Do you consistently follow-up with your clients? If NOT, you are losing a LOT of business! Once you finish a project with a client you NEED to check in and follow-up with them SEVERAL TIMES. The first time is within a week of the projects completion. And then, depending on how big the project was, […]
You Never Know When You Will Meet Your Next Client
Maybe it will be the gal standing next to you at the car wash, or a friend of your Auntie! I am a firm believer in synchronicity and in the idea that the universe (or whatever God you happen to subscribe to) is constantly giving me helpful nudges … and all I have to do […]
He Changed My Entire Life With ONE Sentence!
That’s all it took to know what I wanted and needed to do for the rest of my life. His name was Dr. Edward Norbeck ( 1915- 1991) I was in my first year of university and because my Mom had just finished getting her Masters degree I knew a little secret that most university […]
If You Want Your Business To Fail — Go Ahead And Take These Things For Granted!
When things are going well, we start getting complacent and start assuming that everything humming along in the background is working flawlessly. Then Wakeup call You go to turn on your laptop in the morning ready to prep for a client meeting and a full day of work. Your laptop just sits there doing nothing. […]
Your Marketing Plan is a Road Map to Building and Sustaining Your Freelance Writing Business
On the day AFTER Christmas, smart and savvy freelancers, entrepreneurs, and marketing agencies start gearing up for NEXT years Black Friday and Christmas promotions. Some of them are actually looking five to ten years in the future. That’s ONE end of the marketing spectrum. These are the authors and self-publishers I see steadily growing their […]
How To Build A Recession Proof Grant Writing Business
. Build a Recession Proof Grant Writing Business. Make up to $250K as a freelancer OR more, when you start your own Grant Writing Agency. . Professional Grant Writers develop and write grant proposals and requests-for-funds on behalf of various organizations and individuals. Grant proposals range from filling out very simple 2 or 3 page […]
The Proposal Kit — An EASY Way to Write Proposals
The one thing almost guaranteed to put a BIG grimace onto the face of business owners, large and small is having to write a proposal. There IS a solution! Image courtesy of caio_triana on Pixabay. Businesses, from one-person freelancing services to HUGE engineering and construction firms have to write proposals in order to get […]
I Went Looking For a Fight and Ended Up With a $30K Writing Contract
Image courtesy of TheDigitalArtist My upstairs neighbor was making far too much noise. I was ready for a knock down match — not a $30K writing contract. When I moved to Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada, I thought my path there had already been fully charted. After living in my new condo for about a month, all […]