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		<title>Take a Customer Service Lesson from this Amazing Company…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, check this out… I few months back, I finally got around to returning a pair of sweatpants to Lands’ End that I’d bought a few years back to exchange for a new pair. They’d lost their elasticity in the waist, which made them droopy and draggy. And hey, when you’re a work-at-home commercial writer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tried These &#8220;Under-the-Radar&#8221; Marketing Tactics for Your Writing Business? (Guest Post)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got this great guest post from busy and talented commercial writer, Lori Widmer. As important as marketing is, it&#8217;s also something that so often gets turned into this big, gnarly, scary exercise that ends up reliably but unnecessarily freaking out commercial freelancers. NOT that it&#8217;s some piece &#8216;o cake, but, as Lori points out, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ever Landed Copywriting Gigs in Unusual Ways (Like These Folks Have)?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Big Reason Why Commercial Writing Pays Better and Resists “Off-Shoring” (and Why this Other Kind of Writing Doesn’t…)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, possibly just a “mental gymnastics” piece, but you be the judge…;)  
Read an interesting book recently: Drive – The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel Pink (author of Free Agent Nation and A Whole New Mind). While some of the stuff was a bit obvious (e.g.; money/prestige/titles doesn’t motivate everyone…no kidding), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wellfedwriter.com/blog/one-big-reason-why-commercial-writing-pays-better-and-resists-%e2%80%9coff-shoring%e2%80%9d-and-why-this-other-kind-of-writing-doesn%e2%80%99t%e2%80%a6</link>
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		<title>When Does Part-Time Copywriting (vs. Full-Time) Make More Sense? (Guest Post)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;re Your Grammatical Pet Peeves (OR “Gee-Whiz” Facts…)?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 _____.” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wellfedwriter.com/blog/whatre-your-grammatical-pet-peeves-or-%e2%80%9cgee-whiz%e2%80%9d-facts%e2%80%a6</link>
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		<title>Are You Guilty of &#8220;Esoterrorism&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Writer’s Clients Give Him a Check Every Month (Thanks to a Tough Economy…)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wellfedwriter.com/blog/this-writer%e2%80%99s-clients-give-him-a-check-every-month-thanks-to-a-tough-economy%e2%80%a6</link>
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		<title>Meet Someone Like This and Your Copywriting Business Will Soar…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At first blush, it didn’t seem like such a fortuitous meeting. It was 1994, my stumbling, halting first year as a commercial freelancer. On the side, I was writing columns for a local Atlanta rag. I’d been put in touch with the graphic designer who was laying out the publication I was writing for, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories Like This Prove Big Companies Don’t Always Have Their Act Together…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I went out for a lunch the other day to my local Jason’s Deli. Pretty big chain – good, thick Dagwood-style sandwiches, great salad bar, etc. And no, I’m not getting free coupons for plugging them here. Just giving credit where it’s due, since I’m about to do the opposite as well…
Anyway, so while [...]]]></description>
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