Replace Your Full-Time Income with Freelance Grant Writing

This episode, Holly Rustick explains how to earn more as a freelance grant writer, how long it takes to learn how to write a grant template, and how to get feedback on your grants. 

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

Holly explains how you can replace your full time income with a part time role writing grants, the ways a programme can help with your grant writing process, and how to ethically raise your grant writing revenue. 

She also talks about the common objections nonprofits have when hiring freelance grant writers, ethical sales strategies that grant writers can use, and how to do value based pricing.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• The ways a programme can help with your grant writing process.
• How to ethically raise your revenue with freelance grant writing. 
• How to replace your full time income with a part time role writing grants. 
• The amount of time it takes to learn how to write a grant template. 
• Using AI to write grant applications. 
• Finding your unique industry concept. 
• How to get feedback on your grants. 
• Ethical sales strategies that work for introverts. 
• Strategies on how to do value based pricing. 
• Common objections nonprofits have when hiring freelance grant writers. 

About Holly Rustick

Holly Rustick is a world-renowned grant writing expert and Amazon bestselling author.

Holly has been coaching grant writers how to run successful 5-6 figure businesses since 2017.

With two decades of grant writing and nonprofit experience, Holly is a popular keynote speaker for events all over the world, podcast host of the Top-Ranked Grant Writing podcast, a former university instructor, and is past president of the Guam Women’s Chamber of Commerce. She is constantly booked out to run trainings to help grant writers grow capacity, increase funding, and advance mission. 

Connect with Holly Rustick:

• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Freelance Grant Writer Academy

Quotables:

• “You can earn more money than working a regular job, you can work anywhere, and you can also create amazing change in the world and bring meaning to your life.”
• “Once you get clear on your unique industry concept everything falls into place.”
• “It’s amazing to see how many people in the program are quickly quitting their jobs because they are able to get booked out with clients.”

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Register for the Free Webinar, Jan. 10th, 2024 “Quit Your Toxic Nonprofit Job and Replace Your Income with Freelance Grant Writing” Click here
• Get a Free Book in December!
• Join the Waitlist for the Freelance Grant Writer Academy. Click here.
• Quit Your Toxic Nonprofit Job: The Power of Freelance Grant Writing for Financial Freedom
• The Real ROI of Grant Writing
• Growing your Nonprofit Consultancy Practice

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