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Recruitment in the metaverse – should I be worried?
The importance of travel to ease digital anxiety
Winning your dream clients with cold outreach
Top email outreach tools 🧰
How can my brand make the most of NFTs?
Have researchers cracked the code to TikTok virality?
Top upcoming events 📆
How to write a freelance business plan?
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What you might’ve missed 🤳
Interview with Dex Dex Hannon about launching his own NFT collection
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Twitter infiltrates NFT culture via hexagon profile pictures
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Did you miss our event… Winning Your Dream Clients with Cold Outreach?
Watch the webinar recording here.
Access the webinar presentation here.
Tool time - 3 tools I use for cold outreaches 👇
Top 3 Email Outreach Tools
Lavender - Write Better Sales Emails Faster! Lavender is an email assistant that helps you write better emails faster. It compares your email against millions of successful sales emails.
Mailshake - Helps send personalised cold emails at scale and set tasks to engage with prospects via phone and social media, all in one sequence, on one dashboard.
Hunter.io - Help you find and verify the right professional email addresses. It’s extremely important that if you send an outreach to a potential client, you contact the right person!
Recruitment in the Metaverse – Should I Be Worried?
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States. It lasted in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. Many new technologies in the realm of agriculture and manufacturing saw thousands of job losses. Take the tractor, invented in 1889, which dismissed the need for horses and the people who rode, owned and trained them for this purpose. Or even mass lawnmowers, first invented in 1830, which dismissed the needs for farmers and workers whose job was to trim fields.
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The Importance of Travel to Ease Digital Anxiety
2022 hasn’t even lasted a full month and yet it feels overwhelming as ever. We are moving out of the pandemic, Brexit is in full swing, TikTok is the dominant social media app (already), everyone is making more money from NFTs and investing in the crypto market….ah! It’s so forward moving that sometimes we just want to curl up in some Groovy Chick bed covers and listen to My Chemical Romance alongside a few Friends reruns to feel even just an ounce of safety and nostalgic comfort.
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Popular Premium Articles 🔐
How Can My Brand Make the Most of NFTs?
If you can’t tell, we’re obsessed with NFTs right now. The boom around digital art trade is so interesting and we want in. Well, now’s our time as creative freelancers because while the current hype is mostly focused on digital art, the NFT hype is spreading across other forms of creativity from music to other forms of design. Even tweets are in on it with Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, auctioning his first ever tweet, which at the time of writing had reached a high bid of $2.5m.
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Have researchers cracked the code to TikTok virality?
Understanding how videos go viral is creators’ holy grail — and for obvious reasons: Crack it and they’re guaranteed perpetual fame, and with it, potentially lots of money.
Naturally, given those incentives, figuring out how the app of the moment, TikTok, works has been a fixation of creators, journalists, and academics alike.
Continue reading → Input
Online Events 📆
Multiple dates - Start Writing Now & Get Your First Byline → RSVP
17th February - Passive Income Trends 2022 → RSVP
24th February - NFT 101: Introduction to NFTs → RSVP
How to Write a Freelance Business Plan
What’s the point in having a freelance business plan? Can’t I just fly by the seat of my pants and see how it goes? Well, yes to an extent.
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Other news 🤳
YouTube Shorts hits 5 trillion views → adweek
YouTube considers adding NFTs as a revenue source for creators → forbes
Considering a job change or other life change? 7 questions to ask yourself first → ted
How leaders can build connection in a disconnected workplace → hbr
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