🤖 LinkedIn leans into AI

Together with Smart Solopreneur

How to get more freelance clients without social media, content marketing, or paid ads

Content marketing and paid ads aren’t the only way to get clients.

And one solopreneur is determined to prove it to you.

Twice a week in Smart Solopreneur, Laura Lopuch shares:

• Cold email tactics

• Copywriting tricks

• Plus lots of useful tools and templates

All to help you land more clients without wasting time on social media or spending money on paid ads.

So if you’re looking to grow your business with cold emails…

Click here to sign up for Smart Solopreneur (it’s free)

Making the Rounds

• LinkedIn launches new AI summary tools for articles and job ads
  
  

• Twitter Circles left a void that Instagram Close Friends can’t fill
  
  

• Meta experiments with custom AI chatbot creation
  
  

• Creator economy is now worth $250 billion dollars
  
  

• These are the 10 fastest growing cities for remote work in 2023
  
  

• X users will need to pay $16/mo to keep their blue checks

Working With Clients

5 Ways to Upsell Your Freelance Services & Boost Profit

The easiest sale you can make is to a current client or customer.

And with the right upsell…

It only takes a few clients to fill up your schedule and earn a comfortable living.

Check out this article from our friends at Millo to discover 5 ways to upsell your services and boost your profits:

5 Ways to Upsell Your Freelance Services & Boost Profit

Working For Yourself

How to Manage Your Money On An Irregular Income

Budgeting is tricky when your paycheck fluctuates every month.

One month, you can be flush with cash and clients…

And the next, you’re barely scraping by.

That’s why it’s crucial to anticipate cash flow crunches and develop a system to smooth out the financial bumps in your freelance business.

Self-made millionaire Ramit Sethi breaks it all down here:

'I Will Teach You To Be Rich Author' Shares Money Tips Designed For Entrepreneurs

Tool of the Week

TextExpander: Save Time With Simple Shortcodes

TextExpander eliminates wasted time on repetitive tasks.

This trusty time-saver lets you set up shortcodes for just about anything you can think of…

So you can auto-populate a chunk of text, big or small, in just a few keystrokes.

• Emails

• DMs

• Templates

• Etc

It may not sound like a game-changer…

But once you start using it, you’ll realize how much time you just got back.

Give it a go at the link below:

Click here to sign up for a free 30-day trial of TextExpander (no credit card required)

Bonus Points

🤝 Relationships: 3 steps to set boundaries without getting angry (Twitter / X)

🤓 Focus: 8 useful tools for deep work (Instagram)

✍️ Copywriting: 21 copywriting lessons for the 21st century (LinkedIn)

💪 Success: Brutally honest advice to my younger poorer self (YouTube) 

📩Outreach: Why sending DMs won’t hurt your brand (TikTok)