Sick of Researching Publications to Pitch?

Still wasting hours hunting for publications that might take your pitch?
This week, I tested how well AI (ahem, ChatGPT) can help freelance writers like us dig up the right clients—faster. Turns out, it’s not perfect... but it’s definitely faster than falling down Google rabbit holes.

Curious to see how I did it (and what tripped me up)? Read on.

Must Read

How to Use AI to Quickly Generate a List of Publications You Can Pitch

Using AI to find freelance writing clients isn’t magic, but it's getting better at it.
If you’ve ever wished you could outsource the worst part of pitching—researching who to pitch—this is for you. I’ll show you how I used ChatGPT to build a targeted list of travel publications, refine the prompts that didn’t quite work, and what I learned along the way (spoiler: always check the links!).

Leveraging AI in Evaluating Clients

In case you missed it last week, Treasa talked about how you can use AI as an extra way to help you figure out which clients to keep and which ones to give a miss. She's included a bunch of examples of how to word your prompts and what to do with them.

The Secret to Growing an Online Biz That Big Shots Won't Tell You

I signed up ages ago to Maliha's The Side Blogger newsletter and I look forward to getting her emails. If that interests you, you can go here to sign up, too. But if you'd like to know her thoughts about the secrets to growing your online business, check out her recent blog post.

Resource Roundup

What Burnout-Proof Leadership Really Looks Like (and How to Get There) with Dr Victoria Mensch

If you're interested in leadership and burnout, then you'll want to listen to Dr Victoria Mensch as I talk to her about her journey into teaching burnout-proof leadership to anyone who is a leader. And if you're leading your own writing business, then that includes you. What Victoria has to share is well worth a listen.

What I'm Loving

BOOK: 1177 B.C. A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed

By Eric H. Cline, illustrated by Glynnis Fawkes

If you love history and archaeology like I do, then you're going to love this book. It's done in graphic novel style, which makes it fun to read. And there are lots of smirky jibes at how we, as humans, tend to make assumptions about history, based on the slimmest of archaeologic evidence.

This book would suit anyone who enjoys learning about ancient history. And it's particularly good for people who find graphic novels easier to read than normal books. If you grab it through the affiliate link below, I'd love to know what you think of it.

Wrap Up

And that's it for this week. We hope you find the experiments with AI helpful. We don't claim to know it all, but we're working to learn as fast as we can.

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