Ep. 219: How Much Time to Spend Working In vs. On Your Business

Grant Writing & Funding

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Finding out how much time to spend working in your businesses vs. on your business can be overwhelming. Even the most seasoned nonprofit consultants and freelance grant writers can find themselves scratching their heads and working on the weekends to “get it all done” (which is impossible). —------------------------------------------------------ ✨💌 Visit https://grantwritingandfunding.com/ for the Hub Haven Grant Writing Resources 💌✨ 👉💰🖥️ Grant Writing Master Course: Get sample grants, logic models, videos, and more. Start to write winning grants! https://grantwritingandfunding.com/grant-writing-master-course/ 🖥️🔥 👉 Want to get paid to write grants? Join the Freelance Grant Writer Master Course to launch and grow a freelance grant writing business: https://grantwritingandfunding.com/freelance-grant-writer-course/ 🤗☕👉 Want to increase funding strategies for your Nonprofit? Join the Nonprofit Strategic Planning Master Course: https://grantwritingandfunding.com/nonprofit-strategic-planning/ —------------------------------------------------------ If you are spending 85 percent of your time on your administration, then it definitely isn’t a good use of your time. You need clients to get paid. In this episode, Mandy Pearce (Funding for Good)and Mazarine Treyz (Wild Woman Fundraising) come on the Grant Writing & Funding podcast show to discuss how to manage your time. You get to hear how these influencers and nonprofit consultants have created systems, plans, and even boundaries. What We Discuss In This Episode: ✨ 4:18 Time Working In vs. On Business ✨ 5:01 Consulting Goals ✨ 8:27 The Upper Limit Problem ✨ 9:57 Business Sustainability ✨ 10:50 Outsourcing Tasks ✨ 12:44 Starting Your Consultancy when Working Full-Time ✨ 22:40 How to Not Compromise Your Values as a Consultant ✨ 25:44 How to Plan Your Services ✨ 26:18 You Can Turn Clients Away ✨ 29:36 Boundaries & Values in Your Consultancy ✨ 34:34 Nonprofit Consulting Conference Sneak Peek For more about the Nonprofit Consulting Conference, presented by Foundant Technologies, visit: https://nonprofitconsultingconference.com/ For more about Mandy and Mazarine, visit: https://grantwritingandfunding.com/219 Thanks for listening! Holly Rustick Expert Grant Writer & Bestselling Author https://www.grantwritingandfunding.com/ Favor, please? If you love this podcast, would you please do me a favor and leave a review on iTunes or your podcast listener?