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Today, we are talking about the power of community. If you are in our community over our Savvy Nurse Writer Community or even in our paid membership community, you might be feeling the same awesome things that I will share with you today. We will be talking about the power of community, the community that I am currently part of, and what I learned from them. 

What is Online Community 

Right now, I am talking mostly just about online communities. Of course, there are a lot of communities outside online, and you may be thinking about your local community now. They could be a group you are a part of or a group where you volunteer. In this episode, our main focus is specifically on communities related to business because that’s why we are here. 

Let me share the quote, “it’s not what you know, but who you know.” 

These words keep coming back to my mind over and over again. Those of you out there who might be in the Facebook Group, or maybe you’ve listened to my podcast for years now, or you’re just quiet, I can say that I am one of those people. I, by nature, am more of an introverted person, too, but you would maybe say that I am not. So now, let me tell you the kind of introverted person I am. 

Quotes keep getting me out there. 

• I’m An Introvert Unless I’m A Specialist. 

I am an introvert because if I am in a big group of people, I’m not going to say anything. But if I am an expert in my field, for example, labor and delivery, and I am with a small group, I will share my opinion and talk about things I believe are relevant. 

The other thing that stands out to me where I am NOT an introvert is when it comes to patient safety and nurse advocacy. Because there are so many times that I’ve had to go to my superiors or talk to my fellow nurses, and I don’t feel nervous because I am so passionate about it. 

That is also why I have a flock of community, and I usually go on Facebook Live and talk to many of you in the group. I talk to many nurses to help them build their writing businesses, and my introvert (ness) just goes away because I am a specialist and passionate in this field.

• I Don’t Thrive With A Lot Of People, But Close-Knit Groups. 

I think everyone needs a certain mentor in their lives. So, if you don’t have a coach, I think you need one if you have a business. 

•  The Closer I Get To Others, The More I Want To Be There 

This is the same thing in our Facebook Group: you start to resonate with another nurse who’s maybe in your field and guess what, there’s a power in that connection, and you can grow together. 

What are three things I get from the communities I belong to? 

Motivation

I need it sometimes. They push me to show up even on those days I don’t want to. 

Referrals/Jobs/Gigs Etc.

Never underestimate the power of connection. Do you ever meet someone who knows your uncle? I believe in those 7 degrees of separation theory. If you meet someone in your community, you can help each other grow your businesses. 

Bond With Like-Minded People, Especially In These Times.

It’s just like a community effort to grow one another, and if you get a part of a community, be involved in it because it will pay off and help you. 

If you are not a part of our Savvy Nurse Writer Community on Facebook, come and join us! It’s a gated community but get in there if you are serious about growing your health writing business. And then, if I am going to launch our course again, get in there! It’s a paid side of the group, but you’ll get so many benefits and ideas if we talk about things like pricing, contracts, website design, and many more. 

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In this episode, I’d love to answer this question: what should you be doing every day to become a better writer?

So, what kind of tip can I share that you might didn’t know yet?

You might know the answer, or you might not. Of course, this tip will determine your success as a writer. I’ve seen this way too much over the years of being a writer.

The daily habit that determines the most success as a writer is to READ and WRITE every single day.

Back in my day, I was not a reader. I didn’t like to read nor know the best edition. I wasn’t even the fastest reader growing up and I struggled in English class. I just always think a little bit differently from other typical learners. I just always want to study for my grades so it was always hard for me.

Reading was not fun for me and so I always struggle. Then, I took up nursing and all we did was read. But I wasn’t enjoying it because it was all about medical stuff. I feel like I was only reading to pass the test. I never even finished the book that I enjoyed. That time, I wasn’t also pushed to do it, so I don’t want to do it.

What I Did To Become A Better Writer

But nowadays, I’m a completely different person. I have that mindset that if you don’t like reading, you just have to find a good book. There’s a book for everybody out there.

Every writer I spoke to in my podcast, whether writer or not, I asked them for their favorite book. And a lot of them say, there are so many. That’s because they love to consume the content. They love to read. And it makes them better writers.

Does that mean I sit down every single day to open a book? Nope. But I’ll tell you I open my audiobook every day. Or I listen to something engaging like this.

I challenge you to download this free app called Goodreads. Make a book list, fiction and non-fiction, and try your best to read at least 20 minutes per day. Take a walk. Cook dinner. Fold the laundry and listen. And you will become a better writer.

The more we listen to the language, the more we hear description words, and we start to put them into our writing. So every day, you should be writing. If you’re writing just to write, and you didn’t know where you’re going, just write. Get that creativity and expression out of whatever you’re writing. 

Do what makes you happy. Write what makes you feel good and you’ll become a better writer because of it. 

Welcome to the Savvy Scribe Podcast, I'm so glad you're here! Before we start the show, if you're interested, we have a free Facebook group called "Savvy Nurse Writer Community"

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Today, I have Kelly Harris, owner of Virtual Solutions, LLC. She is a copywriter, a content strategist who helps coaches create consistency and visibility. Connect with Kelly and she will articulate your greatness, increase your sales, and get your message to the world.

How She Started Her Business
Kelly was a kindergarten teacher for 8 years. She loves teaching. She has always known since she went into teaching that she wanted to do it for 10 years. She never saw herself retiring because she knew early in her first years of teaching, she have met older teachers and all of them have medical problems. She then started researching work-from-home jobs where she could babysit while doing what she loves to do and helping people.

She then came across the free mama movement of Lauren Golden, who teaches moms how to be virtual assistants. She thought that she can also do that because she checked emails all the time, she makes newsletters for parents, and do data all the time and so that’s how she started.

She built her virtual assistance business in December 2020. About February last year, she and her husband have some stuff to do with the boy scout, and they had to write something. His husband is just like he want something or he didn’t know what to do. She just sat down and started writing the words she heard from her husband. And then, she handed down the notes to her husband with all the things he said. He then decided to use it as a ticket for wood badge. With a wood badge, to do leadership, you have to pick 5 goals and you have a year and a half to do them. And she literally wrote his ticket based on what he was talking about.

That was a memorable moment for her because she realized that she loves to write. From that point in time, from being just a virtual assistant, she wants to pursue becoming a copywriter and content strategist. She also knew that her calling is to help people build a relationship.

Just because you are scared, you do it anyway. Do it because you know it’s the next right step.

There are days that you’ll feel that your move is scary. There are also days that what you did was a terrible plan. But you keep moving forward because that’s what you CAN do.

“Fail” means attempts and learnings. If you are learning something from it, then you really fail. As a business owner, fail faster. That’s because you have to have the lessons before you can be successful. You need to have this experience to get through with it. Fail faster because that’s one step closer to success.

3 Tips to Improve Your Writing and Build Confidence

1. Do a journal every day. She sets a 15-20 minute timer to write down things that are bothering her, things that she needs to get done, and things that she has questions about life. She also makes sure that every day, she lists down the top 5 things she is grateful for. This will help you focus on your goals.

2. Outline. The process may work for others but not for you. You have to figure out the system that will work for you.

3. Build confidence and confidence comes from taking enthusiasm. When you write, you can always go back to it to edit it later or fix the typo. Stop waiting until it’s perfect because it’s not going to be perfect. Perfect doesn’t exist and so you just have to write it and if you get stuck into perfection, just let it go.

Find topics that you absolutely love to write about. It’s totally okay to write about them over and over again. Be okay if your message only reaches one person. If you serve one person every day, then you reach your goal. If you serve more people every day, then absolutely, do it!

Welcome to the Savvy Scribe Podcast, I'm so glad you're here! Before we start the show, if you're interested, we have a free Facebook group called "Savvy Nurse Writer Community"

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How fast can you grow? How do you grow? What is growth?

As we dive into this topic, I want you to really think of what “growth” really means. Does it mean a broader income? Or growth in your skills? Because you can do both and you need to focus on one to grow the other.

The cool thing about freelancing is that you can grow as big as you want. If you’re an employee, you get the same number of income doing things at the same number of hours but it’s going to make you stuck.

In freelancing, you can grow, grow, and grow if you wanted to.

Other Means To Make Your Business Grow

You can also grow in your skillset. As a freelancer, you can always grow your skillset in every area of writing, or you can specialize in one area over another to have a little more in your pocket with the services that you can offer.

On the employee side, you can’t. You get stuck at the bedside. Unless you’re in a leadership role or whatever but really you can’t grow your skillset like you can as a writer.

Two Types of Growth

1. Growth in income
2. Growth in skill

How can you start to grow?

The biggest thing that was harder for me to make my business grow was to delegate. Delegation is something we need to start getting comfortable with. As a bedside nurse, I hate delegating because if I can do it myself, then I want to do it myself. I do not want to say I need help, but I also do want to say do something for me.

When it comes to freelancing, there are things that you have to delegate.

1. Personal Life

I talked about time in one of my episodes about how to make the best of 168 hours in a week. We are all given the same amount of time but we need to be mindful of what we do in those hours.

2. Business

Things You Can Delegate In Your Personal Life:

• Groceries – I delegate this to Instacart and Walmart.
• I do meal plans because I like to cook for my two boys and you can even do that on subscription boxes for food.
• Cleaning the house
• Hire a babysitter
• Hire a tutor

Whatever makes your life easier, and gives you more time to spend to make your business grow, then do it.

Things You Can Delegate In Your Business

• Social media management
• Website building
• Researching leads or lead generation
• Hire someone to do the pitching for you

One of our course graduates who have made her writing business grow is Julie Scott. She made 6-figures in her first year. She started her first two articles at $500 and keep pitching and going.

Time is going to help you grow. You have to keep nourishing your business. You have to keep pitching to clients. Do the repeat cycle that we also do inside our membership. If you go to the Plan, Produce, Profit course, you’ll see that there’s a repeat that we do on client onboarding, signing a contract, and other things to help your business grow.

Jump into the Savvy Nurse Writer Membership Community on Facebook and tell me that one thing that you did to grow your business. I guarantee it’s going to save you time!

Welcome to the Savvy Scribe Podcast, I'm so glad you're here! Before we start the show, if you're interested, we have a free Facebook group called "Savvy Nurse Writer Community"

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One of our Savvy Nurse writers and founder of the Networth Nurse, Savannah Arroyo, is here with us today to share with us some insights about investing for nurses. She built the Networth Nurse to 3 different pillars: personal finance, career growth, and real estate where she is helping nurses by sharing resources and tools to help them grow in nursing and grow their wealth.

About Savannah

She was in high school when she realized her love for nursing and by that time, knew that she is ready to go to college. Right after she graduated with a nursing degree, she worked with a couple of different specialties but she was naturally drawn towards a leadership position that was taking on processes and improvement. So, she ended up going back to school and got her Master’s Degree in Nursing Leadership and Administration, works in a couple of different specialties, and relocated to Los Angeles, California.

Her recent administration position is becoming an Assistant Nurse Manager. Then, at the beginning of 2020, she started investing in real estate. In October 2021, she was able to step down from her full-time RN job, and now she worked per diem in the pre-op department which she loves! She loves talking to doctors, she loves nursing, so she is not into giving it up entirely.

Tips to Start Investing for Nurses and Beginners in Real Estate

If you want to invest in real estate but are not sure about the process, you really have to educate yourself. You have to learn how to run numbers and how to analyze deals. They also listened to podcasts, read books and watch YouTube videos where people share their strategies on how to analyze properties.

Some examples of great podcasts to listen to start investing for nurses:

BiggerPockets Podcast – it is one of the best podcasts for beginners in real estate. They have a ton of books as well. So if you really don’t know where to start and want to get motivated, try listening to podcasts and reading books because it is where people from all walks of life (and so can nurses) and different professional backgrounds share their strategies. It will teach you how to learn the language in real estate.

Skills That Nurses Already Have That They Can Use In Real Estate:

1. Organizational skills
2. Time management
3. Prioritization

Financial Advice For Nurses

Your starting point should always be education. Start with educating yourself about your current finances and how you can grow wealth.

Understand where you’re at in your journey, have a really good sight into your finances, and know what you can really do in the future and how you can use that now to build wealth through different investment strategies.

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Whether you’re juggling freelancing and family life or just trying to make ends meet with one job while doing occasional work as a writer for other outlets – it can be hard not knowing where all the time goes! But there’s no need to worry because we’ve rounded up tips from some of today’s top freelance writers about getting organized.

This post is packed with tips, strategies, and resources to getting organized as a freelance writer. Whether it’s time to check out the latest hacks or want some motivation from other hustlers in your industry – there are things for every freelancer here!

Getting Organized Using Resources and Tools for Your Writing Projects

The first one I have for you is called HoneyBook. This will help you in getting organized with writing projects because it helps you stay on track with clients. It helps you organize your discovery calls write notes have contracts proposals and everything in one space. It also that your email to client back-and-forth and develop a Client portal so you can keep everything organized. You don’t have to remember how long their articles are supposed to be. You just have to go to the patient portal and look at your proposal that they agreed to so that you can get your article right every single time.

The second tool I have in love is ClickUp. This platform keeps my clients organize and deliverables prioritized so that I always deliver before the deadline. ClickUp also lets you email from its platform, and connect to Google docs so that you can work directly inside ClickUp 24/7.

The last two I’ll give you to keep your writing projects soundtrack is using the Pomodoro timer. You’ve heard me talk about it before and it helps you stay focused on writing projects and helps you bounce back in between projects if you need to with a fresh burn each time.

More tips for managing your schedule

Set realistic deadlines and stick to them!

Clients will always want their assignments quickly. Make sure in your mind you have enough time on your plate to decipher what a good deadline is. If you work in the next three days in a row and your client wants an assignment done within the next five days you might want to take a look at that assignment and play it out if you could get it done in time. The last thing you want is to rush a client deadline because you were rushed. A client would rather have a nice product delivered a little over a deadline than I have a rush and deliver them junk.

Love to hear more tips on getting organized? Try these tools and strategies to help you successfully work remotely and even become more productive than ever before!

Welcome to the Savvy Scribe Podcast, I'm so glad you're here! Before we start the show, if you're interested, we have a free Facebook group called "Savvy Nurse Writer Community"

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Freelance remote work allows us to live and work on our terms. With the right tools and strategies, we can successfully work remotely and even become more productive than ever before.

The freelance remote work trend is growing. There are more opportunities for people to live and work on their terms. What’s a freelancer to do? How can we be successful working remotely and become even more productive than ever before? There are tools for that! Here are 10 of the best tools for any remote worker, but specifically the freelance writer.

1. Some Sort of Project Management Tool
2. You Need A CRM
3. You Need A Space To Hold Things
4. You Need To Have Something To Schedule Client Calls
5. You Need A Tool To Meet Your Clients Virtually
6. You Need To Have A Grammar Checker/Proofreader
7. You Need To Have A Planner
8. You Have To Have A Way To Organize Emails
9. You Need To Have A Social Media Check-In
10. You Need To Have Good Reads

Listen in for an episode full of insights and information you shouldn't miss!

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Welcome to the Savvy Scribe Podcast, I'm so glad you're here! Before we start the show, if you're interested, we have a free Facebook group called "Savvy Nurse Writer Community"

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Joining us today is an expert on Linkedin, his name is Daniel Alfon and he is the author of How to Build a LinkedIn Profile for Business Success. He joined LinkedIn in the early 2000 and 2004 to be exact and publishes articles, and exclusive content about advancing LinkedIn strategies to clients and subscribers on his website.

He started as a marketing professional at one point he found at LinkedIn, helped me cut my cell cycle, and he tried to understand what’s under the hood and since then he started, helping his friends, and those friends became entrepreneurs themselves.

Who presents our ideal client?

Registered nurses could think about their ideal client working in a healthcare or biotech firm. The title of that person could change, it could be in some companies, the marketing communication manager, the market manager could be a product manager would be in other companies, some different titles, but that person is the most important. One that we need to think about is how we can help or serve them and what terms would they use when they think about the services that registered nurses could provide such as writing and editing and providing the content. 

What action would we like that person to perform once they have looked at our profile?

The answer should be for them to reach out to schedule the call or zoom call to get some samples or to try and work on a simple gig that would make us understand if the writing you provide is relevant for them.

If you’re looking at your profile as an ideal client, who knows nothing about us, would you feel compelled to stop and say I need to speak with that person?

The profile should speak for itself. It has to provide the answers to clients. You should make it as easy as possible for them to understand what services you offer. Because if it’s not interesting in the first two or three seconds, many clients will simply go away and do something else. You need to attract them.

Closing the Gap

Before bridging the gap you need to visualize your ideal clients. We want them to reach out to us easily when they understand that the services we provide could be relevant for them.

The first suggestion about keywords –  write a list of 50 to 70 keywords, we think our prospects would use. So maybe they’ll use the term doctor or hospital or clinic, or medical, etc., really to build a long list of terms. Whatever we think could be terms relevant for us. The next step would be to try to make it short. The most important point to remember is that LinkedIn searches search across the whole profile, starting from the headline, back to the About section, Introduction, Experience section, the Education or Courses, and even Skills. Everything is indexed.

Additional LinkedIn Strategies to Consider

We need to understand not only the specific terms but also the way our clients think and once we have that list and we’ve made sure that some terms are already known all we have to do is look at the remaining terms and ask ourselves out if those terms are incorporated smartly somewhere in our profile at least once. Anywhere from the Skills to the Experience section.

Look at your profile and improve it like a website. Even if you don’t own a website, you can think about your LinkedIn profile as a website that should convert your ideal reader into wanting to learn more about you and reach out.

Connect with Dan:

https://www.danielalfon.com/about/

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The most successful writers have a strict morning routine that is integral to their success. They wake up and immediately set out for a walk, take time to read and write and observe silence to prepare for writing. It’s important to stay consistent with your daily habit if you want to have your business recognized.

A morning routine is not a cookie-cutter type of thing. I’ve learned that over the many years of having a freelance business and from the seasons of life that I have gone through. I noticed in all successful writers, business owners, and people in this remote space, wake up and do something special every single day. They go out for a walk, take time to read, meditate, they write a journal and it’s important that they stay consistent with it because that is how their business grows.

Let me share what I’ve done but let me show you what I’ve done in the past and then what I do now.

What does a morning routine consist of for successful writers?

Morning routines are heard of and always been a successful freelancer. But your morning routine should work for you. For now, my morning routine consists of getting up early and working 1 to 2 hours before my family get up. After they get up I do my household chores get the kids ready for school and enjoy your quiet morning with them. After they go to school I stick in my gym time and then I come home and work until they get home from school. My morning routine always consists of a cup of coffee and good hydration. I always have to have water by my desk so I stay hydrated throughout the day. But I always try to keep in my morning routine some sort of exercise quality good foods and concentration I’m at work when I need to concentrate on work and country in my family when I need to concentrate on my family.

The importance of consistency in your writing and business habits

Consistency is important especially when you attend to wake up early. You also have to find out what is your most productive time of day. Consistency is key though. It’s easy to sleep in, it’s easy not to work out, it’s easy to work when I want to. But none of this will keep you growing.

Now, mind you, I’ve already been up for probably six hours instead still not starving to death. Sometimes if I feel a little foggy, I will eat. I sometimes put on music. I may put on some focus music just to help myself stay in the moment and set a timer for a Pomodoro method, which I talked about in other episodes. 

How to stay consistent with your daily habit, even when you’re traveling or on vacation

This is one of the hardest things to do because many times for more traveling for up late. It’s hard for me to wake up early if I’m up late the night before. In those times, I do prioritize my sleep. The best thing I can tell you for this is to get back on track ASAP when we go to Florida for that week, I get up early every day except on the weekends when we’re out later. But try to stick to your schedule as much as you possibly can to be your best.

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