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How to say no to clients | Men With Pens

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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. That shoemaker’s son has the same problem that many freelancers do – new and experienced both.

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How to Set Your Copywriting Fees and Earn What You’re Worth

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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. l You’re dealing with a project that is inherently vague, like generating “concepts&# for an advertising campaign. Guys, what in the wide world of sports are you thinking?

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Writer's Block - and One Trick to Beat It |

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I wrote web copy and ebooks and taglines and fiction and all kinds of writerly stuff. Peter Shallard - The Shrink for Entrepreneurs ( @petershallard ) June 7, 2010 at 1:15 am I’m gonna step in here and make a comment about what I think happened. I couldn’t write. Well, that’s not entirely true. I could write.

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Should You Go Back to School? | Men With Pens

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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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Why Your Digital Persona Begins with Humanity

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Like I said, it’s not a new concept. You, as a freelancer, don’t have to wait to publish a series before people come to know you. I’ve spent the last part of 2010 doing this and will be doing much more of it in 2011. There’s a small phenomenon happening on the web lately. Of course not.

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Do Clients Need to Like You to Buy? | Men With Pens

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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. Michael Martine ( @remarkablogger ) January 11, 2010 at 1:34 am There’s another kind of “wrongness.&# But why would they doubt you? So our guy listens attentively.

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Project Managment Planning Time | Men With Pens

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If you missed the first few posts, you can read them here: The intro to SMART freelancing The first key: Specific The second key: Measurable The third key: Agreed Upon The fourth key: Realistic Today is the last in the series of freelancing SMARTer, truly a bittersweet moment for me. In fact, I’d have to agree with you.