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.
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 use your holiday to wake up.
Holidays are about switching off from your daily life and resting and recuperating. However, they can also be an opportunity to switch on and wake up to the present moment. Automatic pilot Most of us spend much of our lives on automatic pilot. Have you ever had the...
Troll parties and Rule Number Six.
Next time you feel infuriated with someone’s behaviour, that it’s unjust or rude, or whatever label you’re giving it to justify yourself getting angry with them, try applying Rule Number Six and see what happens.
Is patience a virtue?
Ultimately developing patience isn’t about being passive, but about truly taking control of the only thing you really can control- how you respond to what life throws at you.
Can you trust your gut instincts?
We should be cautious about trusting our ‘gut feelings’, because they are based on fear.
Ego backlash: two steps forward, one step back
If I could only tell you one thing to help you on your path to being more aware, and living a happier, more balanced life, it’s this: going backwards is absolutely part of the process.
Are you addicted to being busy?
Are you addicted to being busy? Isn’t it about time you started using your time more effectively, so you can get stuff done and still have time to enjoy life, look after yourself or be with those you love?
Why does mindfulness seem so hard?
You know all about the benefits of mindfulness, and it seems like a good idea, but you either can’t get started, or you don’t keep it up. Why?
What to do instead of complaining
”When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.”
How to stop the negative impact of too much cortisol.
‘I feel like I’m about to explode inside.’ This is how my son, whose exams start Monday, said how he felt yesterday. What he was describing was a massive build up of cortisol.