1. Direct Proposals: Generate Business Proposals with Your GPT

It's often difficult to frame a new assignment: there are many uncertainties, and creating a summary document that looks professional can be time-consuming. With ChatGPT, brainstorming a project and then generating a summary PDF for the client becomes practical. Doing it live, for example during a kickoff call, is truly impressive. To avoid repeating the same information in the initial prompt (name, status, services, contact, etc.), it is handy to create your own GPT, which requires a paid "Plus" account. This is one of the most powerful use cases for freelancers!

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2. The Right Price: Find the Perfect Rate for Your Next Quote

This is especially true when starting out: finding the right daily (or total if working on a project) rate can be difficult, even terrifying. By considering the project's deliverables, its complexity, the size of the client company, its country, as well as your own details (such as the level of experience), you often get an accurate estimate. This price range can provide peace of mind when sending a quote, whether you’re a novice or an experienced freelancer.

Question: Is AI Endangering Freelancers?

Freelancers' jobs are four times more impacted by AI than average. In the face of this upheaval, it's natural to want to avoid the topic ("burying one's head in the sand"). Side School training restores confidence by applying concrete cases of AI in one’s profession like design, marketing, or sales. We have already assisted hundreds of freelancers to help them integrate AI into their work. Our courses, lasting one month, occur in parallel to your activity with constructive feedback from your peers. Interested? Discover Side School.

3. LinkedIn Planner: Develop a LinkedIn Posting Calendar

We’ve all heard it: to stay visible to potential clients, frequent posting on networks is necessary. Professionally, LinkedIn takes precedence. However, the etiquette to follow is burdensome, and procrastination takes over. Sure, ChatGPT seems like the answer, but have you tried ChatGPT to draft a post? You've likely noticed its generalities – posts rich in style but lacking substance. In all our tests, using an advanced prompt, Claude appears as a better writer. Attach several examples of posts you’ve already written to Claude (at least 5) for stylistic inspiration. Then, in the same prompt, use it to establish a calendar for the next 15 posts and their content for the upcoming month.

Tu es un expert en réseaux sociaux. Tu as des millions d'abonnés sur LinkedIn. 
Aide moi à générer un calendrier de posts pour le mois à venir. 
Contexte: [décrire son activité freelance]
Exemples: [exemples de 5+ posts LinkedIn existants pour s'en inspirer]

4. Pro Email: Turn Drafts into Professional Emails

Rewriting is THE primary use of generative AI. This feature is coming to all email boxes (Gmail, Outlook, etc.) and operating systems (Android, iOS, macOS, etc.). Still, a good prompt allows one to go beyond autocorrect: it clarifies communication and speeds up projects by reducing back-and-forths with clients. By sharing an email thread with ChatGPT or Claude, then asking what could be clarified, these AIs offer valuable suggestions.

5. Portfolio Analysis: Get Your Site Analyzed to Improve SEO

The portfolio (or personal site) of a freelancer is often their Achilles' heel: neglected, they hesitate to showcase it. Yet, it's also a showcase, proof of professionalism, and a potentially lucrative acquisition channel. To better understand the weaknesses of your site, an AI spreadsheet like V7 Go allows you to extract the content and then ask an AI like GPT-4 to improve keyword placement. Though more complex to implement than other examples mentioned here, once mastered, V7 Go is an extremely powerful tool. It's like launching ChatGPT conversations on hundreds or thousands of data lines simultaneously. V7 Go is one of the tools that provide the most productivity gains in our courses.

Voici un extrait de code HTML pour un site web.
J’aimerais que tu fournisses une critique sévère et détaillée des optimisations SEO à apporter. Analyse tout, y compris les balises méta, la structure des titres, l’usage des mots-clés, les attributs alt des images, la vitesse de chargement potentielle, l’accessibilité, et tout autre élément important pour améliorer le référencement naturel. N’hésite pas à me donner des recommandations précises sur ce qui doit être corrigé ou amélioré.
[Code HTML à insérer ici]

6. Client Simulation: Enhance Your Negotiation Skills

Freelancers set out with a passion for their craft, rather than a love for sales. However, embodying one’s business requires constant self-promotion. Too often, this reality deters freelancers, who prefer joining an agency or returning to employment. Learning to sell is essential. There’s nothing better for practice than creating a fictitious client. With the right prompt, Claude excels in role-playing scenarios. My most enriching AI conversations have been discussions with fictitious clients.

7. Limitless: Client Meeting Transcription

Stay alert and know how to bounce off the right comments during client meetings. To ensure no key information is missed, a live transcription tool like Limitless is very effective. After testing dozens of AI transcription tools, Limitless stands out as the best. It provides a simple and non-intrusive interface, with clear and factual summaries of meetings. Limitless now works with all languages.

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8. Roast: Improve Your LinkedIn and Malt Profile with a Screenshot

As with their own site, it’s hard to have a critical and constructive view of one’s LinkedIn or Malt profile. By taking a screenshot of their profile and asking ChatGPT for feedback, you often get very relevant suggestions. Tested and approved! However, an important note: ChatGPT is by default friendly and avoids offending. It’s essential to include in your prompt a request for "unfiltered, unrestrained, brutal" feedback to get suggestions that are "just" rather than simply "good".

9. Rapid Prototyping: Use Creative AI Tools to Quickly Prototype Visuals and Apps

Midjourney offers the best image generation model, Runway the best for video generation, and Claude Sonnet 3.5 excels in code generation. With these tools, the distance between an idea and its execution is shortened. 1. I have an idea, 2. I generate it, 3. I iterate. This influences the kind of ideas that come to mind. In the initial phases of a project with a client when determining a concept, using these AI apps is a real boon. They enable idea generation and client feedback directly, allowing for the right direction from the start.

10. Coach: Emulate CBT to Better Manage Stress and Avoid Burnout

Being a freelancer also means being solitary. No one to share with. When a potential project is lost, or a client frustrates you, who to turn to for venting emotions? How to bounce back better? This use case may seem straight out of a sci-fi movie (yes, like *Her*), but it's truly useful today: using ChatGPT as a therapist can be lifesaving. One can ask ChatGPT to play the role of a cognitive-behavioral therapist (CBT, or Cognitive-Based Therapy) and to ask questions to understand our emotions and underlying mechanisms. Tested and approved.