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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.

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Mentioned in today’s email: ChatGPT, Google, Threads, and Taiwan. Plus 7 simple strategies to land your first few freelance clients, and when you should incorporate your business.

Read time: 2 minutes and 55 seconds 

Together with Newsletter Freedom

New Book Reveals 4-Step Formula to Convert Subscribers Into Buyers

What’s the #1 best way to get more sales from your newsletter or email list in 2024?

[A] Delivering “value”
[B] Boring ‘how-to’ guides
[C] Nonstop sales pitches
[D] Linking to your offers in the P.S

Answer:

None of the above.

You see, there’s a new 4-step formula that allows you to:

- Get people excited to read your emails
- Build a profitable relationship with your subscribers
- Create a “category of one” in crowded markets
- Make daily sales from your newsletter email list

It’s called Email Storyselling.

The best part? 

You don’t need to be a copywriter or marketing expert.

Tap below to learn more:

Working With Clients

7 Simple Strategies to Land Your First Freelance Clients

Most new freelancers struggle with the “cold start” problem.

You need experience to get work.

But you can’t get work without experience.

So how are you supposed to land those first few clients?

Luckily, our friends at Fast Company have got you covered.

Check out the article below to discover 7 simple strategies you can use to book your first few freelance clients:

Making the Rounds

POLL: Have you ever thought about starting your own newsletter?

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Working For Yourself

When Should You Incorporate Your Freelance Business?

Should you incorporate your business as a freelancer?

Or is it better to run it as a sole proprietorship?

What’s the best way to reduce your tax burden?

What about limiting your liability? Partnering with other companies? Bringing on investors?

These are just a few of the questions you may be wondering about when it comes to the legal structure of your freelance business


And the answer to all of them is:

It depends.

But regardless of how you choose to structure your biz, it’s a decision that can have a big impact on your overall financial situation.

Fortunately, our friends at Upwork have written a killer guide on the pros and cons of 5 different business entities, from sole proprietorship all the way to LLC.

Check it out here:

AI Prompts For Freelancers

Prompt of the Week: Office Vibes

This AI prompt is designed to help you generate an image of an aspirational office with specific vibes.

Here is the prompt:

Make me an image of an aspirational office with a vibe that’s [DESCRIBE VIBES] to inspire a freelancer.

Here’s an example output:


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Tool of the Week

Now You Can Edit Videos Like a Google Doc With Descript

It’s official:

Video is taking over the internet.

But what if your video editing skills are about as good as your under basketweaving skills?

How are you supposed to capitalize on this massive shift in content consumption?

The answer:

With Descript.

It’s an AI-powered video editor that lets you modify both audio and video by editing text — as if your video was Google doc.

Plus you can add captions, B-roll, GIFs, and more to your videos with just a few clicks.

We’ve been playing around with it lately, and have been impressed with how easy it is to work with.

Especially for someone with no video skills.

So if you’re looking for a beginner-friendly way to do more with video


Check it out below:

Bonus Points

đŸ’Œ Work: The little sins we commit at work—and the bosses who are cracking down (link)

đŸ—Łïž Audience: Why the “1,000 true fans” theory doesn’t work anymore (link)

đŸ€ Sales: The 3A framework for reframing sales conversations (link)