Ramping Up Your 2021 Freelance Writer Income
Curious how you can start ramping up your freelance writing income in 2021? We're going through a few how-to's and tips to jumpstart your income, make 2021 your best year yet, and how to handle your new freelance writer income and finances.
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So, if you've ever been curious about how to ramp up your freelance writing income for 2021, we're going over today about how to kind of jumpstart your, your income, a few, how tos and tips on what you should be considering in terms of projects. And then some like little creative things that you can do to kind of ramp up your income besides just increase your prices and you should be increasing your prices. Like you shouldn't just go year to year with the same prices and have the same fees for the same things and give everybody a rate card or send everybody a pricing sheet. Like you should be changing your rates. As you learn about projects, as you learn about how quickly you can do them or how much effort they take, or how many interviews or, you know, how much complexity is in all those projects.
And we just say, Hey Linda, Hey Casey, Hey Jared. Yeah. It's Hey Getty. Yeah, it's it's noon here. So I was a little late today, you know, it's the first week after all the holiday time also, I'm trying to get myself together and, uh, you know, get all my pets in the room and get myself situated. So we're going to go over kind of how to jumpstart your income. So the first thing that we'll talk about is like increasing your prices. Like every year, you should increase your prices every year. As you gain experience, as you become more valuable to the companies that you work for and the clients that you have on your list currently, and future, you need to raise your prices. That is not just because we want to make more money it's because we're actually learning a lot. Like every year we're learning a ton, we're figuring out a lot of different things about these projects.
We're, you know, um, coming to terms with the types of things we want to do and the types of things that we hate doing. And I think that a lot of times freelance writers get worried about increasing prices because they think they'll turn other clients away. But really what happens when you increase your prices is you start working with clients who see more value in your work. Those higher prices are attracting clients who care about the quality of their content. They don't necessarily come in there and they're like, we need 55 blog posts, hurry up and do it. Now, they're more like, Hey, I really care about the quality of these 12 pieces, or I really care about our quarterly case study being, you know, super great interviews, really high quality graphics. Like they care about those things. And when you increase your prices, you start working with all those people who are looking more or for, you know, the, uh, the quality piece over the quantity piece.
They're also looking for pieces of content that live longer lives than just week by week by week. And they have a content strategy. They're thinking ahead about how that content affects their business longer term. So increasing your prices, isn't just about making money. It's about figuring out, you know, learning from all the things you did the previous year, and then implementing that into your pricing. And then also about how much value you've basically earned over the last year, learning about the projects, figuring out how to do them, and basically, you know, how much more you can provide to your clients. So that's kind of my first thing is the, is the increasing your prices piece. The next piece is that we want to talk about jump-starting our income based on what we did last year. So let's say you did a lot of blog posts, or you did a lot of short form copy.
Like, let's say you did a lot of emails or, um, you did a lot of, um, you know, little websites, like you did little piece, like a few web pages here and there for every, you know, for dozens of websites, instead of working more, we kind of want to work on working less. We want to get higher price projects. We want to get more in depth projects that take specific skills so that we can raise our income. Right. So if we're doing kind of lower level projects that a lot of writers can do, right, they're kind of general, they're kind of like five paint colors to consider for your living room or like how to replace a sink or like, or, um, you know, uh, what the median home price means for your neighborhood, like general posts that a lot of people can write. When we think about how we want to increase our income, we're thinking about things like a case study for a specific complicated type of industry.
We're thinking about people who need more in depth work like reported articles. I've been doing a lot more reported articles because instead of just doing a blog post a lot more people want studies and research and they want those journalism skills in a blog post. So it's called the blog post, but it's really an article. It's not very like, it's, it's essentially not different than anything. I would write for a magazine like I've written profiles and they're the same that I would write for a magazine. I've written them for businesses. I've written reported articles for companies and magazines. They're the same, but the difference is that when you do them for a business, it just ends up on their blog. So you can charge what that's worth to them. And then you can also charge based on how many interviews you're doing, what kind of in-depth questions you have to do.
How long are you on the call? How much effort and how much experience does it take to craft a really quality profile or a really quality article, or do you know where to find sources? Do you know where to find studies? Do you know how to basically do the whole pie without the editor saying like, yeah, go ask them for this and this and that and go get photos. And can you do all the pieces by yourself? That's a lot of value to a company where they're like, Hey, go do this, figure this thing out, send it back to me and we'll go from there. So that kind of value piece helps you increase your income because you're doing more complex tasks in general. And then you're also doing more on your side. Then your editor being like, yeah, we'll get the photo. And yeah, we'll do all this other stuff.
And like you're shouldering more of it than your client. So when you're thinking about complex projects, like a lot of people are doing more, um, web stuff now, right? Like they're doing more webinars or they're doing more online trainings because we're all still stuck in our homes because of the virus, right? So those things need scripts. They need decks, they need slides. There's a lot of different pieces of writing that go into all of those presentations. And those are kind of on the rise. I've seen more and more people, um, in different groups I'm in and different writers. I talked to who are doing more like scripts or who are doing more online type things because everybody can't be going out and doing speeches or presentations out in the world. So that's a really good opportunity to kind of think about something you want to add to your, um, repertoire basically.
Um, let's say if you want to do more eBooks, a lot of people are doing more downloads like eBooks or, or how to guides or ways to grow their email lists because you know, one of the common phrases is like the money is in your list. So a lot of places are growing their email lists so that they can increase their sales. The way to increase your subscriber rate on your email list is to have a really good free download is to have a really good ebook. That's kind of low priced, kind of an easy in for them. Um, there's a ton of different ways like an info graphic. There's a lot of different downloadable resources that you can help write and create. Um, you can help them with infographics. You could even go to Canva and get an infographic template and help them create that.
And that's an added value, right? So when you're doing the writing piece, if you're doing something that includes graphics, that's an extra piece that you're adding on to the writing, which could help you get a higher paid project. So think about the more complex projects that you can get into rather than kind of doing a churn and burn thing. A lot of times people think like, I I'll tell you guys a story. So for me, I went into a writing group one time and this person was talking about how they just needed to make an extra two grand a month. They're like, Hey, I would be set if I just made an extra two grand a month and someone came in there and said, you should lower your hourly rate. And then you'll get more clients you'll work more, but you'll get the two K, which is like the exact opposite of what you want to do.
You do not want to lower your hourly rate and work more to make more money. If you did one case study for $2,000 every single month, or if you did one white paper every other month, or if you did a content strategy package, if you did a content marketing, um, audit or overview or some sort of larger package, like that would be enough going in there and lowering your hour, like never, first of all, don't work hourly. That'll be our next thing that we talked about. So just the fact that he's talking about working hourly and lowering your hourly rate to make more money is like insane, crazy pants. Like don't do that. Um, but that's the mindset, right? The mindset is like, Oh, I'll just work more. Like I, I fell into this mindset for a long time. Oh, I'll just work more and then I'll make more money.
Oh, I'll just do 10 more blog posts and I'll make more money. Like, no, no. The way to make more money is to get more skills, learn the types of content your clients need, learn how to do those things well, and then offer those services to your clients if you're not going to interviews. And you're notice that a lot of your clients need interview style stuff. Like whether it's articles or case studies or white papers or anything, or even interviews that like you have someone on their podcast and you write up a script or list of questions for that, get better at that. And then do you use that as part of the services you offer rather than being like, yeah, I will write 57 blog posts for you and there's nothing wrong with blog posts. It's just that blog posts are often the kind of like turn and burn work.
A lot of people end up doing a lot of blog posts because they're like, Oh, I'll just do more. I'll just do more. And they try to get more clients and more blog posts. And we want to vary our work here. Want to vary the types of things we do. So we're not just becoming like an expert on blog posts. We're becoming an expert on how to put up a marketing package, how to do a email drip campaign, how to put together a content marketing and content strategy package. How do we put all these things together? Maybe like including SEO, if that's something that you do, we want to do more complex stuff. We don't want to keep trying to do the same thing working more every year. Like no, and no more, no more hourly rates. Okay. No more hourly rates. So I'll lead into that.
I do not work hourly unless it's a client I really want to work for, or unless it's a project I really want. And that's the only way they'll work. The only way they'll work is hourly. So what you want to do is per project pricing. This is how you end up not only, you know, getting, making the whole billing process a lot easier for your clients, but it's more of a value than time. So when you work hourly, a lot of times, your clients will be worried about time. They will be worried about how much time you're spending doing this and what their mindset is sometimes is that they're like buying your time. They're not necessarily buying your expertise, which is what per project pricing is per project pricing is I'm going to do this package of 12 blog posts. It costs X amount of dollars.
You owe me 50% before we start. And 50% at the end, or, you know, sometimes what I do with blog posts is you owe me 50% of the first month before we get started, 50% of the first month at the end of that first month. And then every other month is billed at the first of the month for however long we work together. So you don't want to be working in a, in an environment often where people are buying time. Time is something that everybody has, and it's not all equal, right? My time is not the same price as a first year freelancer a first year freelancer's time is not as valuable as someone who's been in marketing for 20 years. And they decide to start their own marketing firm. Like there's a lot of different things in here where time is not an equalizer.
It is, it is different. And when the idea of the client is like, they're buying time from you. And they're like, Oh, it shouldn't take more than X amount of time. That's usually an issue. It just depends on whether or not you want to work for them. Like, for me, I have worked hourly. I probably will do hourly, um, every once in a while. And it depends on what type of client I want to work for. There's some clients where I just really like what they're doing. I like how the company's evolving. I like the content they're putting out. I like how they're helping people. I like what they're teaching people to do. And for me, sometimes that means, yeah, I'll work hourly. If that's how you want to bill, like you won't work per project right now. This, this works for you then. Yeah.
That's, that's what's going to happen, but I don't do it often because to me, I don't like the idea of someone judging my work based on how much time I spent on it, rather than judging it based on how much experience, how many things I know how many projects I've already done that are similar to this and how much man effort and learning and classes and ongoing stuff that I've packed into my schedule so that I can get better. I'd rather do that. So when you're working hourly, first of all, don't lower, your hourly rate. Don't do that. Don't lower it because you want to get more work. Like if anything, raising it, you'll attract better clients. That's, that's the only thing I've ever seen is raising it. You might have a low for a little while. It might be like, as you push away, all the clients who are low paying hourly people, you attract people who are like, yes, we'll pay you a hundred dollars an hour or $75 an hour.
Like, you know, then you kind of get in that group. But per project pricing, I've always found is better. They know what they owe you. They know what the project costs. It's not a surprise when they get an invoice. Right. And a lot of times with hourly, they're like only spend an hour. And it's like, okay, well, why don't we just do project pricing? If you only want me to spend an hour and the hour cost this much. And if you only want me to do this much over this course, period of time, why don't we just do that as a project fee hourly? Just, you know, it doesn't, it doesn't always slice and dice the right way, but per project they could have been like, yes, our budget is $2,000 a month. Can you do this amount of work for $2,000 a month? And then you go back and you'd be like, well, let me look at it.
Like, can I do this amount of work for $2,000 a month? You come back and you're like, yeah, I can. Sometimes what happens is you're like, no, I can only do 50% of the work for $2,000 a month. That's a lot easier to me. The per project pricing piece gives you value. It gives you a value proposal where you can kind of work up all these things where you say like, hi, like basically this is what we talked about. This is why you're hiring me. Here's some testimonials and clients that I've worked for. Here's how much it costs. And then you work into the contract. So the value proposal to me makes more sense than hourly. And the way to make more money is to get away from people buying your time. You want people to buy your expertise. Like when you go out and buy a product, you're not buying that product necessarily on how many hours people spent building it, right?
Because there's people who design the product. There's people who build the product. There's people who manufacture, who test the product, who manufacture the product, who test the product, who shipped the product, who then take on the reviews and implement them and change the product and update, like you're not paying for that. You're paying for sometimes just the name brand, right? Sometimes that name brand has so much credibility. You're like paying a premium for that product. But if you were to sit down and pay for all the hours, people put into it like that wouldn't make sense at all. So you're paying for the value of that product in the market. That's kind of the thing with platforms. That's my next little piece. So before we hop into questions, um, my next little piece is to get off the platforms, get off the platforms, let them go, put them in a little boat and sails.
I'm away into the ocean. Let go of the platforms and by platforms. I mean, Upwork, Fiverr, um, anything where you come to me and say like, I get questions. Um, you know, I was a dead moderator, so I've gotten so many questions. And from coaching students, they're like, is this a good idea? Should I join this platform? Should I join this thing? Like, Oh, well, this doesn't seem like a platform, but I have a portfolio on there. And like, no, no, the answer is forever. And always, no, I used to be on the platforms. I can tell you what it's like, it's, it's a race to the bottom where people aren't necessarily always looking for the best person, but they're also looking for like the best person at the lowest price. And you're competing against a lot of different people. You're doing a lot of time.
You're spending a lot of time making these proposals and setting your hourly rate at a hundred dollars an hour. And now we're back to the hourly situation. Now we're back to charging hourly for our work, which is not ideal for us. So anytime you're on a platform, just take this into consideration. If that platform disappears tomorrow, if they go bankrupt or if they have a big lawsuit and they shut down, your business has been a race. You no longer have a business. Like technically yes, if you have an LLC, you have a business, but you're more, you don't know how to do marketing. You don't know how to get new clients. You don't know how to rebuild. You have to basically start from scratch because you've been on this platform. And a lot of times on those platforms, they say like, when I was, um, on the, like some platforms that would be like, don't go off the platform.
Like it's dangerous out there. You're going to die. Like they would send you messages, like do not get paid off platform. Cause you may not get paid. And it's like, they scare you from going off the platform. Wouldn't really, it's like, you're on the platform. You're, they're taking a cut of your money and you're competing against hundreds of other writers. Like no. So if that platform disappeared, you wouldn't, you have no skills. Like you have no opportunity to build an actual business. So to make more money in 2021, delete the platforms, just delete and start over, learn how to do actual marketing, send LORs letters of introduction, send pitches, learn how to actually build and run a, a business. Don't get on a platform and hope that someone picks you out of the large dating pool of writers. Like get off the platform, start over, build your own business.
I have been a very strong proponent of this for a long time. Build your own business. That's not just niches. That's not just type of work, build your own business so that you can run the whole thing so that you can get the marketing done so that when things go wrong, you know how to fix them. It's not just like, Oh, well, no, one's hiring me this month. Like, no, we need to learn how to do the marketing. We need to learn how to do all the finances. We need to learn how to set appointments. We need to learn how to accept payments. Like all of the things that help us run a very good freelance writing business, that's profitable our off platform. And I don't see the point in not only paying the platform, basically taking a cut of everything you make, but then you have to pay Stripe or PayPal fees.
So you're paying the platform you're paying Stripe and PayPal instead of cutting the person out and finding quality clients. Like from what I've seen, a lot of times, your best clients are the people who are looking for a writer. They haven't gotten around to it. They're trying to figure it out and you pop in your inbox and you're like, Hey, could you use some help? They're like, Oh, thank God you're here. And they're like, thank you for showing up. Like thank you for being here. And you're like, yes, I'm here. And that's because you were doing proactive marketing that's because you found out that their company got 500 million in seed. All, they wouldn't get 550 million in seed money or that they got their series B funding or that they, um, ended up hiring a bunch of new staff or that their businesses on the up and up, they're the top 10 trending companies to watch.
There's all these different things like that. You're paying attention to your industries or your niches. What's happening with those companies. You're, you're plugged in. You're not just sitting on a platform, waiting for someone to be like, hi, and you might website rebuilt. And that could be like any niche or small business owner or anybody on the planet. So that niche expertise learning how to build your own business, the pieces that run your business, the marketing, the finances, the to-do lists, the calendar, the proposals, the contract, like all those things need to be and they help you make more money. They get you to actually run your own business and look at all the moving pieces rather than just sit on a platform and hopefully someone will pick you. So that's the next piece? Um, I did mention another one that I now just blanked on.
Um, it was get off the platform, stop working hourly. And then the next one, um, Oh man, it's one of those days where I just like blank anyways. So as you're increasing your income, as you're thinking about all the things you need to do, um, think about the types of projects you really want to do. Think about what you want to set your rates at this year. Think about getting off the platforms, think about doing per project pricing. Think about all the pieces, like think about other ways that you can make money that, that include writing. That aren't just, you know, project quotes. Like sometimes there's different ways as you writing that aren't necessarily like the traditional things. A lot of people I know are expanding their repertoire. They're figuring out what types of writing that they could. What types of things are now requiring writing that didn't before or what types of opportunities are opening up now that we're all working from home.
So think about that. Look into your industries, look into your niches about what's coming up. Like are a lot of people trending this direction? Are they thinking about doing this? See where writing fits in there. And then I can guarantee you, like, one of my friends, uh, is doing marketing or marketing messaging and positioning work, which is basically helping people kind of market their product. It's um, figuring out how to like position your product. Like what is your product? And then what messaging kind of surrounds it to make it clear what that product is. And then also basically attract your ideal audience and that's kind of work I want to get into. So right now I'm trying to get in to doing more of that stuff. And I don't use it while paid work, but it's really fascinating, interesting work. And it's something that I just didn't know about a couple of years ago.
And it was just something that I kind of paid attention to, like what's going on? And one of my friends mentioned it and I was like, Oh yeah, that's interesting. And then, you know, we kind of followed all these people and um, well I guess it's one or two people in particular, but it's something that I just didn't know about. And then when I found out about looked into it, I was like, wow, that's really interesting. I want to add that to my repertoire. So open up those fences a little bit and look around to see what you can add writing too. So I'm going to check through the questions. I'm going to give you guys a quick puck date while I do
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All right. So I'm looking for questions. So if you guys have questions, pop them in the chat. I feel like this has been helpful so far. If you feel like you've gotten some good information, give me a thumbs up. If you feel like you might want to stick around and hear what other kinds of crazy ideas I have, um, feel free to subscribe. So let's see if anyone has any questions. If you have a question, pop it in. Is there a best time of year to so get is asking, let's pop you up.
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Everybody up, everybody wanted an extra treat. So Getty says, is there a best time of year to adjust prices or is the new year standard time to do so? So I like the new year, just because it's a lot easier in November, December, just to tell your current clients, Hey, I'm raising my rates. It's going to be this. And then you can figure out well before January, whether you need to drop a client or move a client, or if it doesn't fit in their budget. Um, there's also a thing where like, it's just nice to start the new year off at new rates. It's kind of arbitrary that it's just the new year. Um, but one of the times that I think is, uh, like time to adjust your prices. If you do a project and you're like, Whoa, that was like double the amount of work that I thought it would be.
That's when you need to raise your price. Like if you do the work and you start feeling bitter and resentful and angry and frustrated, and it's taking you a lot of time and it's not your first rodeo, like you're not new and try to figure it out. Like you've done this work before and you're like, Whoa, this was really complex. Raise your prices. That means you're working at too low of a price for that work. So anytime you have a project where it just pops up and ends up being a lot more than you thought, like I underbid projects all the time, like I've done it a ton of times where I have become like frustrated. I'm like, Oh my gosh. And then I'm like, Oh, like I should be getting paid double for this. Like, this is, this is way more work than, than the client made it sound like, or it's way more work than I thought it would be.
Or, um, there's a lot of different moving pieces in here. And it turns out I have to do all these extra things. Like that's a time we need you to raise your prices to fit the amount of work that you're doing, or the amount of value that you're providing to someone like, let's say, they're like, Hey, we actually want to syndicate this or we want to go do this other thing. Or, um, we wanted to add this other piece, like raise the prices. So I like new year's and then I like, basically whenever I figure out that I've undercharged for a project. So that's a, that's always a great question. So,
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Yeah. So Linda has a good comment here. So Linda glad you're feeling better. That's good. And then she says, after having tons of low paying and bad clients who didn't value my time, I'm all for higher prices, pricing and per project pricing. Yeah. Like time is a really interesting concept. Like someone that you can't get it back. So if someone's trying to buy your time, they are buying a piece that is not going to ever come back those hours that you're spending on their project, you will not get them back. They now have vanished. They have now been paid for. So think about like, I'm not, I'm, I'm saying most of the time don't work hourly every once in awhile, it's okay to work hourly. Like for a client you really want to work for, like I said, like there's projects where I get them in they're hourly.
And I just really liked the company. I like what they're doing. I like the direction they're going. Maybe I want a sample from that company. Maybe I like, um, the type of work they're doing, maybe they're doing a lot of case studies. And I want some case studies in that niche. There's a lot of different things. Maybe I wouldn't do a case study hourly. That's a bad example, but let's say they're doing blog posts or something, but there's a time to work hourly. And that time is very small. So work hourly when it is something that you feel like you're gaining a lot from otherwise per project pricing is, is the ballpark you want to be in. So let's see any more questions.
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Linda says she got a job offer to write a website, but it was all pro bono. So I declined. Yeah. So I have another interesting story. Hi, Camille. Welcome. So,
Um, I have an interesting
Story about this that I'm add on to what Linda said. So a long time ago, I think it was like three years ago, maybe four years ago, I had a billion dollar company reach out to me, a billion dollar company. They had more than a billion dollars in revenue. And they asked me if I wanted to do work for exposure. And I was like, you have a billion dollars in revenue. You should be paying for content. No, no. And what I told them was like, sorry, I'm not volunteering my time right now. Like, please let me know when you change your budget. I don't remember exactly what I said, but that's essentially it like, hi, I'm not volunteering my time right now, but that's a crazy thing to me. Like you're a billion dollar company. I know you have a marketing budget. I know that you're doing a bunch of other things.
I know other people are getting paid. I know while you are asking me this question on, you know, while you're asking me this question, you're getting paid for trying to find a writer. So like, why am I not getting paid for the work I'm doing for you? So if you ever have a company that reaches out to you that has a ton of revenue, like you Google their revenue or you look it up on LinkedIn or glass door, like, and they have money and they're asking you to do pro bono work, like walk far away. They don't understand the value of quality work. They don't understand the value of content like there that even if they said their marketing budget is really small, like
Just no, just don't. Ooh, Linda's got a good question here. Okay.
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It's marinating. Linda says,
How should I promote my skills? Since I'm changing people keep reaching out for the old nation. I'm totally burned out on it. Um, yet I have a lot of experience, but those starting blogs and case studies. Okay. So here's the thing. If you are switching niches, all you have to do to the people that are reaching out to you right now is just say like, Hey, I'm so sorry. I'm not doing that type of work anymore. I'm working on case studies and ghost writing or whatever you want to work on. Um, if you have any of those projects, please let me know. So just, just straight up, tell them like, Hey, I'm not working on that, but I am working on this. Let me know if you have that, then take your skills from that old project and use it to inform your new one.
So let's say you were doing a lot of blog posts. You're like, I want to move into case studies or you wrote for a magazine a little bit. You like want to move into case studies and white papers or, you know, more, I dunno, report is stuff you would use your interview skills, you'd highlight your interview skills or you'd highlight your long form content skills or you'd highlight, um, how you're really good at condensing. A lot of complicated information and making it easy to understand you take a lot of these little pieces of what you did in that old stuff. Like what skills did you have there translate to how that works in the new stuff? Like if I was working on a lot of blog posts or if I was working on like a lot of my work was nagging teens when I first started out.
So I'd say like, Hey, I'm really good at interviewing. That means I'm good at case studies because those include a lot of interviews. If I'm really good at writing blog posts, maybe I can translate that to web content because it's about a company topic and I'm really good at writing and the company's voice. Like I'm really good at adapting my style to their style and tone. Maybe what I'm doing is I want to move into marketing and positioning, right. Or marketing messaging, and positioning. What I would do there is I would highlight my marketing experience. I would highlight how good I am at figuring out, you know, different pieces of a content project, or I would figure out like, explain how I'm really good at listening to people because a lot of messaging and positioning work is interviewing and listening to people and figuring out what is this product and how can we better, you know, put the bubble of messaging around it so that it makes sense to the general public, right?
So you're really good at research. You're really good at finding information. And you're really good at drilling things down. There's a lot of different skills that you can think about that you can translate into other things, like look at what those types of content need and use that for the new stuff. So like if you were writing one thing and that thing needed, um, research and interviews, what other types of content need research and interviews that you can highlight as your new type of content, or if you're really good at writing short form content or you're really good at, at, um, video content, like what skills did you need to write that video content that you can translate into what other type of work there's all these different skillsets that come with each different type of content you write? It's not just like blog posts are the same as case studies or as an ebook or as an email drip campaign, or as helping someone with a freebie they're, they're different and they take different skills, they take different pieces of knowledge.
So maybe you're good at writing blog posts. That means you're really good at putting together an ebook of, of, you know, a collection of blog posts or you're good at writing, um, you know, an ebook, which is just like, maybe you think of it as a longer form blog post. Um, think about the skills you need to do that. And that'll kind of help you move into that new niche. Just, just try to imagine, not imagined look into the type of content you want to move into, whether it's ghostwriting or case studies and think about the skills you're using the old stuff to translate to the new stuff. So that's a great question. So any other questions, any other questions? Um, do do do, yeah. If the old niche gives you the chills Linda, like don't go back. I think I know what you're talking about, but just don't do it.
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