SHORT COURSES AND FREE resources
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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.
Get help with your LinkedIn profile
Download a detailed PDF walking you through setting up your LinkedIn profile so you can attract the right clients.
Or get my personal detailed feedback and tips in a thorough audit of your profile and posts.
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!)
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Blog
How to stop scarcity mindset negatively impacting your income
Scarcity mindset is the often unconscious belief that there is never enough. If you've ever told yourself that you don't have enough time to make changes in your business or lifestyle, or that there aren't enough clients out there, or that you'll never earn decent...
Why social media marketing is just like (good) teaching
As educators, my clients often envisage social media marketing as being like shouting into a megaphone about how great they are… but good social media marketing is more like teaching than you might think.
Why do I feel so stressed about my business?
Whenever I talk about stress and overwhelm, I usually mention two main groups of causes:.Firstly, physical, practical causes, like not eating well, not getting enough sleep and so on.Secondly, issues around people pleasing, perfectionism, setting healthy...
5 reasons why we fail to take action
There’s something we want to achieve or do, but somehow we never seem to get around to it. The days and weeks pass, and it’s still on our to do list.
Why?
How to make deadlines work better for you.
Plenty of people say to me, ‘I would never get anything done if it wasn’t for deadlines; it isn’t until the deadline starts to get near that I can get myself started.’ It can definitely be an effective strategy in terms of getting stuff done. However, it means that...
The dark side to always being busy
Have you considered that always being busy may actually be an indicator that things actually AREN’T going that well for you?
Annual review of my business 2021
I typically share a fair amount with clients about my business decisions and what I’m learning, as they can often learn from my success and mistakes.
So, once again, here’s my year in review- warts and all.
The inner troll and how to deal with it.
Everyone has an Inner Troll, but some people’s Inner Trolls like to throw their weight around more than others.
Tips for a better balance between work and family life
Work-life balance can be a cliche, but many of us feel torn between doing our best with work and spending quality time with those we love.
Join my community for ELT Freelancers
The Confident ELT Freelancer Collective is a vibrant community, offering you ongoing support, training and accountability.
