Comments on: The Successful Freelancer: Improving Your Client-facing Message https://wordsonpageblog.com/2015/02/the-successful-freelancer-improving.html a freelance writing resource. Sat, 03 Feb 2018 18:03:31 +0000 hourly 1 By: Weekly translation favorites (Feb 20-Mar 5) https://wordsonpageblog.com/2015/02/the-successful-freelancer-improving.html#comment-17236 Sat, 03 Feb 2018 18:03:31 +0000 http://loriwidmer.com/wordsonpage/index.php/2015/02/the-successful-freelancer-improving.html/#comment-17236 […] Media Profile How to Attract Great Clients With LinkedIn Show and tell: Google Analytics made easy Improving Your Client-facing Message How To Be A Google Power Searcher How to fire your […]

]]> By: Paula https://wordsonpageblog.com/2015/02/the-successful-freelancer-improving.html#comment-13874 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 22:18:52 +0000 http://loriwidmer.com/wordsonpage/index.php/2015/02/the-successful-freelancer-improving.html/#comment-13874 Oh – I think she's also the one who sent me an over written PR puff paragraph for me to use. Right. She sent it about 28 hours after my deadline (which was four days after her deadline). When I told her it was too late, she said, "I sent it last night!" Um. Too little, too late, and badly written. I said the best I could do was forward it on to my editor…who may have already edited that guy's entry (my list was alphabetical, and his last initial was high up in the A-B-C portion of the alphabet).

I guess this struck a chord when I read your post because that publicist tried making everything about her own needs and had no regard for the 30+ other people who managed to get the information in on time, or at least not after I'd turned it it, for me, or for my editors who have a very tight window to edit a massive list.

]]> By: Lori Widmer https://wordsonpageblog.com/2015/02/the-successful-freelancer-improving.html#comment-13873 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:48:29 +0000 http://loriwidmer.com/wordsonpage/index.php/2015/02/the-successful-freelancer-improving.html/#comment-13873 Huh? Paula, put me down under confused right along with you! What she says makes no damn sense.

It amazes me how some of these people get (and keep) their communications jobs.

]]> By: Paula https://wordsonpageblog.com/2015/02/the-successful-freelancer-improving.html#comment-13870 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:29:29 +0000 http://loriwidmer.com/wordsonpage/index.php/2015/02/the-successful-freelancer-improving.html/#comment-13870 Nice examples, Lori!

Just this week I encountered a publicist who couldn't define a sentence she herself wrote. I kid you not. So I asked if they had an old press release on that topic she could send to help me better understand what she was trying to tell me about. She said they didn't have a press release, and "that's just what it's called." That's just what WHAT is called?

Argh. And she's being paid to communicate company information to the press.

]]> By: Lori Widmer https://wordsonpageblog.com/2015/02/the-successful-freelancer-improving.html#comment-13869 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:15:40 +0000 http://loriwidmer.com/wordsonpage/index.php/2015/02/the-successful-freelancer-improving.html/#comment-13869 Thanks, Anne. Too many people oversell themselves, which means they're not focusing on what the clients want or need.

]]> By: Anne Wayman https://wordsonpageblog.com/2015/02/the-successful-freelancer-improving.html#comment-13868 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:55:30 +0000 http://loriwidmer.com/wordsonpage/index.php/2015/02/the-successful-freelancer-improving.html/#comment-13868 "Stop talking about yourself" is outstanding advice…

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