Everything posted by Nomad
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Starting Out in Freelancing: What You Need to Know
If you are new to freelancing, you might find it difficult to get started, and that is perfectly normal. In fact, when you are a beginner, you might feel overwhelmed on almost all fields. Imagine you just graduated and you want to apply for jobs but lack of experience always works against you. The same applies in freelancing. But the good news is as you gain experience, opportunities increase. Clients are more likely to trust and hire freelancers who: Have a good portfolio Maintain good communication Deliver consistently Success in freelancing is a gradual process. Keep learning, keep working, and eventually, gigs will come.
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What Is the Best Social Media Platform to Make Money?
After using multiple platforms and trying numerous methods, I can confidently say Facebook is the best social media platform to make money? Facebook offers multiple ways to make money, and lot of features that Facebook offer are not found on any other social media platform Facebook Marketplace: You can selling physical items, or services, locally Facebook Pages: You can sell someone’s products or your own product, you can monetize your content Instant Articles: You can monetizing blog content through ads Influencer marketing: You can make money by promoting and marketing for brands and businesses. Sell Services: You can also find freelance gigs via Facebook Groups Have you used Facebook to make money?
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Must-Have Skills to Succeed Online
These days a lot of people are ditching 9-5 jobs and trying to work online. However, becoming successful online requires you to having the right skills. No matter what path you choose, freelancing, blogging, vlogging, affiliate marketing, social media marketing, content creation, —you will need multiple digital skills: Writing: For content creation, blogging, copywriting, sales pitches, emails, etc. Graphic Design: For creating thumbnails, ads, and social media content, marketing materials Video Editing: Essential for YouTube, TikTok, and Reels SEO: To improve search engine ranking and getting organic traffic Digital Marketing: For building audiences and traffic
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How to Start a Career in the Video Content Industry
A lot of people want to become a video creator but of gear, skill or experience is stopping them from becoming a video creator. Well, you can start with what you have. For example, · Use your mobile phone to shoot videos. Modern smartphones have excellent video quality. · Edit videos with free tools like Kinemaster or Capcut. · Focus on strong storytelling and a good subject. · Start with medium-length videos (3–7 minutes), which are easier to produce and retain attention better than long ones. As you grow, you can invest in better gear and editing software. Remember, you learn by doing, trial and error is part of the process.
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YouTube at it again with anti-adblockers
I am a free user and as long as I do not have to pay for it I am ok waiting for the timer to run out so that I can skip. I If I have to use a entertainment platform and pat for it, I would use something better not youtube.
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What's the best way to build a personal brand as a creator?
Create pages and accounts on multiple social media sites, keep consistent with the same profile photo and name. Build a website and do SEO to improve ranking. website and social pages can help you build a personal brand.
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Are there any AI-powered tools that you've found super helpful?
Depending on my needs I use multiple generative AI tools but my favorite is ChatGPT, I can use it for almost anything form generating text content to creating videos. I also like Nightcafe Studio, it is one of the best AI art generator I have found.
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The AI content creation debate: Tool or threat?
Gen AI are useful tools, they are not thread. I used to spend over a week to write ebook for my clients.. These days, I research and generate an ebook under one hour using ChatGP, spend a day and two to edit thoroughly. It has saved my time.
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How do you manage your social media presence?
I use social media for personal connection as well as business connection. I have accounts on multiple platforms, I have multiple pages and accounts on a few social platforms. I try to be consistent with the name, profile picture, and website link. I also make sure to remain active.
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What's your favorite way to monetize your content?
For me nothing has worked as good as Adsense. My websites do not get a lot of traffic, therefore, I don't get sponsors or ads, therefore, network ads like Adsense is the best option for me
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Open-source vs. paid software: Where do you draw the line?
I will use opewnsource as long as I find it useful, I will switch to premium only when I am restricted by the open source. I have been using wordpress for many years and have no desire to switch to any premium software. However, after using SMF for 4 years, I switched to Xenforo
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Streaming Platform Shuffle: Kick vs Twitch vs YouTube - Where's Your Audience?
Well, I have never streamed but I have participated on a few live streams. The platform depends on your content. Twitch and Youtibe might be good for game content, Kick is basically for gambling related content.
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Kickstarter vs Traditional Publishing: Is Crowdfunding the Future for Indie Devs?
I haven't backed any game developer on Kickstarter but I have backed a couple of innovative ideas. Getting financing is becoming very difficult these days, however, crowdfunding platform like Kickstarter makes every thing easy. I think crowd funding will grow bigger and bigger.
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Which is the best tool for AI?
ChatGPT is the best, you can create all sorts of content, from text and graphics to videos. Video is paid service.
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What is the best e-commerce platform and why?
Do you want a full control over your databse and website files, try woocommerce, if you wnat a simple platform, or Magento, if you want a powerful solution. If you do not want to manage form back end and want an easy solution, use Shopify.
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Do you save drafts in a word processor before you post it to your website?
I always write on Word document, however, once I publish it on my website, I delete the saved file. I do not keep it saved on my device. I regularly create back up of my website.