NAIWE | Jake Poinier | Activity https://naiwe.org/members/jakepoinier/activity/ Activity feed for Jake Poinier. Fri, 01 May 2026 00:12:08 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 66a0c94c729cf4dff6c67532a2945786 Jake Poinier's profile was updated https://naiwe.org/activity/p/8970/ Mon, 22 Sep 2025 23:56:10 -0400 0 080d9eba33be948d37b4ae6ad765fc03 Jake Poinier wrote a new post on the site Jake Poinier's Blog http://jakepoinier.naiwe.com/?p=102 Thu, 09 Jan 2025 20:28:14 -0500 You don’t have to be in business very long before you’ll have a conversation like this:

Prospective client: “What do you charge for X?”

You: “Honestly, it depends on how many words/pages X is.”

P […]

]]> 6e5a4c6953c52bdb853cbd0932c6983f Jake Poinier commented on the post, How Is AI Going to Impact Your Freelance Business?, on the site Member's Library http://articles.naiwe.com/how-is-ai-going-to-impact-your-freelance-business/#comment-29999 Wed, 12 Jul 2023 19:30:12 -0400 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 […]

]]> 0ef3cfd2f0d75cd6f049ec4d11b8f81b Jake Poinier wrote a new post on the site Jake Poinier's Blog http://jakepoinier.naiwe.com/?p=99 Fri, 02 Jun 2023 14:03:11 -0400 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 […]

]]> 84e57e4b62b7f8e61a25567c49390cf8 Jake Poinier wrote a new post on the site Jake Poinier's Blog http://jakepoinier.naiwe.com/?p=93 Thu, 20 Jan 2022 22:13:14 -0500 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 […]

]]> 1893ad84a62a332ffe2a57ec8d8bd497 Jake Poinier wrote a new post on the site Jake Poinier's Blog http://jakepoinier.naiwe.com/?p=83 Wed, 24 Jun 2020 20:43:03 -0400 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, […]

]]> 3449437e67185551175dd7cb379b6560 Jake Poinier wrote a new post on the site Jake Poinier's Blog http://jakepoinier.naiwe.com/?p=78 Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:52:18 -0400 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 […]

]]> a3473560b2e31bdb9b89175b7e71d1a3 Jake Poinier wrote a new post on the site Jake Poinier's Blog http://jakepoinier.naiwe.com/?p=72 Fri, 30 Aug 2019 15:15:41 -0400 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 […]

]]> d94d4617e70be265575699ac6e602c64 Jake Poinier wrote a new post on the site Jake Poinier's Blog http://jakepoinier.naiwe.com/?p=67 Tue, 04 Jun 2019 13:22:32 -0400 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 […]

]]> 9bd9638419de0e839f3e41fbfcb41679 Jake Poinier wrote a new post on the site Jake Poinier's Blog http://jakepoinier.naiwe.com/?p=65 Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:24:10 -0500 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 […]

]]> 95c673aec508a88c528a68ccf6fd88d0 Jake Poinier wrote a new post on the site Jake Poinier's Blog http://jakepoinier.naiwe.com/?p=51 Wed, 02 Jan 2019 16:05:46 -0500 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 […]

]]> 3fe241cc015890bebc17ca666ae603a7 Jake Poinier's profile was updated https://naiwe.org/activity/p/5453/ Wed, 02 Jan 2019 13:49:32 -0500 0