SHORT COURSES AND FREE resources
Two ways to work with me and get results.
Designed to Flourish Group Programme
I’ll personally help you to design your English Language Teaching freelance business to get great results for your ideal clients, without working all the hours or re-inventing the wheel.
And teach you how to attract the right clients, consistently, through magnetic marketing.
The Confident Freelancing Roadmap and Collective
Join a 150 + ELT (and MFL) freelance professionals to
– build a freelance business you love,
– find consistent right-fit clients,
– and confidently charge what you need to live the life you want.
Not yet ready to work directly with me?
Grab a freebie or try one of my short digital courses:
SOCIAL MEDIA TIPS AND STRATEGIES
30 ideas for social media posts (free)
A free PDF with 30 ideas for social media posts that can be adapted for your business, and used again and again in different ways.
20 CTA ideas to get engagement (free)
Arguably, just about every post should have a CTA (call to action) of some sort, but here are 20 that won’t just get ignored.
All About Hashtags (£9)
A mini course with everything you need to know about hashtags and how to use them effectively to increase your reach
GETTING CLIENTS
Quick ways to get clients as a teacher or coach (free)
Marketing is a longer-term strategy, but sometimes you need clients RIGHT NOW. 10 practical strategies to pull a client out of the bag.
Get ELT writing or editing work quickly (free)
10 practical strategies to drum up some writing or editing work at the last minute.
The Happy Client Template Toolkit (£59)
Everything you need to both save you time, AND create a first class client experience.
SALES AND NEGOTIATION
The Non-Sleazy Sales Kit (£17)
This mini course and downloadable PDF will take you through a highly effective 10 step sales or discovery call process to help you get comfortable with selling, while putting the potential client at the heart of everything.
The Earn Learn Thrive Productivity Planner
Are you an ELT Freelance professional or business owner?
You love the freedom and flexibility running your own business brings, but often feel overwhelmed with everything you have to do. You already spend so much time working in your business, serving clients- how are you supposed to find the time to actually run your business effectively, and even plan ahead or come up with new business ideas?
The Earn Learn Thrive Productivity Planner: for ELT Freelancer Professionals and Business Owners is specifically designed to help you break down your goals into bite-size manageable chunks, and use your time in the most effective way. You can get more done, AND actually reduce the amount of time you spend hunched over a desk.
Step by step, the productivity planner will take you through an easy system which helps you to get better at planning, assessing your time accurately, and learning as you go.
It’s a combination of goal setting, regular reviews, and daily time blocking. And it really works.
- The ELT Productivity Planner is undated, so you can start at any point in the year.
- There are 8 x six week sprints, meaning that it will last at least 48 weeks (if you don’t take any holidays- which you definitely should!)
[If you’re outside the UK, go to your local Amazon site.]
Blog
4 reasons why ELT Freelancers don’t want to niche- and why they’re wrong.
Of course there can sometimes be good reasons why it isn’t a good idea to narrow down your niche. However, having spoken to literally hundreds of ELT freelancers about niching, I’d say that at least 9 times out of 10, a reluctance to niche is based on misunderstanding...
10 ‘good mindset habits’ that could have a big impact on your business
When we think about developing good habits, we often think about things like drinking more water, getting up more often from our desk, eating more healthily and so on. These kinds of things are important, but something which is often overlooked is the importance of...
Effectively market your ELT freelance business: 5 quotes to learn from.
1. Running a business without marketing will kill it - Paul Cookson It might seem a bit over-dramatic, but the bottom line is that if no-one knows about your business, you won't have any clients. Word of mouth is, of course, a form of marketing too, but, while it's...
Are you spending enough time on your ELT business?
You probably think you already spend far too much time on running your ELT business... but my guess is that in fact you may be spending too much time IN your business, rather than, ON your business. And they're not the same thing. Most freelancers and small business...
15 ways you might be self-sabotaging your business
Self-sabotaging is when the things that you’re doing, or thinking, are actually not in your best interests… and, if you’re human, you’ll have experienced this.Here are 15 very common forms of self sabotage to look out for when running your business. Not so you can...
Shameless self-promotion
People talk about ‘shameless self-promotion’, which gives the idea that we should be ashamed to promote ourselves and what we do. But if you are your business- which you are if you offer a personalized service, such as teaching or coaching- then surely you need to be...
Is working for free ever a good idea?
When is working for free a good idea? It’s all about intention. But while that sounds simple, in practice it’s a complex soup of motivations.
What makes someone an expert?
Are you an expert? Now, if I know my audience, I'm willing to bet a significant proportion of you felt uncomfortable about saying yes...But here's the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary definition of an expert: 'a person with special knowledge, skill, or training in...
Why you struggle to switch off from your business
You might think that you have plenty of time off work (or you might not, but that’s another subject!), but do you truly switch off from your business in that time?Technology makes it harder and harder for us to ever truly be ‘off’ as it’s so tempting to just respond...
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