How to Level Up Your Freelance Writing Career
Stuck in a rut and can’t get past a certain income level in your writing business? As someone who’s been there and done that dozens of times, I’m offering up some of my best tips for getting over the hump of leveling up your freelance writing business. Sometimes it’s not easy, but it’s always worth it to get to the next level through some critical changes.
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If you've ever been like me and you've been stuck in a certain income level, or you feel like you just can't get past a certain place to level of your freelance writing business. Well, we're going to go through a few tips about how to level up, how to kind of move forward and a few surprises that you may not have thought of in terms of trying to make your freelance career more of the business that you like and more of the business that you want to do, rather than just taking things on for the money. So the first thing that we're going to talk about with leveling up your freelance writing business is about making decisions. So your very first thing is that you have to make a decision. Usually you have to make a lot of them. So that means that you're making decisions about what types of writing you want to continue doing.
What types of clients you want to work for, what kind of income, uh, level you want to be at. And then kind of where you see yourself in like five or 10 years. Like, do you see freelancing as a part-time thing as a side gig, as a full-time, uh, job, do you see it as something that will catapult you into other things? There's a bunch of different stuff here that you know, is really, really centers on making decisions. So you're making decisions about your freelance writing career in terms of like, how do you kind of want to go about it? A lot of times people are like, well, how do I make more money? Or how do I get more clients? Or how do I make sure that I'm doing, you know, this, that, and the other thing, like, how do I actually get to this thing?
A lot of times, it's that they're not making decisions. They're just trying to find the next thing. They're just trying to find the next hook to beyond they're drying, to be on like, trying to find new clients where, um, you know, they're just like, I just need a better client. Like I need to replace this client with another one, or I just need to make more money, but they're not making decisions about like, do I actually want to write more blog posts? Do I want to do more case studies or white papers? Do I end up changing my business? And maybe I want to do more, um, marketing and consulting. There's a lot of different things where you don't actually know, you know, if you don't make decisions about where you want to go, you're not actually going to get there and you don't actually know what changes you need to make within your business. So, um, I think the thing with making decisions in your business, hold on, I'm just
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So sorry about that. So, um, the thing about making decisions is that it just dictates where you're going in your business. So without making any decisions, it's really hard to level up your freelance writing business. If you're just kind of like, well, I just want to make more money. Or if you're just kind of shooting in the dark, trying to change up your business as you go along without actually making choices about what you want to be doing, how you want to be doing it, what your freelance day looks like, what's your career path kind of situation going? Like, unless you make decisions about those things, you're kind of screwed. You can't really level up. Cause where are you leveling? Right? Where, where are you going to make changes? Where are the places where you actually need to pivot away from something? Or where are the places where you're like, you know what, this type of client just isn't working for me and you have to make all these choices and decisions.
So that's number one, you have to make decisions about where you're going. You have to make decisions about like, not just where you want to up level, but like all the, all the pieces of your business that go together, like income or types of writing or amount of work, maybe you only want to work like 30 hours a week. Maybe you want to take a lot more vacations. Maybe you want to take two months off every year. No, there's a lot of different things in here where you have to make decisions. So the second part, number two of how to get, um, basically like how to move beyond a certain income level or how to like level up your freelance writing business is that you need to, how do I like basically you need to change the way that you think about yourself as a writer.
So this will make it a little more simple. So the way you're thinking about yourself as a writer is you're not just a writer, you're a business owner. You have all these different things that you need to do. So when you're leveling up, this is a business you're running a lot of different pieces. You're writing the marketing hat. You're wearing the inbox, you know, assistant hat, excuse me, you're wearing like the VA hat you're wearing the writer hat you're wearing the AP hat. Basically the accounts payable hat you're wearing, um, the taxes like you're waiting the accountant hat, you're wearing a lot of different hats. So instead of just thinking of yourself as just a writer, you can't level up your business and you can't get to a new place. If you're thinking of yourself as just a writer or if you're thinking of yourself as basically like, I just do the writing, you don't, cause you still have to invoice people.
You still have to pay your taxes. You still have to file your stories on time. You still have to manage a calendar, get on calls with new clients market to get new clients, pitch a pitch, to get new magazines. There's a lot of different things that you have to do as a writer. And it's, it's, it's always funny to me when you talk about like, Oh, you know, you've talked to other writers like, Oh, I'm just a freelance writer or, Oh, I've just this. You're not just that you have to change your view to level up your freelance writing business because you have to learn that there's a lot of different things and a lot of different places as a business owner, you're not just always writing and anyone who makes a good amount of money would know to, you know, would, would understand that they're wearing all of these hats beyond just being a writer.
Like the amount of time you do paid work will take up. You know, if, if you're trying to level up your business, like maybe 80% of your time, maybe sometimes 110%, depending on how your schedule looks. But the other percentage of your time, like when you're not going crazy and overloaded with deadlines has to do with managing the business and seeing where it's going to go and projecting where you want your income level to be and projecting where you want your projects to be like, are you trying to move into being more of a consultant or move into more marketing or content marketing rather than just being like, I just did a case study or I just did this one thing, or I just did this, you know, trial assignment. Like you have to have this mindset that you're not just a writer. You don't just do writing.
You're running a whole business there. So that's number two is that you're not just a writer. You have to kind of change your mind about being a business owner and that you have all of these things you need to deal with as someone who runs a business. So that's number two, number three, if you're upleveling your freelance writing career, you want to make sure that you have a group of friends or you have a group around you that's really supportive. I know a lot of times you were like, Oh, you need to cut your lowest payers and do all this stuff. And you do need to cut your lowest payers and you do need to pay attention to your income and expenses. And you do need to pay attention to like moving out of content mills, like don't work for content mills. But the other part is that when you're up leveling your career, being around freelance writers who are making a lot more money than you, or who are kind of in the same realm as you are, like, they might be struggling with different things, but you guys are all kind of in the same area of your business.
Then that really helps like that support that you get that place where you can ask questions, the place where you can get referrals. Like my friends and I pass referrals all the times. Like I, Patrick pass referrals to my coaching students all the time. They're like, Oh, I saw this company. I thought it'd be a good fit for you just having that network of writers and they understand your business. You're like, Oh my gosh, I was doing some marketing. And someone sent me a email. Like, what do I do? You have to be, have a place to go be with other writers. You can't have this other place where you can't have no place to go. You can't be a homeless writer, basically. I guess that's a good way to put it. You can't be a homeless writer. You need to have a group of friends and a support system.
And as much as your partner or your friends, your non-writer friends or, or your family might say like, Oh yeah, I get it. Like, that sounds really difficult. It's very different. Discussing your issues with people who are also freelance writers. I can tell you the difference between telling my freelance writer, friends, something and telling like my partner or something sometimes, you know, they're on the same page. And sometimes it's like totally different worlds. Like, you know, it's, it's just, they're the people who have been there and they're like, Oh my gosh, I, you know, I love it when that happens or, Oh my gosh, I hate that. Or what do you guys think? Like an area to bounce off ideas and in a place to make sure that your heard and understood and that you have a, like, you have an environment where you, yeah, you can, you can kind of brainstorm things or you can say like, Hey, can you look at my latest article?
Like, I'm not sure if it looks okay, I have thing, or I have this weird client call and I'm not sure what to do. Having that group of writers like that community, that group, small group of friends, like somewhere that you can go to talk to other writers, it's super important to leveling up your career. Especially if you have people in your group who make more money than you, who are further along in their career than you, who are doing different things than you. So sometimes people try to make friends with people that are only in their niche or friends with people that only do case studies like they do case studies. And I've found that for me, having different friends and a bunch of different industries doing a lot of different things, changes up the way that I think about where I want my business to go.
So when one of my friends moved to more of a consulting role, like she added a little bit more marketing and she moved into more of a consulting area. That was something that I was like, Oh, I never really thought of that. Like maybe I'll try that. Or maybe it'll be something where, uh, I'll add it in later. There's another piece too, where I'm like, I have a friend who, um, I just love her. She's like my little spirit animal and she makes crazy money. Um, and she does marketing around messaging and positioning for companies. And that's something that I just think is so cool. It's so fascinating. It's something I think, you know, I, I want to get into and do more of, um, but she made all these moves and watching her career, um, watching her career change and seeing, you know, kind of, she's going first, she's doing different things and she's in different niches than I am.
That teaches me something. And I learned from her, but it's also inspiring to see her do all these things where she's like taking these big leaps and I'm so proud of her and I'm excited for her. So there's a lot of things that can kind of drive you in your career in addition to just money or clients or, um, um, you know, just like things that aren't so much like a warm, fuzzy, like for me, the warm, fuzzy is having a community people I can bounce ideas off off of. And I haven't, I don't think I know any writers who don't have, who have zero writer, friends like any successful writers. I know people who make a living who are full-time, they all have different writer, friends, they all have different groups. And I think if you try to go at it alone and you're not around a group, that's like constantly trying things and experimenting and getting to a place to make their business better.
I think you, you know, you're falling behind, you're going to struggle. So I think having a community and making sure you have a writer group, that's like, they're, they're trying to level up, they're trying to make their businesses better. And they understand where you're coming from. They understand the struggle. I think that's really important. So that would be number three. So I'm going to take a little pup date thing and yeah, Tommy says he doesn't like to be, he says, I like, don't be a homeless rider. Yeah. Don't be a homeless rider. Find a home, find writer, friends to be, to have in your network and to talk to regularly. And then the other one is, um, the lone Wolf lifestyle is tough. It totally is. Yeah. I was a lone Wolf for a long time and it was just lonely and it sucked. And I didn't really have a ton of people to talk to.
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Let's see if there's any questions you guys can pop them in the chat. So I know that leveling up your freelance writing career, a lot of times can be a confusing thing and you're not really sure where you want to go. You're not really sure how to do it. And sometimes you're stuck at an income level that you don't feel good about. You're stuck at this place where you're like, I want to make more money or I want to do, you know, more of this or that. And the other thing. So I'm going to go through that now. So I don't see any questions in there. So I'm going to go into that now. So
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Writer, you're going to be faced with a lot of choices as you go along in your career. And one of those things often is to, this'll be number four. We'll add this in is that you can take the money now or you can take the money later. Let me explain what that means. Take the money. Now oftentimes ends up being a small assignment that came into your inbox. It's an inbound lead, or it's a small magazine assignment. It's a one-off trial project. It's something that's take the money. Now take the money later is oftentimes a retainer or it's something that you're working up towards like doing more case studies or it's something that you're trying to ghost. Write a book you're doing more downloadable. So you're doing more eBooks or you're doing something that's a more complex project. Like you're doing content strategy, excuse me, or content marketing.
So the money now is the money that you can take now because you're afraid that there's never going to be any more money that there's, that this is all there is. And we have to take the money now because it's being offered instead of saying, well, if I take the money, now that's going to change my calendar. I now have to do this assignment. That takes up my time. And as you're doing that assignment, maybe you're not marketing. Maybe you're not paying attention to trends. Maybe you're falling off the boat of what's going on in your niche. So if you take the money now, sometimes that means that you're giving up the money later. That means that you're not paying attention to all these things like, Oh yeah, this company just, you know, raise $700 million and I should send them an LOI because we're really good fit for each other.
And maybe they need some content and help. So the money now, and the money later is a really important lesson to learn to level up. Cause I know I have friends and myself included in this where sometimes you really want to take the money now because you're like, I need the money. Now. I've been in a lot of situations where I need the money now. And it sucks because you feel like you're kind of in a pinch and you have to figure it out right now. And there's a lot of things that give you money, anxiety in terms of like, Oh my gosh, will there be anything later? Like I have this right here. It's like it's available. But every time you say yes to something that's available in right here, you're you might be saying no to something later on. And I've learned that the hard way.
There's been times where I've gotten bigger projects later on and I just didn't have the space for them. And I had to push them off and they're like, Oh no, we can't do that now. Or it's been something where I just stuffed my schedule to the gills. Like maybe I don't say no to the project. I'm like, yes. And now I have all this work to do and I have no downtime. So yeah, I made some money, but I'm exhausted and I need time off. And I'm crabby and I'm a pain in the butt to be around. So having the money now sometimes I guess if you're in an emergency situation and you're going to lose everything sometimes taking the money now is just kind of the situation you're in. You're in between a rock and a hard place or, you know, whatever. And sometimes you have to do that.
And it sucks because you're basically being forced into a decision. So there's that piece. But then if you're able to be in, in a position where you can take the time to make choices and you don't have to just keep pressing the money button, there's always more work available. Like this is something I've kind of been struggling with recently is like, there's always more, more work available. Like we keep thinking that it's just going to run out or that something horrible is going to happen. Like we've already had a pandemic. We've already had all of these crazy things happen across the planet. Uh, you know, like here in Texas, we had this giant storm that knocked out our power and our water in burst our pipe. And it was a nightmare. There's a lot of horrible things, things that have happened, but it doesn't mean that the work is going away.
It doesn't mean that just because this month didn't work out, it can't work out next, next month. Like, like I said, if it's an emergency situation and you feel like you need to take the money now, because you won't be able to eat or pay your rent or pay a mortgage or whatever, that's one thing. But your next thing is, well, what does this mean? If I say yes to this, if I say yes to this now, what am I kind of losing in the process? Is there, sorry, my bangs are my face. Um, is there something that, you know, I was been working towards, like I've really been trying to work towards more case study projects and taking on yet another blog, post retainer, isn't the kind of business I want to be building. So thinking about that money now versus money later really helps you level up your business.
If you keep taking the money now, like I know from experience, that's how I burned out. I just kept taking the money now and taking the money now and taking the money now. And it was a lot of small assignments over a long period of time. And I was just trying to stuff my schedule to the gills all the time. It was just deadline, deadline, deadline, deadline. You know, there was a time where I was doing, you know, uh, 20 to 30 interviews every week I did 20 to 30 interviews every week trying to get all my assignments done. And it was so much, and that was just money now, money now, money now, rather than saying like, hold on a second, I have money now. Maybe I can, you know, do a little bit more marketing to get more retainers. Maybe I can do a little bit when we're marketing to move into this other niche, maybe I can try to just, you know, pass on these small projects and try to get some bigger ones by doing more marketing.
So I, I know the pain of money now. I felt it many times. And I, I do struggle with it still because it's just, you know, sometimes you get into this scarcity mindset where you keep thinking like, Oh my gosh, there's never going to be any work. Like I, I, I have this conversation with my friends, my friends who make over six figures or make tons of money. Like, it's the same thing. They're like, there's never going to be any work. And it's this old habit, basically. It's this old habit that we do where we're afraid. Like, we're like, Oh my gosh, like this is the time to freak out because I'm not working myself to the bone. Like, Oh my gosh, I'm not exhausted and have 800 deadlines. Like I must be doing something wrong and there are ebbs and flows in your freelance writing business.
So the ebb and flow of work is normal. Something I struggle with too. Like when I'm not working constantly, I panic, you know, I just, just going to be honest, like that's kind of how I am right now is like, if I don't have a ton of work to do, sometimes I just panic. It's just, it's something I'm working on. But I always try to remind myself and I feel like I, I probably, I need this reminder too. Today is the money now. And the money later money now doesn't mean everything's going to be okay. And the money later, there's always more work. There's always more stuff coming in. The pipeline. People are always adding content managers are changing their strategy or like cutting staff and then being like, you know what? We can have a freelancer do this instead. And I think that if you kind of figure out how to balance that, if you've tried to figure out what you can do for money now and what you can do for money later, like which things you can hold out on and which things you have to do right now, I think that will really help level up your business.
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So number well, we'll add a number five here and maybe a six. We'll have to see how it goes. So number five is your basically your rest time. Let's talk about rest time. So your rest time and upleveling your business really makes a difference in how you're able to save mental energy for bigger projects or how you're able to rest up after you do a lot of work. So if you're upleveling your freelance writing business, you need to figure out how you can manage your rest time, where you can have your vacation. That makes the most sense for you where you can kind of pull off the gas a little bit. You can give yourself that space to like, get your creativity back. I know that there was a writer that I heard of a long time ago, where he spent every Friday, just having it as basically like a brainstorm day.
You know, he wasn't writing, he wasn't doing work. He wasn't trying to meet a deadline. His Friday was like thinking of ideas to pitch being creative. How could he change his business? Like he spent that time giving himself free range to think about possibilities for his business. And I think that's really cool. I mean, think about how much available, like rest time your brain gets by just tapping into your creativity rather than just write, write, write me my deadline met market. This thing, pay attention all the little, you know, fireflies that run around in my head. You get that time to not only rest the writer side, but tap into different parts of your brain that you don't always get to use. So the rest time isn't always like sleep or taking time off for vacation. Sometimes it just one day a week or two days a month, where you spend time maybe reviewing your business or being creative or not thinking about work at all, or, uh, you just spend them in a space where you can tap into the fund side.
You know, sometimes we get, we lose, we lose the excitement of freelance writing because it's like over and over again. We're trying to do all these things. And it's hard. You know, building a business is hard trying to get your income to a level that pays your bills is hard. Some people, some people it's like they knock it out of the park. The first time that wasn't me, it took me a long time to, and a lot of mistakes. I made a lot of mistakes to make enough money to pay all of my family's bills. And I find that when you're always struggling and you feel like it's always about money, or you're always worried about your next assignment or your next deadline, that rest time becomes something of the past. It's like the 1920s vacation or something where people like lay on a lounge and they're like, Oh, I'm resting.
You know, like, you're like, that must be nice. It doesn't, it it's not like a regularly scheduled program. So when you're thinking about leveling up your feelings, writing business, you need to give your spirit self space to like decompress and let go of the deadlines for a little bit. Because if you're only looking at the things that are right in front of you right now, you're never going to get to a feat. Like you have no idea what your future is because you haven't planned for it. You haven't thought about it. You don't have any space to rest and think about it. You're basically just like, Oh my God, this thing. And it's, it's always like pushing the panic button and pushing the panic button and pushing the button. It's not this thought out, even brainstorm. Right. So when you're thinking about rest time, think about like, I have a big, uh, dry erase calendar.
It's actually right here in my headquarters, which is this my office, uh, where I map out my vacations and I have, uh, I used to not do that, but then I wouldn't take vacation and then I would burn out and it'd be horrible. So I have this dry erase calendar and it's big because I don't manage my assignments on it. I use it to map out the year and see like where I'm going and how, how I can fit factor my vacation in. And when does my work slow? Like, sometimes my work is slow. Like the first couple of weeks of June, for some reason that's been the last, I think the last two years or so. Um, that's been a good time for me to take time off as like the first couple of weeks of June sometimes. Uh, let me look at it sometimes like the first or second week of March is really great for me to take time off and then let's see, I think sometimes I'd take off like the week around labor day.
Cause that's a little slow for me, but I always try to plan it out in a large scale thing. So I can see like basically at this quarter, what's going on. How many days do I have? How many days do I have until I get time off? Or how many days do I have to make enough money so I can take time off? Or when do I actually get to decompress and how do I manage my deadlines? So thinking about taking your rest time and leveling up your business, a lot of times people think like, Oh, I don't need rest to level up my business. I need to work harder. I need to keep working harder and harder and harder and I'll make more money. And I'll just, you know, like, like I told this story on another live stream where this guy said, Oh, you should just lower your hourly rate and then get more clients and you'll make more money.
Like, no, that's the opposite. You want to raise your hourly rate and work for less clients. You want to work for those? I just, I just think that's crazy. Like why would you get paid less money and do more work? That's just, that's just a recipe for disaster. So you want, sorry, you want to raise your hourly rate and you want to work less. You want to work less. That's the whole point we, we run our own business. We get to pick our own schedule. So when you're thinking about your rest time and how that levels up, people, people forget the smarter part. Like they forget the work smarter part. They're just like, Oh, I'll just work harder. And I did that for years. I did that for years where I was like, Oh, I'll just work more hours. Like, Oh, I don't know how many hours I work because I just will work more hours and make more money.
And, Oh, I'll just do like, this person is offering me, you know, a thousand dollars for five articles. I'll just do more to hit 10 and then I'll have $2,000. No, no, you don't actually get any rest. You're just adding more work. You're not raising your rate. You're not like, Oh, well, if they gave me, you know, a thousand dollars for five articles, maybe I can raise my rate and get a thousand dollars for four articles or I can get, you know, more than that, like let's say you're doing like a blogging retainer and you're doing one post a week. Let's say you raise your rate by $25 a post that's an extra a hundred bucks a month. So the, the idea of the work smarter, not harder, your situation is how it factors into your rest. You need to think about it, how you're going to, how you're going to factor in the recipes and also level up your business.
And you need the brain space to do that. The rest time gives you the brain space to level of your business and leveling up your business means taking time off. I didn't understand this for years. Like I didn't understand that to get to a next level. Like I needed a break that I needed time to just not, not answer calls and not be on my inbox and not have any calendar appointments and not be trying to deliver on deadlines. You need this space where, you know, there's people, a lot of it, there's a lot of things about hustle culture, right? A lot of people are talking about hustle culture now, and that's kind of it. It's like, yeah, you have to hustle. You have to work hard at your business. But if you hustle all the time, like you will run out of gas. Like I just know this from my own experience.
And from others, you just can't hustle a hundred percent of the time. And even if you hustle 90% of the time, like that's not enough rest. Um, there's a story that I've told before. I think I had it in one of my newsletters. And I think it's a good example here where there's two different lumberjacks and one lumber Jack. Um, they go out into a forest and there they have a competition for who can chop down the most trees. So the younger lumberjack is like, sweet. I'm going to kill it because I'm young. And I'll just like, I'll just chop down. All those trees all day. And the older lumberjack keeps taking breaks. So the younger lumberjack has chopping down trees all day, chopping down trees all day. And the older lumberjack just seems to be taking breaks and taking breaks. At the end of the day, it turns out that the older lumberjack chop down more trees than the younger one.
And he's like, I don't get it. You kept taking all these breaks. Like how did you, I was working hard the whole time I was, I was actively cutting down trees. And the moral of the story is basically like the older lumberjack was like, well, I was sharpening my ax while you were making your ax Dole, working harder. And every time as your gets dolor, you can't chop. As you know, you're not your chops. Aren't as sharp. It takes a lot longer. It takes more effort. I'm sharpening my ax. So it's still going efficiently. That's a really good story here. I, I, that really struck me the first time I heard that a few years ago, I was like, Oh, that's why we take breaks. Cause we're sharpening our ax. We're sharpening our acts for later on. We're sharpening our ax for better writing.
We're sharpening your ax for better clients. We're sharpening our ax to be more creative. We're not constantly chopping down trees like we're so young, you know, Oh my gosh, I'm just going to keep running and running, running that doesn't work. Your ax gets dull. It takes more effort. I can tell you from experience that when I was writing and I was tired and the times I am tired, it takes me a lot more time to finish my work. It's really hard to think of creative things to say. And I really struggled to just finish on deadline and that's because I'm not sharpening my ax. So if you ever get in this place where you're thinking about man, like I don't, you know, rest time seems so super, super fluid. Like I don't need that. No. Like the only way to Uplevel your freelance writing career is to figure out when you can sharpen your ax so that you stay consistent, you stay on track and you're kind of giving yourself a break and that you're staying sharp.
You know, you don't really want to be writing all the time with adult like a dull brain. I know from experience that that's a rough thing. So number five or six or whatever, number one, I think we're on five is that you need to factor in that rest time to get your creativity, to sharpen your ax. And remember that you're not always trying to like work harder. Sometimes you're trying to work smarter and you need space to figure out how to do that. And the working smarter means you can Uplevel your business means you can take different projects, different clients. And it also means you can experiment a bit. It means that you can take on kind of something where you're like, Hmm, that's really interesting. Like, you know, maybe it's not a ton of money, but it's something that's fascinating to you that you want to try.
So that's, that's all I have. If you have any questions, you can pop them in below in the chat. Um, or you can pop, or I guess the chats over there over there, I'm not sure. So you pop them in the chat. Or if you have a question, you can put it in the comments below and I will answer you. But, um, I hope this was helpful so far. If it was helpful for you hit the thumbs up, subscribe. If you want to get more of my weekly lives, I'll give you one last pup date. They're sleep. If I touch this thing, though, you can see her ears. If I move my hand away, she puts her ears back. And then I put my hand up here. It goes forward and back and bear smiling over there. But you look at a creepy, cause they're a little blown out. You didn't get who this lights, you're not alone and I'll pull on.
Maybe that helps you go. Good job. All right, Barry, you're a little, still a little blown out, but you're smiling. So good job. All right, Charlotte, you look adorable and you're cute. All right. So if you guys feel like this was helpful, share the video, I hope that this is helping you up level your career. These are kind of the things that I learned the hard way. So I'm hoping that this was helpful for you and I will be here next week to talk about another freelance writing topic. And I hope you guys have a great Friday. Bye.
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