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Do You Need To Be a Certified Resume Writer?

Intro to Becoming a Certified Resume Writer CPRW. NCRW. CMRW. CARW. ACRW. When you look at the certifications after some ...
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List of Career Credentials & Organizations

Have you wondered about the "alphabet soup" following the names of fellow career colleagues? As the career industry grows, resume ...
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How Difficult Is The CPRW Exam / Becoming a Certified Resume Writer

The Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW) exam is administered by the Professional Association of Resume Writers/Career Coaches (PARW/CC). When compared ...
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More About The Resume Writing Academy (RWA) – Is It For You?

In this installment of the resume writing certification series, we'll look at the newer of the resume writing organizations, the ...
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Nationally Certified Resume Writer (NCRW) – “Should You Become One?”

This is part of our continuing series that examines the different resume writing certifications available to resume writers, career coaches, and ...
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More About The Certified Professional Resume Writer CPRW Certification

We've looked at the idea of certifications for resume writers, and whether or not it’s a good idea to obtain ...
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Intake Questions For Marketing Professionals

Below are questions to ask new clients who are in marketing roles. 1. Tell me about the marketing team/goals you ...
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Quantifying Client Accomplishments [Examples Included]

Accomplishments are the "bread and butter" of client resumes. That's why including as many hard-hitting, relevant, and fresh accomplishments into ...
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Resume Templates: Should You Use or Avoid Them?

Every so often the topic of "whether to use" or "not use" resume templates surfaces in our industry. Some consider ...
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5 Objections to Overcome With Client Projects

Clients have objections and issues — you're going to experience these regardless of whether you've been in business 20 weeks or ...
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Copyright-Free Content You Can Use in Client Resume Projects

Yup! Written-For-You, Copyright-Free Resume Content.

Below is a database of copyright-free resume content broken down by keyword/key phrase. Use this content to help you write ...
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For Resume Writers: Tools & Shortcuts To Write For Different Job Roles

Writing resumes at times can be difficult. Even seasoned resume writers come across new terminology; e.g. job tasks, software, and ...
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13 Solutions To Stop Stress When Writing Resumes

Do you think you're special because at times you find resume writing to be stressful? Ah, no. I'm here to ...
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How to Write Resumes More Effectively Using These Business Practices

Establishing Good Business Practices Okay, so you might be wondering how managing your business correctly is going to improve the ...
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How To Write Resumes Faster By Mastering These Basics

Mastering Keyboard Basics You and Your Keyboard You are a resume writer (or about to be). Notice that the second ...
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Should You Copyright The Resumes & Books You Write?

Here's What You Need to Know About Copyright Protection For What You Write You immediately own the written works you ...
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Details to Chop Out of Client Resumes

Career Details That Should Get Cut — Resume Writing Tips Personal Information — Some components no longer (if ever had) have ...
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Resume Objective vs. Summary Statement — What You Need to Know

Should you use an objective or a summary statement? An objective tells the employer what your client wants. A recent ...
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Resume Writing Basics & 6 Keyword Lists For Various Professions

The first step to ensuring the quality of your documents is to first review the works written and published by ...
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Intro to Resume Formats: Chronological, Combination & Functional

Competition for employment has continuously driven the need for professionals who offer well-written resumes and cover letters. Regardless of the ...
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How to Develop Award-Winning Customer Service For Your RBIZ

Sales experts tell us that 80% of our revenue should come from 20% of existing customers. If you know about Pareto's Principle, ...
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Outplacement Services – An Ideal Add-On Service?

Have you thought about adding outplacement services to your resume business? At some point, we all look for added revenue ...
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Best Practices For Pricing Your Resume Writing Services [Updated]

Pricing projects can be challenging. Clients will have varying career levels, which means no two projects will seem alike. Will ...
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Background Checks – Quick Guide To Coach Your Clients

What You Will Learn From This Guide: What Background Services Include Investment Employers Make in New Hires Cost of Background ...
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Resume Workshops – A Beginner’s Guide

The marketing that too many resume writers avoid are community-facing; e.g. resume workshops. Maybe it's because we're so focused on ...
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Q&As: Answers to Questions You Didn’t Know You Had

I'm nervous about following up with former clients. What if they say they don't like the resume I wrote? Or ...
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2 Places to Drum up a New Client in The Next 60 Minutes

We all need a steady flow of clients. Otherwise, we're dreamers longing for a resume business. Finding clients isn't difficult ...
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Lead Magnets: How to Get More Leads Using One. We Give You 2 LM Templates To Download & Use.

Examples For Improving Your LinkedIn Headline +Your Clients’ Too!

The headline of a LinkedIn profile is noted as highly important. Next to your name, your headline is seen the ...
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LinkedIn Invitations: Best Practices (+Message Examples) For You

LinkedIn invitations are the heart and soul of your existence on LinkedIn. Your LinkedIn network either grows or remains unchanged in ...
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LinkedIn Sanctioned Communication Through the LI Platform

3 Example InMails To Give Your Clients To Use on LinkedIn

Despite the LinkedIn InMail feature only being available to Premium and Sales Navigator users (not to mention that they can ...
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LinkedIn & Resume Summaries: Should They Be The Same?

Should your client's LinkedIn summary be the same as their resume summary? This is a common question for professionals who ...
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Selling Tips & Scripts [You Can Swipe!] To Help You Get MORE Resume Writing Clients

Do you struggle with selling your resume writing services? Here is another RBIZ done-for-you resource. You're going to love this! Guaranteed ...
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In-Depth Website Analysis – Request Yours Here

Is there something WRONG with your website, but you just don't know what? If you have suspicions that something's amuck ...
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Learn More About What LinkedIn ProFinder Can Do For Your Resume Writing Business

The Pros & Cons of Using LinkedIn ProFinder To Get More Clients

There's some buzz in the resume writing industry about LinkedIn's ProFinder feature, which sparked this latest blog post. To help ...
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How To Avoid Nut-Job Clients +Firing Best Practices For Problem Clients

Problem clients can be a huge time suck. And, an even bigger source of stress. We're lucky when we can ...
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3 Little-Known Secrets For Writing Great Blog Titles

Did you know that a page in a lower search engine result position (SERP) can draw traffic away from a ...
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7 Steps To Getting More Traffic & Revenue to Your Resume Business

Getting Traffic & Revenue To Your Resume Business in 7 Easy-ish Steps

There's no magic wand or fairy godmother to make all your profit wishes come true. Making a profitable resume writing ...
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Advice on How Resume Writers Can Create Referral Partnerships/Program

How To Create Profitable Referral Partnerships With Recruiters

There are formal and informal referral partnerships. Formal referral partnerships are in-place programs that include terms of compliance, affiliate assets, ...
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Improving Your Site’s Thank You Pages

One of the most important elements of your website will be thank you pages. You may not have given the ...
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Online Tools to Help You Increase Conversions & Boost Your Marketing Efforts

Below you will find a growing list of online tools to help you escalate the overall effectiveness of your resume ...
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Top 6 Mistakes Resume Writers Make On Their Websites

We are so flippin' busy — writing resumes and coaching our clients — that we don't look up long enough from our day-to-day ...
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How to Optimize Your Website Images — Plus, 6 Tools To Help

Too many website owners completely overlook the importance that images mean to the quality and SEO-performance of their websites. Use ...
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Is Yellow Page Advertising Right For You & Your Business?

Right out of the gate, know that print yellow page advertising has experienced continued decline for the past 10-15 years, ...
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Advertising Your Resume Writing Business

Out With the Old... Is Print Advertising Dead? Let’s first focus on newspaper advertising. Like yellow page advertising, print publications like ...
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Getting Started – How to Kickstart Your Marketing

Starting an online resume business is actually quick and easy. Most people can start an online business with just a ...
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How to Build & Manage a Website For Your Resume Business

What's covered in this article: 5 easy steps to building a website Recommendations for domain registrars, name extensions, and hosting ...
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How to Get a Subcontracting Job Writing Resumes

So you want to become a resume writer, but maybe you're new to the industry and getting business hasn’t exactly ...
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Promotional Material For Resume Writers

Getting Started - Promo Products For Your Resume Business I find promotional material to be THE most fun aspects of running ...
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Creating an Affiliate/Referral Program for Your Business

What Is An Affiliate/Referral Program, and Should Your Resume Business Have One? As a business owner, your focus will always ...
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Writing Press Releases For Your Business

Getting PR & Writing Press Releases For Your Business Despite the decline of print publications, such as newspapers and trade ...
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Leveraging Client Thank-You Cards

A simple hand-written card is a long forgotten token of appreciation that few resume writing businesses utilize, in my opinion, making it ...
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Print vs. Emailed Newsletters +Topic Ideas & Promotional Tips

1. First, let's talk about email newsletters... A newsletter sent by email is still an inexpensive way to keep in ...
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Starting a Job Club — Community Outreach Technique

Are you looking for a creative way of building your business brand while growing your client base? Freddie Cheek from ...
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11 Tips to Brand Your Resume Business

11 Tips to Brand Your Resume Business Here’s 10 … no, 11 Tips on Branding Your Business – Cuz ...
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Getting a Book Published — Worth It?

After a particularly miserable recent experience with a publisher that I'll call "Evil Publishing Company," I started to question my ...
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How to Get Higher Rates as a Contract Resume Writer

Why Be a Subcontract Resume Writer in the First Place? Let's be honest. Being a contract resume writer isn't always ...
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5 Free Downloads to Help Your Resume Business

When starting out, especially when we're running a bootstrap operation, knowing a little about a lot is a mandatory set ...
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Resume Writers’ Big Blunders With LinkedIn

LinkedIn should be a major tool in your arsenal for attracting new business. Yet, I guarantee most who read this ...
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What Resume Writers Should Know About Their Customers

One of the biggest realizations I had this year was the value that comes from collecting and leveraging customer data, ...
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How to Increase Your Net Profit

As resume writers, we struggle with how to increase our net profit too. We want you to pocket more money ...
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