My Connection Statement

My business Savvy Experts Online, provides grant and business writing services, and I have raised over $50 million for clients.

I also help career changers transition their 9-5 skills online to redefine, re-fire and grow their career as I have achieved.

With my book ‘Fast Track Online’, coaching and suite of step-by-step courses including ‘Cash Flow Freelancing’, I show how to create new income streams for a new way to work, to feel relieved to work on your terms, and thrive.

 

 

 

 

 

About Me - My Biography

 

My Story- Judy Nichols

With a 25 year career as a clinician, researcher and government bureaucrat, combined with five university degrees I was sure I would find work in the bush after leaving Sydney for a small rural community in Victoria.

Getting a job before the children came along was OK, after taking a couple of years from the nine to fine I found it impossible to get back into the workforce.

And here begins my Her Business story.

Applying for 25 jobs, getting 19 interviews, and only one offer for one day a week with a 90-minute commute was a shock.

As a 7th generation Australian farming family, and in these hard times of drought and fire, my income determined whether we keep the farm, our heritage and identify.

I remember the day clearly, feeling terrified for our future.

Despite wanting to give up, I needed a path to create a job and fast cash flow that no one could ever take from me. Ever.

Today, I’m so pleased the employers said, “Thanks but No Thanks, We Don’t Have a Job for You Today”

With three decades of work experience and education, I know I had many skills I could use. But how without a job?

I created my own job and have never looked back.

As an older worker, it’s easy to downplay your skills. This is how I felt after trying to get back into work. I didn’t know what was going wrong.

Was it age discrimination?

Was it being a mother needing some flexibility?

Did employers in the regional towns think I was a hillbilly?

Being placed on the work and career trash heap at any age is real.

It’s worse as  you get older with so many decades of experience to give and serve others with.

I looked at my skills in health, food, nutrition, dietetics, agriculture, management, and government and found some local casual writing jobs. Trying to find work face to face wasn’t enough. Doing the long commute wasn’t an option, and I needed a bigger audience.

Online freelancing using my existing nine to five skills and qualifications was my answer.

I found people in the Australian and global marketplace who wanted to buy my skills.  I used a skill we all have, and that’s searching the internet.

Working out the skills people buy, I discovered where to find work, and great clients.

In 3 months, I went from a $1K per month freelancing hobby to a $10K income per month business and earning this consistently.

Freelancing is my cash cow. It gives a six-figure income working around 25 hours a week, and I’m in control and genuinely love what I do. 

I write grants and have earned over $50 million for my business, start-ups, and not-for-profit clients. I also write business plans, risk management plans and strategic plans across many sectors. My grant success rate is over 80% providing satisfaction for me, my clients and their beneficiaries.

Freelancing has future-proofed my self worth and lifestyle.

I’m such a believer in this online strategy I have developed an online course and coach people to also succeed as a freelancer.

With freelancing, you can work a side gig or grow it to replace your income. You can work as little or as much as you like. You can be more, do more, and give more of your skills and experience. People appreciate what you do and come back for more.

The feeling of being valued, renewed, and re-fired is unbelievable. It’s like finding your mid-life work tribe and finding the best fit for your age, aspirations, and work-life balance.

From freelancing, which I still do and love it, I have create a business called Savvy Experts Online.

Savvy Experts Online Value Statement

My Savvy Experts Online program of information, products, and services 

Helps skilled men and women with years of work experience 

To transition their expertise online

So they can continue to grow their career, work better and create new income streams.

They follow Savvy Experts Online to get started

And I help them to find the best online strategies to suit their skills, passions and interests.

I help experts to achieve work-life flexibility, career rediscovery, and fulfillment.

They feel relieved to continue their career, work on their terms, give value and help others

 

My Expertise

I have gathered a variety of expertise from a busy university life gaining five degrees, working as a clinical dietitian, health services executive, advisor to the Australian Food Industry and then Senior Policy Advisor to the Victorian government.

That all changed when I found love on the land and couldn’t find a job in the bush.

I had to re-invent myself using my 9-5 skills.

Life on the land has it’s ups-and-downs and I needed to create my own job and a consistent income.

I became an online freelancer for immediate and sustainable cash flow and once I recovered my corporate six figure income working half the hours, without the long commute and with flexibility for family life, I taught myself how to create online businesses,  and quite frankly we have not looked back.

ONLINE FREELANCING EXPERTISE

1. Grant and Business Writer

2. “Cash Flow Freelancer” Online Course and Coach

1. Grant and Business Writer

I help start-up’s, not-for-profits, SME’s start and grow their business and have raised over $ 50 million across many sectors in Australia and New Zealand,

How I started

I started writing grants as a health services executive and have taken my passion for making money, research, writing grants, and joining-the-dots within and across sectors, as an independent freelancer and author.

My clients

My work with clients often requires project development from concept, funding strategy, grant spotting, partnerships, funder liaison and advocacy, grant writing, grant review, editing and proofreading, creating persuasive and concise pitch desks, and managing acquittals.

I have sourced million dollars for individuals starting and growing their businesses as well as for health, community, aged care and disability services, not-for-profits, charity foundations, local government, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporations, employment services, software engineers, Artificial Intelligence in Health, multi-cultural organisations, health charities, schools, universities, TAFE’s, for-profit companies, and startups.

I genuinely love what I do, i.e., finding money to help organisations to fulfill their social purpose, to innovate, for businesses to grow, innovate and for communities to thrive.

I have written grants for a small community project valued at $5,000, to whole of region health programs in the $100K’s, to grants for Tech Vouchers, Minimum Viable Products, R&D Tax Incentives, Export Development, Accelerating Commercialisation, COVID response, Digital Transformation, Smart Communities and Smart Agriculture to the whole of a nation and statewide tenders for extensive infrastructure valued in the millions.

2. “Cash Flow Freelancer” Online Course and Coach

I believe freelancing can future-proof your career, and income.

In my situation I couldn’t find work and needed to create an online job nobody could ever take from me.

From a freelancing job I created a freelancing business, and now also teach people how to freelance their skills and develop a sustainable business.

ONLINE BUSINESS BUILDING EXPERTISE

Inspired by my own journey, I love helping people to be more and strive for their goals.

My business Savvy Experts Online is the brand name for my business providing multiple income streams and of course this included freelancing.

I use and teach ten online strategies and I support people to choose the best strategies to suit their expertise, what they like to do and how they would like to work.

For example, are they an extrovert or introvert, like to write, connect, teach, promote themselves or leverage through strategic online partnerships. Answering these questions helps to find the best fit online strategies to start and grow an online business.

My business, Savvy Experts Online transforms businesses, not-for-profits and working lives through digital transformation.

As an author, my book ‘Fast Track Online’ details all of the 10 strategies, as well as how to research topics and generate income from AU$64K to AU$200K+ plus much more.

Furthermore, the Savvy Experts Online suite of step-by-step online courses including ‘Cash Flow Freelancing’ and coaching helps you to create immediate cash flow, and discover  the pieces of the online puzzle that will work for you.

My Passions

 

My mantra is to “live a life without regret” and I do this in my personal and professionals life.

My primary passion is my family, and farm including our small horse racing enterprise ” Moutajup Crossing Thoroughbreds”.

My family, Maurice and our two boys are all miracles in my life.

Living in Sydney and working in the corporate sector, I had a dream I would meet a man called Maurice. Little did I know he would be a farmer living in the deep south west of Victoria. We met at a dinner and I immediately know he was “my Maurice’ and life partner.

Roll on thirty years and we have two boys who are 13 and 10 and it wasn’t easy and our boys are both miracles.

From my studies and research, I developed the belief in myself that I could work most things out through research. I’ve applied this to my education, career and life in general, including how to have babies very late in life.

In my personal life, my partner and I struggled to have a baby. After 12 rounds of IVF, I asked myself, “What do I have to do to ensure I don’t live a life with regrets?” One of my biggest regrets was, of course, not having a family. However, if I tried my hardest and failed, I would have no regrets.

After 12 rounds of IVF, I could not take any more false promises of the local medical team. I went back to my skills in research and found the global list of IVF clinics which gained the best results. I also uncovered the percentage of live births for rounds of IVF. Live births was an important piece of my puzzle, as I had experienced six pregnancies but no live birth.

I researched Fertility Clinics around the world. I picked out the top three and made contact, understanding what they did, why they had such good results and how much I liked their approach with us. Three months later we travelled from our little, rural village in country Victoria, Australia to 435 Fifth Avenue, New York City, USA.

Nine months later we had our first little boy from round 13, IVF and went on to have another son at round 16. During this time, I confirmed my ability to research and also my determination to ‘Never Give Up.’ I also promised myself that I would never live a life of regret.

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My Interests

1. Family

2. Work and learning

3. Weight management

Gardening

4. Horse Racing

5. Cooking

6. Swimming

How I Can Help Other Members

I’m happy to chat about anything anytime.

I aim to be active on Facebook and provide information, comments  and advice when ever and where ever I can.

Why I Became a HerBusiness Member

To connect.

To inspire and to be inspired.

To listen and learn.

To grow my business.

To give of my experience to help others on their business journey.

My Member to Member Offer(s)

 

#1

45 minute free discovery session about finding grants, or building their freelancing business or growing their online business strategies.

 

 

#2

30% discount coupon to my book

 

Fast Track Online

Transition your work, knowledge, purpose and skills online

to earn more, live more and be free

 

#3

25% discount coupon to my courses.

Every course is Step-by-Step with download resources and videos’s

COURSE: Your Best Skills for Online Success

Making the Most of Your Expertise

·        Your Transferable Skills

·        Finding Your Focus  ( Finding Clarity)

·        The Savvy Experts Online Business Plan Template

·        Developing Multiple Products and Services

Why Experts Achieve Early Online Business Success

·        Benefits of Life Experience and Expertise

·        Transferable Skills Checklist

·        Finding Profits in Your Passions

COURSE 2:  Goodbye 9-5, transition online for a new way to live and work.

Secure Your Place Online and Grow Your Revenue

·        Ten of the Best Online Business Benefits

·        Six Steps to Online Income

Finding Your Best Topic

·        It Is Time to Listen and Not Lead

·        Profitable Expert Topic Ideas

·        Twelve Online Market Analysis Strategies to Confirm Your Topic Idea

·        Your Best Topic Checklist

 

COURSE 3:  Find and connect with your audience and customers online

 Identify Your Online Audience

·        Six Strategies to Find and Connect with Your Online Audience

·        Find your clients online and help them to find you ( from the freelancer course)

 

COURSE Risk Management

Risk Management – Will Your Idea Sink or Swim?

·        Risk Management #1 – Validating Your Idea

·        Risk Management #2 – Testing Your Product and Service Ideas

·        Risk Management #3 – Testing for Your Most Profitable Strategy

·        Risk Management #4 – Secure Your Computer with Good Digital Hygiene

COURSE:  The 10 Best Online Strategies for Multiple Income Streams

Online Business Strategies for Multiple Income Streams

Introduction to

·        Online Freelancing

·        Self Publishing

·        Blogging

·        Affiliate Marketing

·        E-Teaching & Webinars

·        Online Courses and Membership Sites

·        Email Marketing

·        Putting it all together – $64K, $104K and $241 Income Planner for Multiple Income Streams

COURSE: Cash Flow Freelancing

Online Freelancing

Freelancing Course Content

·        Discover Your Freelancing Skills

·        200+ Freelancers Skills Checklist

·        The Freelancer Economy

·        Where and How to Find Freelancing Jobs Online

·        Your first 1K

·        From Jobs to Regular Clients

·        Finding Jobs and Clients on Facebook and Linkedin

·        From finding jobs to Clients.

·        Repeat jobs with “good fit” Clients.

·        Strategies for Clients to Find You using social media

COURSE: From Hobby to Business

Freelancing Course Content

 Having a business system as you transition from a $1 K a month hobby to $10k per month business.

·        Creating business systems for:

o   Client Contracts

o   Monitoring Your Client Time

o   Invoicing and other business Systems

·        Client Assessment – Are they are good Fit for You

·        Client Red Flags

·        Profitable Pricing

·        Branding You and Your Business

·        Managing Expectations and Setting Boundaries to avoid scope creep

·        Understanding legal responsibilities.

·        Writing a Business plan.

·        Defining your business measures.

·        What and how to measure.

COURSE:  Managing Yourself

Mindset – Embrace Your Mistakes

·        Believing in You and Your Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

·        Rising to the Top

·        The Success Factors

·        Creating Credibility, and Influence

·        Adopting a proactive mindset for success

·        Limiting Beliefs

·        Growth Mindset

·        Limiting Belief Checklist

·        Growth Mindset Checklist

COURSE: Working From Home

·        Strategies to working well at home

·        Productivity and Time Management.

·        Having and making the time.

·        Self-awareness of getting things done and setting priorities.

·        Identifying your personal barriers and enablers to getting things done.

COURSE: Blogging

Blogging Profitability Workshop

·        What is a Blog

·        Different Types of Blogs

·        Business Benefits of Blogging

·        Website or Not?

·        Strategic Content Creation Strategies

·        Monetizing Your Blog

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