All Posts in Category: Business Coaching for Writers
Business Planning Doesn’t Work for Creatives (or Anyone Really). Here’s What to Do Instead
How do you usually approach planning for your business—either the big picture or the more short-term goals?
Not Joking: We’ve Developed an Evidence-Based Method to Help You Get Clear on Any and Every Business Problem
I’ve noticed something insidious happening with creative small business owners for some time now.
Personally, I think it started to pick up around 2018 or 2019. Mind you, this was before generative AI and even before TikTok was such a thing. And way before the pandemic shook up others working from home and kids’ schedules. But, it was still a time filled with social media’s siren call, email overload, and a constant onslaught of “must-read” content begging for attention.
I Want You to Experience Coaching So Much I Fought with My Business Manager About It!
What I love about–the reason I have spent a significant amount of money (five figures for real certified training!) and time (I’ve logged more than 600 paid coaching hours in addition to hundreds more hours of unpaid training–that it is THE way to actually ensure people get results.
Use This Coupon for $100 Off The Classes You Need to Build the Most Critical Foundations of Your Writing Business
You are a business.
But how does entrepreneurship really works in such a small scale? Especially with an inherently service-based businesses?
Your $100 Coupon Can Also Get You More Free Trips This Year
If you are new to travel writing, I bet there’s one thing that you feel would demarcate your successful entry into this world: scoring a spot on a free press trip.
If this is one of your goals right now, I’ve got great news for you:
Setting up free trips as a travel writer is dead simple.
Learn How to Write All the Travel Articles with Your $100 Coupon
I’ve always been frustrated by how most travel writing programs approach this.
Not only do they typically forgo giving you a systematic (and thus tried-and-true and efficient!) method to writing an article, if they give you any specific “training” on writing pieces, it often goes something like this:
Learn How to Perfect Your Pitches with Your $100 Coupon
If you’ve thought to yourself lately: “I’ve got to get serious if I’m going to make sure my magazine writing career takes off,” then this one is for you.
We talk a lot about how proactive pitching–cold, to editors you have no relationship with–is the way to make your travel writing career rise by leaps and bounds quickly.
Plan to Get Serious About Your Business Right Now with Your $100 Coupon
When I first started freelance travel writing, there were no websites dedicated to the business side of the travel writer’s life.
And there were only a handful of solid sources on creating a stable income as a freelance writer.
Most people simply thought it couldn’t be done, and the ones out there doing it were too busy working for their clients and living awesome freelance lives to tell the rest of us how to do it!
We Want to Help You with Exactly What You Need. Will You Let Us?
Just this week, I had a coaching call with someone who has someone working for her who is not meeting her expectations.
Has this happened to you? Perhaps with a client? Or even a spouse or a friend?
And We’re Back
In 2015, when I was first working on what would become Dream of Travel Writing, I had a surprising discussion with the head of one of the main conferences for travel content creators about how much I was paid to write blog posts for my tour company clients.