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5 Surefire Ways to Get Freelancing Clients | Men With Pens

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Well, if you have a relationship with a big name person or business, why not offer them some free work in exchange for a link or promotion? Second, it looks good to have a couple good causes on your resume. Offer pro-bono work for a big name Everybody loves free work, right? I think we’ve all arrived at a very special place.

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How to Wow Blog Editors (and Get Published) | Men With Pens

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Hours) Reply Issa ( @AjevaCom ) May 18, 2010 at 3:41 am I believe doing guest blogs is a great way to showcase your writing skills, specially when you’re promoting yourself as a freelance writer. Reminds me of people who send in resumes that are full of spelling mistakes or printed on pink paper. Jodi Kaplan´s last blog.

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

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Many freelancers don’t have to send their resumes to people anymore, so those degrees don’t see a lot of action, but they’re there, collecting dust on our walls. Do I write routinely about Policy and Management or about Labor Relations? Written by James - 69 Comments Many freelancers have university degrees. Wish I knew.

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Why You Need to Have More than Your Clients | Men With Pens

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What REALLY maddens me are my 20-something fellow karate dojo colleagues – they’re looking for jobs but tell them to put up a personal resume website to highlight their skills, and they react like a deer in the headlights. Reply Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach ( @barbaraling ) April 12, 2010 at 1:50 pm Totally agree with you.

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Fear of Success | Men With Pens

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He’s also currently working as a promoter and a waiter to pay the bills. It’s in our comment policies. That’s why I promote my site Imageisus.com the bigger it gets, the more I succeed. Is your resume a deal-killer Reply Go ahead. As for the tone… I have no problem with differing opinions on this blog.

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Taylor's a Feminist – But So Is James | Men With Pens

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I imagine at the time she knew just what a difference it would have made in her workplace to have been able to leave that question of gender unanswered when we were still at the resume stage of the proceedings. She didn’t have her own company yet, and she had been handing out resumes not that long ago herself. Not nearly.

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

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Any email that begins with, “I probably don’t have enough experience,&# “I’m not sure I’m what you’re looking for,&# or even “I’m sure you probably have much better writers sending in their resume,&# pretty much forces the reply, “You’re right. DO take a chance. Me: Why not?

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