From Side Hustle to Success: How She Tripled her Grant Writing Income in 6 Months with Tri-Cord Visionaries Jill Turner

Jill Turner explains how to make writing grants a full-time job, the benefits of having systems in your grant writing, and how to properly price your grant writing services.

Jill Turner was based in northern Idaho and got into grant writing after being asked to help some friends while in grad school.

After writing grants as a side hustle, Jill turned it into a full-time business in less than a year, tripling her income and working with clients nationally and internationally.

Jill joins us to discuss how she turned writing grants into a full-time job, the importance of having systems in your grant writing, and how to properly price your grant writing services.

She also explains how The Grant Writing Academy helped her scale her business, the ways to manage your time to maintain a work-life balance, and how charging more for your services can actually help you win more clients.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• How to move from writing grants as a side hustle to a full-time job.
• The importance of having systems in your grant writing.
• The benefits of writing grants in a systematic way.
• How to start a freelance grant writing business.
• How to price your grant writing services.
• The importance of understanding the market and adjusting prices accordingly for different states and international clients. 
• Why charging too little for your services can make you less competitive.
• How to schedule your time to maintain a work-life balance.
• What you need to scale your grant writing business.

About Jill Turner:

Jill Turner of Tri-Cord Visionaries

Jill Turner is CEO of Tri-Cord Visionaries and is a highly skilled professional specializing in non-profit funding consultation, strategic planning facilitation, and funding expertise. With a focus on donor optimization, grants research, and grant writing, Jill has a proven track record of success in securing vital resources for organizations.

Jill Turner is a passionate professional who excels in non-profit funding consultation, strategic planning facilitation, and grant acquisition. With her expertise and commitment to collaboration, she empowers organizations to make a lasting impact on the world.

Quotables:

• “Grant writing is no longer a side hustle it has more than tripled my bottom line, this is my job now and I love coming to work every day, and I get to hear about people, what they’re passionate about, and the difference they’re making in the world, and I get to do my research and my writing, and I get to partner them.”
• “Work didn’t have to dominate everything because I had a scheduled system in place and those systems enable me to do what I do now because they were established and I’ve written the framework, I may update them but I’m not reinventing the wheel anymore I have templates for everything.”
• “Know your systems, know how to write your smart objectives, follow through with it. The other stuff is like frosting, it might be pretty but it’s not absolutely necessary.”

Connect with Jill:

• LinkedIn

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Freelance Grant Writer Academy