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Lessons I’ve learned from landing clients on first dates (Guest Post)

May 3, 2012

Call it “inadvertent self-promotion”…
Men With Pens recently ran a guest post about dating rules you can apply to client prospecting. Considering I’ve inadvertently won over a commercial writing client while on a first date, I found the post pretty funny.
This has actually happened to me not once, but twice.
Dating your clients?
To clear up any [...]

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Ever Landed Copywriting Gigs in Unusual Ways (Like These Folks Have)?

December 5, 2011

In the November E-PUB (here and adapted below), I wrote a piece about finding commercial writing jobs in unlikely places. Thought I’d make it blog post, in order to collect your stories about landing copywriting work in cool and unplanned ways.

I love it when work comes from unexpected directions. In The Well-Fed Writer, I talk [...]

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When Does Part-Time Copywriting (vs. Full-Time) Make More Sense? (Guest Post)

October 6, 2011

Thanks to Emily Suess for contributing this great guest post. While most of us probably think in terms of full-time when it comes to our commercial writing careers, there’s no doubt plenty of folks out there for whom part-time would make more sense. Enjoy!
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Until recently, when people would ask me what I [...]

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What’re Your Grammatical Pet Peeves (OR “Gee-Whiz” Facts…)?

September 9, 2011

Okay, time for a little levity. No sticky situations, anxious anecdotes or dicey dilemmas from the commercial writing world. Just some good old-fashioned griping – about grammar. Got the idea for this post a few weeks back when I managed to run afoul of a friend’s pet peeve by writing, “I’ll try and do _____.” [...]

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Are You Guilty of “Esoterrorism”?

August 10, 2011

Got this great guest post from Wisconsin FLCW Clayton Grow. Great message certainly for all the commercial freelancers writing for technical client, but really applicable to ANY of us. Every industry has its jargon and corporate-speak, and even if it’s not technical, it can still be just as incoherent to an uninitiated reader. And that’s [...]

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This Writer’s Clients Give Him a Check Every Month (Thanks to a Tough Economy…)

June 30, 2011

So, a few months back, in the April 2011 Well-Fed E-PUB, I ran the following Main Course about retainers from Visalia, CA commercial freelancer Tim Lewis (tim@tlcopy.com, http://www.tlcopy.com).
Retainers – essentially a guaranteed monthly income from a commercial writing client – can be wonderful things. Not to mention especially welcome in a tough economy – [...]

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