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This article by Cedric Chin is well worth a read, whether you’re a marketer or not: To Get Good, Go After The Metagame Excerpt: The best marketers play the metagame of marketing. The metagame of marketing emerges from the fact that all marketing channels decline in efficiency over time. To hear the veterans tell it, Google…

Here’s another way to land some freelance gigs, via Reddit: I’ve recently found myself on the otherside of the bar, hiring a freelancer. This guy messages me every day letting me know when he’s idle, telling me he wants more work, even looking for things he can work on. In the hirer’s shoes for the first time I’m…

Natasha Stanley of Careershifters shares how she found her first freelance writing gig: I landed my first writing job the day I realised I didn’t have to have a client to be a writer. I gave myself permission to self-identify as a writer, even though I’d never been paid a penny to write a single word.…

This week, the Smithsonian released 2.8 million images into the public domain. You can go ahead and use those in your projects for free if ya like. I actually have a big list of free stock photo sites in a Google Doc that I plan to turn into an article some day 🤫 Until then, here’s another…

Toptal recently published this handy calculator 🤓 that shows you the average hourly rate of freelancers doing different kinds of dev work. You can even filter it down by years of experience. Average hourly rates for a few select specialties: There’s also a calculator on each specialty page (example), showing you how much you’d earn per year at different…

A 32-minute YouTube video from a chap named Liam: How To Make Money On Instagram in 2020… He shows you there how he’s generating revenue by getting Instagram Influencers to promote a PLR product. (PLR = private label rights. You basically buy the rights to a pre-made digital product and then sell it for whatever price…

Here’s a Facebook group posting regular digital nomad job opportunities. A few I found from the past week: It’s a private group but request to join and you should be approved within 24 hours 👍

This one on Reddit is pretty simple and general. The person posting it commented: This saved my life. I was struggling to convert clients until I understood this framework. This framework on YouTube is more in-depth and explained for web designers, though much of it would apply for selling any high-ticket service 💰… The guy who made that…

The aforementioned YouTuber has almost a quarter million subscribers, so it’s not like anyone can post a similar video and bank $20k. But it highlights a principle I see gaining popularity 📈 It’s a principle Austin Kleon highlighted in his 2014 book, Show Your Work. Key excerpt: It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and…

Starlink is a pet project of Elon Musk, aiming to surround the globe with thousands of low-orbit satellites 🛰 that will give you fast internet access pretty much anywhere. Apparently 240 satellites are already up there. Jeffrey Paul writes: The biggest likely circumstantial impact to you and I: places previously unsuitable for long-term habitation or business development by businesspeople…