Hey Nomads, Happy Monday ✨

Hope you have a fantastic week ahead. 

Today's Issue #8 of Digital Nomads will take you 4 mins to read. 

Enjoy. 

In today's Issue I cover :

• How to create a Portfolio to land high paying clients

• 2 Side Hustles every Writer should try

• What's Happening on Twitter

• A Quote

How to Create a Stellar Portfolio to Land Dream Clients

Resumes are old school, Portfolios will win you clients today.

Several freelancers fail to land clients because their Portfolio lacks either of these.

• USP (Unique Selling Proposition)

• Work Samples

• Social Proof

But this can’t go on. Freelancers deserve to land high-ticket clients and their Portfolio should make it possible.

Read the entire blog here. 👇🏻

You have all the Portfolio elements set, now it's time to learn how to Build a Portfolio online. Here are a few Guides you may find helpful.

• How to Build a Portfolio Website that Shines

• How to Build a PDF Portfolio in Canva

• How to Build a Portfolio in Google Drive

Side Hustles

Every Writer deserves to own a Side Hustle and add an extra source of income to their imaginary pockets. Let's look at 2 Side Hustle Ideas anyone can pursue alongside their Writing career.

1. Selling Ebooks

Selling Ebooks can be one of the easiest ways to an extra income source. You just need one skill - Write. I'm sure you can handle that, can't you Writer?

Creating an Ebook is pretty simple and free. Get on Canva or Google Docs and write out your first ebook. Sprinkle some basic design elements to keep readers glued.

Let's find you a place to sell your ebooks. Here's a list of 3 platforms to start selling your ebooks.

• Kindle

• Gumroad

• Etsy

Getting started on all of them is completely FREE. Go ahead and test them out and make bucks selling Ebooks.

If you're planning to use Gumroad to sell Ebooks, give this blog a read to learn what works and what doesn't to get more sales on each of your Ebooks.

[Note : I've never really 'sold' Ebooks, but I've experience with clients on creating them and using Etsy and Gumroad for selling them.]

2. Running a Paid Newsletter

Start with running a Free Newsletter. Give out of boatload of free content. Do this till you hit 500-1000 subscribers. Then start creating premium and in-depth content. Turn your Free Newsletter Paid and keep both options open.

Those who want your paid content will turn into paid subs, the rest will keep consuming your free content. Hook leads with "Free" and offer them advanced and premium content in the "Paid" one.

My 3 platforms for starting a Free Newsletter :

• BeeHiiv [Stellar UX design and user-friendly text editor]

• Substack [Best for Beginners]

• Revue [Best for getting Subs from Twitter]

LinkedIn Newsletter is great but it has limited features. For instance, it won't show you the email ids of your Newsletter subscribers. And that sucks. 

Here's a Newsletter Guide from Josh Spector to help you get started. 

I showed you how to CREATE a Newsletter. But to get leads and opportunities you need to learn to GROW it. Here are 23 Newsletter Growth Tips which you can incorporate for your Newsletter and explode sign-ups.

Here is What's Happening on Twitter :

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I'll end today's edition with a Quote I came across last week while reading Everything is Fucked by Mark Manson.

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With this you've come to the end of today's edition of the Digital Nomads.

I'll see you soon next week.

Best,

Sarvam