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Breaking Your Job Title

For seven years I held the title as "Marketing Coordinator" which may lead you to believe that my job solely involved the coordination of marketing efforts. If you were to read the job description it would say something like "responsibilities include proposal...

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There’s No One Right Way

Occasionally I will jump onto various message boards - sometimes to see if I can learn anything, sometimes to offer input on things. Last week I came across a thread of posts on the original topic (from a photographer) on how to submit their work to magazines to be...

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Are You Proactive or Reactive?

There is a publishing house that I've had my eyes on for a few years now, which puts out several athletic magazine titles I want to be working with. I had e-mailed in some samples of my work - no response. Maybe a few months later I sent in another e-mail - no...

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Where this is all going

Today marks my 185th blog post on this website dating back to August of 2010. When I first started, I was very unclear as to the direction I wanted to take the blog in. I posted a piece maybe once a week, then once every other week, then once a month. In the middle of...

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Friends with (work) Benefits

From a very young age I've gotten involved with many of my friends; professionally. Working alongside them. I've been a part of startup magazines, small newspapers, spearheaded marketing campaigns for non-profits, sat on the board of directors of professional trade...

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