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Sometimes, it’s hard to stay motivated. If you feel like you are losing your focus on achieving your goals, listen in as Janine shares 5 ways to stay motivated while working remotely.

1. Start with your why; however that looks like.
2. Set a large goal – for businesses, you can always use an income goal. Doing this can help you work backward, and if you can work backward from somewhere, then you can strategically plan how you’re going to get there.
3. Set 6-weekly/3-monthly goals – we can’t get somewhere if we can’t visualize it.
4. Give everything a date – this will keep you motivated to get the task done.
5. Take a break – sometimes, all we need is to step away.

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Before you write for clients, you have to learn first the steps you need to take to start the work. Here are some tips from Janine!

Key points in this episode:

• Importance of setting up a discovery call
• Things you need from the clients after the discovery call and before you write for clients
• What is a brand guide or style guide?
• Importance of having a brand guide
• Elements of a brand guide
• Janine is sharing a handy questionnaire for your new clients to help you visualize your client’s brand
• Determining your client’s target audience and direct competitors

What Is A Style Guide?

When you first talk to your client, you’re going to want to ask for a brand guide and a style guide.

A style guide is like a policy but if your clients don’t have one they need a questionnaire.

When you receive the brand guide look at it.

But if they don’t have one, let’s help them create one by sending over a questionnaire. This is a template you might want to keep handy because this won’t be the last time you need it. Ask them questions like:

• What are some words to stay away from?
• If your customer was in front of you, what would they look like and how would they act? This will help you visualize the audience
• Who are your direct competitors?

 Why do we want to know their direct competitors? Because, as a writer, you don’t want to cite direct competitors in your work.

Also, take time to look at your client’s past work. Check out the language, the tense, etc. This will help you write directly for that client.

If you want more information and want to start your biz – check out my free download savvynursewriter.com/3questions

Do you have a hard time starting your own freelance writing business because you aren’t sure if it is right for you? Starting on June 12, sign-ups for the upcoming webinar on June 22 at 8 pm EST will be open! I am inviting you to join me on my FREE webinar, 4 Misconceptions About Freelance Writing Businesses Nurses Need to Know by registering on this link: bit.ly/junewebinar2022.

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Lori is joining us today in this episode to share her tips on how to make 10K in 90 days.

About Lori Konkler

Lori is a digital nomad, which means she doesn’t truly have a place to live! She started on the hospitality career path and grew from a wedding planner to a business success coach that helps service-based entrepreneurs who want to leave their 9 to 5 to build profitable and sustainable businesses that will allow them to have the freedom of time and location that they’ve been desiring. She is also a social media strategist and owned a digital marketing agency. 

She loves the flexibility that her job now, and her mission is to help others start their businesses.

After feeling trapped in her own corporate job 7 years ago, she decided that she had enough of building other people’s dreams. She and her husband left their jobs and moved their lives to the Caribbean where they started their entrepreneurial journey. They definitely failed at first but now, 6 years later, they have started 4 successful businesses and they are 100% location-independent living life on our terms. She has made it her mission to help others achieve their own dreams and to do so without stress, without overwhelm, and in a way that is authentic to them.

Value Bombs:

• How to get to 10K in 90 days
• Where her framework of the 10K in 90 days came from
• What the 10K in 90days framework is
• Understanding your Why!
• Set some SMART Goals
• What SMART goals are
• How to set those goals
• Understanding your ideal client
• Understanding the problem you solve
• Build a content strategy
• Build an email list
• Know your worth

RESOURCES MENTIONED: 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xennialtraveler/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorikonkler/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lori.konkler

Professional Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thexennialtraveler

Website: https://thexennialtraveler.com/nomad-business-coach/

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A lot of content writers struggle when it comes to pricing. They are great at what they do but they have the employee mindset. The problem is they don’t go out there and get help in improving their sales and marketing skills because these are different skills that they need to acquire. They have the skill to do the job but they don’t have the skill to sell the service. So, we got Francielle joining us today to give her expert pricing strategies and selling your service.

About Francielle

Today’s guest is Francielle Silva. She was born and raised in Brazil but moved to Canada 8 years ago and worked as a caregiver. She has a lot of experience and built a community on Facebook called the Newbies Copywriters & Content Writers.

She started out as a copywriter last year and she is transitioning into a business coach because she loves helping people and she got some who are requesting her service. She used some strategies that work. Now, she is leveling up by focusing as a business and visibility coach to help her clients stay visible on social media.

Key points we've discussed:

• Pricing strategies without sounding salesy
• Francielle provides a downloadable pricing guide for our Savvy Nurse Writer members
• Get the pricing you deserve without chasing away clients
• Tips for getting testimonials from your clients
• To charge per hour or not

Tips for Pricing your Services

When you charge very low, you are also attracting low-paying clients that will not trust you. High-paying clients pay for their time and they want RESULTS.

It’s important to ask your clients before you charge: what do they want to get from your service?

Don’t charge per hour.

Don’t try to persuade your clients to start off with a service that they don’t have. Just start off with what they want and deliver value.

Don’t just work with start-up companies because they might not sustain the budget to keep working with you all the time. So, it is important to expand your service to established businesses as you grow.

If you keep getting money objections, it’s a red flag for you.

You don’t have to have 10 years of experience to charge a higher rate.

If you want to have consistent clients, you need to be consistent with your business and you need to provide consistent value.

Keep listening to this episode for more tips!

Tips for Getting Testimonials From Your Clients

Send your client a request for a testimonial by answering these 3 essential questions:

1. How are you feeling, what are you struggling with before we start working together?
2. How was working with me?
3. What did you get after working with me? Or what problem did I help you to solve?

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Martha Krejci joins us today to share some great resources to use and  3 things you can do every day to explode your business.

About Martha

Martha Krejci is a high-vibin’ mama, wife, life coach, business-growth strategist, and social media marketing powerhouse who has taken the internet by storm. Featured in Oprah Magazine, Fast Company, Cosmopolitan, Shape, and Huffington Post among other places, Martha’s intuitive marketing expertise has helped her make her first million in less than a year using a strategy she teaches openly through courses, group coaching, and other tried-and-true resources.

From finding your passion to building a business that works, she teaches it all — and it’s all ready and waiting for you. Her new book marthasbook.com is published by the same publisher as the Secret and she’ll be on a reality tv show in 2022!

Key points we’ve discussed:

• Why she teaches families to create multiple income streams from home utilizing stuff they already know
• How to explode your business in 20 mins a day without ads
• 3 things she does every day to take the momentum in her business
• How she figured these three things out
• Business is a common nation with many mini-systems.

3 Things to Do Every Day to Explode Your Business

1. Message 5 people a day

• How CRM can help you with this process
• Kinds of messaging to use
• She shares her secret cheat code!
• How algorithm works

2. Take advantage of the algorithm

At least 3x times a week, we need to be able to post about business-related – something that we’re excited about

Lead group – a group where you invite people to know more about what you do while allowing them to interact; it is where the nurturing of lead happens

Be a good human, and run a business as a good human.

3. Make sure that you have a connector or a bridge to your lead group.

Check out these resources she shared!

1. Grab her free Ultimate Scaling Tool! It’s the perfect tool to make sure you’re scaling your business on YOUR DATA instead of other people’s. Nothing else works, period. You need to know YOUR numbers, and then GROW based on them. The tool makes it easy.
2. Join Heart-Centered + CRUSHING Business and connect with home-based business owners who are scaling too. It’s my new Facebook community where smart home-based business owners learn how to build a sustainable income from home so they can quit their jobs.

Martha recommends using CRM where you can create lead pages – you can try it for a dollar for 45 days – attractwell.com/martha

Top Systems She Used Every Day In Her Business:

• AttractWell for automation, email, and SMS marketing
• Her team – people that do all sorts of different pieces in her business such as PR, writing emails, and content

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Join me and my guest, Deanna Gillingham of The Stay at Home Nurse Podcast, where we provide some tips on how we can spend our time wisely to make more money.

Key points in this episode:

• Time and money are the two resources we value a lot
• You cannot make more time so we have to really be careful with the time we do have.
• Money is an infinite resource; we can always work to get more money.
• We all have the same amount of time but we always hear that we don’t have enough time. But in reality, we do have enough time.
• We always hear “time is money.” Anything you do with your time, you should be making money in the sense of your business.
• Delegating is essential because it allows you to delegate the things that are not important and do the most important that ONLY you can do.
• It’s how we use our time individually that makes us different from somebody else.

Things You Can Delegate In Your Personal Life

1. Laundry
2. Groceries
3. Household chores

Things You Can Delegate In Your Business

1. Writing emails
2. Social media
3. Creating a website
4. Research 

How To Delegate Things To Save Time And Money

1. Delegate the things you hate doing
2. Think of something you can delegate to people who might do it better than you
3. Stuff you don’t know how to do or spending too much time on learning how to do it
4. Writers can also delegate research. There are some who hate research but love writing so delegating can help them focus on what they love to do.

Action Things To Do:

Give time to yourself and try to do the following things:

1. Figure out this week what you’re doing hour to hour to see where your time is doing.
2. Look and see at that time what you hate to do.
3. Delegate.

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Is it nice to think when you can make work a choice instead of a necessity? You do what you want to do because you like it. Investment expert Chris Odegard joins us to share his insights about why 401K sucks and more tips about investing. Listen to this episode because surely,  you’ll NEVER look at your 401K the same way again!

Points To Listen For!

• 401K highway to mediocrity 
• Why alternatives are superior to the stock market
• Ideas to manage our money to get a better return and not work until 70 years old.
• Tips why conventional workers need to have alternative investments
• 5 reasons why 401K sucks
• Bust 5 myths in 401K
• More tips about investing

ABOUT CHRIS ODEGARD

Chris Odegard is an alternative investment blogger and educator and author of Get off Your A$$ and Manage Your Money: Why You Need Alternative Investments. Through his blog at TheProlificInvestor.net and book, Chris shows investors why alternatives are vastly superior to the stock market and the 401K highway to mediocrity.

Get off Your A$$ and Manage Your Money: Why You Need Alternative Investments

A 120-page book that was released in November 2021. He shares all the missteps he made over the last 10+ years to provide tips for people who want to move in a different direction.

Follow Chris on socials!

https://theprolificinvestor.net 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisodegard/ 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QKVP2PeBCbSAxA3GF71jg 

https://www.instagram.com/theprolificinvestor/ 

https://www.facebook.com/TheProlificInvestor 

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Points To Listen For!

• Guesting and how to find a blog to post to
• An opportunity you might want to think about to build a portfolio
• The importance of learning the basics of SEO
• Key points for SEO writing from Janine
• Using a few websites to help build your trustworthiness and thought leadership
• Talking about backlinks
• Tips to keep moving as a writer

 About Helen Ryan
Helen was a freelance health and fitness writer for many years. She was also a health/wellness columnist. 

For a billion years she’s been a creative director, and a fitness pro for almost as long—often at the same time. She lost over 80 pounds naturally 16 years ago and wrote the book, “21 Days to Change Your Body (and Your Life)” to help people lose weight while still eating cake.

She’s the creator of the coached walk/podcast “Walking & Talking with Helen.” She helps people move their bodies while firing up their motivation. Every step counts.

She also helps entrepreneurs grow their businesses using ethical marketing techniques and tech shortcuts so they can save time and focus on their passion.

Reignite Inc. – the nonprofit she founded – aims to help women gain skills to re-enter the workforce. Without modern skills, many women get left behind and cannot find jobs to provide for their families.

In her “off time” she teaches Spinning, photograph bands at concerts, volunteer, and travel.

Three Ways To Get Your Writing Noticed
1. Guest post in as many blogs as you can

 2. Start your own blog to find your voice.

 3. Create credibility for yourself like in the media.

Resource tip: HARO you can help find out what people are looking for.

Her favorite book: Atomic Habits by James Clear

Listen to Helen’s podcast, Walking and Talking with Helen – a walking podcast to get people moving a few minutes a day. She also talks about healthy lifestyle, mental health, and building confidence.

Some of her favorite podcasts:

• Marketing Made Easy Podcast hosted by Amy Porterfield
• Real Unicorns Don’t Wear Pants hosted by Nichole Barker
• How to Fail podcast hosted by Elizabeth Day

 You may also join Helen’s Facebook Group, the Imperfectly Healthy is Your Superpower!

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Other episodes about pitching you may want to check out, too!

• Cold pitching
• Creating a process for your content and pitching
• Pitching strategies
• Stand out as a freelancer when pitching your profile

In this episode, we will tackle three things that will help you pitch to stand out in the sea of pitching to editors.

Episode takeaways:

• Why pitch?
• What is a pitch?
• 3 ways to pitch to editors

 What is a pitch?

A pitch is basically an idea. It is an idea that you tell someone who has a decision-making effort to say “yes.” Those decision-makers are usually editors or marketing managers or someone like them in a company.

3 Ways to Pitch to Editors

Write A Clear Subject Line.
Think about some ways to spruce up your subject line to get your potential client to open it.

Tip: There are some subject line generators out there that you can just Google search to gain more ideas.

Hook Clients On The First Line Of Your Email.
Think about the reader, too. What would you like to read about?

Personalize It.
You can have a template. You do want to do some work on pitching. That shows that you’ve done your research about the company and that you care about what the readers want to read about.

Bonus tipsKeep your pitch short and concise and the body of your pitch should be about 2-3 sentences or bullet points.

Follow-up. The fortune is in the follow-up. If you follow up with your potential clients, you are likely to get a response.

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When I started as a writer, I had no idea I needed an editor. So, when I submitted my first pieces, the red line go lower. Talk about imposter syndrome; it really lifts up when I was like “maybe writing is not for me.” But really, I needed an editor and every writer does.

Points to listen for!

• How to become a better self-editor
• Janine shares some tools that you can use for editing
• Janine would do her self-editing first, read out loud, and use her tools before sending it to the editor and then finally, send it to the client.
• How to hire editors and how they can help you
• Who can you use as an editor

 Editing Tools

• Grammarly
• Hemingway App
• Pro Writer
• Microsoft Word

 Pro Tips To Consider Before Hiring An Editor

Read your blog out loud. It will help see where you need to add the punctuation or remove things that don’t make sense.

If you have somebody in your life whom you know a good writer, or even a good reader, don’t hesitate to ask for feedback. Or, read the blog over before submitting it to your client.

When I hired my first editor, she was so helpful. It was worth it for me to hire someone to edit my work for my anxiety level so I won’t be getting these red lines.

Looking To Write For The Savvy Nurse Writer Job Boards?

If you want to write for our job boards, I have vetted editors there. Your work will always be edited before we send it to the client. I also suggest that you always look at the edits that they do even if it’s from a high-quality editor because you will learn from it and it will help you become a better writer.

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