BOW 63: Janine Kelbach: How To Land Medical Writing Gigs

The Business of Writing Podcast

In This Episode:

Janine Kelbach, RN, is the owner of Write RN, Host of The Savvy Scribe Podcast & Author of Entreprenurse. She started her nursing career in a community hospital learning the basics of labor and delivery, and over the next few years worked her way all the way up the ladder in the medical system.

After having her second child, she burned out on nursing and started looking for another way to put her skills to work, and discovered that there is a huge demand for writers with experience in the medical field.

Today, she writes about nursing and teaches other nurses how to land their own writing gigs. On this episode, she’ll teach you how to make the leap into medical writing, how to land those first new projects, and how to get a steady stream of client work.

Episode Highlights

• How Janine made the leap from full-time nurse to freelance health writer
• The cold pitch that landed her that first gig
• How she keeps her “nursing” identity while promoting her writing business
• The secret to her self-promotion success
• Her simple method for sending cold outreach messages that get a response
• How she uses LinkedIn to find new writing clients
• The tasks she has her VA help with that brings her consistent new work
• How she helps OTHER nurses land their first writing gigs quickly
• The simple trick that gets your content ranked at the top of Google search results
• How to get new prospects on the phone when making a cold connection
• Her biggest tips for making your clients love you
• How she prioritizes her work and manages her writing time with full-time family life
• The boundaries she sets with clients to help her stay in control of her schedule.