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Writers Guide to Choosing a Trade Show
What’s on the iPod: The Wrestle by Frightened Rabbit It’s been a nice, short week for me. I was off on Monday, and now I’m in Cape May enjoying some time off. Okay, as a hurricane bears down, but it’s an adventure, and it means I’m not in front of a project. It’s been a…
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5 Ways to Manage Client Upset
What’s on the iPod: Free Fallin’ by Tom Petty Busy week, albeit a short one since my husband and I are finally going to take that vacation we’ve been putting off. Sadly, it’s just four days, but it’s four I don’t have to think about projects or money or anything beyond relaxing. After the weekend…
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Pope-apalooza
I’m Poped. It was a long, tiring, glorious weekend in which I experienced many firsts. The first time I’ve ever seen a city completely shut down to vehicle traffic. The first time major highways were closed. The first time train service was running just two time periods a day. The first time I’ve ever seen…
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Your Freelance Career Evaluation
What’s on the iPod: Naked Kids by Grouplove Today’s my TGIF (TGIT?). I’m taking tomorrow and Monday as we have this guy from Argentina showing up, and about a million of us are going to the city on Sunday to greet him…. Pope madness. It’s not the visit itself that’s created the madness (though it’s…
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The Worst Freelance Writing Career Roadblock
What’s on the iPod: Misfits and Lovers by The Wallflowers Progress. That’s how last week ended. I’d made significant progress on a white paper project, and I hope to have it finished by Wednesday. Good thing — I have two more projects starting up, and a third that will show up right when I don’t…
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7 Ways to Vet a Writing Course
Today is going to be busy. I have plenty of interviews to go over for a white paper, and some research to finish up. Plus, writers group is here tonight. Not only do I need to clean — I need to write something to present. Behind the scenes here at the blog, I’m busy putting…
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The Letter of Introduction, Simplified
Thanks to everyone who showed up for the Marketing Q&A webinar hosted by Jake Poinier! It was a great conversation and I hope you took something actionable away from it. We promise to do it again soon. We had some really interesting conversation in the webinar, too. With 54 people in attendance, the questions were…
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Free Advice Friday: Your Freelance Prospecting List
What’s on the iPod: Hardliners by Holcomb Waller For a week that has just a few items on the to-do list, it’s kept me busy. Yesterday I talked with a new client and started in on their project almost immediately. Today, I continue that, plus I’ll be starting a draft for another client and talking…
