Freelancing Foundations
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Find out how to start and grow a freelance career. Learn about business basics, finding work, selling work, pricing, and how to make a living freelancing full-time .
Syllabus
Introduction
- The essential skills of freelancing
- Building a freelancing mindset
- Creating a budget
- Managing your time
- Why you need a contract
- Creating and sending an invoice
- Marketing yourself as a freelancer
- Pricing your services
- Using testimonials and case studies
- Effective client communication
- Creating a proposal
- How to raise your rates
- Handling scope creep
- How to say no to clients
- Targeting, messaging, and frequency
- Daily activities to find clients
- How to use a CRM
- Creating advocates and getting referrals
- Increasing your close rate
- Making freelance full time
Taught by
Jay Clouse
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