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
5 causes of burnout and how to avoid it.
The causes of burnout might seem obvious.. too much work, right? Doh. But, in fact, while workload is obviously a major contributing factor, it’s a little more complex than that. In addition to workload here are 4 more causes. Lack of control One of the biggest causes...
Freelancing: the good, the bad and the ugly.
whether you are self-employed or not, we all need to learn to look after ourselves as well as we look after others. This might mean negotiating a fairer deal for ourselves at work, or requiring other members of our family to take a fairer share of the load at home.
Why emotional agility is far more powerful than ‘positive thinking’.
Everyone has negative thoughts and emotions. But what’s the best way to deal with these?
Sometimes we hear people saying things like ‘turn that frown upside down’ or no ‘negative vibes here’….
I do believe that it’s possible to shift a negative perspective, but it’s absolutely crucial to understand that this is not about ignoring or minimising the negative thought or emotion.
Chop chop! Hurry up! Shake a leg!
I like to think of myself as productive and efficient, but what that often really means is that I have a strong tendency to try and fit too much in, and end up working against the clock. I have a strong ‘Hurry Up’ driver.
How to stop trying to please everyone
Pleasing people feels good. We all like it when people give us positive feedback and approve of what we’re doing. But if we’re constantly second guessing what will please everyone, we’re setting ourselves up for anxiety and discomfort.
Do positive affirmations actually work?
For those of you who might not know, an affirmation is a positive statement that you repeat to yourself as a fact. E.g. ‘I am beautiful inside and out.’
Now I don’t know about you, but that does somewhat make me cringe, even after all the work I’ve done. It just feels too much, and I can already hear my Inner Troll laughing sarcastically.
Confidence doesn’t come from ‘fake it til you make it’.
Some people teach that developing self confidence is about learning to pretend to be self confident until eventually you are. ‘Fake it ‘til you make it’.
How to ask for what you want, say no when you need to, and live more authentically.
Assertiveness is the ability to say how we feel and/or ask for what we want when we choose to. Many people struggle with being more assertive generally, while others only find it an issue in certain situations or with certain people.
Why we often struggle with self-compassion
Self-compassion is about treating yourself as well as you would treat a good friend, rather than in a way you would never do to anyone else. It’s pretty clear this isn’t helpful, so why is it so hard to stop?