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		<title>I make $200K a year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This exchange happened fairly recently.
CLIENT: I need a website. I have a thriving network marketing business and obviously the World Wide Web should help me grow even more!
MY BRAIN: MLM? Oh crap.
MY MOUTH: OK. Want me to write your content too, or would you prefer to provide all that?
CLIENT: Why does it matter?
MY BRAIN: There&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>These reports look too good.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back when I built custom MS-DOS database applications (Clipper), one of my clients was a small partnership which also had some private investors. It eventually came to light (to me, anyway, since I worked closely with him) that the junior partner was going to make a move for total control of the operation.
JR. PARTNER: I&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://freelancesweat.com/85</link>
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		<title>No, I&#8217;m not Jewish.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I specialize in building websites and blogs for the Christian community (churches, non-profits, etc.). After sending a bunch of emails back and forth, probably an hour on a proposal and maybe 30 minutes or so chatting on the phone, this client was ready to sign. We had just scheduled a face-to-face at their office and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://freelancesweat.com/80</link>
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		<title>Heck yeah I know the password.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A happy hour friend says he can really tell it&#8217;s summertime: The number of support calls for his apps increases. From temps. Like this one:
PROG: I&#8217;ll have to drop by and reset the password then. But are you sure you&#8217;re typing it in right? Passwords are case-sensitive.
TEMP: Heck yeah, I got it right. I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://freelancesweat.com/76</link>
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		<title>Braces for my cheerleader?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I do a bit of designing on the side — logos, t-shhirts, mugs, that kind of stuff. I met someone at a local business women&#8217;s networking dinner who asked me to design a special event logo to be imprinted and sold on t-shirts, coffee mugs and other &#8220;specialty advertising&#8221; merchandise. I gave her an estimate [...]]]></description>
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