Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

The Pros and Cons Written by Agent X - 30 Comments Here’s a great slam-dunk post for you from my respected friend and international copywriting authority, Dean Rieck of Direct Creative and Pro Copy Tips. You’ll work on a wide variety of projects for lots of different clients. Enjoy – it’s a good one! Good question.

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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. Wanderlusting ( @Wanderlustingkh ) May 27, 2010 at 1:13 am Great post. Reply Mary E.

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Men With Pens

MAY 11, 2010

Any projects you’d like to drop hints about? Matthew : Big Red Tomato Company ( @Bigredtomato ) May 12, 2010 at 3:33 am Well, that’s an awful lot of awesomeness to deliver in a few short months and weeks! How not to receive feedback Reply Karen Putz ( @DeafMom ) May 12, 2010 at 8:43 am You guys never cease to amaze me!

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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 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. Especially since no one cares about your degree. That’s right. You’re a freelancer.

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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

JUNE 6, 2010

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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Men With Pens

JUNE 27, 2010

Maquis June 28, 2010 at 1:16 am I’ll admit that I’ve definitely learned the hard way that sleep deprivation can be physically painful. Reply Þórey Ómars ( @thoreyo ) June 28, 2010 at 2:04 am Hi James. If anyone can get you sleeping your way to success, they can. First off… @Maquis: sleeping *more* as a new mom?

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 10, 2010

Michael Martine ( @remarkablogger ) January 11, 2010 at 1:34 am There’s another kind of “wrongness.&# Why To Blog As Yourself (Even if That’s Not What You Sell) Reply Dave Doolin ( @websiteweekend ) January 11, 2010 at 3:22 am Yeah, I don’t have to like someone to trust them. You’re dangerous.

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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

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. Actual books.

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One of the kinds of work projects I was pitching on was obviously book covers, and I started getting quite a good rate on the covers. That was in about 2010 or so. It was just me doing book covers, and I was fortunate in that because of the way I'd done things before, I had quite an extensive portfolio of book covers.

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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. Nabeel | Create Your First Website June 21, 2010 at 3:58 am Great post. You’re a good writer already.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 9, 2010

OConnor ( @ocopy ) March 10, 2010 at 7:52 am It helps businesses better control their reputations online. Reply Stacey Cornelius ( @thestudiosource ) March 10, 2010 at 7:53 am A well thought-out website can show your customers you’re tuned into their needs. They’re all small business owners. Can you think of other reasons?

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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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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. Chris Mower ( @firesamurai ) April 16, 2010 at 1:20 am “No one assigns you experience points or notes when you’ve leveled up.&# And often you won’t.

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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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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? Peter Shallard - The Shrink for Entrepreneurs ( @petershallard ) July 12, 2010 at 1:55 am This is a thoughtful post.

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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

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. John Hewitt ( @poewar ) February 26, 2010 at 1:20 am I agree with the central point of the article. And it should always recommend that readers seek professional help.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 11, 2010

Chris Mower ( @firesamurai ) April 12, 2010 at 1:34 am Spot on. 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. I Need to Take a Picture Reply Jake Johnson April 12, 2010 at 10:31 am I think this is right on.

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Men With Pens

JULY 1, 2012

While the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported a 125% increase in digital magazine readership from 2010 to 2011 for consumer magazines, AdAge reported in March 2012 that the jump still only accounts for 1% of total paid and verified circulation. They’re also a great way to wow business clients with your portfolio. Translation?

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2010

Jordan Cooper ( @NotAProBlog ) January 4, 2010 at 2:38 am Amen, James! Dumb People Click On Links Reply Michael Martine ( @remarkablogger ) January 4, 2010 at 2:50 am This would be that conversation you were talking about. Ten Steps to Rock Your Business Blog in 2010 Reply J.D. We just have to wake up and realize it.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

How to get paid what you’re worth for every single project you write. • Should said person who may have or may not have purchased something in the past present a receipt via email to Mr. James Pen Man (who of course does not exist either), said person would receive a beautiful, lovely free copy of the ebook that doesn’t exist.

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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. Amy Harrison´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

MAY 23, 2010

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. Get your copy today. Reply --Deb ( @__Deb ) May 24, 2010 at 7:45 am Yeah, see?

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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. Gather round me, children, for I am about to speak a word of power. Except the times when we didn’t. Works a treat.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Fortunately for me, I’m not in it to get rich, it’s simply a way to establish public credibility and build my own intellectual property portfolio. It’s an ongoing press release, article marketing, a free full-page newspaper ad, it’s an interactive portfolio, etc. And I’m not too worried about it either.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 23, 2010

Why don’t you answer a couple of questions for us about who you really are, and we’ll use that information to make your web copy sound more like you? They don’t know the reasons, or they don’t have the ability we have to work them into their own web copy. Answer: I am someone who gives 110% to every project.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 1, 2009

It’s about fan bases more than project per project, so people grow with you and they grow through you. Cory Doctorow) – give away the text for free, and count on people liking it so much that they’ll buy a copy of your book anyway. It’s just a way of making a personal update. And you grow through them.

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