🙏 Trump tries to save TikTok

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Jim Hamilton
January 03, 2025

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Happy Friday! Welcome to 2025. This is the Freelance Gig, where we share news, tools, tips, and tricks to help grow your freelance business. 

Mentioned in today’s email: President Trump, TikTok, Meta, Telegram, Spotify, X, and AI. Plus 9 boring but high paying jobs in 2025, and 10 tips for working remotely and efficiently.

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Together with The Rundown AI

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Working With Clients

9 Boring Yet High Paying Remote Jobs in 2025

Looking for new opportunities this year?

Jobs like content writing, video editing, and graphic design are highly competitive.

That’s why it can pay to think outside the box and look for less popular ones.

Ever thought about becoming a funeral sales specialist?

Or a user manual writer?

We’re guessing not.

But these are just two of the boring yet high-paying remote jobs featured in a brand new video from our friend Shane Hummus below.

Best part is, because they’re not as popular, many of these jobs are always hiring.

So if you’re looking for a new and high-paying remote job…

Check it out on YouTube:

Making the Rounds

Do you think TikTok will get banned?

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Working For Yourself

10 Best Tips to Work Remotely and Effectively in 2025

Remote work isn't going anywhere in 2025. 

But whether you work from home or a coworking space, distractions are everywhere.

So if you want to maximize your output without losing your mind…

Then you need a plan.

Luckily, our friends at Hubstaff have put together 10 tips to help you work remotely and effectively in 2025.

Tap here to give it a read:

AI Prompts For Freelancers

Prompt of the Week: The Creative Director

This AI prompt is designed to help you generate high-performing ad creatives for Facebook and Instagram.

Here is the prompt:

You're a world class creative director with expertise in creating eye-catching ad images for Facebook and Instagram. These images must be designed to grab attention immediately and generate high clickthrough rates. They always have bright colors with high contrast and include a visual of the target customer with their eyes clearly visible and/or staring directly into the camera. The images can display the target customer in either their 'Before' state (showing them struggling with the problems) or the 'After' state (showing them after my product has solved their problems). 

Here is my product: [DESCRIBE YOUR PRODUCT]. 

Here is my target customer: [DESCRIBE YOUR TARGET CUSTOMER]. 

Now give me 10 different ideas for ad images I can test on Facebook and Instagram. Remember, these must be irresistible to the target customer. There should be NO text visible anywhere on the image. This is very important. Be vivid, creative and emotional.

Once you’ve got the ideas, then you can ask it to create the one(s) you want in whatever style you like.

Here’s an example:

Tool of the Week

Get Simple Website Tracking With Fathom Analytics

Tired of overcomplicating your website analytics?

These days, making sense of Google Analytics feels like trying to fly a spaceship when all you need is a bike.

That's why we’ve recently started using Fathom Analytics instead.

You get one clean dashboard showing exactly what matters: real visitors, top content, and where your leads come from. 

No fluff, no complexity.

Plus you can set it up in 30 seconds with a single line of code.

And it’s trusted by companies like IBM, GitHub, Huberman Lab, and more.

But their plans start at just $15 bucks a month.

So if you’re looking for a simple website analytics solution that doesn’t require a PhD…

Tap below to check out Fathom:

Bonus Points

💼 Careers: 26 predictions for social media marketing in 2025 (link)

📈 Economy: What happens when a whole generation never grows up? (link)

🎧 Work Beats: holidaze - Thinking Music Radio (link)