Men With Pens

JUNE 27, 2010

Our ability to produce creative quality on just five hours sleep is a badge of honour that’s applauded and lauded! It’s easier to get frustrated or discouraged when you’re lacking snooze-time, and you might find yourself struggling for creative ideas or feeling snappish with clients – the guys who pay your bills, remember?

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Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2010

Had I lost my creativity? Want to overcome writers block and unleash your creativity? 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. So I kept my problem to myself and pretended everything was fine.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 6, 2010

People want to see your portfolio, your testimonials, and your professional-looking website. Colleen ( @tixrus ) April 7, 2010 at 1:37 am As Tara said on True Blood, “school is for white people who want some one to read the books to them and tell em what it means. Especially since no one cares about your degree. That’s right.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 24, 2012

Your blog is your portfolio. It is my online portfolio, which I can give as an example to organizations before I’m even at the interview stages. Post videos to present the brilliance of your last feature film project. Use your own creativity to think of something different. There are countless methods.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 14, 2010

Jordan Cooper ( @NotAProBlog ) January 15, 2010 at 1:17 am As a stand-up comic, I could attest to this wholeheartedly. Building an Army with Nicholas Cardot of Site Sketch 101 Reply Dave Doolin ( @websiteweekend ) January 15, 2010 at 2:36 am This article made me think about my own writing. You won’t. Dave Doolin´s last blog.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 12, 2011

Last year, he became community manager of the Beyond Blogging Project and moderated the Treating Your Blog Like a Business panel at BlogWorld. Johnny B Truant was among with first with his Bad Ass Project. I can see Matt’s project having a much wider reach. She wrote an ebook about her BlogWorld 2010 experience.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

These are all extremely lengthy projects. In an online world, such projects are not exactly commonplace. I thought I’d share my personal method for organizing much longer projects just in case one of you gets hit up tomorrow for a ghostwriting project. Up to now, how have you been organizing your big projects?

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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. Something similar has happened with my fiction writing.

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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? It takes time, energy, skills, money, creativity and consistency to make it work. Comments Read below or add a comment.

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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

JULY 7, 2010

For example, hiring a creative consultant can bring fresh ideas and the alternative perspective you need to get your business from good to great. When the project is finished, if you think the price was too much for what was delivered, tell them why you didn’t see the value you expected. And as a freelancer myself, I approve!

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Men With Pens

APRIL 22, 2010

Chris Mower ( @firesamurai ) April 23, 2010 at 1:21 am Hey! 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. Smokvica, masline, slavlje i još nešto… Reply Annie Stith ( @Gr8fulAnnie ) April 23, 2010 at 6:43 am Hey, Nathan!

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Glad this is helping, and it’ll serve you as you move forward, eithe with the next draft of your NaNoWriMo manuscript, or your next project. Anything that encourages creativity (even for its own sake) is wonderful and worth supporting. Anything that encourages creativity is a good thing. Thanks all. Powered by frugal

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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! Kindest, Nabeel Reply Charles July 22, 2010 at 3:14 am ^^ Like Nabeel, I was immersed too, great writing. Kindest, Nabeel Reply Charles July 22, 2010 at 3:14 am ^^ Like Nabeel, I was immersed too, great writing. You are absolutely right.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2010

If you give clients a freebie or cut them a ridiculously good deal (even if you’re trying to build your portfolio or help a friend), then you’re sending the message that you and your skills come cheap. These clients will only sap your creativity and eat up time that could be spent finding Mr. Right. What do you think?

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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 19, 2009

Has Social Media Cheapened Creative Talent? For example, we have menwithpens.ca, but we also have capturingfantasy.com They’re “related&# , in that it’s about writing, but one is about business and one is about creative fiction. That would get tired fast and your creativity would suffer! @ sized projects.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 27, 2010

Tehillah Hessler ( @thessler ) April 28, 2010 at 3:10 am EXCELLENT ARTICLE! Reply Mike CJ ( @mikecj ) April 28, 2010 at 4:00 am A little late for me, this one. Reply Nathan Hangen ( @nhangen ) April 28, 2010 at 5:47 am It’s really easy to misunderstand email, Tweets, and everything in between.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 22, 2009

May 2010 knock your socks off even more than did 2009! You NEED this to start 2010 off RIGHT – Save BIG on …. Here’s to 2010! My 2010 New Year’s resolutions include more writing. I am looking forward to what you will teach me in 2010. Looking forward to more good stuff in 2010. Just because?

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I have to keep accepting these projects!” Shutting down the site Reply Learn Creative Visualization ( @learnLCV ) November 25, 2009 at 11:47 am Good reminder, I am not exercising at all. Learn Creative Visualization´s last blog. Then you are not being realistic when it comes to your business. And you can’t keep it up.

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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

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. Tim Gordon June 10, 2010 at 3:59 am Informative article you got there. Will Creativity Build or Break your Business? It taught me a lot.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

We blog our hearts out, pouring creativity, knowledge and advice into each post we write. It’s long-term, it’s tiring, it’s creatively exhausting and it’s completely unpaid. It’s an ongoing press release, article marketing, a free full-page newspaper ad, it’s an interactive portfolio, etc.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 23, 2010

Answer: I am someone who gives 110% to every project. Melinda | SuperWAHM ( @Superwahm1 ) March 24, 2010 at 6:44 am Real life interviews are awesome for getting that kind of information out of someone. What we get often sounds more like this: Question: What kind of person are you? I work well in teams and independently. Team player?

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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. Melinda | SuperWAHM ( @Superwahm1 ) May 10, 2010 at 1:48 am I use a questionnaire for my coaching clients and it works brilliantly – I’ve used one for the last four years or so. Except the times when we didn’t. Works a treat.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 1, 2009

This person caught my attention years ago with his creative words, his ability to reach out and touch people and his perseverance. (Oh, His work and creative career stirred my curiosity. If you really, really want to invest time into creativity, you have to have money coming in from somewhere. Wait, what?!

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