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☆ A freelancer earned more than $1 million writing Amazon product descriptions via Fiverr. Here's how he built his business.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Here's how Newman built his business and found a niche with Amazon item descriptions. He joined Fiverr, a freelance service marketplace, and used his experience in marketing and social media to write compelling descriptions for Amazon sellers. His success coincides with the growing gig and freelance workforce that's surged throughout the pandemic. Here's how Newman tapped into the freelance workforce and how his process earned him more than $1 million. In his initial outreach call with clients, Newman establishes the project's deadlines and how to market the item.

☆ Volunteers who used digital ads to counter Russian propaganda about Ukraine plan to fight misinformation in countries like Syria and Iran
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A group of volunteer 'spammers' who used ads to counter Russian propaganda about Ukraine plans to expand the campaign. Rob Blackie, organizer of the Breaking Putin's Censorship campaign. Earlier this month, the Kremlin said that anyone found simply posting a link to the banned independent Russian news site Meduza could face a six-year prison sentence. An example of one of the Breaking Putin's Censorship ads, which reads, "Why have 141 countries condemned Russians invasion of Ukraine? Breaking Putin's CensorshipThe group, which has now grown to around 60 volunteers, is already structured similarly to an ad agency.

☆ Trader Joe's revealed its annual list of customer favorites—here are the top 8 products of 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

For the 14th year in a row, supermarket chain Trader Joe's has released its Customer Choice Awards, spotlighting the products that its famously loyal shoppers love the most. The current reigning champion at Trader Joe's is the Chili & Lime Flavored Rolled Corn Tortilla Chips, which the supermarket's copywriters describe as "spicy, ire-zest-tible little scrolls made from stone ground corn masa." These were inducted into the newly created Trader Joe's Product Hall of Fame. They include the Mandarin Orange Chicken, Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups, Peanut Butter Filled Pretzel Nuggets, Unexpected Cheddar and Soy Chorizo. These are Trader Joe's customers' eight favorite products this year and how much they cost.

☆ I'm a 23-year-old founder booking $16,000 in sales a month with my social-media agency. Here's my advice for launching an online business.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Lauren Russell, 23, is the founder of the social-media agency, Irresistibly Social LLC. She shared the steps she took to launch a social-media business and her advice on finding success. Russell shared the steps she took to launch a social-media business and her advice on niching down to find success. Building a business with "no floor under me"Irresistibly Social LLC started with a viral TikTok. My biggest piece of advice for social-media founders today is to stop trying to emulate what others are telling you to do.

☆ 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.

☆ Gen Z VCs founder Meagan Loyst used ChatGPT to write a new educational children's book in 2 hours — to show why she thinks generative AI can be a major learning tool
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Madeline Renbarger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Meagan Loyst, the founder of Gen Z VCs, is bullish on generative AI as a tool in education. Loyst self-published a children's book on AI that she wrote using ChatGPT and DALLE-2 in two hours. Here's why she thinks generative AI will have a big role in education, even amid teacher concerns. To prove to her following of VCs and startup founders what generative AI is capable of, Loyst self-published a children's book on Amazon titled "Show Me What AI Can Do!" "So a children's book just seems really natural—so many VCs are parents, and the youngest Gen Zers are 10 years old!"

☆ I make up to $13,000 a month on Fiverr doing freelance copywriting. I struggled to get customers for a year — then these 2 tips helped jumpstart my side hustle in weeks.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I decided to quit my copywriting job at a video-production company in Los Angeles and work as a freelance copywriter on Fiverr in April. They'll tell me a product is going on sale and give a couple of parameters for what to write. I had my first order within a couple of weeks and my second order a couple of weeks after that. I'll work a couple of hours first thing in the morning, take a break, then work a couple more hours in the afternoon. What's really helpful is understanding that once I've accomplished what I set out to accomplish for the day, I'm done.

☆ I've made $974,000 in revenue in the last year as a freelance copywriter and only work 5 hours a day. Here's how I taught myself the skills needed to win clients.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Robin Madell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

In the past 12 months I've made $974,000 in top-line revenue — collected before expenses and taxes — from my copywriting business, and I have clients in more than 30 countries. I was crushed, but my copywriting business had started to take off. I'd work on my side gig on my lunch break and after I'd get home at 4 p.m. until about 9 or 10 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays I'd log anywhere from four to eight hours of extra work. When I started copywriting full time, I tried everything to get clientsA lot of people recommended cold-emailing. I wound up giving the same slideshow presentation 24 times in two weeks to entrepreneurs who wanted to learn about email copywriting.

☆ 10 quick résumé updates you should make before applying to jobs in the new year
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-10 | by ( Jamie Killin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

"If someone's looking at your résumé, they're not looking at it for very long unless it's grabbing their attention, so you want to keep it fresh and relevant," Vega added. "My background is in marketing, so I think of keywords as SEO for your résumé," Vega said. so know there's nothing wrong with explaining that on your résumé," Vega said. "Especially if it's relevant to the job you're applying for. For example, Vega cautioned against including your location on your résumé if you're in a different time zone than the job you're applying for.

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