How To Become Well-Known In Your Niche By Marketing Yourself

Weekly Newsletter for The Freelancers: Here is the latest newsletter of the week starting on 23th September 2019.

After you start blogging, soon you’ll find that there are other people working on the same niche. You’ll find them often around you. After a period of blogging you’ll realize that you are living in a village with them.

These other people are your competitors in your niche. You must compete with them following the best strategies of blogging. You must be different from them. It can be possible through content marketing.

I have found an article about this on Reblogger. In this article the writer Victor Ijidola discusses some strategies that I think are critical for niche bloggers. Check Victor’s article by clicking here.

I think that Victor’s tip number 4 is the best.

Motivate Yourself!

How Do You Find Inspiration After A Big Failure? Here Are Some Tips

“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is
delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.
Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing,
doing nothing, and being nothing.”

– Denis Waitley

Failing is the part of our life. In childhood, we learnt to walk after countless times of failing. In adulthood we handle important and sensitive issues and failing in them gives us a shock. This makes us de-motivated to face the next challenges.

As I have said that failing is natural. So, rising after each failing is the real challenge. You must believe that people who have never failed have not tried anything yet. You are advanced from them in at least two ways. One is, you have tried something, and another is you know a way that will not make it successful.

Freelancers often face this problem. Failing in winning a project bid makes them de-motivated, but they must learn to move on.

Tia Moreen has written an article for www.dumblittleman.com about how to find inspiration after a great failure. Here is the article. Tia advises to accept your weaknesses and failures. I totally agree with her. What do you think?

Productivity Tip Of The Week

9 Bad Habits You Must Break To Be More Productive

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There are some habits that we regularly practise and don’t realize that these are the reasons of our reduced productivity.

We practise them in our way of work and in our daily routine. But these practices must be stopped to increase productivity in your freelance working as well as in your daily life. For this, you must identify them first.

ENTREPRENEUR.COM has published an article by Travis Bradberry where he has identified 9 bad habits, that should be stopped. The article can be read here. The bad habit number six gives me the most trouble! What is the habit that gives you the most trouble?

Work-Life Balance Tip Of The Week

How To Live With Job Stress That Isn’t Going Away? Here Are 7 Ways

How to Overcome Anxiety as a Freelance Writer

A survey shows that only 20 percent of Americans aren’t stressed at work. So, what about the other eighty percent? Stress in the workplace is a great issue in the corporate world.

There are some stresses that remain unavoidable in the workplace. Working on various projects, overload of works, job security, etc. are contributing to the stress. These stresses may also be seen in freelance work.

So, freelancers should know how to react to the problems and how to handle stressful situations.

Murray Newlands’ article in www.entrepreneur.com looks at the issues. Here is his article. Defining your priorities is a good tip, what do you think?

Financial Tip of the Week

Claiming Your Correct Tax Deductions As A Freelancer Is A Global Issue

If you live in the Australia this is an important article from www.etax.com.au. Entitled Tax deductions for freelancers. Who doesn’t want to reduce the amount of taxes? A great way of reducing the taxes is a tax deduction. It does not matter which country that you live in it is important that if you are a freelancer especially that you understand what deductions you are entitled to.

Importantly, if you don’t understand deduction entitlements that you get help. A tax accountant’s advice is very important. This is especially true if you are moonlighting as a freelancer because your situation is usually more complex. You can read the article here.

Sometimes, we miss a tax deduction just by not keeping the records and documents of costs and pay taxes that could be deducted. Some tricks of the documentation can entitle you for a tax deduction. Not sure or don’t know about this? Make an appointment with a tax accountant today. It could be the best return on an investment you make as a freelancer.

Skills Development and Inspiration News

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We are constantly searching for news articles and videos on skills development and inspiration for freelancers.

Each week we have decided to bring you the links to what we consider are the top three articles or videos. Here they are for this week:

I know that many freelancers work with business clients and use many different skills to help their clients. One of the skills that is growing in demand is being able to manage the Facebook Ads because it is a specialized skill.

This may start off as being in-house, but if it is successful it can become time consuming and I believe it will become an outsourcing opportunity for freelancers.

We have an article on our website about this entitled 20 Ways Freelancers to Businesses Can Earn $1,000’s Per Month Extra Running Facebook Ads for Clients. You can read the article by clicking here. Note the affiliate disclosure.

Content marketing for business has evolved quickly with the evolution of video so that there are now freelancers who specialize in doing the video marketing for businesses. It also requires specialized skills that very few businesses would have within their employee numbers.

We have an article on our website entitled Top 20 Reasons Why Businesses Need to Use Video in Content Marketing. You can read the article by clicking here. Note the affiliate disclosure.

One of the issues that often impacts freelancers is stress. This is especially true when they are starting out because often they are on their own starting a new venture with very little or no support.

Not only do they have to find clients and service their needs, but also meet client deadlines and their own budget targets. This gives rise to the need to develop a skill for stress management.

We have found that journaling is an effective way of doing this. On our website we have an article entitled 10 Reasons Why Freelancers Are Helped by Journaling to Overcome Stress, Anxiety and Depression. You can read the article by clicking here.

There are now 5,000 skills in 90 categories that the digital economy can offer, according to Upwork’s 2nd. Quarter 2019 Skills Index which you can read here.

Number one on the list is Blockchain. If you are like me, you will probably want to know more about Blockchain. I looked it up on Wikipedia of course and this is what it is here and this is the latest news on Blockchain here.

Articles now on our website that are relevant to the outcome of new skills training are listed here:

The latest one is here:

https://www.freelance-work-guide.com/retirees-freelancing-medical-hospital-ancillary-insurance

Amazon News

The weekly AWS news video link to acloud.guru is here. They are the leading trainers globally for Amazon Web Services freelancers.

Amazon Associates Website Case Study

As discussed in previous newsletters we are focussing on the niche website in the future because it is producing better results i.e. sales.

There has been an interesting development in our Amazon niche website. We have found Google penalizes websites reviewing products based on features and benefits without actual product experience.

We have therefore changed our strategy to include guest posts and this is the first by Eli Owen: Eco-Friendly Interior Decor Ideas To Make Your Home Beautiful. The goal is to increase traffic and diversify product promotion.

There have been 29 Amazon product sales (across all our websites) in the past month due to the keyword research and skills of Mamun, my virtual assistant.

Freelancers And Cyber Security

We have decided to expand our search for appropriate articles for freelancers about cybersecurity and online scams.

The latest Australian Government’s eSafety Commissioner’s article Tips and advice on helping your child have safe and enjoyable experiences online which can be read here.

Robert Siciliano is an identity theft expert and consultant. He also runs a cyber security and fraud prevention website which you can see here.