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 redefine failure (and success)
If you look up failure in the dictionary, it’s defined as ‘the fact of someone or something not succeeding’. When you think about it, what does that even mean? How do we define success? Is it about what other people say about what happened? How we feel about it? Whether we made money from it?
What ‘weebles’ can teach us when we wobble.
If anyone tells you that they are so ‘sorted’ that they never wobble, don’t believe them. The point isn’t to never wobble, the point is to come back to a balanced place as quickly as possible.
Does comparison-itis get in your way?
The ability to see at any one time what hundreds or even thousands of our friends and colleagues are up to on social media is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, how amazing is it that we can all be connected in this way? Imagine navigating lockdown without being able...
The tyranny of the ‘should’
If there’s one word that should come with a big flashing neon light around it, it’s ‘should’. The German psychoanalyst Karen Horney perceptively talked about “the tyranny of the should.” What does it mean if we say that we should do something? It...
Imposter syndrome: how it holds you back, and how to beat it.
How to recognise and overcome the often crippling effects of imposter syndrome.
Some ways to cope with an uncertain future.
As it becomes more and more obvious that things are not ‘going back to normal’ any time soon, all of us find ourselves facing an uncertain future. Perhaps the first thing is to recognise that none of us ever have the kind of certainty or control over our lives that we...
How to stop taking things so personally.
The misery that many of us cause ourselves by worrying about what other people think and how they will react is largely avoidable. We need to stop taking things so personally.
Toxic positivity, toxic negativity, and how to avoid them (as a freelance language teacher).
It’s toxic when we tell ourselves that we should always ‘be positive’ because the feelings don’t go away because we’re denying them. Instead they build up underneath, ready to come squirting out at a later date or time.
Why you don’t need ‘self-improvement’ to succeed.
Helping people with mindset is a big part of what I do as a business coach for ELT Freelancers. I know that more often than not, what is holding us back is not so much lack of practical business knowledge (important though that is), but confidence, fear of failure (or...