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Turning Kind Deeds to Writing Income: Helping Funeral Homes Minister to Families (Guest Post)

May 5, 2011

PB Note: Got this really intriguing guest post from Chicago-area commercial freelancer Melanie Jongsma – a great thought-starter to get your creative wheels turning. I invite you to view it not as one about someone doing “memorial folders,” but rather, as the story of someone who looked beyond the typical commercial writing box and found [...]

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An Ode to “Good Clients” (i.e., Virtually All of Mine…)

March 10, 2011

I just got off the phone with one of my favorite commercial writing clients – someone who embodies what I like about most of my clients: she always thinks of me first when writing comes up (who wouldn’t love that?); values my contributions; respects me and my process; gives me enough time, attention, and input [...]

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Might This Guy’s Process Win You More – and More Loyal – Clients?

January 6, 2011

Had a chat recently with a commercial freelancer with whom I had a long-term mentoring relationship last year. Our goal was to give his business-building efforts some serious structure and discipline (i.e., regular cold calling and ongoing follow-up), as he ramped up a former part-time commercial copywriting practice to full-time and operational.
As of late [...]

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What Do You Think of “The Salad Dressing Rule”?

December 7, 2010

Got an email recently from a reader with a concern (and frustration…) we’ve all come up against at some point in our commercial writing careers. He wrote:
The challenge that’s just unnerving me is how to shift prospects’ minds from thinking they can do the writing themselves instead of paying a commercial freelancer $100+ an [...]

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The Secrets to Landing and Keeping Repeat Clients…

October 25, 2010

Got this email from a relatively new commercial freelancer recently:
My fledgling commercial writing business, launched in 2007, is alive after fits and starts. Upon reflection, I realize I haven’t had much repeat writing business from clients. In addition to commercial freelance writing, I also do marketing and magazine articles. The magazine keeps re-hiring me, [...]

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The Confidence Conundrum: How a Newbie Writer Builds Enough to Succeed…

August 31, 2010

In my first commercial freelancing group coaching series, one of the participants said: “I think my biggest problem is uncertainty. I prefer feeling confident about what I’m doing – to be able to do it with authority, and I just haven’t been able to reach that point so far. I’m always afraid I’ll do it [...]

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