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Happy Friday! This is the Freelance Gig, where we share news, tools, tips, and tricks to help grow your freelance business.
Mentioned in todayâs email: TikTok, Notion, Meta and Fiverr. Plus the ugly truth about client work and why most freelancers are stuck at the same income level.
Read time: 3 minutes and 8 seconds

Together with OneNine
The Website Team Trusted by the Highest Performing Marketers
The perfect website team is reasonably priced, incredibly good at communication, highly responsive, very transparent, and actually cares about your success. If your current team falls short on any of that, we would love a chance to prove ourselves.
Most marketers have resources but rarely a true expert partner for design, development, or website management. That is where we come in. OneNine becomes your website team for as many or as few tasks as you need.
Whether you need just design, just development, or both, every OneNine client gets a dedicated project manager who keeps projects moving quickly without needing your constant oversight. We only do website design, development, and management. There are many agencies, but few can say they have been doing this for more than 13 years with a fully North American team and hundreds of active clients who trust them. We can.
Working With Clients
The Ugly Truth About Client Work
Confession:
Itâs hard to say no to clients who want to hire you.
Especially if you got into freelancing as a way to break out of a low-paying job.
Turning down money feels plain wrong.
And look, in the beginning, you do what youâve gotta do to put food on the table.
No questions asked.
But once youâre beyond that first levelâŠ
Your default answer for prospective clients should be no.
Hereâs why:
Not everyone is a good fit to work with you.
This could be because of the market theyâre in or the type of business they runâŠ
How they prefer to communicateâŠ
What their expectations are about the work you do or results you can provideâŠ
Or simply the way they view the world.
Point is:
Ignoring red or even yellow flags just to secure the bag almost always leads to frustration and regret on both sides.
So donât make that mistake.
Develop a strong filter and get clear on what a âperfect fitâ client looks like.
Then make sure you stay true to that as often as possible.
Making the Rounds

TikTok launches a new image-to-video tool called TikTok AI Alive
Workspace platform Notion gets an AI overhaul
Meta outlines various ad measurement solutions
âEverybodyâs Replaceableâ: The new ways bosses talk about workers
Fiverr report shows businesses rush to harness AI agents fueling 18,347% surge in freelancer searches
Coffee shops ditch WiFi and laptops to limit remote work
Working For Yourself
Why Most Freelancers Are Stuck at the Same Income Level
The best thing about freelancing is that you can teach yourself the basics of almost any skill for free online.
Unfortunately, thatâs also the worst part about freelancing.
Why?
Because youâll often pick up a lot of bad habits along the way.
Things youâll need to unlearn in order to progress and eventually master your craft.
Thatâs why finding a mentor is so important.
It may not make sense to look for one at the very beginning of your journeyâŠ
But once youâve got a few paying clients and steady work coming inâŠ
You should be looking for someone to learn from.
Thereâs a reason Tony Robbins says âthe fastest way to achieve success is to model itâ...
Because finding someone who can show you the way and help you avoid common pitfalls will shortcut your learning curve.
The simplest way to do this?
Find one whoâs got what you want and pay them.
AI Prompts For Freelancers
Prompt of the Week: The 1950s Advertising Legend
This AI prompt is designed to help you create a marketing plan that incorporates old school advertising flair.
Here is the prompt:
Imagine youâre a 1950s advertising legend who time-traveled to today. Create a 5-step marketing plan for my freelance [TYPE OF SERVICE] services that blends mid-century ad charm with modern digital channels.
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Tool of the Week
Get AI-Powered Transcripts in Minutes With Rev
If you create written or video content for clientsâŠ
Chances are, you have to sift through hours of their video or audio content first just to pin down their voice and tone.
But not anymore.
With Rev.com, you can transcribe all that content in minutes using AI, then feed those transcripts into your favorite chatbots like Claude or ChatGPT.
And once youâve got written text capturing your clientâs tone, word choice, and messagingâŠ
You can train an AI model to sound just like them.
That means:
More authentic content that perfectly matches your clientâs voice
Faster turnaround on drafts (since AI already knows what your client âsoundsâ like)
Less guesswork (and fewer rewrites) for you
So if you want to use raw audio or video to crank out on-brand content, copy and video scripts, consider giving Rev a shot.
Itâs a simple way to streamline your workflow⊠and create content that hits all the right notes.
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Bonus Points
đŒ Careers: What if your salary is too high for todayâs job market? (link)
đŁïž Communication: The hidden reason why youâre having communication problems with co-workers (link)
đ§ Work Beats: Playstation 2 Ambient Jungle - Dopo Goto (link)
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