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Working With Clients

4 Competitive Advantages That Cost $0

Want to make your freelance business stand out?

Here are 4 ways that have nothing to do with your experience or track record:

1) Work fast

Most clients are looking to launch ASAP.

But most freelancers work way too slowly.

Speed up your production time by:

+ Using templates
+ Systematizing your workflow
+ Specializing in a specific task (logos, emails, etc)

If you can turn around quality work faster than Speedy Gonzales, you’ll attract a lot of clients.

2) Don’t miss deadlines

This goes hand-in-hand with number one.

It sounds cliche, but most freelancers fail to get deliverables in on-time.

So here’s a tip to help you avoid this ugly fate:

Build in a few extra days of buffer when you’re setting deadlines with clients.

It’s always better to underproject and overdeliver than vice versa.

Nothing will scare off clients more than missing deadlines.

3) Be responsive

One of the most common fears clients have is that you’ll ghost them.

Always respond to messages in a timely manner.

(assuming they’re within work hours or whatever boundaries you’ve set with the client)

You don’t necessarily have to have the answer immediately, either.

You can simply acknowledge their message and tell them you’ll get back with the answer as soon as you can.

4) Be enthusiastic

This is probably the most underrated of the list.

But enthusiasm is magnetic.

If you’re legitimately excited about your work, clients will naturally be more attracted to you.

Everyone wants to do business with people they like.

Making the Rounds

• Amazon’s Alexa is getting a major upgrade for the AI chatbot era

  
  

• Slack predicts the future of workplace chat

  
  

• Google's AI previews erode the internet, lawsuit argues
  
  

• ElevenLabs is launching its own speech-to-text model
  
  

• Microsoft makes Copilot Voice and Think Deeper free with unlimited use

  
  

• Instagram may spin off Reels into a separate app

Working For Yourself

Juggling Multiple Clients? Try This Productivity Hack

Your productivity suffers every time you switch tasks.

This is known as “context switching.”

And unfortunately, it’s par for the course for most freelancers.

When you’re juggling multiple clients and projects, not to mention your own marketing and prospecting efforts…

It’s easy to get distracted and lose focus.

That’s why you should experiment with batching your client work into half-day blocks.

This way, you’re guaranteed to be able to put in a solid deep work session…

Without having to carve out an entire day.

It does require more planning in advance to ensure you can still hit all your deadlines…

But it’s well worth the increase in output.

AI Prompts For Freelancers

Prompt of the Week: The Business Coach

This AI prompt is designed to help you create a detailed business plan so you can hit your income goals in the next 12 months.

Here is the prompt:

Click here to see an example output

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Tool of the Week

Meet the New Search Engine Making Google Obsolete

AI is upending the world of search.

Google recently started rolling out AI-generated summaries at the top of its search results to decidedly mixed reactions.

But when it comes to using AI to get answers fast, we’ve got a new secret weapon:

Perplexity.

It’s an AI research assistant that integrates the three of the biggest large language models (Claude-3, GPT-4o and LLaMa 3) into a single search engine.

And we’ve found it better than using ChatGPT or good old fashioned Googling.

So if you’re looking to embrace the new world of search…

Tap below to try Perplexity out for free:

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Bonus Points

💼 Careers: Now that we can transcribe work meetings and conversations, should we? (link)

🗣️ Marketing: How to promote yourself when you hate self-promotion (link)

🎧 Work Beats: Severance — Music To Refine To feat. ODESZA(link)