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☆ I tried not to be a helicopter parent when my son went to college. But it was harder than I expected.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Danielle Evans-Cole | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Friends with older children told tales of university parent Facebook groups, which were filled with demands that the dining halls specially cook their child's food in avocado oil. But I then joined a few of the parent Facebook groups for my son's new school out of curiosity. I tried not to get sucked into helicopter parenting my college-age kid, but it was hard to let go during the transition. My husband begged me to stop, but I kept getting sucked into post after post and discovered new parent Facebook groups to join. I dipped back into the Facebook groups and saw parents' posts about finding sublets, how to obtain parking passes, and the best grocery stores near campus.

Persons: ranted, Danielle Evans, Cole Organizations: Service, Facebook, Business, LinkedIn Locations: Boston

Entry-level jobs are typically thought of as positions requiring little to no prior experience or skills. But it's a longstanding gripe among job seekers on social media that job listings' requirements are more ambitious. "Companies listing 'Masters preferred' for entry level office positions," posted another. In a 2022 report from McKinsey & Company, the second-most-cited barrier to employment was a lack of experience, relevant skills, credentials or education. Less than 61% of human resources leaders said in 2023 that they are hiring for entry-level and less-specialized positions, down from 79% in 2022, according to a PwC survey.

Persons: Julia Pollak Organizations: Finance, Treasury Department, McKinsey & Company Locations: TestGorilla

☆ 5 in-demand freelance jobs you can do from home—some pay over $200 an hour
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-14 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

To help freelancers find the best opportunities, Freelancer.com has identified five in-demand freelance jobs, based on more than 250,000 listings posted on its database between January and March 2024. ProgrammingAverage hourly rate: $2502. eCommerce development and managementAverage hourly rate: $2503. This has sparked demand for other freelance services related to running an e-commerce site, Siseles points out, including user interface design and copywriting. Freelance jobs may last for part of a day, a week, a month, a year or even longer — and while some jobs are priced hourly, others might have a fixed project rate. To find out where the jobs are and list your own services, consider creating a profile on Upwork, Freelancer.com, Fiverr, TaskRabbit or a different website advertising freelance jobs.

Persons: —, Yoav Hornung, Freelancer.com, Sebastián Siseles Organizations: CNBC, MBO Partners Locations: U.S, Upwork

☆ I started an Etsy candle store last year. The passive income helped me move out of my parents house and travel the world.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 26-year-old Francisco Rivera, an Etsy seller from Orlando. I manage an Etsy store that made $403,499 last year after Etsy's fees and postage costs. Since starting the store, I've moved out of my parent's house and started renting a studio in Orlando. That's when I realized my Etsy store could replace my income from teaching. Quitting my job was scary, but I knew that even if this particular shop failed, I could set up another store on Etsy.

Persons: —, Francisco Rivera, I've, It's, I'm, I'd, Bali . I've Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Orlando, Texas, Bali ., Belgium, France, New York, Caribbean

☆ Life in the US got boring, so I moved to China. I'm lonely and single, but I plan to stay.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Danielle Marcano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The woman who interviewed me for the teaching job in China was based in Boston. Our training center decided to start teaching students from home. Despite my accomplishments in China, I'm still asked by some family members why I'm not married. I'm not opposed to dating Chinese men, but I often worry about the language barrier and cultural differences. It's a similar mindset I had when I found the opportunity to work in China in the first place.

Persons: Danielle Marcano, —, they'd, I'd, Danielle Marcano Yantai, I've, haven't, Hong Kong —, I'm, they'll Organizations: Service, SEPTA, America, Lakers Locations: Philadelphia, China, Downtown Philly, South Philly, LA, Boston, South Korea, Yantai, Yangma, Beijing, Los Angeles, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Hong, Shenzhen —

☆ My business partner ended our relationship via email and outlined everything wrong with me. She still wanted to be friends.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Bethaney Phillips | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

After working together for four years, my business partner sent an email ending our relationship. AdvertisementIn 2014, I got an email from my business partner; it was a notification that we would no longer be working together. My business partner and I were close friends when we started the company in 2010. Because the client and my former business partner were friends, the client shared the dirt. Somehow, she still wanted to be friendsThis business breakup only pertained to the professional part of our relationship.

Persons: —, I'm Organizations: Service

☆ I raised my price from $5 to $165 on Fiverr. I was afraid to lose work, but these 2 strategies helped me grow my clients.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-08 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

2 strategies helped me get good reviews on FiverrI worked with 20 or 30 clients at any given time on Fiverr. I got a lot of reviews from clients who were happy with my work and said my copywriting had helped boost their sales. I started writing video scriptsCurrently, I charge $165 to write 400 words for video scripts. Fiverr gave me my startIn the first three years of Fiverr, I wondered if I'd made a mistake by leaving my job. It gave me the confidence to land clients outside the platform, including clients in Bulgaria, where I live.

Persons: Maya Sayvanova, —, copywriting, Fiverr, I'd Organizations: Business Locations: Sofia, Bulgaria

Passive income streams are a great way of mitigating your financial risk and earning extra income. I talked to financial advisors and accountants about lucrative passive income streams they've seen. Owning a parking lot, real estate, blogging, and online courses can generate over $100,000 a year. To help mitigate personal financial risk, I try to create as many passive income streams as I can. Over the years, I've built multiple passive income streams for myself including courses, e-books, and selling merchandise.

Persons: —, I've, Chris Nddie, Brent Dickerson, Dickerson, Olivia Tan, Tan, Sanchit Taksali, Get Organizations: Service, Invest, CPA, SEC

☆ I'm a single mom who quit social work to pursue copywriting. My business brought in 6 figures last year.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I started writing Amazon descriptions as a side hustleNo one ever goes into social care for the money. I realized just that if I could spend 10 hours a day writing Amazon descriptions, it would be more lucrative than social work. I quit my jobI left social work in September 2015. The moment he knew my background in social work, he felt comfortable. They take on most of our social media and blogging work, and I focus on ghostwriting and book consulting.

Persons: Catherine Nikkel, I've, copywriting, I'd, he'd, We'd Organizations: Business, Facebook Locations: Toronto, Canada

☆ Side hustles for introverts: which remote online businesses don't require face-to-face interaction and how to start them
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Kiera Fields | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Taking online surveys and blogging are also avenues for introverts to make money. A UX designer, Etsy seller, blogger, and online-survey taker share how they got started. Brett WilliamsBrett Willams was working as a UX designer at a corporate firm but found the nine-to-five grind boring. AdvertisementRead more: I make up to $150,000 a month as a freelance UX designer. Taking online surveys often doesn't require any communication with other peopleJordan FreyJordan Frey, a plastic surgeon, started spending two or three hours a week taking surveys online to bring in extra income and said he makes between $500 and $1,000 a month.

Persons: —, they're, Brett Williams, Brett Williams Brett Willams, Williams, Tammy Dinh, Tammy Dinh Tammy Dihn, Dihn, Zer, she'll, Read, I've, Samantha North, ChatGPT, Jordan Frey Jordan Frey, he's, Frey Organizations: Service, introverts, YouTube Locations: Portugal

☆ Marketers have an important role to play in how AI serves society, according to the CMO of Indeed
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Jessica Jensen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Every day, we're exploring how we can use AI to work better and how all marketing jobs are changing. How AI is changing marketingIt's often said that content is king, and today AI is super-charging content. Because, we recently asked a GenAI tool to show us "a group of disabled people" and what it delivered was imagery of only people in wheelchairs. The research shows that marketing jobs are among the occupational groups with the highest exposure to GenAI. We need to ensure that humans control and edit AI outputs to fully represent and empower all people in society.

Persons: Jessica Jensen, —, let's, Jessice Jensen, we've, we're Organizations: Service

☆ 3 ways small-business owners can use ChatGPT to brainstorm ideas, plan campaigns, and create a cheap marketing strategy
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Erin Greenawald | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

She said ChatGPT helped her cut her launch timeline to about a month and see new possibilities for marketing. Here are three ways these small-business owners have experimented with AI to support their marketing strategies. In October, Alert used ChatGPT to help her conceptualize and organize an influencer event, so she didn't need to pay for an event planner. To help with user research, she asked ChatGPT for ideas about the types of users she might target. ChatGPTSmith said she likes to approach working through ideas with ChatGPT as if she's chatting with a colleague.

Persons: ChatGPT isn't, SBOs, —, Candice Smith, Dion Lamar Mills, Smith, Marina Guastavino, ChatGPT, Guastavino, Marcela Rogante, ChatGPT Smith Organizations: Small, Service, French Press, French Press Public Relations

☆ An ad I wrote ended up on billboards all over New York City—I got paid less than you think
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

In 2016, I was a very broke writer living in New York, mostly stitching together a living through side hustles. When I reached out to RSR about forthcoming work, they told me they were working with Manhattan-based storage space company Manhattan Mini Storage on a series of billboards. They wanted quippy slogans connecting outer space and storage space. The turnaround time was so quick and I needed to keep making money — ideally more than $45 at a time. At that point, I had picked up a summer babysitting gig and was walking toward the subway on Manhattan's West Side Highway when I noticed a billboard from Manhattan Mini Storage.

Persons: We've, Einstein, Hillary Organizations: MTV News Locations: New York, Side, Manhattan, Tribeca, ., New Yorker

☆ 3 tips for mastering niche-community marketing, according to small-business founders who used private Facebook groups to drive sales
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Erin Greenawald | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Insider talked to Soomro and Gatsos Young for advice on how other small-business owners could successfully market in smaller online communities. Danish SoomroSometimes this is very straightforward — for instance, when marketing Devi, Soomro joined several entrepreneurship groups, since those include his target audience. "If you're in a huge community, you might not even get noticed," Gatsos Young said. To find the right groups, Soomro said, you can search Facebook by keyword or look online for top groups for your audience segment (e.g., "top groups for female entrepreneurs"). Sales is an inherent benefit of being part of these communities, but you shouldn't approach them with the intention of getting business, Gatsos Young said.

Persons: SBOs, —, Danish Soomro, Soomro, Devi, Laura Gatsos Young, Gatsos Young, it's Organizations: Facebook, Small, Service, Devi Locations: Danish

☆ Chinese tech giant Alibaba launches upgraded AI model to challenge Microsoft, Amazon
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Alibaba called Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 a "substantial upgrade from its predecessor," which was introduced in April . China's biggest cloud computing and e-commerce player announced Tongyi Qianwen 2.0, its latest large language model (LLM). A LLM is trained on vast amounts of data and forms the basis for generative AI applications such as ChatGPT, which is developed by U.S. firm OpenAI. Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 "demonstrates remarkable capabilities in understanding complex instructions, copywriting, reasoning, memorizing, and preventing hallucinations," Alibaba said in a press release. The Hangzhou-headquartered company also announced the GenAI Service Platform, which lets companies build their own generative AI applications, using their own data.

Persons: Alibaba, Tongyi Organizations: Artificial Intelligence, U.S, Tuesday, Microsoft, OpenAI, Amazon Locations: Shanghai, Hangzhou, China

Single women face unique challenges when planning for retirement, so I asked an expert for help. Plus, women are often put in a caregiving role, which means time off from work — and not contributing regularly to retirement funds. So how can single women like me juggle with inflation, a higher cost of living, dwindling income, and the gender wage gap to be on track for retirement? I asked Marie Thomasson, a certified financial planner and founder of Modern Assets, an LA-based financial advisory firm for independent, progressive women, for tips on how single women can steer the course and make sure they're on track with their goals for retirement planning. Reassess your retirement accountsOnce you have your financial bases covered, you can venture into investing and retirement planning, says Thomasson.

Persons: Marie Thomasson, —, I've, Thomasson, hadn't, doesn't, aren't, Amanda Holden's, Simran Kaur's, Erin Lowry's, Tonya Rapley's, Tiffany, We're Organizations: Service, Modern Assets, Research, Pew Locations: LA, YOLO

☆ 4 freelancers share how they use AI to save time and make more money
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Four freelancers shared with Insider how they integrated artificial intelligence into their work — from wedding planning to writing e-books — to ease their workloads. Samantha North started her blog, Digital Émigré, in September 2020. Last year, she tried to use AI to help write her content but found it sounded nothing like her. A wedding-business owner uses AI to write speechesJen Glantz runs a bridesmaid-for-hire business. Glantz shared with Insider how she trained the tool and how she used AI to produce marketing content.

Persons: Morgan Stanley, Samantha North, North, ChatGPT, inputting, I've, Claude, Jen Glantz, she'd, Glantz, Angelina Stanzione, Chris Rawson, ghostwriters, Stanzione Organizations: PAS, Publishing

☆ It's not just you. LinkedIn has gotten really weird.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

The number of LinkedIn posts grew 41% from 2021 to 2023. A larger rival account emerged, State Of LinkedIn, and a Reddit community thrived — "LinkedIn Lunatics." "Do you realize how dangerous it is to troll via LinkedIn posts? For most people, their LinkedIn posts don't escalate so rapidly. According to Joseph Yeh, a tech recruiter in California who used to work for LinkedIn, revelatory posting is a balancing act.

Persons: Matthew Sciannella, I'm, Sciannella, he'd, Peter Rota, Rota, Xavier Lalanne, There's, Oversharing, Gen, Catalina Valentino, Elon, Sarah Frier, John Hickey, Ted Talkification, you'd, Hickey, Peter Rota's, Hickey wasn't, ominously, Jack Raines, sagely, Alexander Cohen, Cohen's, Raines, Cohen, Jacqueline Rainey —, he's, Young, —, , John Reid, Jon Franko, Franko, Instagram, @BestofLinkedIn, Reid, hypocritically, Joseph Yeh, Yeh, Daniel Roth, Fortune, Roth, Sciannella's, didn't, Slack, Franko's, Jameson, who's, He's, Rob Price Organizations: LinkedIn, Facebook, Microsoft, peeing, Economic, Twitter, Bloomberg, Columbia Business School, New York, New York Mets Locations: Washington, DC, Massachusetts, Davos, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay, New York City, Columbia, Manhattan, Bay, Oakland, California

☆ 3 ChatGPT tips that have helped small-business owners nail their marketing copy — and still keep the 'human touch'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Erica Sweeney | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Over one-third of small-business owners in a survey said they'd tried ChatGPT for marketing content. The founder and CEO of Slade Copy House, a copywriting agency, believed the artificial-intelligence tool couldn't replace a human copywriter. In an Alignable survey of US small-business owners released in July, more than half of respondents said they had tried ChatGPT, and one-third said they had used it to create marketing content. Using ChatGPT successfully takes practice, and it doesn't work for every marketing task. ChatGPT can save small businesses time and marketing dollars, but it's not a magic bullet.

Persons: they'd, SBOs, —, Haley Slade, ChatGPT, Slade, Chris Winfield, Chris Eckert, Winfield, It'll, We'll, it's Organizations: Small, Service, Slade, Publicly, Super Connector Media Locations: ChatGPT

☆ People mocked me and said my essay-writing business was screwed when ChatGPT came out. So I fought like hell.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Killer Papers is an online tutoring and essay-writing website. Through all this, Killer Papers continued to grow and saw a 70% year-over-year revenue growth from 2021 to 2022. From June 1st through August 25th of this year, revenue at Killer Papers grew almost 35% yearly. For now, I'll continue to focus on differentiating Killer Papers, adding new products and services, and adapting to changes in academia. Somewhere along the way, we'll find out how Killer Papers fits into this new AI landscape as well.

Persons: I'm, I've, ChatGPT, —, Napoleon Bonaparte, envied, Romeo, Juliet, Alan, hadn't, they're, there's, it's, we'll Organizations: Service, Business, Public, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Microsoft Locations: Wall, Silicon, Canada, Niagra

☆ I use AI for blogging and I made $115,000 last year from my website. Here are the exact chatbots I use and how I get them to write in my voice.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

She shared the prompts she used to train AI tools to help produce her blogs. Before I started using AI , I would always write my own blog posts. Once I had that, I'd write the different sections of the piece with information I'd researched. I didn't like AI-generated content at firstI've always been a bad manual typist and started using AI for voice typing. I don't think content entirely generated by AI is as valuable to the reader as AI content edited by a person.

Persons: Samantha North, I'd, Jasper, I've, hasn't, Claude, ChatGPT Organizations: Émigré, EU, ChatGPT, Google, PAS Locations: Portugal

☆ 3 business owners share the one change they made to turn everything round and start making money
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Business owners might make mistakes when they first start, which could cost them income. It takes some business owners months, or even years, to land their first customers or start making a profit. These three business owners approached their work wrong and each one made a change to their approach that prompted success. He tried selling products through Amazon FBA and drop-shipping, spending between about $2,000 and $3,000 on each. "Rather than selling brand names on Amazon, I saw a big opportunity with personalized gifts on Etsy," he said.

Persons: Erik Soto Ayala, Soto Ayala, Read, Lindsey Bomgren, Bomgren, Alexa Nizam, Nizam, Alexandra Fasulo, Fasulo Organizations: Amazon, Google, Lululemon

☆ I'm a freelance editor who's embraced working with AI content. Here's how I do it and what I charge.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

She pivoted to editing AI content, embracing a technology that many in her profession fear. I started working with authorsI started editing books, including novels and memoirs within four months. I use plagiarism-detection tools on clients' AI-generated workAt first, clients wanted me to make their AI-generated work sound less robotic and more human. Editing AI is often more involved than editing human work and can mean rewriting the whole text. It takes a lot more time to edit AI work.

Persons: Gabrielle Gerbus, Gerbus, —, I'd, who's, I've, ChatGPT, doesn't, haven't Organizations: National Geographic Locations: California, Thailand, Los Angeles

☆ This in-demand freelance job pays up to $250 an hour, offers remote opportunities and doesn’t require a degree
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The hottest gig on the freelance job market isn't coding or graphic design, as you might expect — it's writing. That's at least according to new research from Freelancer.com, which found creative writing to be the most in-demand skill employers are hiring for on its platform, based on an analysis of nearly 300,000 jobs advertised on the site between April and June. "AI can't replace creativity yet," he says. "We saw a similar trend occur in the first quarter of the year, as creative design jobs were flourishing despite interest for generative AI tripling." Other writing-related skills that have become more popular on Freelancer.com include copywriting and ghostwriting, Barrie adds.

Persons: That's, Matt Barrie Locations: ghostwriting, Barrie

☆ I tried Upwork and Fiverr to find gigs as a freelance copywriter but gave them up. Here's how I built a personal network for finding clients instead.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Gina Buckle started freelance copywriting in 2022 after quitting her job as a content executive. This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Gina Buckle, a 25-year-old from Leeds, England, about her freelance copywriting business. Then I was approached through Instagram by a copywriting agency and started to do some freelance work for them. I also created priced packages for popular jobs, such as writing blog posts and social-media posts two months ago. I first started charging £50 per blog piece and £5 per social-media caption, to £600 for five blog posts and £170 for five social-media posts a week.

Persons: Gina Buckle, I'd, we're, I've, I'm Organizations: LinkedIn, Affinity Locations: Leeds, England, copywriting, Instagram

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