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SquadCast has been praised at our recent freelance think-tank as a great app for recording studio-quality podcasts online. All participants are recorded locally, and only then are their tracks uploaded to the cloud for further processing. Also, there’s a 7-day free trial. Good alternatives would be Cleanfeed, Zencastr and Riverside.fm.
Speaking of Buy me a coffee, another way to get paid for writing for a general audience that has been around for a while is Substack. It enables writers to publish neat newsletters (called publications) and receive payments from subscribers, minus 10% service charge.
A supporter is worth a 1000 followers, claims the homepage of Buy me a coffee. This popular “coffee-funding” platform enables writers, musicians, podcasters and other creators to collect small contributions from their fans. The fee is a mere 5%, and the overall user experience is rather cool, even when compared to the most popular membership platform Patreon.
Here’s a useful free service for the current era of online presentations, Zoom meetings and video calls: Fast.com by Netflix measures the speed and stability of your internet connection in their signature no-brainer fashion.
LinkedIn (owned by Microsoft) is about to launch an online marketplace for freelance gigs later this year. LinkedIn Marketplaces will challenge Fiverr and Upwork — the current top dogs in the so-called gig economy that also includes some freelancers.
Since Google’s search results have gotten worse, a simple-yet-powerful privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo has soared in use. Try it out as a default search in your browser, and perhaps you’ll never return.
Other alternatives to Google Search could be Startpage, European Qwant, or Ecosia — the Microsoft-powered search engine that plants trees 🌱
Professional freelancers don’t do “gigs”, explains Benek Lisefski in an older-but-relevant article. Actually, many freelancers hate being called gig workers and alike. Freelancing economy has been the most preferred term by freelancers themselves, according to the Freelancing in America 2017 survey.
If you’re a digital artist (illustrator, designer, photographer), March 11 has marked a major milestone for your profession: A single JPEG image, an art piece titled Everydays: The First 5000 Days by its creator Beeple, has been auctioned by Christie’s in London for an unprecedented sum of $69,346,250 💸
Join the survey to be counted in the first global study on freelancing, organized prof. Gerald Cupchik of the University of Toronto in collaboration with Jon Younger (as explained in their video). It takes only about 15 minutes to complete.
How to turn everyday stress into ‘optimal stress’ 🤯→😇 is a comprehensive, science-based guide compiled by Jan Ascher and Fleur Tonies from McKinsey.