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Globe and Mail
2 days ago
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Meet Kinshasia Johnson, the Certified Virtual Executive Assistant and Transcriptionist Empowering Entrepreneurs and Executives Around the World
Johnson has transcribed thousands of audio hours over the years and has helped entrepreneurs and C-level executives meet and exceed their goals. Now, she's launched her services to clients everywhere. Kinshasia Johnson has been a freelancer since 2017, and since that time, she has transformed the workflows of entrepreneurs and C-level executives around the world. Johnson is a certified virtual executive assistant, expert transcriptionist, and freelancing mentor who specializes in streamlining administrative operations. She is also a member of the IAPO International Association of Professional Executive Assistants and the Virtual Assistant Networking Association (VANA). Johnson has proudly served clients around the world in a range of industries. She also shares her experiences as a freelancer to empowers others with one-on-one mentorship, group training, courses, and more. Her clients find her through her website, as well as through the world's leading freelance and outsourcing marketplace, Fiverr, where she is a Top Rated Seller with a long list of perfect five-star reviews. Johnson hones in on executive assistance, virtual assistance, and transcription to provide a wealth of solutions that offer clients precisely what they need to be more efficient and highly successful. With her executive-level virtual support solutions, Johnson provides diary alignment, calendar and e-mail management, internal and external communication, weekly check-ins, brainstorming, project management, and more. For clients seeking a qualified and seasoned virtual assistant, Johnson provides world-class services including administrative support, calendar scheduling, data entry, research, support tasks, and more. When it comes to transcription, Johnson's personalized services are the perfect choice for meetings, audio books, lectures, sermons, calls, interviews, and more. 'Providing exceptional administrative and management support isn't just a slogan, it's a reflection of my dedication to driving meaningful, positive change in the businesses I serve,' said Johnson. Moreover, she is championing aspiring freelancers by helping them get a jump start on Fiverr. Johnson offers the Fiverr Essentials Course for Beginners, the Fiverr Plug-N-Play Template Bundle, and The Ultimate Fiverr Guide for Beginners to help new Fiverr Sellers put their best foot forward in their new endeavors. Learn more about all of Kinshasia Johnson's solutions for entrepreneurs and C-level executives, as well as her jump start resources for Fiverr Sellers, by visiting Book one of her top selling services instantly at ABOUT KINSHASIA JOHNSON Kinshasia Johnson is a certified virtual executive assistant, transcriptionist, and freelancing mentor who has several years of experience supporting entrepreneurs and C-level executives alike. She offers her services via her website, as well as on the world's leading freelance and outsourcing marketplace, Follow Kinshasia on LinkedIn at Media Contact Contact Person: Kinshasia Johnson Email: Send Email Phone: 876-499-5477 City: SAINT CATHERINE Country: Jamaica Website:
Time Business News
5 days ago
- Business
- Time Business News
How to Build a Team to Work on Social Media—Step-by-Step Guide
In today's digital world, social media isn't just a platform—it's a business battleground. From growing your brand presence to generating leads and building community, everything depends on how strong your social media game is. And let's be honest—you can't do it all alone. So, how do you build a solid team to manage your social media? Let's walk you through it step-by-step. 📌 Table of Contents Why Do You Need a Social Media Team? Step 1: Define Your Social Media Goals Step 2: Identify Key Roles Step 3: Hire the Right People Step 4: Set Tools & Workflow Step 5: Build Team Communication Step 6: Measure Performance Final Thoughts ✅ Why Do You Need a Social Media Team? If you're serious about scaling your online presence, a one-person army won't cut it. A social media team brings in diverse skills—design, writing, analytics, and strategy—all working in harmony. Benefits: Consistent posting & branding Quicker response to trends & messages Better campaign planning Professional growth & fresh ideas 🪜 Step 1: Define Your Social Media Goals Before hiring anyone, ask yourself: Do I want brand awareness? More engagement? Lead generation? Customer service? These goals will define what kind of team you need. 🎯 Pro Tip: Don't chase every goal. Focus on 1-2 key objectives to start with. 🧩 Step 2: Identify Key Roles in Your Social Media Team Here are the essential team members you might need: Role Responsibility Social Media Manager Overall strategy, posting schedule, monitoring trends Content Creator Writing posts, captions, scripts Graphic Designer Creating visually appealing posts, reels, stories Video Editor Shorts, Reels, YouTube, behind-the-scenes Community Manager Engaging with followers, replying to comments Analyst Tracking performance, suggesting improvements 👥 You can start with 2-3 multi-skilled people and grow over time. 🔍 Step 3: Hire the Right People You can build your team using: Freelancers (from platforms like Upwork and Fiverr) Interns (great for testing and low-cost help) In-house full-time team (ideal for long-term branding) What to look for: Passion for social media Good communication skills Understanding of your brand voice Willingness to learn 🤝 Tip: Start with a small trial project before fully onboarding. ⚙️ Step 4: Set Tools & Workflow To manage your team efficiently, use the right tools: Content Calendar: Trello, Notion, Google Sheets Trello, Notion, Google Sheets Graphic Design: Canva, Adobe Express Canva, Adobe Express Social Scheduling: Buffer, Later, Meta Business Suite Buffer, Later, Meta Business Suite Team Communication: Slack, WhatsApp Groups Slack, WhatsApp Groups Analytics: Instagram Insights, Meta Creator Studio 🗣 Step 5: Build Team Communication Even the best team fails without communication. Hold weekly meetings (online or offline) Share feedback regularly Encourage creative brainstorming 💡 Use voice notes, Loom videos, or quick check-in calls to keep it human and engaging. 📊 Step 6: Measure Performance & Improve Tracking performance helps you know what's working and what's not. Key Metrics to Watch: Follower growth Engagement rate Reach & impressions Click-through rates Conversion from posts 🔁 Feedback Loop: Use these insights to improve your content strategy. 🔚 Final Thoughts: Start Small, Think Big You don't need a massive team to start. Just bring in people who understand your vision, share your energy, and believe in digital growth. Over time, your dream team will help your brand shine online. ✅ Want Help Building Your Digital Team? 📩 Get in touch with to hire interns, content creators, and social media managers for your project. Let's grow together! ✍️ Written by: Salman Ahmad 📌 Founder @ | Blogger | Digital Enthusiast TIME BUSINESS NEWS
Forbes
6 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
You're Not Imagining It: AI Is Already Taking Tech Jobs
B etween meetings in April, Micha Kaufman, CEO of the freelance marketplace Fiverr, fired off a memo to his 1,200 employees that didn't mince words: 'AI is coming for your jobs. Heck, it's coming for my job too,' he wrote. 'This is a wakeup call.' The memo detailed Kaufman's thesis for AI — that it would elevate everyone's abilities: Easy tasks would become no-brainers. Hard tasks would become easy. Impossible tasks would become merely hard, he posited. And because AI tools are free to use, no one has an advantage. In the shuffle, people who didn't adapt would be 'doomed.' 'I hear the conversation around the office. I hear developers ask each other, 'Guys, are we going to have a job in two years?'' Kaufman tells Forbes now. 'I felt like this needed validation from me — that they aren't imagining stuff.' Already, younger and more inexperienced programmers are seeing a drop in employment rate; the total number of employed entry-level developers from ages 18 to 25 has dropped 'slightly' since 2022, after the launch of ChatGPT, said Ruyu Chen, a postdoctoral fellow at the Digital Economy Lab of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI. It isn't just lack of experience that could make getting a job extremely difficult going forward; Chen notes too that the market may be tougher for those who are just average at their jobs. In the age of AI, only exceptional employees have an edge. 'We're going from mass hiring to precision hiring,' said Chen, adding that companies are starting to focus more on employing experts in their fields. 'The superstar workers are in a better position.' Chen and her colleagues studied large-scale payroll data in the U.S., shared by the HR company ADP, to examine generative AI's impact on the workforce. The employment rate decline for entry-level developers is small, but a significant development in the field of engineering in the tech industry, an occupation that has seemed synonymous with wealth and exorbitant salaries for more than a quarter century. Now suddenly, after years of rhetoric about how AI will augment workers, rather than replace them, many tech CEOs have become more direct about the toll of AI. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has said AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike unemployment up to 20% within the next five years. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said last month that AI will 'reduce our total corporate workforce' over the next few years as the company begins to 'need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs.' Earlier this year, Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke also posted a memo that he sent his team, saying that budget for new hires would only be granted for jobs that can't be automated by AI. Tech companies have also started cutting jobs or freezing hiring explicitly due to AI and automation. At stalwart IBM, hundreds of human resources employees were replaced by AI in May, part of broader job cuts that terminated 8,000 employees. Also in May, Luis von Ahn, CEO of the language learning app Duolingo, said the company would stop using contractors for work that could be done by AI. Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of buy-now-pay-later firm Klarna, said in May that the company had slashed its workforce 40%, in part due to investments in AI. 'We're going from mass hiring to precision hiring. The superstar workers are in a better position.' Ruyu Chen, Stanford researcher Microsoft made its own waves earlier this month when it laid off 9,000 employees, or about 4% of its workforce. The company didn't explicitly cite AI as a reason for the downsizing, but it has broadly increased its spending in AI and touted the savings it had racked up from using the tech. Automating customer service at call centers alone, for example, saved more than half a billion dollars, according to Bloomberg. Meanwhile, CEO Satya Nadella said in April that as much as 30% of code at the company is being written by AI. 'This is what happens when a company is rearranging priorities,' one laid off Microsoft employee told Forbes . Microsoft didn't respond to questions about the reasons behind its layoffs, but said in a statement: 'We continue to implement organizational changes necessary to best position the company for success in a dynamic marketplace.' It's difficult to pinpoint the exact motivation behind job cuts at any given company. The overall economic environment could also be a factor, marked by uncertainties heightened by President Donald Trump's erratic tariff plans. Many companies also became bloated during the pandemic, and recent layoffs could still be trying to correct for overhiring. According to one report released earlier this month by the executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas, AI may be more of a scapegoat than a true culprit for layoffs: Of more than 286,000 planned layoffs this year, only 20,000 were related to automation, and of those, only 75 were explicitly attributed to artificial intelligence, the firm found. Plus, it's challenging to measure productivity gains caused by AI, said Stanford's Chen, because while not every employee may have AI tools officially at their disposal at work, they do have unauthorized consumer versions that they may be using for their jobs. While the technology is beginning to take a toll on developers in the tech industry, it's actually 'modestly' created more demand for engineers outside of tech, said Chen. That's because other sectors, like manufacturing, finance, and healthcare, are adopting AI tools for the first time, so they are adding engineers to their ranks in larger numbers than before, according to her research. Automating jobs has its limits, too. Last year, Klarna said that the company's AI tools were doing the work equivalent to 700 customer service agents. But a year later, the company seemed to reverse course, announcing a recruitment drive to hire more human agents. CEO Siemiatkowski has denied the new hiring push meant the company was pulling back on AI. Instead, he said the new human agents would handle more of the higher-end conversations the company had previously outsourced. Siemiatkowski was not available for an interview, but Klarna spokesperson Clare Nordstrom defended the strategy. 'We rely on AI just as much,' she said in a statement. 'However, we have noticed that in a world where everything is automated,' she continued, 'people put a premium on the human experience.' Klarna's experiments show that deciphering which tasks are more suitable for humans, and which can be entrusted to machines, is an open question. Siemiatkowski has been one of the most vocal proponents of automation: to prove the point, when Klarna announced first-quarter earnings in May, he didn't even show up. Instead, he arranged for an AI deepfake of himself to give the financial update and trumpet a profitable three months. The upside to the upheaval, Fiverr's Kaufman said, is that people seem willing to learn. (The company hasn't done any AI-related layoffs or hiring freezes, he told Forbes .) In his memo to employees, he said he would hold office hours to discuss the changing AI landscape with anyone who wanted to chat. He booked a conference room for 50 people. To his surprise, he showed up to find 250 employees waiting for him. 'So it was just, 'All right, let's do this,'' Kaufman said. He told employees they needed to be proactive to learn new AI techniques, and not just wait to be taught. 'I'm going to help anyone who is motivated to help themselves.' More from Forbes Forbes Waymo Vets Are Automating Construction Sites With Self-Driving Dirt Diggers By Alan Ohnsman Forbes How This New Biotech Billionaire Outmaneuvered Merck In China By Kerry A. Dolan Forbes This AI Founder Became A Billionaire By Building ChatGPT For Doctors By Amy Feldman Forbes Why Ramaco Says It Can Beat Its Government-Backed Rival For Rare Earth Supremacy By Christopher Helman Forbes Trump 'TACO' Tracker: Here Are The President's 28 Tariff Flip-Flops By Alison Durkee
Time of India
16-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Man turns his side hustle into $40,000 a month remote business, and it all started with a free favour
After COVID-19 paused courtroom work, an attorney turned to Fiverr for freelance trademark filings. His approachable style drew first-time business owners, and by month four, he was making $10,000. Now with a $500,000/year business, Morgan lives between Dallas and Mexico City, chasing freedom over fortune and aiming for financial independence by 45—all from a side hustle that stuck. When Indianapolis-based attorney Derrick Morgan Jr. helped his cousin with a trademark during the pandemic, he reignited a forgotten skill. What began as a pro bono side gig turned into a thriving remote business. (Image: LinkedIn/ .) Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads A side hustle that took off Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads A business built on freedom and flexibility When the world shut down in early 2020, so did the courtrooms—and for 34-year-old Derrick Morgan Jr. , a junior attorney in Indianapolis, that meant the paychecks slowed too. Contingency-based legal work depends on active court schedules, and with hearings postponed and dockets frozen, Morgan was staring down uncertainty. Then came an unexpected call from his cousin, who needed help filing a trademark for a new architecture firm.'I was like, 'Alright, sure, I'll help you. I haven't done it in a while. This will be pro bono, we'll figure it out,'' Morgan recalled in an interview with CNBC Make It. But as he dove back into intellectual property law , something clicked. 'It was like riding a bike — got right back into it.'That moment sparked an idea. What if he could help other small business owners navigate the complicated world of trademarks? What if he could do it remotely—and independently?Listing his services on Fiverr , a freelance platform, Morgan offered affordable trademark assistance at a time when thousands of entrepreneurs were launching side hustles of their own. His first month earned him just $180—enough to pay his phone bill—but it was the beginning of something bigger. Within three months, he was earning $5,000. By month four, it had doubled to $10, resonated with clients wasn't just his legal expertise—it was his approachable, relatable style. 'A lot of these prospective clients, they're first-time business owners,' Morgan explained. 'They've never dealt with a big fancy attorney who's going to be charging them hundreds of dollars to confuse them. I get a lot of clients because I'm approachable and I meet them where they are.'By early 2021, Morgan had reduced his hours at the law firm and was quietly scaling his freelance business. A few months later, he left the traditional path altogether to focus full time on what had started as a modest side Morgan's trademark filing business is projected to bring in nearly half a million dollars this year—over $40,000 each month. With help from a paralegal and an AI assistant, he manages his growing clientele while maintaining affordable service rates. He typically charges between $600 and $800 per trademark the real success, according to Morgan, lies in the freedom his business gives him. Now splitting his time between Dallas and a vibrant neighborhood in Mexico City, he enjoys the flexibility to work when and how he chooses. 'Being able to do what I want, when I want,' he says, 'that's the goal.'Lower living costs in Mexico City have allowed him to invest 40% of his income with the aim of achieving financial independence by 45. He's already visited more than 60 countries and sees his business not just as a source of income—but as a passport to the life he's always began as a favor to a cousin during a pandemic has grown into a remote business rooted in purpose, service, and personal freedom. For Morgan, it's not just about building wealth—it's about reclaiming control over time and life.
CNBC
16-07-2025
- Business
- CNBC
34-year-old turned Fiverr side hustle into full-time business—it brings in $40,000 a month and lets him work from anywhere
In early 2020, Indianapolis-based attorney Derrick Morgan Jr. got a call from his cousin, who was launching an architecture firm and needed help filing a trademark. "I was like, 'Alright, sure, I'll help you. I haven't done it in a while. This will be pro bono, we'll figure it out,'" the 34-year-old tells CNBC Make It. But once he started doing the work, "it was like riding a bike — got right back into it." The timing was fortuitous. The Covid-19 pandemic soon shut down courts, and Morgan's work at an Indianapolis-based law firm slowed dramatically. As a junior lawyer on contingency cases, fewer court dates meant fewer opportunities to get paid. "I needed a way to make more money, and this trademark thing came up," he says. That gave him the idea to list his services on Fiverr, a freelance platform where he could offer affordable trademark help to small business owners. Morgan's first month on Fiverr brought in about $180 — enough to cover his phone bill, he says. But it didn't take long for demand to build. By his third month, he earned around $5,000. In month four, it jumped to $10,000. Morgan's approachable style resonated with small business owners and entrepreneurs, many of whom were navigating trademarks for the first time, he says. His strong reviews helped him eventually earn Fiverr's Top Rated seller designation — the platform's highest status. "A lot of these prospective clients, they're first-time business owners," Morgan says. "They've never dealt with a big fancy attorney who's going to be charging them hundreds of dollars to confuse them. I get a lot of clients because I'm approachable and I meet them where they are." Still, he was cautious. "Obviously, I still thought it was a fluke," he says. "I didn't want to quit my job after just four good months." For a while, he juggled both his day job and the growing freelance business. By early 2021, he reduced his hours at the law firm. A few months later, he left the role entirely to focus on his trademark business full time. Morgan's trademark business is on track to bring in nearly $500,000 this year — or just over $40,000 a month. He pays himself over $350,000 and works remotely with help from a paralegal and an AI assistant. Most of his clients now come through word of mouth and social media, though he still maintains a presence on Fiverr. In practice, much of the work is procedural, which allows him to serve more clients efficiently and keep costs down, he says. He typically charges between $600 and $800 per filing, depending on the service. The flexibility of the work fits Morgan's lifestyle. A longtime traveler who has visited more than 60 countries, he now splits his time between Dallas and Mexico City, where he rents a furnished apartment in a walkable neighborhood known for its cafes and late-night taco spots. By choosing to base himself in Mexico City, where his living costs are lower than in most U.S. cities, he's able to invest 40% of his income — with the goal of reaching financial independence by age 45. For Morgan, it's less about building wealth and more about "being able to do what I want, when I want," he says.
