Treat Your 9-5 as Your Anchor Client as a Freelance Grant Writer
This episode, Holly Rustick explains the difference between a job and an anchor client, how to become a freelance grant writer while maintaining a full-time job, and how you should treat your job while starting your own business
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 explains the mindset freelance grant writers need to have, why you should treat your 9-5 job as an anchor client, and how to eventually transition from being their employee to a freelancer who works for them.
She also talks about the different strategies you can use to reposition yourself as a freelance grant writer, how to improve your relationship with a nonprofit, and how to transition from a job to freelance grant writing without any risk.
Listeners are invited to sign up for a free webinar, “Replace Your Full-Time Income, on Flexible Hours, by Writing High-Quality Grants Fast” on Tuesday, April 30th at 4pm – 5:30 pm EST where Holly will delve deeper into the strategies for creating a full-time income on flexible hours as a grant writer.
Register for the FREE Webinar, “Replace Your Full-Time Income, on Flexible Hours, by Writing High-Quality Grants Fast” on Tuesday, April 30th at 4pm – 5:30 pm EST: grantwritingandfunding.com/freelance-webinar.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- How to treat your 9-5 job as an anchor client.
- How to become a freelance grant writer if you have a full-time job.
- The mindset freelance grant writers need to have.
- Strategies to reposition yourself as a freelance grant writer.
- The difference between a job and an anchor client.
- How you should treat your job while starting your own business.
- How to move from an organization’s employee to their freelancer.
- How to transition from a job to freelance grant writing without the risk.
The Freelance Grant Writer Academy is a 12-Month Group Coaching Program, where you will join 100+ new and aspiring grant writers and Replace Your Full-Time Income, on Flexible Hours, by Writing Grants from Home.
The Investment is one payment of $2,500 (2 months free + a 30-minute private coaching call) or 12 monthly payments of $250.
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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.
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Quotables:
- “When you treat your 9-5 as your anchor client instead of your financial stability many things change for good.”
- “As soon as we start thinking of them as a client instead of an employer we have to start doing some strategy.”
- “Even if you work at a toxic nonprofit or have a toxic client, we will eventually transition them out. But for now, they’re your anchor client, it’s cash flow and while you have that cash flow coming in it gives you the capability to onboard other clients that would be a better fit.”
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- In the free webinar “Replace Your Full-Time Income, on Flexible Hours, by Writing High-Quality Grants Quickly” you will know how you can make a grant writing business work for you. The webinar will take place on Tuesday, April 30th at 4 pm EST. https://grantwritingandfunding.com/freelance-webinar
- Toggl Track
- Freelance Grant Writer Academy
- Transitioning to Freelance Grant Writing: Building Your Business Gradually
- Replace Full-Time Income on Flexible Hours as a Freelance Grant Writer
- Doubling Clients and Cutting Hours: Dr. Lauren’s $500K Grant Writing Journey inside the Academy
- Grant Easy Management Software
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