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Authoritative Website Copy | Men With Pens

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The Newtonian Laws Of Business – The First Law Reply Dean Rieck ( @DeanRieck ) November 30, 2009 at 10:39 am This sort of aggressive copy works for certain products and certain buyers, generally for self-help and get-rich-quick. Whereas, when you firmly promote your knowledge, you exude confidence. Your life is crap! Definitely not.

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Imperfection is a good thing | Men With Pens

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My Crazy Simple 7 Step Plan To Promote A New Post Reply Marlene ( @mo_flow ) April 21, 2010 at 12:16 pm This post is well timed for me. My blog is just a little newborn baby and this serves as a great reminder: although my intention is to share how-to information, I don’t need to always sound like an authority.

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Are You Interfering With Your Readers' Lives?

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Despite being well written, the information was dangerously misleading and in several areas, false. Self-help manuals and do-it-yourself user guides. I’m not talking about the manuals that promote get-rich-quick schemes or dodgy products peddled by snake-oil salespersons. But a good self-help book knows its own limits.

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How NOT to Get the Freelance Job - and What to Do | Men With Pens

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A job ad is there to give you useful, helpful information so that you can see if you’re a good match and to help you apply in a way that doesn’t annoy the hell out of us. When the job ad says email us with information and samples, don’t tweet us and say, “Just click here.&# DON’T have low self-esteem.

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Free Blog Posts | Men With Pens

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Who started this myth that information and knowledge should be free? Once the amount of information completely overwhelms anyone’s ability to process it, people will pay for trust. I see one of two things, a blogger, who is paid to write content that promotes the services or products of another individual or business (ie.

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