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OpenGoo: An Open Source Web Office on 2009-10-17
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Getting Freelance Work: The Hacker Technique – FreelanceSwitch on 2009-10-17
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scrape their HTML/CSS/images and edit it in-place
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Then proactively send it over. The outline of your pitch is:
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This is what I’m capable of after just one hour of work and knowing nothing about your business. Imagine how I could transform your marketing material with 50 hours and an in-depth understanding of your customers, your software, and how you make money
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Refresh their colors, layout, and art without changing their text.
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Provide two different samples so they see the possibilities
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create two or three standard templates
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hree, better one-line titles and subtitles for their home page
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Rewrite a web page or a blog post.
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Create a sample report for their AdWords or SEO information and send it in.
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Propose 10 subjects of blog posts they ought to write.
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Propose 10 types of press releases you could send or types of articles you could write for them.
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Give them a list of 10 things you could do to make their site more interactive like live chat,
scrolling news boxes, better analytics, and
A/B testing of web content and landing pages.
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But really, the people you’ll piss off would never be your customer anyway,
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Especially if you’re just starting out and have a lot of bench time, this technique is certainly worthwhile.
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5 Ways to Get Your Blog Indexed by Google in 24 Hours on 2009-10-17
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This means that if you get your blog on these blog communities, Google will have no other choice but to index your blog.
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Some of those How Much Your Site Worth
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? sites have a good ranking in Search Engines.
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List your blog’s feed in these feed aggregators
Feed-Squirrel,
OctoFinder,
FeedAdage. Once you have submitted your feed to these sites, they will keep track of your newly published posts and index them in their site.
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Registering account on Social Sites with the same username as your blog’s URL is very effective in getting your blog indexed by Search Engines. Especially for those targeted keywords.
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Having a consistent keyword-username on all major Social Sites will help get your blog indexed faster, and at a later stage it will also help build a “brand” for your blog.
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still worth getting pages for your keywords/brand as these pages can rank in and of themselves in Google and can help you to have control over numerous search results for the same keyword.
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Creating a topic that is related to your blog and then including your feed in that page would help your blog get indexed by Search Engines. Squidoo used to have a really good ranking in Google results
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monitors sites for changes.
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f you say public, it will be published in their news section.
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You have to definitely register for an account and get your blog listed on Technorati.
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“Ask Jonathan” Marketing Breakout: How To Get Prospects To Take You Seriously… Dammit! - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog on 2009-10-17
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IT has got to be amongst the most youth-friendly cultures around.
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how can we create this preemptive credibility and value?
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write a weekly 1-3,000 word article that is highly-useful and speaks to a problem that is pervasive among the clients you seek to attract
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give a lot of information away for free, even stuff you feel you should get paid for
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helps establish you as an authority in the application of your skills in their industry and (2) even when you tell people exactly what to do, a big chunk of them will say, “wow, great idea,” but still not want to do it themselve
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business people still don’t know what blogs are (
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Write similar articles for other blogs and websites but not websites in the IT world.
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Specialize in a specific industry, at least at the beginning.
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Make sure you use precise, industry-specific keywords in the title.
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Warren Seen » Blog Archive » A Freelance Programmer’s Manifesto on 2008-01-28
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A Freelance Programmer’s Manifesto
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What Freelancers Can Learn from Evel Knievel - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog on 2008-01-26
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How can you make your name the first customers think of?
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e was a communicator, working the crowds and talk show circuit
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acing your fears and putting up with some pain to achieve success and eventual rewards is a trait any one of us would do well to emulate.
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It is worth remembering that with some thought and creativity you can earn income outside of billing clients
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When fame started to fade for Mr Knievel he made took his lemons and made lemonade, selling out a 90k+ ticket show at Wembley Stadium to conquer Europe and becoming more famous than ever before.
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t’s worth remembering that when things are going well is precisely when you need to be most careful about your cash-flow.
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. The publicist was battered near to death, as was Evels reputation as he was sent down for a jail sentence.
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be nice to people on the way up, you might need them on the way back down.
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The legend was bigger than the man. If this does not demonstrate the power of marketing, I don’t know what does!
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Differentiate Or Die: Marketing’s Magic Bullet - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog on 2008-01-26
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If you stop pitching how good you are and start pitching how different you are and how that will make a prospect’s experience with you better, faster and easier than anyone else, you’ll not only land nearly every job you pitch, you’ll be able to write your ticket when it comes to fees.
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Even if you think you are just like everyone else…you’re not! You just need to spend a bigger chunk of time listing out what makes you so different.
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Free CSS Layouts And Templates | CSS | Smashing Magazine on 2008-01-26
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(X)HTML- and CSS-Templates
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Keep It Simple, Stupid! | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine on 2008-01-26
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Let’s put it straight - simplicity is more complex than you probably think it is.
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53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without | CSS | Smashing Magazine on 2008-01-26
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53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without
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