Course curriculum
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Freelance Foundations
- Welcome to Your 30 Day Journey!
- 30-Day Freelance Success Plan
- Your Ten Step Road Map
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STEP ONE: Develop an Entrepreneur's Mindset
- Download Step One Handout
- Lesson 1: Introduction
- Lesson 2: Entrepreneurial Readiness Assessment
- Lesson 3: Top Ten Freelance Skills
- Lesson 4: Employee vs Entrepreneurial Mindset
- Lesson 5: Strategies for Creating an Entrepreneurial Mindset
- Entrepreneurial Readiness Assessment
- Entrepreneurial Mindset Manifesto
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STEP TWO: Define Your Big Why
- Download Step Two Handout
- Lesson 1: Your Big Why
- Lesson 2: Create Your Purpose Statement
- Lesson 3: Goal Setting & Action Planning
- Action Planning Template
- Business Planning Resources
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STEP THREE: Select a Profitable Niche
- Download Step Three Handout
- Lesson 1: Introduction to Niche Selection
- Lesson 2: Assess Interests
- Lesson 3: Identify Top Skills
- Lesson 4: Select Potential Niche
- Lesson 5: Test the Niche
- Lesson 6: Identify Core and Complimentary Niches
- Lesson 7: Master Your Niche
- Lesson 8: Market Your Niche
- Select Your Niche Guide
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STEP FOUR: Build Your Personal Brand
- Download Step Four Handout
- Lesson 1: Introduction to Personal Branding
- Lesson 2: Define Your Personal Brand
- Lesson 3: Choose Your Brand Name
- Lesson 4: Write Your Business Tagline
- Personal Branding Assessment Guide
- Domain Selection Guide
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STEP FIVE: Build a Compelling Online Presence
- Download Step Five Handout
- Lesson 1: Online Presence Foundations
- Lesson 2: Conduct a Website Assessment
- Lesson 3: Research Market
- Lesson 4: Outline Website Plan
- Lesson 5: Select Website Technology
- Lesson 6: Build Website Design and Content
- Website Assessment Checklist
- Website Best Practices Guide
- Facebook Set Up Checklist
- Linkedin Set Up Checklist
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STEP SIX: Build Your Business Structure and Office
- Download Step Six Handout
- Lesson 1: Set-up Your Business Structure
- Lesson 2: Design Your Virtual Office
- Lesson 3: Build Client Intake System
- Lesson 4: Select Client Management Technology
- Business Systems Checklist
- Sample Client Proposal
- Sample Client Policy #1
- Sample Client Policy #2
- Client Information Form
- Sample Freelance Agreement
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STEP SEVEN: Price and Package Your Services
- Download Step Seven Handout
- Lesson 1: Select Type of Service Package
- Lesson 2: Build Your Packages
- Lesson 3: Set Your Rates
- Lesson 4: Position Your Services
- Example Freelance Websites
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STEP EIGHT: Build Your Success Network
- Download Step Eight Handout
- Lesson 1: Why You Need a Success Network
- Lesson 2: Four Circles of Support
- Lesson 3: Overcoming Virtual Loneliness
- Networking Resource Guide
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STEP NINE: Find Your Ideal Client
- Download Step Nine Handout
- Lesson 1: Intro to Finding Clients
- Lesson 2: Referral Marketing
- Lesson 3: Networking
- Lesson 4: Content Marketing
- Lesson 6: Digital Cold Calling Part 1
- Lesson 5: Digital Cold Calling Part 2
- Referral Outreach Plan Template
- Networking Tools and Resources
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STEP TEN: Build Your Personal Productivity System
- Download Step Ten Handout
- Lesson 1: Introduction to Personal Productivity
- Lesson 2: Identify Productivity Pitfalls
- Lesson 3: Create a Productive Environment
- Lesson 4: Select Your Productivity Method
- Lesson 5: Identify Relevant Productivity Tools
- Lesson 6: Ten Productivity Principles to Live By
- Lesson 7: Evaluate Your Progress
- Productivity Tool Guide
- Ten Productivity Practices Checklist
- Productivity Pitfalls Checklist
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Course Wrap-up
- Final Wrap-Up and Next Steps
Instructor
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Craig Cannings
Chief Learning Officer, Freelance University
In 2008, my wife Kelly and I co-founded Freelance University with the purpose of becoming the #1 go-to training center for Freelancers and VAs from around the globe! As of this year, we have successfully trained over 25,000 Virtual Assistants and Freelancers in more than 75 countries. Kelly and I have had the great privilege of building our Online University while raising our 5 daughters who are the greatest blessings of our lives. I look forward to meeting you and seeing you either in this program or at our University very soon. I leave you with my favorite quote from marketing guru, Seth Godin: "The only worse thing than starting something and failing... is not starting something."
Course Reviews
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Good eye catching title
Karen Schaffer
Well planned and to the point.
Well planned and to the point.
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Excellent and highly informative. This is an useful train...
Narayan Dhakal
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So Great
Nile Sinclair
Loved this course!! It provided me with so much valuable & helpful information that has given me to move forward in my VA business!!! Thank you so much!
Loved this course!! It provided me with so much valuable & helpful information that has given me to move forward in my VA business!!! Thank you so much!
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Very Useful Slides, Not 100% Sure Voiceover Was as Useful
Aurora Smith
I definitely have 13 pages of typed notes from this course, so the content is super useful! However, by about halfway through, I found myself skipping to whe...
Read MoreI definitely have 13 pages of typed notes from this course, so the content is super useful! However, by about halfway through, I found myself skipping to where the slides were filled out with the bullet points and simply pausing the video and copying the bullet points down. I found Craig's voiceover to be rather repetitive of the points, mostly reading them out loud and rephrasing them in a few different ways. If there was something I needed more clarification on, I'd go back and actually listen, but for the most part, I didn't feel like the voiceover added a ton of useful info. That being said, the course is extensive, and I did take a bunch of notes Ill review, so it's still worth the time!
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Like the course as now I have better understanding of the...
Boris Samardzic
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Very educational
Dwayne Lightbourn
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Great great great!!!
Mariama DOMBOUO
I'm at 30% of the course and I am beginning to see exactly where and how I'm going to enter the market. The discover your niche part is so determinant, espec...
Read MoreI'm at 30% of the course and I am beginning to see exactly where and how I'm going to enter the market. The discover your niche part is so determinant, especially for me. Because I'm new, and I think I have no skills, but that's not true! Thanks so much! Lemme go and continue my training.😉
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