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If you could give one piece of advice to someone working toward their first long-term client, what would it be?
I’d love to learn from your experience and apply your insights as I continue growing my freelance business.
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There’s a lot happening underneath what looks like a fairly simple spirits website.
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Fantastic!!
Everyone loves to say AI makes creative work feel impersonal but I found the uses that actually save time without replacing my creative expertise.
Here's what's been working for me:
✍️ Copy and emails: I write the base, AI helps me polish and tighten it
🎨 Concept and moodboard copy: same approach, I write the core idea, AI helps shape the language for presentations
📦 Mockups: AI speeds up creation so I don't spend hours looking for the right .psd online
The key has been using it to speed up the boring parts so I can focus on the creative bits.
What's an AI use in your workflow that actually made things better, not just faster?
Starting with your own draft is close to how I use it on builds. I give AI the page and a short checklist, then use what it catches to tighten the work before I ship.
I hit $10K in earnings a few days ago and received so many messages asking what I did differently.
honestly, the only thing that really helped me was stopping the overthinking.I stopped thinking about all the possibilities. Stopped thinking about when it would happen. Stopped waiting for the perfect moment.
I just started taking action.
post your work.
post your work.
post your work.
don't think too much. just do it.
I'm still not where I want to be. but building in public has opened doors and brought opportunities I couldn't have imagined few months ago.
the miracles you're looking for is in the work you're avoiding 🚀
Damnn mann soo cool
When u started Contra btw?