Confidence. If you don’t have it, you aren’t going to make it in business. The problem is that many people – especially the creative type – lack confidence in a big way. Creative minds want to create. They don’t want to convince people to hire them or peddle their wares. They want to love what [...]

Once upon a time, there was love. It was sweet. It was bromantic. It involved roses and starry-eyed compliments, and there was even an impulsive proposal for marriage (though who proposed to whom remains a mystery). Bound in mutual admiration, the relationship blossomed. It was all beautifully casual. We compared creative curses. We laughed and [...]

Love our blog? Make sure to spread the word and tell others too by voting for us in the 3rd annual Top Ten Blogs for Writers contest. We made the cut last year under our old blog name (thank you to all our voters!), and we’d love to be in that Top Ten again this [...]

Change is a good thing. Throughout life, it’s crucial to remain flexible to challenges that arise and improve on what you already have. Change lets us each be better than we are – and change is in the air here at Men with Pens. When we write our posts, we try to do an outstanding [...]

Google is updating its Page Rank tool this weekend – and we’re cheering. We’ve shifted up to a PR5, one very cool milestone to achieve. We don’t really care much about SEO here at the blog. We don’t focus on keywords and we don’t go crazy if our PR goes down. In fact, we ditched [...]

Want to learn a little more about the Pen Men? Akemi from Yes to Me recently interviewed us and asked some great questions about the business side of things behind our venture. Learn why we started our business, discover the biggest challenges we faced, and find out how we overcame those obstacles. We’ll even tell [...]

June the 2nd, 2008, we pulled the plug on this blog. The lights dimmed, the music slowly died and the curtains closed. Only lingering echoes remained, ghosts that carried on in our absence… but not for long. We’re back. We’re supposed to announce the feverish laboratory experiments we’ve been cooking and the secret plans for [...]

The famous composer Haydn and his orchestra were once under employment of Prince Nikolaus Esterházy. They entertained the Prince and his guests one summer long ago. Fast-forward a few centuries, and we find the orchestra of the blogosphere playing for the Prince of the Internet. The music chimes on and on while bloggers the world [...]

Recently, James had a little run-in with the law. It all started innocently enough, with his weekly feature post at Copyblogger discussing personal branding prison. So far, James had managed to stay out of jail himself, and life was looking good. He managed to work in a post over at SmallFuel Marketing, giving away some [...]

Freelancing should mean free. So why are we stressed out, overworked and in trouble if we take a day off? Freelancing can be a restrictive cage that ties you down. It doesn’t matter if you write, draw, paint or sell your services… you’re in this to have a thriving business, not be limited by your [...]