🏝️ Who needs paid time off?

Happy Monday! Welcome back to The Freelance Gig, the morning paper for world-class freelancers building profitable client businesses.

Mentioned in today’s newsletter: TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and paid time off. Plus how to get more referrals from existing clients.

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Making the Rounds

• 46% of Americans choosing not to use up all their paid time off. The two biggest reasons why, according to a Pew Research Center survey of 5,188 adults, are because they don’t feel the need to take more time off, or because they’re afraid to fall behind at work.
  

• TikTok overtakes Instagram as #1 most downloaded app in Q1. The short-form video app continues to surge despite potentially facing the banhammer in the U.S.
  

• Twitter open-sources part of its algorithm code. The company made good on a promise from CEO Elon Musk to make its source code available to the public.

Working With Clients

How to Get More Referrals From Existing Clients

The best clients always come from referrals.

They’re typically more qualified, more trusting, and more fun to work with.

But most freelancers have never given a second thought to incentivizing them properly.

So, what’s the answer?

Create an attractive referral bonus for existing clients.

A cash bounty is the simplest way to do it…

But you can also get creative if you want to spice things up:

• Gift boxes

• WFH upgrades

• Dinner at their favorite restaurant

• Etc

Bottom line:

If you want more referrals, give your clients a good reason to send their friends, family, and business partners your way.

Bonus Points

🐦 Twitter: Save 40+ hours per month with this 6-step VA process

📸 Instagram: 8 sides you can start today (that can cash flow $15k/month)

🤝 LinkedIn: Steal this 10k/m LinkedIn profile blueprint

▶️ YouTube:How to sell anything to anyone in 2023

Gig Alerts

Looking for clients? These freelance jobs were posted on Upwork in the last 24 hours:

• Website Copywriter

• Email marketing flows and campaign

• Facebook Ads Expert to Promote Bourbon Raffle for Nonprofit

• Facebook Ads Specialist

• Expert Graphic Designer Needed

• YouTube Thumbnail Designer

NOTE: We only share job postings from Upwork. We’ve found it to be the most trustworthy platform with the highest-quality clients.

Furthermore, job postings must be for high-income skills like copywriting, media buying, funnel building, graphic design, remote closing, etc in order to qualify.

Mindset Shift of the Week

“There’s too much demand and not enough supply.”

It’s easy to adopt a scarcity mindset online.

After all, with so many freelancers out there… how can you possibly compete?

But here’s the truth:

There are WAY more good clients and projects than there are competent freelancers to do the work.

It’s a massive supply/demand imbalance in OUR favor.

So stop telling yourself it can’t be done.

Shift your mindset from scarcity to abundance.

There are literally millions of clients out there churning through one crappy freelancer after another.

Imagine how relieved they’ll be when they finally hire you.