hi, I’ve died,&# while we’re here and able, but perhaps we should. Write something up, just in case. Write down a master list somewhere of all the links to important sites and the usernames and passwords to them. So go ahead.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 9, 2010

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. Now, back to the current project Reply Sally B ( @snappysentences ) June 10, 2010 at 5:16 am Oh Amy I can totally relate to this post.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Most have one thing in common: the authors don’t have the expertise or – perhaps worse – the qualifications to write on the subject. All because many authors write from their personal experience alone, which does not make them qualified to provide advice or help to others. If not, move on to something else.

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Men With Pens

MAY 23, 2010

So many, in fact, that I decided to write a post about it. That way, you’ll have a much better chance of us thinking you actually can write or design. Check out these: Our very own eguide, Write for the Web , lets you learn how to start your own freelance writing business so you can start pitching for those gigs – and win them.

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