“Once upon a time…” A great storytelling framework for your writing is the Hero’s Journey. Let’s go over its steps, and where you’ll recognize it in the stories around you.
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Before we jump into the greater Hero’s Journey, here’s a simple storytelling structure you can start using today.
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I’ve heard that being even a little bit professional will get you a long way as a freelancer. Huh? How could you not be professional! Here are some tips from my years of working on high-functioning teams for ways to be a bit more professional in your freelance life.
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It’s no surprise that a place like Disney cracked the code on storytelling, but what does their immersive approach have to say to those in business and marketing?
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Going freelance isn’t (also) just completing cool projects — it’s about managing yourself as a business. This week, I’m going to simplify invoicing for the new freelancer.
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Storytelling can be one of the greatest strategies your business can employ. Today I start a series on “Storytelling in Business”: what it is, the science behind it, how to use the Hero’s Journey for your marketing, examples from the business world, and more.
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We probably all have mixed feelings about customer service, from love to hate to envying those who do it well. I spent over fifteen years in frontline customer service, and am thinking about how my lessons learned there apply to my new freelance world.
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I recently heard that there are some freelancers who just set up their profile on Upwork and wait for clients to come to them, or who only send out one pitch a week. As someone who built a website based on getting my presence and my value out into the world, I’m learning how to increasing my efforts at visibility to land more clients — and you should too.
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One thing freelancing does for you is this: It radically alters your understanding of what income is, especially if you’re coming off of a paid position at a company. Today I talk about how freelancing is like going out daily and hunting down your dinner.
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I’m back with a new Daily Freelancer, coming off of a busy week last week where I learned lots of things! Today, it’s all about thinking about the customer and how to connect to their identity when marketing your company — with a little help from Simon Sinek’s TED Talk.
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I’m finding that there are many mindset shifts you have to go through to become a successful freelancer — one of them being the shift to understanding yourself as an expert. Freelancing, ultimately, is not about an employee/boss relationship, but is more like a B2B business mixed with deep customer service.
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Today, I changed one of my rates. Here’s what happened.
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Are you deliberately thinking about how to create content for readers who have no prior knowledge or engagement with your information or ecosystem? Here are five tips on how to think through your strategy.
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As a freelancer, do you know your value proposition? Or how to trade value to your clients instead of simple hours? It takes a mindset shift to go from understanding the world through hourly wages to being able to bring value to others.
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