A lot of my clients are in the real estate, lending and credit industries. It's just sort of worked out that way (it helps that I have hands-on experience in the field so I can take icky subjects like mortgages and credit and write something that your average person can ...

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I think my son is pretty darn near perfect. If perfect means being utterly kissable when you first wake up in the morning and have dragon breath. And you wake up grumpy after a nap and whine about every single little thing. And you cry when the puppy scratches you even ...

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Listen up, people! I've had it up to here (hand motioning at neck, in a "chop off your head" sort of way) with lazy freakin' people. My issue of the day? Shopping carts. And the fools that can't seem to grasp the concept...wait, this is a really difficult concept to grasp, so brace ...

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Asking for testimonials is a weird thing. I'm not talking about asking clients to give you a nice quote to slap up on all your marketing materials, online and off. In those cases, you've already provided your service or product and hopefully the whole transaction/process was a fairly smooth one. What I'm ...

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Over the past several weeks I worked to secure testimonials for my series of ebooks. I've asked and received testimonials before. Since the bulk of my projects are ghostwritten books and articles, it can be tricky. My clients want to remain anonymous. And I want to safeguard any information that ...

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It's been a busy, busy, busy couple of days here at the TinaMc Writing Emporium. Remember my post on how to prevent idea theft? Uh...yeah...the irony....I was a victim of such an occurrence just in the past week. (I became aware of it yesterday). But you know, there's so much more ...

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When I was young, I thought I had a billion totally cool and unique writing ideas and that if anyone heard about them before I could bring them to fruition, then I was screwed. My idea would be stolen, twisted into something different and wrong, sold to the masses for millions ...

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I like to go over to Enkay's blog several times a week to check out what he has to say. A post earlier this week on comment etiquette really got me thinking. Do manners matter when you're online? Should you still be polite and act with some modicum of decency in this vast black hole ...

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Are your clients stepping out on you? They've used your services. And they come back for more (maybe). But then they go to other people - what the hell?? How do you find out? - They slip up and tell you. - They don't slip up...they tell you on purpose. - You hear through ...

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In life, we make assumptions all the time. Even when we shouldn't. But you know what? In business, making assumptions is even worse! You can make a client feel stupid or clueless or crappy (insert a naughtier word here). Why the rant? When I went to pick up my son from my ...

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