Weekly digest #29 of 2025

• Community As Advantage, by Austin L. Church — You are who you surround yourself with. Being part of a motivated, active, and supportive community gives you a huge advantage: strategic and inspiring connections, quick access to expert advice, motivation, and fresh drive for your work.
• Using Interactive Content To Showcase Your Freelance Work, by Burkhard Berger — Presenting your work to clients? Try an interactive portfolio—one they can click, swipe, drag, explore. It builds trust by showing the process, not just the result, and stands out through its uniqueness.
• The Creative Reset: A 3-Day Challenge to Reignite Your Passion, by Sara Gibson — If your freelancing feels more like a 9–5 rat race, and you're working just to pay bills instead of for fun and passion as you used to (or as it was meant to be), try this 3-day creative reset to reconnect.
• How to Know What to Charge When There’s No Industry Standard — Lizzie Davey shares tips on how to set your price when you have no other guidance. Essential advice? Define your minimum, list the benefits you bring to the client, and consider how excited you are about the project.
• Trauma-Informed Marketing, by our member Magdalena Čevelová — Most marketing relies on fear, shame, and pressure—often triggering customers’ trauma without realizing it. Magdalena presents an alternative approach that encourages letting go of manipulative and unethical techniques. It is gentle and sensitive, but above all, it builds trust, client loyalty, and the reputation of an ethical business. It’s worth it if you care about serving people, not just making a profit.
• How to Learn the AI-Proof Skill Everyone can Master, from The Freelance Informer — In this new series of future-proof career articles, the Freelance Informer is exploring how freelancers can boost their confidence and stay competitive in an AI-driven world, for example by deliberately developing creativity, practicing problem-solving techniques, and strengthening other essential human skills that AI (for now) can’t replicate.

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