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If you're worried that you need to use hard sales tactics or be an uber businessperson, to become a freelance health writer, you're going to be shocked at how low the bar to entry actually is in thi...
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What is the best, easiest and most creative way for a nurse to make extra dollars? Pick up extra shifts? Join an MLM company? Open an Etsy shop to sell handicrafts? Nope, nope, and nope.
The best s...
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See if this sounds familiar....
You launched your freelance writing business, and then, suddenly, life intervened. Weeks have gone by, and you haven't been able to work on your business at all. How ...
Lately, we’ve been fielding a lot of questions in our coaching sessions regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI)- based writing apps like ChatGPT.
“Should I even bother pursuing freelance writing?” some nurses wonder. “Isn’t AI going to take all the jobs away?”
Let me tell you why AI is never going to...
Many nurses email me to ask if they have what it takes to become a freelance writer. And many of them seem shocked when I explain exactly how low the barrier to entry is in this profession.
In my opinion, you need to have a rudimentary understanding of these three things to launch a writing business...
I must be big on “vetting,” because over the past year I’ve blogged about how to vet a publishing opportunity and how to vet writing courses and programs. I think this indicates I believe in healthy skepticism as a freelance writer – and that’s not a bad trait for you to cultivate, either.
When I wa...
When I decided to go into courses and coaching, the very first course I developed was called “Health Journalism Basics for Nurses.” Why? Because I think health reporting makes the most natural entry point for nurses interested in pursuing a writing career.
Consumer Health Journalism = Patient Educat...
When the issue of performing “research” to write health articles or content assets arises with nurses exploring a writing career, many of them express reluctance because they recall the arduous academic research processes they had to employ to write their nursing school papers. In today’s post, I wa...
People ask the BEST questions in the group coaching sessions! I just love the creative queries nurses come up with as they work at transitioning to freelance writing.
A couple of weeks ago, a nurse in the group asked, “When do you pay the sources you interview?”
And the hair on the back of my neck s...
I’ve talked about sending Letters of Introduction (LOIs) many times in my coaching sessions, but then I realized I didn’t actually have a blog post that discusses exactly what these prospecting tools are or how to write them. Derp.
So I thought I should go over that.
Cold LOI vs Warm LOI
When I talk...
