@jakepoinier
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Jake Poinier commented on the post, How Is AI Going to Impact Your Freelance Business?, on the site Member's Library 1 year, 4 months ago
This is a great comment, Leslie–thank you for pushing the topic further. In your examples of using AI tools for editing or for dictation/transcribing (which I’m doing today with otter.ai), that’s clearly not […]
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Jake Poinier wrote a new post, Stick with Your System, on the site Jake Poinier's Blog 1 year, 5 months ago
About a month ago, I secured a ghostwriting job with one of my favorite all-time clients. Let’s call him Greg. After years of running marketing and ad agencies, Greg made a shift in 2020 into a consulting p […]
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Jake Poinier wrote a new post, How referrals motivate prospective freelance clients, on the site Jake Poinier's Blog 2 years, 10 months ago
You’ve undoubtedly heard of the five emotional drivers of sales, or one of the variations on the theme. Legendary copywriter Herschell Gordon Lewis’s list included fear, greed, exclusivity, guilt, and need for app […]
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Jake Poinier wrote a new post, Test your website forms or you could be losing freelance business, on the site Jake Poinier's Blog 4 years, 5 months ago
I run three different websites with slightly different WordPress themes: my customer-facing portfolio, my freelancer-facing Dr. Freelance blog, and my publishing company for books about freelancing. Unfortunately, […]
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Jake Poinier wrote a new post, In a Pricing Rut? Try These 3 Strategies, on the site Jake Poinier's Blog 5 years, 1 month ago
If you want a truly profitable freelance business, pricing and estimating aren’t just a matter of crunching the numbers on your hourly rate or looking up the ranges on an industry association website. We’re acc […]
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Jake Poinier wrote a new post, The dogs days of August, on the site Jake Poinier's Blog 5 years, 3 months ago
August has always been an awesome month for me. It’s my birthday month. (Shout out to my fellow Leos.) It’s the month that I experienced my first kiss. It’s the month I survived what should’ve been a […]
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Jake Poinier wrote a new post, The best writing tip I ever received, on the site Jake Poinier's Blog 5 years, 5 months ago
After graduating college, I believed I was well prepared for my first real-world editing job at a national magazine. I’d been corrected and coached by wonderful teachers over the years—but somehow, it ratchets t […]
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Jake Poinier wrote a new post, When Creating New Client Estimates, Think Small, on the site Jake Poinier's Blog 5 years, 9 months ago
Don’t be fooled—I’m not referring to the price tag being small. What I’m saying is that the more granularity the better when compiling your estimate for services, particularly for a first-time client or someone wh […]
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Jake Poinier wrote a new post, Improving Your Vision, on the site Jake Poinier's Blog 5 years, 11 months ago
I attended an academically rigorous high school, where As were hard to come by. My senior year, I taped a handwritten note above my desk that simply said HONOR ROLL. It was a constant reminder of what I wanted to […]
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Jake Poinier‘s profile was updated 5 years, 11 months ago
