SHORT COURSES & FREE RESOURCES
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• social media tips and strategies • Getting clients • Sales and Negotiation • Business basics • Social media tips and strategies • Getting clients • Sales and Negotiation
Social media tips and strategies
30 ideas for social media posts
FREE PDF
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 PDF
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 PDF
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 to fill that gap quickly
FREE PDF
10 practical strategies to drum up some writing or editing work at the last minute.
The happy client template toolkit
£59
15 template emails, 3 questionnaires/forms, 2 PDFs and 10 short videos.
Everything you need to create a first class client experience (and save you time)
Get help with your LinkedIn profile.
£17
Download a detailed PDF walking you through setting up your LinkedIn profile so you can attract the right clients.
Updated October 24, with three walkthrough videos added.
10 ways to 10 x your audience growth
£37
In this mini course, I take you through ten 2-4 minute video tasks that will all help to achieve this. If you carry out all the tasks (and crucially KEEP doing them), you will see your followers and subscribers grow fast, making it that much easier to find those consistent clients.
Sales and Negotiation
The Non Sleazy Sales Kit
£27
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.
We mean business: getting visible, pricing, negotiating and getting paid for freelance publishing professionals
£197
A more in-depth course with a regular drop-in live coaching session. Strengthen your marketing, develop a pricing strategy, know what to look out for in contracts, learn to negotiate effectively and more.
Business basics
Which business model is right for you?
FREE
So many possibilities…. should you offer a 1-2-1 service, a live group programme, a membership, an asynchronous digital course, or maybe a combination of more than one?
What will truly help you earn more while working less (and delight your clients)?
Dig into my free guide (including four personalised interactive quizzes)
The Confident Freelancer Roadmap
£149
If you’re looking for practical help and support with:
– getting your business set up the right way from the start (or filling in the gaps)
– getting more visible and attracting the right clients
– working out what to charge and feeling confident to ask for more.
– learning how to use your limited time in the best way to push your business forward.
…. this is the place to start.
How to find the right business coach
FREE
Thinking about working with a business coach? (Not necessarily me!)
It’s an important decision, and not something you want to get wrong.
Fancy a free guide, based on my years of experience in hiring and working with different kinds of coaches?
Here you go!
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
How to escape the second arrow
You can’t really choose what you feel. Not if we’re talking about that lightning fast automatic reaction. That’s part of the wiring we have set up to survive. What we can do, however, is to not take the ball and run with it.
Locus of control and why it’s important.
To what extent do you believe that your fate is in your own hands? If you go for a job interview, do you believe that the result is largely a matter of luck or the interviewer’s mood on the day, or does it depend more heavily on the preparation you did, and of course...
Stepping off the hedonic treadmill.
‘Once I get this new job, earn more money, find a partner, lose a stone, move house…I’ll be so much happier.’ And you are, for a while at least. But somehow the extra happiness doesn’t last, and we start looking for the next thing that will bring us happiness. That’s what is known as the hedonic treadmill.
Inner trolls and outer trolls
The inner troll is that nasty voice in your head that criticises you, whispers that other people will be judging you, and encourages you to give up on your good intentions. We all have one, though some people’s are nastier and louder than others. I’ve written...
What can I give myself right now?
We all know that being kind and generous to others makes us feel good. But how often are we similarly giving and nurturing to ourselves? More often than not we treat ourselves in a way we would never dream of doing to anyone else. When I ask, ‘What can I give myself...
What’s wrong with being a people pleaser?
Maybe you suspect you’re a people pleaser? You find it hard to say no, you rarely put your own needs first, you hate the idea of being disliked or criticised. You’re probably aware that this kind of behaviour often leads to you taking too much on, and being overloaded, but, you might also feel that it’s not so bad, really
You are not your thoughts- this will change everything.
You are not your thoughts. This is such a simple sentence, but believe me when I tell you that it’s pretty much the key to everything.
What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?
If there is something that you would really love to do, and you know that it’s fear, not lack of desire, holding you back, then ask yourself if you want to stay trapped by this fear?
Why always being right is not a good thing.
It might seem that always being right is something to aim for, but in fact it’s both paralysing and dangerous.
Paralysing because the need to always be right means that we can’t ever risk getting anything wrong. Dangerous because it means that we are likely to ignore all evidence to the contrary as we go blithely off down our own path of righteousness.