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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.
Welcome to the 177 subscribers whoâve joined us since the last edition.
Mentioned in todayâs email: Apple, LinkedIn, Instagram, X, and Adobe. Plus what youâre really selling as a freelancer, and how to harness the power of compound interest in your freelance career.
Read time: 2 minutes and 57 seconds

Together with Opus Pro
The secret to growing on LinkedIn in 2024
There's a rising demand for high-quality video content on LinkedIn, creating a major growth opportunity.
How can you capitalize? Just grab your existing videos, and use OpusClip to turn them into clips and schedule them to post on LI.
Working With Clients
WANTED: Money at a Discount

Letâs say youâre a copywriter, ghostwriter, website designer, or funnel builder.
The âproductâ you sell is actually a service, right?
Wrong.
What you sell is an OUTCOME:
Leads
Appointments
Product demos
Sales calls
Clients
Free trials
Purchases
Renewals
Etc
Clients arenât looking for another line item to add to their expense reportâŠ
Theyâre looking for the fastest and most direct way to achieve a specific outcome.
And in marketing, that outcome usually means âbuyingâ money at a discount (by paying you to produce a result that helps generate revenue for their business).
So the next time youâre pitching a new prospectâŠ
Remember: clients donât buy services, they buy results.
The sooner you can figure out what result theyâre in the market for, the easier it will be to sign them as a client.
Making the Rounds

Apple reveals plan to integrate personalized AI to all 2.2 billion devices
LinkedIn tests AI assistant for Premium members
Instagram will soon enable creators to build AI versions of themselves
Likes are now private on X
Adobe updates its terms of service after backlash over recent changes
Coders using AI to write software work faster but make more mistakes
POLL: Have you ever tried cold email to get clients? |
Working For Yourself
How to Harness the Power of Compound Interest in Your Freelance Career

Finance experts say the secret to building wealth is compound interest.
Thatâs why Warren Buffett accumulated 97% of his wealth after his 65th birthday.
But while we may not all be able to replicate Buffettâs investing successâŠ
Thereâs another way freelancers can put this mechanism to work for themselves:
By stacking high-income skills.
You see, it takes a very long time to master deep skills like copywriting, media buying, design, etcâŠ
And while itâs definitely worth committing toâŠ
If you can develop other skills that complement or intersect with your primary skillâŠ
You can see some explosive gains.
For example:
Most copywriters know nothing about paid trafficâŠ
And most media buyers canât write copy.
The same thing goes for copywriting and graphic design or funnel building.
Itâs an unusual combo you donât see very often.
So by developing competence where those two skills intersect, you can carve out a unique position in the marketâŠ
Opening the door to many more opportunities than most other freelancers will ever get.
And over time, mastering these skills will deliver a much higher return than any other investment you could make (unless you are Warren Buffett, of course ;).
AI Prompts For Freelancers
Prompt of the Week: The Debt Collector
This AI prompt is designed to help you craft an email to collect on an unpaid invoice.
Here is the prompt:
I need to craft an email to a client to politely remind them about an unpaid invoice. The invoice was sent 30 days ago, and payment is now overdue. The client is usually prompt with their payments, and this is the first time there's been a delay. I want to maintain a positive relationship while firmly requesting the payment. Please include the invoice number, the amount due, and the original due date in the email. Keep the tone casual, friendly, and conversational.
Tool of the Week
Fix your broken browser experience with Shift
Shift is a desktop app that streamlines work by displaying each email account vertically (along with any other apps youâd like to include) along the left-hand side of your screen.
It sounds trivial, but this accordion-style set up is a game-changer for productivity.
Plus it lets you organize browser tabs by email account, making it much easier to flip back and forth without losing your place.
Itâs quickly become one of our core tools for running a freelance business.
Bonus Points
đŁïž Marketing: Why you need to make more noise online (link)
đȘ Success: 20 soft skills to accelerate your career success (link)
đ€ Clients: Free 90-min masterclass on how to get clients on-demand (link)
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