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☆ Insider Today: LinkedIn ghostwriter boom
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Matt Turner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg BIThis week's dispatchBig Tech takeawaysTesla, Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet reported earnings last week. Microsoft: AI spend was also the name of the game at Microsoft. Alphabet also issued a $0.20 per share dividend — its first ever — joining its Big Tech peers like Microsoft, Apple, and Meta, in the dividend club. drbimages/Getty, LinkedIn, Tyler Le/BILinkedIn ghostwriting is boomingLinkedIn influencers are becoming more popular, with some amassing followings of millions of people.

Persons: —, Herman Miller Eames, Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla, Meta didn't, Kevin C, Cox, Jenny Chang, Rodriguez, Goldman Sachs, Dominic Bugatto, Dani Widell, Hokyoung Kim, Tyler Le, Samu Hällfors Organizations: Service, Business, Big Tech, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, The, Airbnb, LinkedIn

☆ We have more insights as to where the economy is headed — and it's not good
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . In today's big story, we're looking at how the latest GDP data has shifted the expectations of where the economy is headed. Now, the economy will need some type of event (see: bubble popping) for rate cuts to become an option anytime soon, Miskin said. Energy price shocks could bring the world economy to a "vulnerable moment," chief economist Indermit Gill warned.

Persons: —, TikTok, they're, you'd, Jia Feng, It'll, Insider's Madison Hoff, It's, Jerome Powell, Anna Moneymaker, BI's Filip De Mott, Jamie Dimon, Matt Miskin, Miskin, Mark Zuckerberg, C, Cox, Jenny Chang, Rodriguez, Goldman Sachs, Guess what's, Indermit Gill, Alphabet's, Redmond, Tyler Le, Doug McMillon, execs, Dan DeFrancesco, Jordan Parker Erb, Hallam Bullock, George Glover Organizations: Business, Service, Reserve, stagflation, JPMorgan, Wall Street, John Hancock Investment Management, Galatioto Sports Partners, Bank, Google, Big Tech, Microsoft, Health, Linkedin, YouTube, ExxonMobil Locations: Chevron, New York, London

☆ PR firms are running execs' LinkedIn profiles — and turning ghostwriting into big business
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Marta Biino | Lauren Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Executives looking to boost their own profiles have for years paid freelancers to ghostwrite their LinkedIn posts. Now big PR firms are getting into the game, and LinkedIn profile management is going mainstream. Business Insider spoke to 14 PR firms that said more companies are asking for LinkedIn writing and strategy services for their leaders. Zappa said he does not offer specific rates for LinkedIn posts and instead includes LinkedIn in broader content contracts. However, he estimated that PR firms solely focused on LinkedIn ghostwriting could charge companies $5,000 a month for three to five LinkedIn posts.

Persons: Erin Ledbetter, Weber Shandwick, Ogilvy, Contessa Kellogg, Winters, resharing, There's, Lana McGilvray, Katie Burcham Glasshoff, execs, Chris Harihar, Dan Allocca, Joe Zappa, Zappa, Nicola Dodd, Laura Franklin, Franklin, Kim Metcalfe, Zeno Group's, —, upend ghostwriting, William Dobinson, Farrer Kane, Greg Swan, Lewis Goldberg, Claude Organizations: Business, Zeno, LinkedIn, Weber, Purpose, The Washington Post, BCW, Crenshaw Communications, Sharp Pen Media, Ogilvy UK, ghostwriting, London, Finn Partners, KCSA Strategic Communications Locations: Ketchum, gatekeepers, Midwest

☆ 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

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez returns to court Monday to enter an expected not guilty plea to a conspiracy charge alleging that he acted as an agent of the Egyptian government even as he chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Menendez, 69, was scheduled to appear in the afternoon before Judge Sidney H. Stein at federal court in Manhattan. As a member of Congress, Menendez is prohibited from acting as an agent for a foreign government. Last week, Nadine Menendez and a businessman, Wael Hana, pleaded not guilty to the superseding indictment. Both of them were charged with conspiring with the senator to use him as an agent of the government of Egypt and its officials.

Persons: Sen, Bob Menendez, Menendez, Sidney H, Stein, Nadine Menendez, ghostwriting, Wael Hana Organizations: — U.S, Foreign Relations, Democrat, Prosecutors, Democrats, U.S, U.S . State Department Locations: Manhattan, Jersey, United States, Egypt, Cairo

Among other things, prosecutors accused Menendez of ghostwriting a letter for Egyptian officials that sought to influence U.S. policy on military aid. The judge declined similar requests from Nadine Menendez and her co-defendants, Wael Hana, Jose Uribe and Fred Daibes. More than half of Senate Democrats have said that Menendez should resign, including New Jersey Gov. Menendez has said he intends to stay in the Senate, saying he is certain he will ultimately be exonerated. Besides setting a trial date, Judge Sidney Stein gave prosecutors a December deadline to turn over certain evidence to the defense.

Persons: —, Sen, Bob Menendez, Menendez, ghostwriting, Nadine, Nadine Menendez, Wael Hana, Jose Uribe, Fred Daibes, Hana, Phil Murphy, New Jersey Sen, Cory Booker, Donald Trump, Sidney Stein Organizations: U.S, Jersey's, Senate, Senate Foreign Relations, Authorities, Prosecutors, New Jersey Gov, New Locations: Jersey, New Jersey, New York City, Washington, Egypt

Kim’s surprise announcement came as a growing number of Democrats are calling for Menendez to step down. Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman became the first Democratic senator to do so, and several members of New Jersey’s congressional delegation, along with the state's Democratic governor, have said he should resign. “This is not something I expected to do, but I believe New Jersey deserves better,” Kim said in a statement. But given the gravity of these charges, I do not believe that Senator Menendez can continue to carry out the important duties of his office for our state.”New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy also demanded Menendez’s immediate resignation, saying the allegations were “so serious" that they compromise the senator’s ability to serve.

Persons: Andy Kim of, Sen, Robert Menendez, Menendez, Pennsylvania Sen, John Fetterman, ” Kim, ”, Nadine, Menendez —, Chuck Schumer, Fetterman, Donald Norcross, Josh Gottheimer, Frank Pallone, Bill Pascrell, Mikie Sherrill, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Pascrell, Phil Murphy, Menendez’s, Democratic Sen, Cory Booker, Rob Menendez, David Schertler, “ Organizations: WASHINGTON, —, Democratic, Senate, Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Foreign Relations, Democrat, New, ” New, ” New Jersey Gov, New Jersey Democrats, Authorities, Prosecutors, New Jersey Attorney Locations: Andy Kim of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Egypt, Jersey, New Jersey’s, ”, ” New Jersey

☆ 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

☆ 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

☆ How to make money on Fiverr, according to 5 freelance writers
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Courtesy of Raphael MenesesMeneses, 32, started freelance copywriting on Fiverr in 2019 to make some extra money alongside his university job. Alexa Nizam brought her personality to her Fiverr profileNizam updated her profile to get customers for her freelance copywriting. Read more: I make up to $13,000 a month copywriting on Fiverr. Here's how I landed clients on Fiverr. Read more: I made 6 figures in a month on Fiverr working with a team of 150 freelance copywriters to meet client demand.

Persons: Rafael Meneses, Meneses, Raphael Meneses Meneses, Alexa Nizam, Nizam, Nizam Nizam, Alexandra Fasulo, she'd, Read, Gaurav Shrishrimal, Shrishrimal, Gaurav Shrishrimal Shrishrimal, Fiverr . Georgia Austin, Georgia Austin Austin, Betty, Austin, copywriters, Billy McIntyre, McIntyre, Billy McIntyre McIntyre, he'd Organizations: Service, Fiverr, Alexa, Austin, Georgia, Nike Locations: Wall, Silicon, Fiverr, Fiverr . Georgia

☆ I left a troubled San Francisco for Croatia and regret it. My hometown's problems keep getting worse, but Dubrovnik has its downsides too.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Ashley Couto | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

She and her partner didn't want to move home to San Francisco long term because of rising crime. In 2016, I quit my job as a manager at a government agency in San Francisco to go traveling. San Francisco is not what it used to beI grew up in San Francisco, and that's where my family lives. You can't avoid homelessness anywhere, but the homelessness problem in San Francisco has become overwhelming. After we got married, we traveled to South America for eight months before I returned to San Francisco to visit my parents.

Persons: Gigi Chow, didn't, —, we'd, There's, Croatia We'd, Expats, you'll, I'm, It's, Roger, I'd Organizations: Service, Food Locations: San Francisco, Croatia, Dubrovnik, Europe, Asia, America, Barcelona, Spain, South America, Adriatic, It's, Francisco, California, Thailand, East Asia

☆ I make more than $5000 a month with writing side hustles. Here's how you can started.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Jenn Leach | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

She makes more than $5,000 a month with writing side hustles. I personally do many of these side hustles every month and they help me earn an extra $5,250+ per month from them. Blogging is something I'd do alongside platform writing or some of the other writing side hustles on this list. First, I'd get set up on Fiverr and Upwork to do some freelance resume writing. You're writing to persuade and compel the reader to take action, like clicking a link, joining an email list, or purchasing something online.

Persons: Jenn Leach, Leach, —, more.Let's, I've, You'll, I'd, Instagram, Tik, It's, Ghostwriting Organizations: Service, Twitter, Creative, Jobs Locations: Texas

☆ I make more than $5000 a month with writing side hustles. Here's how you can get started.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Jenn Leach | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Persons: Jenn Leach, Leach, —, more.Let's, I've, You'll, I'd, Instagram, Tik, It's, Ghostwriting Organizations: Service, Twitter, Creative, Jobs Locations: Texas

☆ No job, no problem: For some, a 'funemployment' summer after quitting sounds like a perfect plan
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

"I want to take a beat and decide how I'm going to live my life," Pena, 37, told Insider. "People now have more freedom to hop in and out of the labor market," she told Insider. Wren Taylor, 35, enjoyed her summer of funemployment last year after being laid off from her corporate marketing job. "Their comments affirmed that I wasn't wasting my time," she told Insider. During job interviews, she said that all she could think about was the freedom she'd lose by going back to a traditional job.

Persons: Suzy Welch, —, Delia Pena, " Pena, Pena, she's, I'm, Gen, funemployment, Randall Peterson, who'd, Wren Taylor Wren Taylor, Julia Pollak, Pollak, Wren Taylor, they'd, I'd, Wren Organizations: NYU, Service, London Business School, ZipRecruiter, Labor Department, Catalina Locations: funemployment

☆ I make $7,000 a month writing children’s books and teaching others how to self-publish. Here’s how I got started.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Ren Lowe is an author, the CEO of Brown Unicorn Publishing, and a self-publishing coach. While on maternity leave in 2021, I wrote seven children's books with my daughter, Kameryn, which was the start of my self-publishing business. I started my sister company, Brown Unicorn Publishing, in October 2021, which offers "done for you" publishing services that range in price from $3,000 to $4,500, and my monthly income increased. From November 2021 through August, I earned a little more than $30,000 from the publishing services alone. In my first children's book, the illustrator created the images in the wrong sizing dimensions, and I panicked.

Donziger's lawyers argued that this appointment violated separation-of-powers principles set out in the Constitution delineating the authority of the three branches of the U.S. government. In 2011, an Ecuadorian court entered an $18 billion judgment that was later reduced to $9.5 billion against Chevron for contamination resulting from oil production. In 2014, Kaplan concluded in that case that the Ecuadorian judgment against Chevron in Ecuador was obtained fraudulently through a corrupt process, rendering it unenforceable in the United States. When Chevron suspected Donziger was violating a related ban on trying to monetize or profit from the judgment, Kaplan ordered him to turn over electronic devices and email accounts for examination. After federal prosecutors in Manhattan declined to take the case, Kaplan in an unusual move tapped a private lawyer, Rita Glavin, to lead the prosecution of Donziger.

☆ I make up to $13,000 a month from my digital-marketing business and still have the flexibility to travel and snowboard — here's how I built it
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

She and her partner made $180,000 in 2022 while maintaining the flexibility to ski and snowboard. I now live near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, during the winters to snowboard and run my digital-marketing agency, Snowmad Digital. When the pandemic hit in March 2020, the PR agency I was working for fired everyone, and I started wildland firefighting. One of my newer clients said they saw the video and just hired me this month largely because of it. I never work with my clients' competitors, and I work with clients all around the country and the world.

☆ I made nearly $5,000 in 30 days from writing online. Here's my best advice for others who want to make money.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Dayana Sabatin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Sabatin said writing as many posts as possible gives you the best chance at making more money. If you'd asked me if I'd be making money from writing my thoughts and opinions online, I would've laughed in your face. "Write or don't eat"I kept a sticky note on my computer with the words "write or don't eat" written on it. Trust me, I thought it was at first too, but the two cents I made my first month of writing online humbled me. It took me nearly two years to make $5,000, and that was from hustling daily and having multiple writing income streams.

☆ I tried OpenAI's ChatGPT 2 years ago. I'm terrified by how far it's come and think it could change my job.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Emily Senkosky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

I'm a writer who used GPT-3, an early version of OpenAI's viral chatbot, in 2021. Emily SenkoskyThis experience has given me some insight into what ChatGPT could mean for the future of the writing profession. If writers want ChatGPT to produce worthwhile work, they will need to give it large amounts of contextual data. When the internet becomes flooded with half-hearted AI writing, people working in editorial roles will need to set their writing apart with human touches. I think any future version of ChatGPT will need a human to fine-tune the final product.

☆ ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Greg Bensinger | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

In the edition, Sammy the Squirrel, crudely rendered also using AI, learns from his forest friends about saving money after happening upon a gold coin. While that may not sound like much, it is enough to inspire him to compose other books using the software. There were over 200 e-books in Amazon’s Kindle store as of mid-February listing ChatGPT as an author or co-author, including "How to Write and Create Content Using ChatGPT," "The Power of Homework" and poetry collection "Echoes of the Universe." There is even a new sub-genre on Amazon: Books about using ChatGPT, written entirely by ChatGPT. In the video, White says anyone with the wherewithal and time could create 300 such books a year, all using AI.

☆ Prince Harry's 'Spare' ghostwriter has written 3 other bestselling memoirs, including 'Shoe Dog' for Nike founder Phil Knight
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Prince Harry's bestselling memoir 'Spare' was ghostwritten by J.R. Moehringer, who has written a number of other bestselling memoirs. Prince Harry's blockbuster memoir "Spare" is already a runaway success, shattering sales records as readers rush to learn details both salacious and mundane about the British royal's life. American author J.R. Moehringer ghostwrote Prince Harry's memoir "Spare", as well as memoirs from tennis star Andre Agassi and Nike founder Phil Knight. Leonardo Cendamo | Hulton Archive | Getty ImagesThough he has not done any press for "Spare", Moehringer has opened up about the ghostwriting process in the past. He has ghostwritten two other bestselling autobiographies: 2009's "Open" for American tennis star Andre Agassi and 2016's "Shoe Dog" for Nike founder Phil Knight.

☆ 5 writers break down how they launched careers from their copywriting side hustles and now make up to 6 figures
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Alexa Nizam started freelance copywriting on weekends and in the evenings alongside her job in 2020 using the freelancer-platform Fiverr. She left her day job one year after she started copywriting when she realized she'd made $8,000 in a month from freelancing. Read more: I make up to $13,000 a month on Fiverr doing freelance copywriting. Courtesy of Elna CainElna Cain started freelance writing in 2014 when her maternity leave was coming to an end. Emilina LomasEmilina Lomas started freelance copywriting while earning her master's degree in 2018.

☆ Entrepreneurs are charging up to $50,000 to preserve people's memories in books, films, and even holograms before they die as the personal-memoir business ramps up
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Mark Ellwood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Companies like The Family Film and Storyworth are capitalizing on this trend. One ghostwriting company is venturing into VR storytelling for luxury customers, charging $5,000. Andrew Gemmell, the founder of The Family Film. The Family Film charges $50,000 for an in-depth movie of a family's history. Social media, podcasts, and self-publishing platforms have also created ways for people to share their stories with a wide audience.

☆ Here's what's next for the tech sector in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I'm your host, Jordan Parker Erb, and I've got some news: Today is my last edition of 10 Things in Tech. Below, we're taking a look ahead at the new year, and discussing what's next for the tech sector. Wall Street analysts explain why they think tech is headed for a huge rebound in 2023. Tech companies saw a challenging 2022, but analysts at Wedbush say the industry will grow in the coming year, with nowhere to go but up. The past 12 months have been volatile for the ad industry — and it foreshadows even more change in 2023.

☆ I made $10K a month freelancing after getting my start on Fiverr. Here are 9 strategies I used to maximize my earnings.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Emilina Lomas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

I had already dabbled in fitness writing, so I figured I could sell workout plans on the platform for supplemental income. Here's the truth about Fiverr: the good, the bad, and the time-wastingFiverr is basically an online marketplace for freelance services. This was crucial to making money from freelancing, as Fiverr takes 20% of your earnings per gig. After a few months, it was clear that health and fitness writing was a niche I could fill on Fiverr. While making a lot of money on Fiverr might be possible further down the line, it's rare.

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