Join us for January's 21-Day Informational Interview Challenge! 🔥 If you are considering becoming a grant writing unicorn in 2022, now is a darn good time to join. 

Learn more here ⤵️ 

https://www.learngrantwriting.org/grant-writing-training

🔸 What is an informational interview? 

🔸And how do they help me get clients as a freelancer? 

An informational interview is a conversation with someone who interests you to gain knowledge about their organization or their industry. It is also a conversation to understand if they have a need that you can help solve. This is you 90% listening and 10% talking. It's the least scary form of networking on the scale of networking scale. If you want to have a career you love, it means taking ultimate, radical responsibility!

 If you're thinking about a career in grant writing in 2022, join us in the Grant Writing Unicorn Collective and our 21-Day Challenge. All you need to do, is join the Collective by January 10th and you can participate!  ⤵️

https://www.learngrantwriting.org/grant-writing-training

What questions do you have about the challenge or informational interviews? DM us on Instagram (@learngrantwriting) or shoot us an email. 🧡  The team at Learn Grant Writing 

00:00 - How do informational interviews help me get clients? 

00:27 - What is an informational interview? 

00:50 - Objective of informational interviews 

01:32 - Why are informational interviews important? 

2:00 - How to get clients without going to conferences or marketing on social media 

2:20 - Process of asking for an informational interview 

02:49 - How to uncover a client's pain points 

03:09 - Funding Strategy Overview 

04:06 - How a Funding Strategy Can Increase Your Win Rate 

04:30 - Example of a grant writer's success 

05:33 - How you can start as a freelance grant writer with no experience

06:33 - How funding strategies lead to paid grant writing work 07:12 

07:12 - The Organic Networking Framework 

07:30 - Challenges grant writers face in networking 

09:00 - How Meredith landed her first grant writing job 

09:49 - Two main mistakes freelance grant writers make

14:20 - What is the 21-day challenge? 

14:45 - Beating overwhelm as a freelance grant writer

EPISODE CREDITS:

Hosted by: Meredith Noble & Alex Lustig

Guest host: Haleigh Jinkins

Audio Edit by: Ana Castro

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