🎄 12 days of ‘shipmas’

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Working With Clients

“That’s More Than I Was Expecting… Could You Do it For Less?”

Making an irresistible offer is key to winning big clients.

But going overboard just to close a deal you really want to land can backfire in a big way.

Specifically, there’s one common mistake freelancers make when pitching that…

- Destroys their positioning
- Slashes future earnings
- And shortens the customer lifespan

What is it?

Discounting your services instead of doing something for free.

You see, once you discount your price…

That's what the client will value your service or offering at until the end of time. 

You’ve created a price anchor.

And no matter how well you deliver for them…

That discounted price will always drag your perceived value down like a weight around your ankles.

So if you’re struggling to overcome a price objection, offering to do something for free is a much better option.

Because you get to bank the goodwill and relationship equity without devaluing your services in the process.

Making the Rounds

• OpenAI’s 12 days of ‘shipmas’ include Sora and new reasoning model
  
  

• LinkedIn adds revolving slideshow option for profile banner images
  
  

• OpenAI is weighing a plan for chatbot ads
  
  

• Sam Altman thinks we’ll hit artificial general intelligence much sooner than people think
  
  

• Australia votes to ban under 16s from social media apps
  
  

• What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the X competitor

Working For Yourself

Why Every Freelancer Needs a Batphone

Being responsive is a superpower.

The faster you can respond to prospects and clients, the more business you’ll win.

It’s an easy way to stand out that has nothing to do with skills or experience.

But as with all aspects of remote work…

There is a dark side:

Checking your notifications every 17 seconds even outside of work hours.

It happens slowly at first…

Then, all of a sudden, you’re glued to your phone 24/7 and unable to unplug.

Luckily, there’s a solution:

Get yourself a Batphone.

This becomes your dedicated work phone with all the work apps you need:

- Slack
- Teams
- LinkedIn
- Upwork
- Etc

You can get a new dedicated device or simply use an old phone.

(We prefer the latter.)

Either way, you can then uninstall all the above apps from your personal phone, because you’ll be monitoring the Batphone during the work hours.

Then, crucially:

Don’t forget to put it DOWN at the end of the work day.

Bonus points if you leave it in another room once you’re finished for the day.

You’ll enjoy a healthier sense of work/life balance.

And probably sleep better too.

AI Prompts For Freelancers

Prompt of the Week: The Objection Buster

This AI prompt is designed to help youidentify & overcome client objections on a sales call.

Here is the prompt:

Click here to see an example output

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It’s a free software solution that completely eliminates background noise.

And when we say completely, we mean it.

Whether it’s a barking dog, crying baby, or the hustle and bustle of your local Starbucks…

Krisp uses AI technology to cut out background noises from your mic and speaker so you (and more importantly, your clients and colleagues) can finally enjoy distraction-free calls.

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Bonus Points

💼 Careers: AI and the automation of work for Gen Z (link)

📊 Productivity: Why adults with ADHD often thrive as freelancers and entrepreneurs (link)

🎧 Work Beats: thinking music (link)