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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Professional development sessions by Marion Soubliere and Paul Lima available on demand at 'Communicating for Cash', the two-day workshop series presented by PWAC Atlantic and CFU.
PWAC Ottawa member Marion Soubliere wrote the book on cracking the $20 billion federal government market - Getting Work with the Federal
Government: A ...
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Now is a good time to send clients and/or editors your summer vacation schedule reminder. You just might generate some repeat business or new business before you take off on vacation.
I send out my vacation reminder to all of the clients and editors that I have worked for during the ...
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
How do you start your business day? If you are like many independent practitioners, small business owners and entrepreneurs, you turn on your computer and spend an hour or more reading and replying to electronic mail, reading electronic newsletters and online newspapers and surfing the Web.
Does that sound like you? ...
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
Interesting Olympic tid-bit: Jennifer Heil, (Canada's silver medalist in moguls) literally trains until she pukes. There is a bucket in the training area and if any of the mogul competitors she trains with pushes themselves to the point where they need to use the bucket, they get their name and ...
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
From Chapter 14 of The Six-Figure Freelancer
Networking Your Way to Success: Allow me to introduce you to a concept with which you are probably familiar. If you are like most freelance writers, it is one you probably ignore or engage in only informally. The concept is called networking, which is ...
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
The seminar is over, but you can read a blog post wrap up here:
- http://trafcom.typepad.com/blog/2010/01/learning-from-the-independent-pros.htm
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AIP Presents: Successful independent practitioners - how they got to where they are now
Start the New Year with AIP panelists as they share insights and tips on how they achieved their financial goals. You will learn:
How ...
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
The New Year is a great time to generate 'old' business, or should I say it's a great time to generate repeat business. If you have not heard from some of your past clients for a while, the New Year is a great time to email them and remind then ...
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
It's a New Year... Have you created a new business vision for yourself? Or at least reviewed and perhaps revamped last year's business vision?
A freelancer or independent practitioner - or any business, really - without a business vision is, to borrow the phrase, like a day without sunshine. It's ...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
I edited a media release (Erotic Holiday Stimulus Package for Couples: SCRIPTS 4 PLAY helps couples spice up their erotic lives) for a client to make it more "media release like" and she posted in on a media release distribution website. My client just emailed me to let me know ...
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Reprinted with permission from The Marketing Minute
by Marcia Yudkin, Marketing Expert and Mentor
Some time in the next three weeks, you are going to reflect on how 2009 went and consider the blank slate of 2010. When you think about your 2010 marketing plans, your mind naturally ponders what to ...
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