đ„ From Freelancer â Business Owner: Pricing, Packaging & Protecting Your Income
Join Kathryn Anderson and learn how to price with confidence, package your services, and build a writing career that actually pays.
Monday 17th August, 12pm PST / 3pm EST / 8pm BST (FREE for FWN members)
The moment you sent your first pitch, tracked your client outreach, or got paid to write for the very first time, you didnât just become a âfreelance writer.â You became a business owner, whether you meant to or not!
In some form youâll have clients (customers), invoices (revenue), and a service that you sell (your writing). The problem is, most freelance writers are never taught how to manage this. How do you actually know how to price? To package your work appropriately? To treat writing like a business, not a hobby?
These are all problems that Kathryn Anderson is tackling in our next live session for FWN members.
What Kathryn Will Cover
This session walks through the full journey from freelancer to business owner:
Building a business beyond individual assignments, plus how you can diversify your income and clients
Pricing your work (including setting minimum/floor rates)
Packaging your services and communicating your price confidently
Protecting yourself from scope creep, including how you can actually raise rates
Building recurring revenue and a sustainable business
For writers, this is the difference between chasing single articles forever and building a system that compounds over time. Clients who return, rates that rise rather than stagnate, and a clear floor that stops you ever underpricing your work again.
Regardless of how long youâve been freelancing, if youâve never sat down and worked out your actual minimum rate, packaged your services into something repeatable, or thought about recurring revenue, this session is built for you.
Kathryn will make the âbusiness ownerâ mindset feel practical, not corporate. Perfect for people who got into this to write, not to run a company, but need to run one anyway.
How to Join
As youâre currently on the free plan, youâll need to upgrade to a paid membership to join us live (and get access to the recording afterwards, along with every other member perk).
Upgrade now & save your spot!
And what else do you get..?
đ A writing job board that shares 200+ high-paying pitch calls and freelance writing jobs weekly, with new updates daily.
đŻ Roundups of themed pitch calls, with many paying the very top rates for freelance writers.
đ° Exclusive funding resources for writers, offering thousands of dollars to help you grow your writing career or business.
đïž Twice-monthly live sessions & 50% off masterclasses, plus access to an entire archive of classes, insight and insider resources.
âïž Creative resources, including monthly and themed literary magazine roundups, plus all the opportunities to help you get paid for your creative writing.
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What does the session cover?
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Learn how to:
Spot the angle: find the fresh, timely entry point everyone else missed
Decide where it belongs: pitch, newsletter, or both
Stretch one idea into multiple pieces for different audiences
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