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graphic designer

Meet Someone Like This and Your Copywriting Business Will Soar…

June 13, 2011

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 [...]

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Ad Agency’s Solution to Client Pulling Work In-House Sounds Like the Freelancer Model…

March 21, 2010

It’s inevitable in an economic downturn. Clients using pricey creative agencies dump them and pull the work in-house. OR outsource it, as we’ve happily discussed in this forum (and elsewhere: check out the GREENS course at this link) to a more economical, low-overhead writer and designer team.
Well, thanks again to commercial freelancer Robin Halcomb [...]

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Kickbutt Writing Skills Still One of the Most Effective Marketing Strategies…

August 10, 2009

Was updating the customer testimonials on my commercial writing site the other day, and came across this one (excerpted):
“Not only does Peter intuitively grasp where we need to go with a project, but his writing truly inspires my design. Bottom line, Peter’s spoiled me with his talent and he’s always my first choice.”
Now, I [...]

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Should We Be “Fee-Flexible” in These Times?

January 12, 2009

So, a few weeks ago, I offered up a competitive bid on a project for a commercial writing client I’d done some good work for some time back. The graphic designer on the project (we’d submitted a “turnkey” project bid) had actually worked for the client for 10 years a while back, had the inside [...]

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