Freelancing: Launch Your Career as a Successful Freelancer
Free yourself to grow a meaningful business doing what you love as a solo entrepreneur or freelancer.
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Learn Skills & Power Your Successful Freelance Business or Startup
Free yourself to grow a meaningful business doing what you love as a solo entrepreneur or freelancer. Tailored to the needs of creative people, developers, and consultants, this course includes real, practical tools including 30 beautifully-designed HD video modules, guides on customer contracts, drafting proposals, business planning, and more, and interviews with already-successful freelancers working in design, web development, and consulting.
Build Your Winning Strategy
During the course, you'll develop a customized strategy that will power the growth of your business. As you learn topics like customer intelligence, product design, sales in the web 2.0 world, and strategic service design, you'll apply your knowledge and power your business strategy. This course is not a “get rich quick" scheme--it is for people who have real ambition to make money doing what they love on their own terms.
Lifetime Access to a Supportive Community and Updated Content
After enrolling in this course, you'll have lifetime access to:
- The Eazl community on Udemy & Facebook, a community of 80,000+ ambitious people worldwide. You will also have access to free professional development events.
- Regularly updated content: As the platforms used in this course (Podio, Google Alerts, etc.) evolve, this content evolves with it.
Version Update Journal
What's new in version 2.1?
- You now have access to the Eazl Marketing Mastermind Group! In March 2015, Eazl built a flagship Growth Hacking course in partnership with Udemy. Now, participants in the freelancing course have access to the Marketing Mastermind Group that's shared with the Growth Hacking Masterclass. Use the Marketing Mastermind Group to refine your marketing strategies, get feedback on branding questions, and collaborate with smart marketers!
What's new in version 2.2?
- We've added two lectures linking to EazlVlogs that address issues surrounding social proof and personal branding on social media platforms! Enjoy!
Your Instructor
Eazl is the online school that fits your life. Since launching in 2013, Eazl courseware has received 25,000+ 5-star reviews and is trusted by teams at Tesla, Harvard, the World Bank, and many other leading organizations. Today, 250,000+ students use Eazl to build and prove their skills from anywhere, on any device, on their own schedule.
Eazl also offers you industry-leading digital student support. More than just Q&A, you can get high-quality feedback on projects that can be career game-changers for you--like your resume and completed course projects. For example, many students at the University of San Francisco and EDHEC Business School submit and receive feedback on their resumes from Eazl’s student support team before graduating. Our team is passionate about delivering you honest feedback to support your learning and enable you to put your best foot forward.
You can take advantage of three kinds of learning experiences with Eazl: Career Hacking, certificate courses, and Eazl’s BFE Program.
- Career Hacking is the best-selling career management course in the history of the Internet. It’s a great way to learn how the job market works, to refine your career strategy, and to build your resume and LinkedIn® profile. We also offer additional services to help you build a strong professional brand and navigate your job search.
- Eazl’s certificate courses enable you to develop a specific skill, get templates and tools related to the skill that you can alter for your own uses, and receive a customized certificate for completing the course. For example, Eazl’s Growth Hacking with Digital Marketing class is a certificate course with more than 35,000 alumni worldwide.
- In Eazl’s Business, Finance, and Economics Intensive (BFE) program, you’ll learn everything you need to know to be a capable, well-rounded businessperson. Through the BFE program, you pick among 5 specializations or complete all 5 to prove that you’re someone who deserves a seat at the leadership table.
Course Curriculum
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StartWelcome: Course Mission, Platform, & First Section [Business Case Outline Here] (4:56)
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StartStart Thinking of Your Customers as a "Tribe" (2:18)
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StartCustomer Knowledge: The Starting Point for Most Good Decisions (1:43)
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StartEazlViews: Melissa Geissinger, President of the Web and Interactive Media Professionals (WIMP) (9:27)
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StartSpecialization and Scope: What Services Should You Offer? (2:20)
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StartCase Study: How Did Melissa's Freelance Success Begin?
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StartHow to Interview Your Customers Prior to Launch [Sample Interview Script Here] (2:46)
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StartCCMM: The Fundamentals of eNetworking [Guide to eNetworking Here] (2:24)
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StartLet's Start Finding the Right Way to Price Your Time (or Services) (1:14)
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StartHow to Find the Market Value of Your Time (2:09)
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StartAction Learning: Get Yourself a Good Timer Application
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StartHere's a Modern Approach to Sales (that Won't Make You Feel Lame) (2:48)
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StartLet's Start Designing Your Business Development System (1:50)
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StartHow to Be a Good Networker in Online Groups, Professional Associations, etc. (2:47)
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StartFrom the Vlog: Let's Talk about Buying Followers on Social Media
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StartThe FOX System for Generating Sales Leads (1:38)
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StartEazlViews: Darcy Schatz, Owner of Organized Today (7:14)
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StartOne Easy Way to Automate the Delivery of Leads (1:34)
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StartGetting Good at Mass Relationship Management is a HUGE Source of Power (and Advantage) (1:50)
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StartNetworking Ninja Training: An Introduction to CRM (1:38)
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Start[SideBYSide] Let's Set Up a Basic CRM System with Podio (3:45)
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StartHow to Nurture Leads [Guide to Following Up with Leads Here] (2:26)
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StartSideBYSide: Adding a Lead and Automating the Delivery of a Follow Up Reminder (3:18)