Helper
Greater Denver Area
- Current
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- Scrivener at Home
- Helper at Barking Unicorn
- Past
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- Senior Editor at Ziff-Davis Media
- "Editor at Fault" (Managing Editor) at Boardwatch Magazine
- Sales/Marketing Executive at Various B2B Sales Firms
- Education
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- Florida Institute of Technology
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David Hakala’s Summary
I make money in three ways:
1. Writing whatever needs to be written
2. Teaching & practicing Cue-do, "Way of the Pool Cue"
3. Enabling people to do The Buddha's work:
"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it."
David Hakala’s Specialties:
Enabling; writing; conquest; piracy (hustlng)
David Hakala’s Experience
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Scrivener
Home
(Publishing industry)
September 1988 — Present (21 years 4 months)
Scrivener: "a professional or public copyist or writer : scribe".
My motto is, "Profitable Prose Delivered Early'. I find that's all clients want, really.
I write whatever needs writing. "Specialization is for insects," said Robert Heinlein. For examples of what i have written, please visit http://zenscrivener.wordpress.com/about -
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Barking Unicorn
(Philanthropy industry)
September 1978 — Present (31 years 4 months)
"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." ~ The Buddha.
Mine is to help you.
http://barkingunicorn.com
http://Twitter.com/BarkingUnicorn
720-984-BARK (2275) voice/text -
Senior Editor
Ziff-Davis Media
(Privately Held; Publishing industry)
1998 — 2001 (3 years )
Managed the case studies section of this weekly print news magazine for VARs, distributors, ISPs, and managed services providers. Directed up to 6 free lance writers and wrote 2,000 to 3000 words per month myself. Eliminated "deadline creep" in one month. Made the section so popular it was moved to the front of the book.
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"Editor at Fault" (Managing Editor)
Boardwatch Magazine
(Publishing industry)
1988 — 1995 (7 years )
Boardwatch was a monthly magazine covering the dialup BBS community and its successor, the ISP/Web community. Readers were business and technical entrepreneurs.
I was Boardwatch's first free lance writer, then sales rep, and finally Managing Editor.
I coordinated 15 free lance writers and production from procurement of art and photographs to layout of content and ads to proofreading, delivery to printers, and proofing of printed copies.
Wrote 2,000 to 4,000 words/month as writer and editor: technical how-tos and hands-on product reviews.interviews with Internet luminaries such as Vint Cerf and the CancelMoose. Received many reprint requests for my work.
Tripled ad revenues in 6 months, wrote a dBase III ad management app, reduced past-due accounts by 90%.
Helped plan, provision, & conduct the annual trade show ONE BBSCON. Recruited speakers and exhibitors, set up & staffed booths, arranged interviews between speakers and press, etc. -
Sales/Marketing Executive
Various B2B Sales Firms
(Telecommunications industry)
September 1977 — January 1990 (12 years 5 months)
Sold a variety of business products and services: B2B magazine advertising, office machines and supplies, simulation software; teleconferencing services; executive search and career counseling; motivational speaker's services; Special Olympics corporate donations; billiards, darts, and pinball supplies.
Exceeded sales quotas in all positions, and set new individual sales records in most of them. Created a new niche market for teleconferencing service that grew to $1.2 million in 12 months. Honored as one of the top 3 executive recruiters in Colorado.
David Hakala’s Education
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Florida Institute of Technology
BS , Management Sciences , 1971 — 1975
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David Hakala’s Interests:
Words; gems; opals; billiards; pool; Zen; Buddhism; Taoism; metaphysics; Dance; "mythology"; snakes; lizards; belly dancers; Celtic dancers; tribal dancers; exotic dancers; strippers; lightworkers; reincarnation; past lives regression
David Hakala’s Groups:
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Stellar Public Relations
David Hakala’s Contact Settings
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