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If you sell services to multiple countries as a freelancer and tend to have the same prices for everybody, Jakub Res has written an excellent article to dispute this one-size-fits-all practice: Same product, same price? Here is why this pricing strategy is excellent and terrible at the same time.
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Here’s a new quote about selling our time as freelancers, from The Freelance Way, chapter Pricing:
“As freelancers we are generally selling our time in some form, no matter what our prices are or how we set them. And this even applies for celebrities, for example when Robbie Williams asks £1.6 million to perform at the wedding of the daughter of a Russian oligarch, or Ian McKellen refuses $1.5 million to marry off businessman Sean Parker while dressed as Gandalf. Or when the unbeatable boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. leaves early retirement to rake in an estimated $300 million for a single fight with Conor McGregor and, through a technical KO, raises his number of wins without a defeat to an even 50.”
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OpenAI’s Dalle 2 (aka DALL·E 2, perhaps as a reference to Pixar/Disney’s WALL·E) is an AI tool hugely debated among freelance creators, designers and visual artists: Will AI soon take over their work?
A deep review with well-chosen examples, published by Less Wrong, offers some clues by showing What DALL-E 2 can and cannot do.
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Freelancers work and travel a lot as digital nomads, but paying for mobile data can be quite expensive in faraway holiday destinations. Luckily, there’s an app for that: Airalo enables you to purchase local eSIMs worldwide from local operators and have them installed on your smartphone. It’s fast, cheap, and only requires having an eSIM-enabled phone.
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Adam Sandler plays a basketball team scout who quits his job and goes freelance to bet his career on a talented player. The new acclaimed Hustle movie is available worldwide on Netflix, and it once again reminds us how vital freelance experts are in professional sport. A good flick.
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Payal Dhar has reviewed 3 AI writing tools (Jasper, Rytr, and GPT-J) for The Future-Proof Freelancer series and came to a sobering conclusion in an article titled Will AI Writing Tools Replace Us Lowly Human Freelancers?:
“Ultimately, in my opinion, AI is only a threat to writers in the same way that Photoshop ’wiped out’ artists and Squarespace did away with web developers. I don’t think that we lowly human freelancers are going to be replaced by robots—but some of us might take one on as an assistant in the not-too-distant future.”
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“For a freelancer, a photo is a bit like a logo for a company. You can get by without a logo, but without a photo? Not so much. Your photo represents you and says who you are and how you see yourself, it’s a clear output of a certain amount of self-styling, and it’s an expression of how you want others to see you.”
Learn more about the basics of freelance marketing and picking the best headshot photo in The Freelance Way.
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There is DALL·E 2 AI image generator, already available to beta testers — and then there’s Imagen by Google Research’s Brain Team, the quality of which is just brutal.
Our take: If you look at the sample high-resolution images generated by Imagen’s AI from short text descriptions, it’s quite obvious that many designers, illustrators, and photographers are getting concerned about their professional future. Google is probably concerned too, intending to keep Imagen technology private, at least for now:
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An online event Freelance Business Creativity produced by Elina Jutelyte and her team is scheduled for June 30, 2022. It is free to join for all free-lancers.
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Here’s our movie tip for the weekend: The Intern with Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway is a great business comedy/drama about a retired widower who, basically, decides to go freelance as an intern in a startup company. Rated 7.1/10 on IMDb.
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