This episode, Holly Rustick explains how freelance grant writers can get nonprofit clients, improve their grant writing skills, and get feedback on the grants they’ve written.

Holly Rustick is a world-renowned grant writing expert and Amazon bestselling author who has been coaching grant writers on how to run successful 5-6 figure businesses since 2017. 

Holly talks about the ways to write a grant, the amount of demand there is for freelance grant writers, and the best way to structure a grant writing sales call.

She also explains how to improve your grant writing process, increase your sales confidence, and get unlimited grant reviews.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• How to get nonprofit clients as a freelance grant writer.
• Ways to easily write a grant.
• The challenges of competing with a global job market.
• The competition among freelance grant writers.
• The amount of demand there is for freelance grant writers.
• How to improve your freelance grant writing skills.
• How to get feedback on grants you’ve written.
• Ways to improve your sales confidence.
• The best way to structure a grant writing sales call.
• How to improve your freelance grant writing business.

Quotables:

• “Freelance grant writing is not a saturated industry and it is easy to succeed as a freelance grant writer.”
• “When you schedule out a discovery sales call, have your policies there but also have some specific questions that are required for them to fill out before they book your time.”
• “All you need to do is learn your skill and learn sales, it doesn’t have to be hard. There are over 1.5 million nonprofits in the US alone, the market is not saturated.”

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Freelance Grant Writer Academy
• Replace Full-Time Income on Flexible Hours as a Freelance Grant Writer
• A Master Grant Template Application: How it Reduces Your Grant Writing Time & Why Every Grant Writer Needs to Write One
• How Tiffany is Quitting Her Full-Time Job Early with Freelance Grant Writing
• Doubling Clients and Cutting Hours: Dr. Lauren’s $500K Grant Writing Journey inside the Academy
• Grant Easy Management Software

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