Freelancing
Weekends have become pretty lazy for me, lately. I schedule tasks for weekends, but end up procrastinating them. I am sure most of you feel the same. After working a full week, you need time to wind down. So, yesterday I did nothing except watch a season, meet frie...
Growth
Last week, I announced that I would find a niche live and share it with you. Problem: Upwork isn’t letting me buy Connects. Yes. I added a new payment method. And they asked me to verify my identity. Which I did. Now, I am waiting to hear fr...
There was a time, I used to track each minute of the day. People called me crazy. Looking back, it feels to me I was crazy at the time. But all of this craziness was to: Understand my limitations Figure out where my time was go...
Freelancing
Not long ago, there lived a happy marketer. Who was doing well as the little marketer that he was. Working with a few clients and a small team. Things were going well. Peace was all over the valley. But nature had other plans for him. One day, he got back h...
Growth
Sundays are lazy for me. I don’t feel like working or writing. Then, I remember this notion: “If you work on weekends, you are already ahead of 90% people.” How? 52 weeks = 104 days. 104 days * 4 hours = 416 hours. That’s 20% more than my co...
I have an important announcement; I am Top Marketing Voice on LinkedIn. Yup. As I said in my previous email that I will become Top Marketing Voice on LinkedIn. Another important announcement is that, I am building a $100k Upwork Outsourcing Agency. And I will be bu...
Sales
You may have seen that I have changed the structure of daily framework emails. Now, instead of weekly Notion templates, you get daily Notion templates. From Monday till Wednesday. And I have reserved our weekly issue for In-depth Guides only. I am working on someth...
Freelancing
2 nights ago, I was on a call with a freelance developer. We talked for 57 minutes. During the introduction, we discovered that fitness training is a mutual interest. Things got spicy after. I wanted to know how he landed bigger biceps. He wanted to know ho...
Growth
Learn to handle clients smoothly. Otherwise, you will work for someone who does. When I first started freelancing, my focus was acquiring new clients. I would complete a project, get paid, and then move on to the next client. I quickly realized that this approach w...
When I first started freelancing online, I was running on generic advice. I would go on Google and search for my problems there. I would implement any advice I would find with good logic. Somehow, most of this didn’t work. Why? O...
Sales
Today was the most peaceful morning I had in weeks. I woke up today without anything on my mind. Yesterday wasn’t like this. Yesterday was very hectic. The good thing is that I found the missing piece to grow my newsletter. I am calling it the Golden Strate...
Freelancing
A sad thing happened today. I missed the call with LinkedIn’s Top Digital Marketing Voice. And now I regret it. So, you won’t be getting any insights from any of LinkedIn’s Top Voice. Instead, I will be sharing my own insights with you today. I will soon be becomin...