SHORT COURSES AND 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
£129
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
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...
How to stop fire-fighting and know what to prioritise in your business
When you’re running a business it can feel like you’re juggling a million things, and that’s before you even start to think about the bigger picture and planning ahead.
It seems logical that you should prioritise those tasks which feel most urgent. And, don’t get me wrong, some of them probably really do have to be priorities.
But if we devote all our time to fire-fighting, we are never going to get out from under the overwhelm, and we’re likely to be spending a lot more time than we realise doing things that aren’t actually helping us to earn more, work less, and definitely not to live more fully. So, how can you know what your priorities really are?
Annual business review 2022
Ever since I started my business in 2018, I’ve been carrying out regular reviews of my business. And, together with support from a couple of great coaches, I think this has been largely responsible for the frankly great progress I’ve made, from a side gig to a full time business, and doubling my income each year for the first three years- and this year still managing to increase it by 50%.
For the last two years I’ve written an annual business review blog post detailing what’s gone well, what’s not gone so well (and what I learnt from it), and my goals for the year ahead, and how I plan to make them happen. Why? Because I believe in transparency, and I also think my clients, potential clients, and even those who will never work with me can learn a lot from it, and I’m all about helping people to learn and grow.
How to know when you need to put your prices up?
Most of us are living in a situation where prices are going up rapidly. In the UK inflation is at 10%. Now you might be telling yourself that this means you CAN’T put your prices up- people won’t be able to afford it.There is some reality to this, but, think of it...
Why passive income isn’t really very passive.
Passive income sounds so enticing. ‘Earn six figures in your sleep.’ Who wouldn’t want a bit of that? Especially a busy teacher.
Why you need to prioritise building an email list.
If you’re working with individuals, as a teacher, coach or trainer, you really should be building an email list. Here’s why.
5 unhelpful beliefs about getting visible on social media
These 5 beliefs about getting visible on social media are unhelpful for your business, but they’re also unhelpful for your potential clients.
How do I find clients as an ELT Freelancer?
Now, frankly, this isn't a question that can be covered comprehensively in a blog post. I spend 12 weeks focusing on this in my Flourishing Foundations programme, and each person who does the programme needs slightly different advice and strategies. However,...
Declutter the money blocks holding your business back
The whole idea of 'money blocks' might strike you as a bit too 'woo'? Isn't it just a convenient excuse to say that what's stopping us from making more money is our subconscious beliefs? Fairly obviously, I'd say, our beliefs are not the entire reason for the success...