Become a Design Business Owner

Ready to strike out on your own as a freelance designer, or build your own design studio from the ground up? This path will provide you with essential information, expert insights, and inspiration for running a design business.

• Learn and apply best practices for starting a business.
• Grow your business and maintain creativity
• Discover how to manage your work using expert recommended best practices.

• Course 1: Entrepreneurship Foundations
• Learn the foundations of entrepreneurship and assess your potential to become a business owner.
• Course 2: Running a Design Business: Freelancing
• Provides tools and insights for self-employed designers just starting out.
• Course 3: Running a Design Business: Starting Small
• Transition your freelance design career into a small business, one step at a time.
• Course 4: Creating a Business Plan
• Looking to build a business or expand one you're already running? You need to write a business plan. Learn how to define your business, market, product, sales strategy, and more.
• Course 5: Running a Design Business: Creative Briefs
• Learn to write and use a creative brief for client-commissioned projects and ensure you have a roadmap for developing great design.
• Course 6: Running a Design Business: Pricing and Estimating
• Figure out what to charge for your design services, and learn how to set an hourly rate, create estimates, and make sure you get paid.
• Course 7: Running a Design Business: Designer-Client Agreements
• Learn to protect you and your client's interests and ensure a great creative design with a well-written contract.
• Course 8: Running a Design Business: Presentation Skills
• Convey your ideas with confidence and clarity to get the approval needed to move your project forward.
• Course 9: Sales Secrets for Small Business
• Get a simple three-step sales system (explore-present-act) that you can incorporate into your own small business to boost sales.
• Course 10: Running a Design Business: Self Promotion
• Learn how to promote your design business. Discover the various ways to use self-promotion, both analog and digital, to stand out in today's competitive marketplace.