7 Tips for High Income as a Freelancer
1. Be fun to work with.
2. Always deliver on time.
3. Follow up like a madman.
4. Have an amazing track record.
5. Share your wins with your audience.
6. Get credible people to talk about you.
7. Never worry about anything outside of your control.
Bonus tip: Overdeliver when you can.
One of the highest ROI skills in Copywriting is not writing.
It’s noticing.
> Noticing what gets clicks and what gets sales
> Noticing which ads keep running for months
> Noticing how your buyer talks about your competitors
> Noticing the time of day your buyer feels the problem most
> Noticing the feedback you keep getting and keep brushing off
> Noticing the headline you wrote to impress other Copywriters
> Noticing the context your buyer is in when he reads your Copy
> Noticing the exact words a buyer keeps repeating on a sales call
> Noticing who your buyer secretly wants to impress by buying this
> Noticing when a customer does the opposite of what he said he’d do
> Noticing what your buyer tried before yours and why they dropped it
> Noticing what your buyer believes about himself that is not quite true
> Noticing the embarrassment your buyer would never admit to a friend
> Noticing the part of the offer your buyer never asks about on sales calls
> Noticing the question the buyer is asking himself as he reads your page
> Noticing the line in your draft you wouldn’t say out loud to a real person
> Noticing what your buyer is using right now to solve their problem badly
> Noticing the question your page leaves hanging right before the buy button
> Noticing the one line your client keeps repeating when he describes his offer
> Noticing the brands in your niche that stopped doing something six months ago
> Noticing what your buyer has already heard a hundred times from your competitors
> Noticing the one feature the founder is excited about, and the team takes for granted
> Noticing the words your buyer uses for the problem before anyone offered him a solution
> Noticing the new player in your category your client hasn’t started paying attention to yet
> Noticing the bundled feature the buyer never mentions when he describes what he bought
> Noticing what your product does differently, even when the marketing makes it sound the same
> Noticing the product feature you only hear about from happy customers, never from the marketing page
> Noticing when your client says something about his business that the numbers tell a different story about
> Noticing the small scene a customer describes in a testimonial, the moment that gives away what really changed
Writers who notice well, write well.
Writers who don’t, can’t.
If you want your Copy to start hitting harder fast, stop focusing on just the writing.
Take 10 minutes and go through this 3-step process.
Not only will this strengthen your Copy, it’ll also make it much easier to write, and you’ll wonder how you ever wrote anything without it.
So before you write anything, answer three questions:
1/ What does this product do?
2/ Who is the buyer?
3/ What’s the ONE promise you’d be willing to defend in person, in front of your prospect?
Answer these as plainly as possible. One sentence is ideal. Make it so simple a child would get it.
You don’t have to share these either. They are for you.
Once you’re done, you have a STANCE.
A clear, written-down view of what you stand for.
And here’s why this helps so much.
When you write from a stance, every line on the page comes from a solid foundation.
All the timid words like “may” and “could” and “potentially” drop out on their own. Your argument gets sharper without you trying. And the entire piece starts hitting harder.
You become persuasive instead of sounding persuasive.
And it’s all because you’re writing from a crystal clear position: your stance.
Often, writers who skip this end up performing on the page. They sound like they’re trying too hard to convince you.
And readers can tell, even if they couldn’t say why, because pushy writing has a certain feel to it. Just like honest writing has a different one.
So next time you sit down to write Copy, especially long form, answer those questions, and get clear on your stance.
That tiny habit is the closest thing to a shortcut you’ll find.
It’s also the foundation of a bigger idea: that persuasion is mostly about where you stand.
That idea is what my book Quiet Persuasion is built around: true persuasion happens upstream. What you read, see, or hear is just the end result of a larger process.
If you sell anything online or offline, it'll open your eyes to all the mechanisms running behind every sale.
Check it out below.
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100 Useful Computer Shortcuts 🤏
1. F1 ➔ Help
2. F2 ➔ Rename
3. Ctrl + X ➔ Cut
4. F2 ➔ Edit cell
5. Ctrl + C ➔ Copy
6. Ctrl + Z ➔ Undo
7. Ctrl + Y ➔ Redo
8. Ctrl + S ➔ Save
9. Ctrl + F ➔ Find
10. Ctrl + B ➔ Bold
11. Ctrl + V ➔ Paste
12. Ctrl + P ➔ Print
13. F11 ➔ Full screen
14. Ctrl + I ➔ Italic
15. Alt + = ➔ AutoSum
16. Ctrl + H ➔ Replace
17. Ctrl + R ➔ Refresh
18. Ctrl + T ➔ New tab
19. Ctrl + H ➔ History
20. PrtScn ➔ Screenshot
21. Ctrl + O ➔ Open file
22. Ctrl + W ➔ Close tab
23. Ctrl + J ➔ Downloads
24. Ctrl + U ➔ Underline
25. Ctrl + A ➔ Select all
26. Ctrl + Tab ➔ Next tab
27. Ctrl + L ➔ Left align
28. Ctrl + R ➔ Right align
29. End ➔ Go to end of line
30. Ctrl + E ➔ Center align
31. Windows + S ➔ Search
32. Ctrl + ` ➔ Show formulas
33. Windows + I ➔ Settings
34. Ctrl + 1 ➔ Single spacing
35. Ctrl + 2 ➔ Double spacing
36. Ctrl + D ➔ Bookmark page
37. Ctrl + N ➔ New file/window
38. Home ➔ Go to start of line
39. Shift + Space ➔ Select row
40. Windows + Tab ➔ Task view
41. Windows + L ➔ Lock screen
42. F7 ➔ Spell check (MS Word)
43. Ctrl + M ➔ Indent paragraph
44. Ctrl + 5 ➔ 1.5 line spacing
45. Ctrl + K ➔ Insert hyperlink
46. Ctrl + Shift + L ➔ Bullet list
47. Windows + A ➔ Action center
48. Alt + Right Arrow ➔ Forward
49. Alt + D ➔ Select address bar
50. Ctrl + L ➔ Focus address bar
51. Windows + R ➔ Run dialog box
52. Ctrl + Space ➔ Select column
53. Windows + H ➔ Start dictation
54. Windows + K ➔ Connect devices
55. Alt + Space ➔ Open window menu
56. Alt + F4 ➔ Close current window
57. Windows + V ➔ Clipboard history
58. Shift + Arrow Keys ➔ Select text
59. Windows + E ➔ Open File Explorer
60. Ctrl + Mouse Scroll ➔ Zoom in/out
61. Ctrl + Shift + Tab ➔ Previous tab
62. Ctrl + "-" ➔ Delete selected cell
63. Windows + D ➔ Show/hide desktop
64. Ctrl + Shift + Esc ➔ Task Manager
65. Ctrl + N ➔ New folder (in Explorer)
66. Ctrl + Shift + "+" ➔ Insert new cell
67. Shift + Delete ➔ Permanently delete
68. Ctrl + Shift + > ➔ Increase font size
69. Ctrl + Shift + < ➔ Decrease font size
70. Ctrl + Shift + N ➔ Create new folder
71. Ctrl + Shift + T ➔ Reopen closed tab
72. Windows + M ➔ Minimize all windows
73. Ctrl + Up Arrow ➔ Move paragraph up
74. Windows + U ➔ Ease of Access Center
75. Windows + Pause/Break ➔ System info
76. Ctrl + Page Up/Down ➔ Switch sheets
77. Windows + Shift + S ➔ Snip & Sketch
78. Alt + Tab ➔ Switch between open apps
79. F5 ➔ Refresh (also works in browsers)
80. Ctrl + Arrow Keys ➔ Move to cell edge
81. Ctrl + Alt + Delete ➔ Security options
82. Ctrl + Enter ➔ Enter in all selected cells
83. Ctrl + D ➔ Delete item (to Recycle Bin)
84. Ctrl + Shift + Esc ➔ Open Task Manager
85. Ctrl + Q ➔ Remove paragraph formatting
86. Alt + Enter ➔ Properties of selected item
87. Windows + Up Arrow ➔ Maximize window
88. Ctrl + Down Arrow ➔ Move paragraph down
89. Windows + Left Arrow ➔ Snap window left
90. Windows + Right Arrow ➔ Snap window right
91. F12 ➔ Save As (Word/Browsers - Dev Tools)
92. Windows + Down Arrow ➔ Minimize window
93. Ctrl + Shift + N ➔ Incognito mode (browser)
94. Alt + Esc ➔ Cycle through open apps in order
95. Ctrl + Right Arrow ➔ Move cursor word forward
96. Ctrl + Left Arrow ➔ Move cursor word backward
97. Alt + Print Screen ➔ Screenshot active window
98. Alt + Left Arrow ➔ Back (browser/File Explorer)
99. Ctrl + Shift + Esc ➔ Open Task Manager directly
100. Ctrl + Shift + Arrow Keys ➔ Select word/paragraph
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Call me weird…
But I’m more impressed by what you don’t do than what you do.
Where’s your Not-Do list?
More success is lost through distraction than through bad strategy.
Most people do 14 things when they should do ONE.
They're busy, not productive.
Real productivity produces outcomes that matter.
Everything else is distraction disguised as work.
How to build a $10K/year business selling templates:
Step 1: Look at your own workflow. What spreadsheets, docs, or systems do you use every week? The things you've built for yourself are the things other people need.
Step 2: Pick one. Clean it up. Remove your personal data and replace it with example data that shows people how to use it. Add a short "How to Use This" section at the top.
Step 3: Price it between $15 and $45. Templates save people hours of work. Hours they'd otherwise spend building it from scratch or paying someone $100+/hr to do it.
Step 4: Write a Gumroad product description that answers three questions. What does this template do? Who is it for? What will their life look like after using it?
Step 5: Create one piece of content per week showing the template in action. Screen recordings, before/afters, real results. Let the product sell itself.
$29 x 1 sale per day = $10,585/year from a single template. Scale by adding more.