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Each week, we send out a short email with news, tools, tips, and tricks to grow your business.

Discussed in todayā€™s email: Facebook, ChatGPT, and remote work. Plus 13 things successful freelancers do differently, and why you should forget about work/life balance and focus on this instead.

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Making the Rounds

  • TL;DR: Now you can set up multiple profiles on Facebook to separate personal and professional relationships.

  • Why it matters: Having two distinct profiles makes life much easier if youā€™re using Facebook to look for clients or build your personal brand.

  • TL;DR: New Census numbers reveal 15% of the U.S. worked from home last year.

  • Why it matters: Companies are struggling to get employees to come back to the office, creating even more job opportunities for skilled freelancers who work remotely.

  • TL;DR: Paid users will soon be able to voice chat with ChatGPT as well as upload images to get real-time assistance.

  • Why it matters: Multimodal inputs (text, image, and voice) will make the ChatGPT experience much more dynamic. Being able to upload images also means you can circumvent the limit of its current training data set (January 2022).

Working With Clients

13 Things Successful Freelancers Do Differently

Success leaves clues.

So if you want to become an A-Player service provider with the fees to back it upā€¦

The best place to start is studying what they do differently.

Here are 13 things that set successful freelancers apart:

1. They work fast

2. They never miss deadlines

3. Theyā€™re highly-responsive

4. Theyā€™re enthusiastic about client work

5. They invest in themselves

6. Theyā€™re always managing expectations

7. They focus on one niche

8. They specialize in specific tasks

9. They pay attention to trends in the market

10. They build relationships with other service providers

11. Theyā€™re not afraid to step outside their comfort zone

12. They practice radical accountability

13. They actually get results

Producing results for clients is key if you want to climb the ladderā€¦

But as you can see, thatā€™s only one piece of the puzzle.

The elite freelancers who have the clients and income you want embody every item on the list.

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Working For Yourself

Forget Work/Life Balance and Focus On This Instead

Flexibility is one of the biggest benefits of freelancing.

But despite being able to work wherever, wheneverā€¦

Many freelancers still feel like their work/life balance is out of whack.

So hereā€™s some food for thought:

Stop focusing on work/life balance and start focusing on work/life integration.

You see, the word ā€œbalanceā€ implies your work and your life are at oddsā€¦

When really, they should be working in synergy to manifest all the things you want for yourselfā€¦

Like total control over your schedule and your incomeā€¦

The ability to travel, take extended time off, and have lots of funā€¦

Not to mention the opportunity to work on things that excite you and give you purpose.

Labels are powerful.

So while it may feel like your work and your life ARE battling each other sometimesā€¦

The next time these feelings resurface, try reframing this concept in your mind to focus on how one enables the otherā€¦

Instead of how one obstructs the other.

You can have your cake and eat it too.

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It helpsā€ grease the skidsā€ in all areas of life.

The only problem isā€¦

Writing for business and writing for the classroom are two different things.

Five dollar words might get you an A, but itā€™s the two dollar words that get your message across.

Thatā€™s where Hemingway comes in.

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